The Creative Use of Imagination (edited by Margaret Ruth Broome) (1952)

This is the version by Margaret Ruth Broome from her notes and is not exactly the language used by Neville.

Invites You to a Series of Lectures on.

The Creative Use of Imagination

NEVILLE offers you this opportunity to learn how to use your Imaginative Vision to improve your path to an abundant life. It is true – Imagining Creates The Facts of Your Life. When you have experienced this truth personally, you will know it to be the truth and you will be made free.

Edited by Margaret Ruth Broome

這是瑪格麗特·露絲·布魯姆根據(jù)她的筆記寫的版本，并不完全是內(nèi)維爾使用的語(yǔ)言。

邀請(qǐng)您參加一系列講座。

想象力的創(chuàng)造性運(yùn)用

內(nèi)維爾為你提供了這個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)，讓你學(xué)會(huì)如何運(yùn)用你的想象力來(lái)改善你的人生道路。這是真的——想象創(chuàng)造了你生活中的事實(shí)。當(dāng)你親身經(jīng)歷了這個(gè)真理，你就會(huì)知道它是真理，你就會(huì)獲得自由。

Margaret Ruth Broome編輯

PREFACE

This book, as all things, came into being because of a thought acted upon.?

Neville left us October 1, 1972 and, since that time, I have invested many hours transcribing the hundreds of tapes I have of his lectures.?

Neville explained that the ark of life contained and could be understood on three levels:?

the literal,?

psychological and spiritual.?

The lectures which are available deal mainly with the spiritual.?

However, because those who are now hearing his words on tapes and reading his lectures, did not hear him speak on the second (or psychological) level, I realized the need to provide that psychological plane as a foundation for the higher, spiritual level.?

And so, the thought was planted in my mind.?

前言

這本書(shū)和所有的東西一樣，是由于一個(gè)思想的作用而產(chǎn)生的。

內(nèi)維爾于1972年10月1日離開(kāi)了我們，從那以后，我花了很多時(shí)間轉(zhuǎn)錄我擁有的數(shù)百盤他的演講磁帶。

內(nèi)維爾解釋說(shuō)，生命的方舟包含并可以在三個(gè)層面上理解:

字面上的，

心理上的和精神上的。

現(xiàn)有的講座主要涉及精神方面。

然而，因?yàn)槟切┈F(xiàn)在聽(tīng)著他的磁帶和閱讀他的演講的人，并沒(méi)有理解到他在第二(或心理)層面上的講話，我意識(shí)到有必要提供心理層面作為更高的精神層面的基礎(chǔ)。

就這樣，這個(gè)想法植入了我的腦海。

What if there were some lectures that taught this principle on a practical level??

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if such a series could be found and made available for those who would desire it.?

And then one day I received a letter from a lovely lady in San Francisco who said she was moving into a retirement home and wanted to send me some notes she had from Neville’s lecture series in San Francisco in 1952. These notes constitute this book.

I had a thought. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if… and acted upon it by feeling the thrill of the thought’s completion. I have never met the lady or heard from her since receiving the notes, but I have proved, once again, that imagination (thought) fulfills itself. The living proof is in your hands.

如果有一些講座在實(shí)踐層面上教授這個(gè)原理會(huì)怎么樣呢？

如果可以找到這樣的系列并將其提供給那些想要它的人，那不是很好嗎？

有一天，我收到了舊金山一位可愛(ài)女士的來(lái)信，她說(shuō)她要搬進(jìn)養(yǎng)老院，想寄給我一些她在 1952 年內(nèi)維爾在舊金山的系列講座中的筆記。

這些筆記構(gòu)成了本書(shū)。

我有個(gè)想法。如果……并通過(guò)感受思想完成的激動(dòng)來(lái)付諸行動(dòng)，那不是很好嗎？自從收到紙條后，我從未見(jiàn)過(guò)這位女士，也沒(méi)有收到她的來(lái)信，但我再一次證明了想象力(思想)會(huì)實(shí)現(xiàn)自己?；钌淖C據(jù)就在你手中。

Now, let me tell you a bit about me.?

Born and raised in a small town in Kansas, I moved to California in 1942 as a good Protestant. But I had a hunger that no organized religion could fill, so I drifted from one belief to another, seeking yet not finding what I was searching for, possibly because I did not know what it was.?

現(xiàn)在，讓我告訴你一些關(guān)于我的事情。

我在堪薩斯州的一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)出生長(zhǎng)大，1942 年作為一名優(yōu)秀的新教徒移居加利福尼亞。但我有一種沒(méi)有組織的宗教能滿足的未滿足感，所以我從一種信仰轉(zhuǎn)到另一種信仰，不斷地尋找讓我解悟的證明，或許是因?yàn)槲覐奈刺骄窟^(guò)自己要什么。

Then one day I heard a man called Neville,?

and I knew that, although the outer me did not understand his words, the inner me was singing the Hallelujah Chorus, for I had found the cause of all life.., that my very thought, mixed with feeling, was an imaginal act which created the facts in my world.

that had turned on due to the fall, and Neville’s voice was ringing out loud and clear. Embarrassed, I stooped down to turn off the volume, only to discover that all the knobs had fallen off the machine and there was no way for me to turn him off. As I tried to push the case over to the far wall in order to pick it up, I awoke with these words ringing in my ears, “I am IN you, AS you.”

From that moment on, my fears have vanished and, since that time, I have gained confidence in my writing.?

These are Neville’s words – Neville’s thoughts – yet we are so closely woven in the tapestry of thought that the words are now mine.

后來(lái)有一天，我注意到一個(gè)叫納威的人，

我知道，盡管外在的我不過(guò)是領(lǐng)悟到他些許的話語(yǔ)，但內(nèi)在的我已經(jīng)唱著贊美大合唱，因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)找到了所有生命的原因..，包括我的思想，體驗(yàn)的種種感覺(jué)，不過(guò)是一個(gè)想象的行為，不斷地創(chuàng)造自我的世界事實(shí)。

那是由于摔倒而打開(kāi)的，納威的聲音響亮而清晰。尷尬的是，我彎下腰去關(guān)掉音量，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)所有的旋鈕都從機(jī)器上掉了下來(lái)，我沒(méi)有辦法關(guān)掉它。當(dāng)我試圖把箱子推到遠(yuǎn)處的墻上撿起來(lái)時(shí)，我醒來(lái)時(shí)耳邊回響著這些話:“我在你體內(nèi)，就像你一樣?！?/p>

從那一刻起，我的恐懼消失了，從那時(shí)起，我對(duì)我的記錄有了信心。

這些是納威的話——納威的想法——然而我們?nèi)绱司o密地編織在思想的織錦中，這些話現(xiàn)在是我的了。

The lectures you will read are Neville’s words, Yet they may not have been the exact words he spoke back in 1952.?

The material I had to work with were notes someone had taken in shorthand, transcribed, and duplicated.?

I have taken the notes and elaborated on them. The words are true and, hopefully understandable enough so you can test them and discover for yourself that when the truth is applied, it is made alive by a spiritual experience.

您將會(huì)閱讀的講稿內(nèi)容是內(nèi)維爾的話，但它們可能并不是他在 1952 年所說(shuō)的100%原話。

我使用的材料包括了某人速記、轉(zhuǎn)錄和復(fù)制的筆記。

我已經(jīng)記下了筆記并詳細(xì)說(shuō)明了它們。這些話是真實(shí)的，并且希望足夠可以理解，這樣您就可以測(cè)試它們并親自發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)真理被應(yīng)用時(shí)，它會(huì)因精神體驗(yàn)而變得活躍。

Always bear in mind that when Neville speaks of “man,” he is speaking of generic man (man/woman).?

Man is the external world, the natural man; while imagination is the internal world, the man of spirit.?

God (imagination) became the natural man that the man of nature may become God who is Spirit.

Always think of yourself as two beings, one who sees through the organs of sense and the other who sees through the mind of imagination.?

And always remember God’s name as he revealed it to Moses. “I AM. That is who I AM. And by this name, I shall be known throughout all generations. I AM that I AM.” I the trinity, in unthinkable origin, AM God the Father.?

And I in creative expression AM the Son, for imagination is born of consciousness.?

Therefore I, in universal interpretation, in infinite imminence, in eternal procession AM God, the Holy Spirit.

永遠(yuǎn)記住，當(dāng)內(nèi)維爾說(shuō)“人”時(shí)，他指的是普通的人（男人/女人）。?

人是外在的世界，自然的人；而想象是內(nèi)在的世界，精神的人。?

神（想像）變成了自然人，使自然人可以成為神，即靈。

永遠(yuǎn)把自己想成兩個(gè)人，一個(gè)看穿感官，另一個(gè)看穿想象。

永遠(yuǎn)記住上帝向摩西啟示的名字。 “我是。 這就是我。 以這個(gè)名字，我將被世世代代知道。 我就是我。” 我是三位一體，起源不可想象，是父神。?

而我在創(chuàng)造性的表達(dá)中是圣子，因?yàn)橄胂罅κ怯梢庾R(shí)產(chǎn)生的。

因此，我，在普遍的解釋中，在無(wú)限的迫近中，在永恒的行列中是上帝，圣靈。

Margaret Ruth Broome

Chapter 1 Your Infinite Worth

第1章你的無(wú)限價(jià)值

The purpose of these talks is to bring about a psychological change in you, the individual.?

Humanity, understood psychologically, is an infinite series of levels of awareness and you, individually, are what you are according to where you are in the series.?

Consciousness is the only reality, and where you are conscious of being psychologically, determines the circumstances of your life.?

The ancients knew this great truth, but our modern teachers have yet to discover it.?

There is only one substance in the world. Our scientists call it energy while scripture defines it as consciousness.?

We are told that the universe was caused by water, but if this is true, then it could not evolve into anything but water.?

But if the basic substance is energy (or consciousness), it can be made to manifest itself as iron, steel and wood, to name but a few. Man, seeing a variety of forms, thinks of numberless substances, but what is seen is only a change in the arrangement of the same basic substance — consciousness.

這些談話的目的是給你個(gè)人帶來(lái)心理上的改變。

從心理學(xué)的角度來(lái)理解，人性是一個(gè)無(wú)限的意識(shí)層次系列，而你，作為個(gè)體，是你在這個(gè)系列中所處的位置。

意識(shí)是唯一的現(xiàn)實(shí)，你意識(shí)到自己在心理上的位置，決定了你生活的環(huán)境。

古人知道這個(gè)偉大的真理，但我們現(xiàn)代的老師還沒(méi)有發(fā)現(xiàn)它。

世界上只有一種物質(zhì)。我們的科學(xué)家稱之為能量，而圣經(jīng)將其定義為意識(shí)。

我們被告知宇宙是由水造成的，但如果這是真的，那么它不可能進(jìn)化成除了水以外的任何東西。

但是，如果基本物質(zhì)是能量(或意識(shí))，它可以鮮花為鐵、鋼和木頭，僅舉幾例。人類看到各種各樣的形式，會(huì)想到無(wú)數(shù)的物質(zhì)，但所看到的只是同一種基本物質(zhì)——意識(shí)——的排列變化。

Ephesians tells us that, “All things, when admitted, are made manifest by light.”?

The word “l(fā)ight” recorded here means awareness; consciousness.”?

The state the individual admits into his consciousness is the cause of one man being rich and another poor.?

The poor man admits to being in the state of poverty by saying, “I am poor,” just as the rich man admits wealth by saying, “I am rich.”?

Anything you, an individual, claim yourself to be (be it good, bad or indifferent, right or wrong) must be made manifest in your world, for by claiming the state, you have consented to its life.

There is only one cause, and that is consciousness.?

Your consciousness is the center from which your world mirrors and echoes the state you presently occupy.?

Now, a state can be defined as all that you believe and consent to as being true. So, if you want your world to change, you must determine what you want to accept and consent to as true before you can change it.?

To arrive at a certain definition of self, you must begin by uncritically observing your automatic reaction to an event, for your reaction defines your state.?

And you can, without getting out of your chair, rebuild your world by changing your level (or state) of being. This is done by observing yourself uncritically as you react to life.?

If you do not like the circumstances of your life, acknowledge its cause.?

Be willing to admit that the circumstances are only objectifying what you are conscious of, then change your consciousness and your world will change.?

If you react to that which is being objectified, you bind yourself to a certain, level of awareness, but if you refuse to react, the thread is broken.?

Stop being conscious of something unlovely, for every unlovely thought causes you to walk in psychological mud.?

Rather, identify yourself with beauty, with love (the Christ in you) and you will ascend the infinite level of your own being and change the circumstances of your life.

以弗所書(shū)告訴我們，“所有的事情，當(dāng)承認(rèn)，是顯而易見(jiàn)的?！?/p>

這里記載的“光”字，就是覺(jué)知的意思；意識(shí)。"

個(gè)人意識(shí)中承認(rèn)的狀態(tài)是一個(gè)人富有而另一個(gè)人貧窮的原因。

窮人通過(guò)說(shuō)“我很窮”來(lái)承認(rèn)自己處于貧困狀態(tài)，正如富人通過(guò)說(shuō)“我很富有”來(lái)承認(rèn)自己富有一樣。

你，一個(gè)個(gè)體，宣稱自己是什么(無(wú)論是好的、壞的或無(wú)關(guān)緊要的、對(duì)的或錯(cuò)的)，都必須在你的世界中顯現(xiàn)出來(lái)，通過(guò)宣稱自己所處的狀態(tài)，說(shuō)明你已經(jīng)同意了現(xiàn)在的這個(gè)自己。

原因從來(lái)只有一個(gè)，那就是當(dāng)下的意識(shí)。

你的意識(shí)永遠(yuǎn)都是自己世界的中心，時(shí)刻從你的世界，你的身邊反映和回應(yīng)自己目前所處的狀態(tài)。

現(xiàn)在，可以將狀態(tài)定義為您相信并同意為真實(shí)的一切。所以，如果你想讓你的世界改變，你必須在改變它之前確定你想要接受和同意的東西是真實(shí)的。

為了給自我下一個(gè)明確的定義，你必須從不加批判地觀察你對(duì)一個(gè)事件的自動(dòng)反應(yīng)開(kāi)始，因?yàn)槟愕姆磻?yīng)決定了你的狀態(tài)。

你可以不用離開(kāi)椅子，通過(guò)改變你的存在水平(或狀態(tài))來(lái)重建你的世界。這可以通過(guò)在你對(duì)生活做出反應(yīng)時(shí)不加批判地觀察自己來(lái)實(shí)現(xiàn)。

如果你不喜歡你生活的環(huán)境，承認(rèn)它的原因。

愿意承認(rèn)環(huán)境只是將你意識(shí)到的東西客觀化，然后改變你的意識(shí)，你的世界就會(huì)改變。

如果你對(duì)被客體化的事物做出反應(yīng)，你就把自己束縛在一定的意識(shí)水平上，但是如果你拒絕做出反應(yīng)，這條線就斷了。

停止意識(shí)到一些不可愛(ài)的東西，因?yàn)槊恳粋€(gè)不可愛(ài)的想法都會(huì)讓你陷入心理泥淖。

相反，讓你自己認(rèn)同美，認(rèn)同愛(ài)(你心中的基督)，你將提升你自身存在的無(wú)限水平，并改變你生活的環(huán)境。

Your state of awareness, like a magnet, attracts life. Steel, in its demagnetized state is a whirling mass of electrons, but when the electrons are faced in one direction, the steel is magnetized.?

You do not add to the steel to make it magnetic or take anything away to demagnetize it. This same principle is true for you. You can change your world by rearranging your thoughts and having them travel only in one direction, and that is toward the fulfillment of your desire.

你的覺(jué)知狀態(tài)，就像一塊磁鐵，吸引著生命。處于消磁狀態(tài)的鋼是一團(tuán)旋轉(zhuǎn)的電子，但是當(dāng)電子朝向一個(gè)方向時(shí)，鋼就被磁化了。

你不能添加到鋼中使其有磁性，也不能拿走任何東西使其消磁。同樣的原則也適用于你。你可以通過(guò)重新安排你的想法并讓它們只朝一個(gè)方向行進(jìn)來(lái)改變你的世界，那就是實(shí)現(xiàn)你的愿望。

Watch your reactions to life, for any change in the arrangement of your mind which can be detected by self-observation, will cause a change in your outer world.?

It is important to learn to be passive to that which is unlovely and unacceptable to you. In that way, you are awakening the dynamic one within. And when you find your inner being, you will discover that the qualities you condemn in others are really in yourself. Then you will know the secret of forgiveness, for as you forgive yourself, the others are forgiven.

注意你對(duì)生活的反應(yīng)，因?yàn)槿魏慰梢酝ㄟ^(guò)自我觀察察覺(jué)到的你內(nèi)心安排的變化，都會(huì)引起你外部世界的變化。

重要的是要學(xué)會(huì)被動(dòng)地對(duì)待那些不可愛(ài)的、不被你接受的事物。這樣，你就喚醒了內(nèi)在的活力。而當(dāng)你找到自己的內(nèi)在，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，你所譴責(zé)的別人身上的品質(zhì)，其實(shí)就在你自己身上。然后你會(huì)知道寬恕的秘密，因?yàn)楫?dāng)你寬恕自己時(shí)，別人也會(huì)被寬恕。

All things (not just a few) are made manifest by the light, and everything manifested is light. The moment you consent to a thought, it is made manifest.?

It could not come into being unless you consented to its expression by being aware of it. The universe moves with motiveless necessity as it has no motive of its own.?

Rather, it moves under the necessity of manifesting the arrangements of the minds of men. This teaching is to awaken you to your light, and the awakening begins by self-observation.

所有的事物(不僅僅是少數(shù))都被光所鮮花，而被鮮花的一切都是光。當(dāng)你同意一個(gè)想法的時(shí)候，它就會(huì)顯現(xiàn)出來(lái)。

除非你通過(guò)意識(shí)到它來(lái)同意它的表達(dá)，否則它就不會(huì)形成。 宇宙以無(wú)動(dòng)機(jī)的必然運(yùn)動(dòng)，因?yàn)樗鼪](méi)有自己的動(dòng)機(jī)。

相反，它是在鮮花人的思想安排的必要性下進(jìn)行的。 這個(gè)教導(dǎo)是為了喚醒你對(duì)你的光，而覺(jué)醒是從自我觀察開(kāi)始的。。

If you have a secret affection for living in the mud of self-pity and condemnation, your world will mirror those feelings.?

But if you will rearrange your mind and live in the heavenly feeling of harmony and love, your manifested world will change.?

If, today, you would spend five minutes in uncritical observation of yourself, you would be surprised to discover how deceitful you are.?

It is a terrible shock, I know, but every shock of this type will let in the light of awareness, and life is an ever-increasing illumination. As the light comes in, you become more and more conscious of who you really are.

如果你對(duì)生活在自憐和譴責(zé)的泥淖中有一種秘密的感情，你的世界會(huì)反映出這些感情。

但是如果你將重新安排你的思維，生活在和諧與愛(ài)的天堂感覺(jué)中，你的顯化世界將會(huì)改變。

如果今天，你花五分鐘不加批判地觀察自己，你會(huì)驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)自己是多么的虛偽。

我知道這是一個(gè)可怕的沖擊，但是每一個(gè)這種類型的沖擊都會(huì)讓意識(shí)之光進(jìn)入，而生活是一個(gè)不斷增加的照明。當(dāng)光進(jìn)來(lái)時(shí)，你越來(lái)越意識(shí)到你到底是誰(shuí)。

There is only one cause for the phenomena of life. Only by observing your own consciousness can you discover the cause of what is happening to you. There is no greater tyrant than the belief in a secondary cause.?

Let that tyrant go by remembering the one and only substance; the only cause which is awareness and immediately change what you are aware of.?

Only by observing your reactions to life can you find yourself. And remember, as long as you react as you do, the same things must confront you, for all that you admit to is made manifest by your consciousness, and everything you manifest is your consciousness.

生命現(xiàn)象只有一個(gè)原因。只有通過(guò)觀察你自己的意識(shí)，你才能發(fā)現(xiàn)發(fā)生在你身上的事情的原因。沒(méi)有比相信次要原因更大的暴君了。

記住唯一的實(shí)體，讓暴君走吧；唯一的原因是覺(jué)知，并立即改變你所覺(jué)知的。

只有觀察自己對(duì)生活的反應(yīng)，才能找到自己。記住，只要你像你所做的那樣做出反應(yīng)，同樣的事情就必須面對(duì)你，因?yàn)槟闼姓J(rèn)的一切都是由你的意識(shí)鮮花出來(lái)的，而你所鮮花出來(lái)的一切都是你的意識(shí)。

Stop walking through the world in the mud and living in its basement. Your soul is made up of all that you consent to. Lose your soul on one level and you will find it on a higher level, defined differently.?

Always examine yourself uncritically, for the moment you become critical, you automatically justify your reactions and associate yourself with the thing observed. Everything is individual.?

Collective security and collective salvation are terms approached individually.?

Learn to stand on your own feet and not on the feet of a group. You must free yourself, and the only way to do that is to awaken the Christ in you who is sound asleep.?

Think noble thoughts based on noble concepts and they will pay great dividends, for you will rise in consciousness and transform your world.?

Give yourself your daily bread by giving yourself the opportunity to remember who you are! Never envy the good fortune of another, simply appropriate your own.?

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” by changing the ideas planted there, for you cannot change your thinking until you change the ideas from which your thoughts flow.

停下在泥濘世界行走的腳步，更不要困在自己搭建的暗室里。自己靈魂的一切是經(jīng)由你同意而組成的。借由自己不同的定義，以往的失落中重新體驗(yàn)到更美好層面的自己。

總是不加批判地審視自己，因?yàn)楫?dāng)你變得批判時(shí)，你總是會(huì)自動(dòng)為你的反應(yīng)辯護(hù)，并把自己與所觀察到的事物聯(lián)系起來(lái)。畢竟每一次的體驗(yàn)都那么與眾不同的。

共同保障和共同拯救只是接近卻又不同的表達(dá)方式。

意識(shí)上學(xué)會(huì)自立，而不是順從依托在大多數(shù)人的腳下。你必須釋放自己，而唯一的方法就是喚醒你內(nèi)心沉睡的基督。

基于高尚的概念去思考高尚的思想，它們會(huì)帶來(lái)巨大的回報(bào)，因?yàn)槟銜?huì)提升意識(shí)，改變你的世界。

給你自己一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)來(lái)記住你是誰(shuí)，給你自己每天的面包！永遠(yuǎn)不要嫉妒別人的好運(yùn)，只需占有自己的好運(yùn)。

"通過(guò)更新你的思想來(lái)改變"，通過(guò)改變根植于那里的觀念，因?yàn)槟悴荒芨淖兡愕乃枷?，除非你改變你的思想所源自的觀念。