Chapter 6: What is the Greater Community?

As revealed to God’s Messenger Marshall Vian Summers on October 20, 1993 in Boulder, CO
1993年10月20日，在科罗拉多州博尔德(Boulder, CO)，向上帝的信使马歇尔・维安・萨默斯(Marshall Vian Summers)揭示

The Greater Community is the environment in which you live. It includes your world and all the worlds in its vicinity. It is a vast region of space where intelligent life is interacting with each other, representing a great network of relationships between societies and between individuals in societies, a greater cosmology and a greater universe. For this, it is necessary to have a greater perspective, a greater understanding and a greater religion.

大社区是你生活的环境。它包括你的世界和它附近的所有世界。它是一个庞大的空间区域，智慧生命在这里相互作用，代表着社会之间和社会个体性之间的庞大关系网络，一个更大的宇宙学和一个更大的宇宙。为此，必须有更大的视角，更多的理解和更大的宗教。

It is difficult for those who only see their own personal culture and immediate environment to realize the importance and significance of Greater Community Spirituality. The significance isn’t merely in the scope of its teaching, its perspective and its understanding, but in the tremendous practical advantages that it gives you in daily life in your own world and in the very small affairs with which you are normally preoccupied.

那些只看到自己的个人文化和直接环境的人很难意识到大社区精神的重要性和意义。这种意义不仅仅在于它的教学范围、视角和理解，还在于它在你自己的世界里的日常生活中和你平时所关注的非常小的事务中给你带来的巨大的实际优势。

The Greater Community here serves as a context—a context for seeing, for understanding and for knowing. It provides an opportunity to see beyond the limits of human thinking, human preoccupations and human beliefs and assumptions. This gives you a tremendous advantage. Thus, the emphasis here is not on what is beyond your realm, but on how to understand your realm within a larger context. What is occurring in other worlds and between other worlds is not your concern. Only very little of what is going on in the Greater Community will have any direct impact on humanity. However, the impact that is being exerted on your world from Greater Community forces is quite sufficient to create the need to learn a Greater Community Spirituality and a Greater Community Way of Knowledge.

大社区在这里充当了一个背景——观察、理解和知道的背景。它提供了一个机会，可以超越人类思维、人类关注的问题以及人类的信仰和假设的限制。这给了你一个巨大的优势。因此，这里强调的不是你的领域之外的事情，而是如何在一个更大的背景下理解你的领域。在其他世界和其他世界之间发生的事情不是你关心的。在大社区发生的事情中，只有很少的事情会对人类产生任何直接影响。然而，大社区的力量对你们的世界所产生的影响，足以使你有必要学习大社区的精神性和大社区的内识方式。

Gaining a more universal understanding and perception is the emphasis when we speak of the Greater Community. In the Greater Community, there are many forms of intelligent life and great diversity in cultural ethics, preoccupations, concerns and activities. Yet what is common to all life everywhere that has evolved into the stage of intelligence is the presence and purpose of Knowledge.

当我们谈到大社区时，获得更普遍的理解和感知是重点。在大社区中，有许多形式的智慧生命，在文化伦理、关注点、关切和活动方面有很大的多样性。然而，各地所有进化到智慧阶段的生命的共同点是内识的存在和目的。

Knowledge in the Greater Community is Greater Community Knowledge. The ability to receive Knowledge, to accept it and to apply it represents Wisdom, not only worldly Wisdom, but Wisdom in the Greater Community. As you were taught to see yourself in a very small way, we take you beyond yourself into a larger universe. Then, as you look back upon yourself, you will see what you could have never seen before. And you will recognize your environment more clearly than you ever could have previously.

大社区的内识就是大社区的内识。得到内识、接受内识和应用内识的能力代表着智慧，不仅是世俗的智慧，而且是大社区的智慧。当你被教导以非常小的方式看待自己时，我们带你超越自己进入一个更大的宇宙。然后，当你回顾自己时，你会看到你以前从未见过的东西。你将比以前更清楚地认识你的环境。

The Greater Community is made up of a great diversity of life representing many different kinds of physical environments and many stages of individual, cultural, political and spiritual development. The range of this diversity is not your concern. However, the fact that it exists and that you will encounter its reality is profound indeed and gives rise to the great need that we are fulfilling in our presentation to you.

大社区是由巨大的生命多样性组成的，代表了许多不同类型的物理环境和许多个体、文化、政治和精神发展阶段。这种多样性的范围不是你所关心的。然而，它的存在和你将遇到它的现实这一事实确实是深刻的，并引起了我们在向你介绍时要满足的巨大需要。

In the Greater Community, there are many worlds where intelligent life has evolved. And there are even more worlds and locations that Greater Community forces have colonized for resource acquisition or to seek new and more safeguarded environments. Worlds such as yours are quite rare and are therefore highly prized and regarded by those in the Greater Community who are aware of them. Indeed, your world has been used as a biological storehouse and resource for millennia by several different races.

在大社区中，有许多世界的智慧生命已经进化。甚至有更多的世界和地点是大社区的力量为获取资源或寻求新的和更安全的环境而殖民的。像你们这样的世界是相当罕见的，因此被大社区中那些了解它们的的存在高度珍视和重视。事实上，你们的世界已经被几个不同的种族作为生物仓库和资源使用了几千年。

You might ask, “Why hasn’t a Greater Community force come to colonize the world and taken it over?” There are several important reasons for this. The first is that the great biological diversity that you enjoy and that represents such splendor in your world poses a great dilemma for advanced races, many of whom have evolved in more sterile environments. Living here is difficult because of the biological diversity itself.

你可能会问，”为什么没有一个大社区的力量来殖民这个世界并接管它？”这有几个重要的原因。第一个原因是，你们享有的巨大的生物多样性，在你们的世界中代表着如此的辉煌，这给先进的种族带来了巨大的困境，他们中的许多种族是在更无菌的环境中进化的。由于生物多样性本身的原因，在这里生活是很困难的。

Another disadvantage to your world is that human beings live above ground, which is not preferred by most advanced races. Underground settlements have proven to be far more effective and accommodating, especially when you are actively engaged with other Greater Community powers. This gives you greater security and a greater opportunity to protect your physical resources and your population at large. However, living underground isolates you from biological elements in the outer environment, thus making you more susceptible to illness and attack by other kinds of organisms. This presents an interesting truth in the Greater Community: The more safe and secure you become, the more vulnerable you are.

你们世界的另一个缺点是，人类生活在地面上，这不是大多数先进种族所喜欢的。事实证明，地下定居点要有效得多，也包容得多，特别是当你们积极与其他大社区势力接触时。这给了你们更大的安全感和更多的机会来保护你们的物质资源和你们的广大民众。然而，生活在地下使种族与外部环境中的生物元素隔离，从而使种族更容易受到疾病和其他种类生物的攻击。这在大社区中呈现出一个有趣的事实。你越是安全和有保障，你就越是脆弱。

Therefore, while your world is splendid in its diversity and in its abundance of plants and animals, it also poses a great difficulty for Greater Community visitors to dwell and to abide here with any degree of freedom and mobility. Yes, they can visit you and travel about. Yes, they can do marvelous things. However, they cannot live on the surface very effectively. That is why there is a great attempt now to interbreed with humanity in order to gain this adaptive biological advantage. Mix Greater Community social cohesion and intelligence with human physical endurance and you have a race that, indeed, can abide within the world.

因此，虽然你们的世界因其多样性和丰富的植物和动物而绚丽多彩，但它也给大社区的访客带来了巨大的困难，使他们无法在这里自由和流动地居住和生活。是的，他们可以访问你们并四处旅行。是的，他们可以做奇妙的事情。然而，他们不能非常有效地生活在地面上。这就是为什么现在有一个巨大的尝试，即与人类杂交，以获得这种适应性的生物优势。将大社区的社会凝聚力和智慧与人类的身体耐力相混合，你就会有一个种族，确实可以在这个世界上生存。

These ideas might seem startling, but from a Greater Community perspective they are quite obvious and apparent. Because you have not functioned within this larger context consciously, these things may seem frightening or difficult to comprehend. However, you must now accept that you are not alone and that you are certainly not at the pinnacle of development in the Greater Community. This is both humbling and refreshingly honest. This gives you the advantage and the motivation to learn, to progress, to overstep your former limitations and boundaries and to gain new abilities and understanding, which your visitors will give you, either intentionally or inadvertently. The conditions of the world require this. This is the world that you have come from your Ancient home to serve. And these are the things that you must now learn and apply.

这些想法可能看起来令人吃惊，但从大社区的角度来看，它们是相当明显和显而易见的。由于你们没有在这个大背景下有意识地运作，这些事情可能看起来很可怕或难以理解。然而，你现在必须接受的是，你们并不孤单，而且你们肯定不在大社区发展的顶峰。这既是谦逊，也是令人耳目一新的诚实。这给了你优势和动力去学习，去进步，去超越你以前的限制和界限，去获得新的能力和理解，你们的来访者会有意或无意地给你们这些。这个世界的条件需要这样。这就是你从你的古老家园来服务的世界。而这些是你现在必须学习和应用的服务。

The Greater Community offers humanity redemption, but not in the way that you might think. It offers redemption because it poses a greater set of problems and occasions to which you must rise and to which you must now dedicate yourself. This provides escape from the terrible dilemmas and limitations that bind humanity and keep it in a desperate state of survival and self-preoccupation.

大社区为人类提供了救赎，但不是以你可能认为的方式。它提供了救赎，因为它提出了一套更大的问题和场合，你们必须站起来，现在必须为之献身。这提供了逃离可怕的困境和限制的机会，这些困境和限制束缚着人类，使其处于绝望的生存和自我关注的状态。

Solving greater problems gives you the opportunity to gain greater intelligence, greater ability and greater Wisdom. Only greater problems can do this because their resolution is necessary and because they require greater things from you. It is rare when a human being can develop these qualities without tremendous external demands. The external demands now are here. And though the risks are great and the problems are tremendous, the opportunities are unparalleled.

解决更大的问题使你有机会获得更大的智能、更大的能力和更大的智慧。只有更大的问题才能做到这一点，因为它们的解决是必要的，因为它们需要你做更大的事情。当一个人在没有巨大的外部要求的情况下能够发展这些品质时，是非常罕见的。现在的外部要求就在这里。虽然风险很大，问题很多，但机会也是无与伦比的。

To meet these greater problems, you will need the Greater Power which the Creator has given you. You cannot rely on conventional wisdom; you cannot even rely upon your intuition. You must seek the Greater Power that is within you that can help you accelerate your development and meet a new set of requirements for adaptation, survival and accomplishment. In this, the Greater Community offers you redemption by requiring greater things of you and by calling upon a Greater Power within you. This is how humanity will advance. This is how all races in the Greater Community advance. And this is the evidence of the Creator’s work, for the Creator does what works, even if it is incomprehensible to those who are destined to be its beneficiaries.

为了应对这些更大的问题，你将需要造物主赋予你的更大力量。你不能依靠传统的智慧；你甚至不能依靠你的直觉。你必须寻求存在于你内心的更伟大的力量，它可以帮助你加速发展，满足一套新的适应、生存和成就的要求。在这一点上，大社区通过要求你做更大的事情，通过召唤你内在的更伟大的力量，为你提供救赎。这就是人类将如何进步。这就是大社区中所有种族的进步方式。这就是造物主工作的证据，因为造物主做的工作是有效的，即使它对那些注定要成为其受益者的人是不可理解的。

Therefore, do not seek understanding first. Seek involvement and experience. Knowledge within you knows exactly what you must do in life, what you must aspire to and what you must accomplish. It cannot be confused or distracted by the pleasures or the terrors of this world. It is not ambivalent. It is not doubtful. It is not beset with painful memories of the past or a dismal view of the future. It is relentless in carrying you towards your fulfillment and your purpose, for they are one. Fulfilling your purpose represents your work in the world and the purpose for your coming here. The Greater Community is the context for understanding this now, for indeed humanity is in the process of emerging into the Greater Community. You have come to participate in this and to support its successful establishment.

因此，首先不要寻求理解。要寻求参与和经历。你内心的内识清楚地知道你在生命中必须做什么，你必须渴望什么，你必须完成什么。它不能被这个世界的快乐或恐怖所迷惑或分心。它不是矛盾的。它不怀疑。它不会被过去的痛苦回忆或对未来的悲观情绪所困扰。它坚持不懈地把你带向你的成就和你的目的，因为它们是一体的。实现你的目的代表你在这个世界上的工作和你来到这里的目的。大社区是现在理解这一点的背景，因为事实上人类正处于进入大社区的过程中。你来到这里是为了参与其中并支持其成功建立。

Thus, the Greater Community is your context. It represents a greater life, requiring a greater Wisdom from you and the establishment of greater relationships in your life. This is the evidence of God’s work in the world, which is largely beyond human appreciation. You have not advanced far enough to look back and see the overall impact of this. You do not see how important it is for humanity’s survival, how important it is for humanity to meet the great environmental and political challenges that it faces within its world and how important it is for humanity to meet the even greater challenges of successful engagement with races from the Greater Community.

因此，大社区是你的背景。它代表了一种更大的生命，需要你有更大的智慧，并在你的生命中建立更大的关系。这是上帝在这个世界上的工作的证据，这在很大程度上是人类无法欣赏的。你还没有进展到足以回头看，看到这的整体影响。你没有看到这对人类的生存是多么重要，对人类应对其世界内面临的巨大环境和政治挑战是多么重要，对人类应对与来自大社区的种族成功交往的更大挑战是多么重要。

The Greater Community represents a new understanding of Divinity, Divine purpose and human accomplishment in physical life. It is an entirely new threshold through which to pass. In fact, it represents many new thresholds of understanding. For now, the Greater Community must be equated with the physical universe, but in truth it is not limited only to the physical realm of life. It includes the greater and more refined dimensions of intelligent life and intelligent interaction. It is a consummate experience of life and of the presence of life in which you are immersed.

大社区代表着对神性、神圣目的和人类在物质生活中的成就的全新理解。这是一个全新的门槛。事实上，它代表了许多新的理解门槛。现在，大社区必须等同于物理宇宙，但事实上，它并不仅限于物质生活领域。它包括智能生命和智能互动的更大和更精细的层面。这是对生命的完美体验，也是对你所沉浸的生命存在的完美体验。

When we bring you to the Greater Community, we bring you to your life as it really is, in all of its fullness, magnificence, diversity and depth. We do not take you from your world and place you somewhere else. We do not put you in alien environments. We do not give you alien viewpoints and alien understandings. Instead, we bring you to your life as it is and as it will be. And we call upon you to meet life as it is and to prepare for life as it will be.

当我们把你带到大社区时，我们把你带到你的生命中，因为它真的是，所有的充实、宏伟、多样性和深度。我们不会把你从你的世界带到别的地方去。我们不会把你放在陌生的环境中。我们不会给你外来的观点和外来的理解。相反，我们把你带到你的生命中，因为它是现在和将来。我们呼吁你去迎接现在的生命，并为将来的生命做准备。

What is theology but the recognition of Divine involvement in physical life? Speculating about what God is, what God looks like, where God lives or how God functions is clearly a pointless endeavor. The answers to these questions exist in the realm of Mystery far beyond human understanding and concepts, far beyond your ability to understand at the level of ideas and intellect. This is the realm of pure experience. It is the realm of affinity and relationship. It is the realm where greater purpose is to be found, experienced and fulfilled. Therefore, we take you beyond your understanding into a greater arena of life in which you already live to encounter the forces which are already there for you to encounter, to give you a greater presence of mind and a greater facility to deal with life’s mundane problems and to enable you to rise to meet the great challenges which you face in your world at this time. As we do this, we encourage humility, open-mindedness, faith, perseverance and clear discernment.

神学是什么，不过是对上帝在物质生活中的参与的承认？猜测上帝是什么，上帝是什么样子，上帝住在哪里或上帝如何运作，显然是毫无意义的努力。这些问题的答案存在于远超人类理解和概念的神秘领域，远超你在想法和智力层面的理解能力。这就是纯粹的经验领域。它是亲和力和关系的境界。它是发现、经历和实现更伟大的目的的领域。因此，我们带你超越你的理解力，进入你已经生活在其中的更伟大的生命领域，以遇到已经在那里让你遇到的力量，让你有更大的心智和更大的能力来处理生命中的世俗问题，使你能够上升到迎接你此时在世界中面临的巨大挑战。当我们这样做时，我们鼓励谦逊、开放的心态、信心、毅力和清晰的辨别力。

When we speak of the Greater Community, we are not advocating that you leave the world and travel to some distant place. We are not preparing you for space travel. We are not even encouraging space travel. Space travel will occur because that is part of your destiny and evolution, but that is not what is being encouraged here. You do not need to go to another world to realize you live in a Greater Community, for the Greater Community is at your doorstep. It is looking into your windows. It is in your neighborhood. It is here. It represents splendor and terror, wonderment and beauty, grave problems and dilemmas, just like your world but in a larger context and to a larger degree.

当我们谈到大社区时，我们并不主张你离开世界，去某个遥远的地方旅行。我们不是在为你准备太空旅行。我们甚至不是在鼓励太空旅行。太空旅行将会发生，因为那是你们命运和进化的一部分，但那不是这里所鼓励的。你不需要去另一个世界来认识到你生活在一个大社区，因为大社区就在你家门口。它正看着你们的窗户。它就在你们的附近。它就在这里。它代表着辉煌和恐怖，奇妙和美丽，严重的问题和困境，就像你的世界，但在更大的背景和更大的程度上。

Meet these greater challenges and you will be able to solve the problems that are endemic in your own world. A greater set of problems will enable you to solve lesser ones. This is the ability you need to cultivate now. The Greater Community is redemptive because it creates necessity for you. It is not simply a problem that will exist at some distant time in the future. Greater Community forces are in the world now and are determining the direction of world evolution. The Greater Community represents your destiny and your fate, your dilemma and your greater promise. Success and failure here are critical, and that is why we give Greater Community understanding and Greater Community preparation such tremendous emphasis.

迎接这些更大的挑战，你将能够解决在你自己的世界中普遍存在的问题。一套更大的问题将使你能够解决较小的问题。这是你现在需要培养的能力。大社区是救赎性的，因为它为你创造了必要性。它不是简单地在未来某个遥远的时间存在的问题。大社区的力量现在就在这个世界上，并且正在决定世界进化的方向。大社区代表着你的天命和你们的命运，你的困境和你更伟大的承诺。在这里，成功和失败都很关键，这就是为什么我们对大社区的理解和大社区的准备给予了极大的重视。

In this book, we present the theology of the Greater Community, which represents the will and the work of the Divine in physical life. To sit in the world and to speculate about what God is up to is not the work of theology. To recognize the work of the Divine and to involve yourself with it wisely and appropriately is what theology is all about. Theology is about understanding and action. If the understanding does not lead to action, then real understanding does not exist. This is the great difference between Wisdom and idealism. Wisdom leads to action, and idealism leads nowhere. It has no direction. You cannot act upon it effectively, for it is not going anywhere. Theology is visceral. It is real. It is here. It is the movement of the world and the movement of the Divine within the world and within the Greater Community as a whole.

在这本书中，我们介绍了大社区的神学，它代表了上帝在物质生命中的意志和工作。坐在世界里猜测上帝在做什么并不是神学的工作。认识到上帝的工作并明智而适当地参与其中，这就是神学的全部内容。神学是关于理解和行动。如果理解不能导致行动，那么真正的理解就不存在。这就是智慧和理想主义的巨大区别。智慧会导致行动，而理想主义则无处可去。它没有方向。你不能有效地根据它采取行动，因为它不会去任何地方。神学是本能的。它是真实的。它就在这里。它是世界的运动，也是上帝在世界和整个大社区内的运动。

The Greater Community is redemptive to you for another very important reason. It is your great opportunity to see into the larger arena of life, to see the grandeur of life and the expanse of life. In this, you will gain a greater appreciation for why you have come into the world and for who sent you. The Greater Community context gives you this opportunity and this requirement. You see, God redeems you by giving you something important to do, something greater than your personal preoccupations, fears and concerns. This is how your value is restored to you. This is how your gift is discovered. And this is how your existence in the world is justified and blessed.

大社区对你来说是救赎性的，还有一个非常重要的原因。它是你看到更伟大的生命舞台的伟大机会，看到生命的宏伟和生命的广袤。在这一点上，你将获得对你为什么来到这个世界以及谁派你来的更大赞赏。大社区背景给了你这个机会和这个要求。你看，上帝通过给你一些重要的工作来救赎你，一些比你个人的心事、恐惧和担忧更大的事情。这就是你的价值被恢复的方式。这就是你的礼物被发现的方式。这就是你在这个世界上的存在如何得到证明和祝福的方式。

You have been given a greater task and a greater understanding to learn. This is a greater mountain to climb that will make all the small hills that frustrated you before seem truly small and insignificant in comparison. Here you will escape your addictions and dilemmas because you are taking on something greater in life. Here you will escape fear and self-protection and all of the miseries that attend them by moving in a certain direction, by working within a larger context to gain a greater understanding and by using this larger context to resolve the little dilemmas that could only frustrate and obstruct you before. For all these reasons you are blessed to live in the Greater Community and to have the need and the opportunity to learn Greater Community Spirituality and all that it means for your well-being, your development and your continuance as a race.

你被赋予了更大的任务和更大的理解来学习。这是一座需要攀登的更大的山峰，它将使之前让你感到沮丧的所有小山头相比之下显得真正渺小和微不足道。在这里，你将摆脱你的成瘾和困境，因为你正在承担生命中更伟大的内识。在这里，你将摆脱恐惧和自我保护，以及随之而来的所有痛苦，通过向某个方向前进，通过在一个更大的背景下工作来获得更大的理解，通过使用这个更大的背景来解决以前只能使你感到沮丧和阻碍的小困境。由于所有这些原因，你被祝福生活在大社区，有必要也有机会学习大社区精神性，以及它对你们的福祉、你们的发展和你们作为一个种族的延续的所有意义。

The Greater Community offers you the requirement to unify your race, a requirement that you desperately need in your world, a requirement that is a necessary part of your evolution and that will make great accomplishments possible both now and in the future. Those things that overshadow you and that call you out of your individual preoccupied life call for the very things that the world needs from you and for you. No matter at what level, in what avenue or in what context your contribution is made, it is to serve this greater movement of humanity. The greater your understanding, the greater the gift that can be given.

大社区为你们提供了统一种族的要求，这是你们的世界迫切需要的要求，是你们进化的必要组成部分，将使现在和未来的伟大成就成为可能。那些让你黯然失色的事情，那些召唤你走出个人专注生活的事情，正是世界需要你和为你做的事情。无论你在哪个层面、通过何种途径、在何种背景下做出贡献，都是为了服务于这一更伟大的人类运动。你的理解力越强，所能给予的礼物也就越大。

Therefore, we present to you the Greater Community as it really is, not as you want it to be, not as it is hoped for, not as it is prescribed by the religions of your world, but as it really is—with all of its inherent problems and its magnificent opportunities.

因此，我们向你介绍大社区的真实情况，不是你想要的那样，不是你希望的那样，不是你世界的宗教所规定的那样，而是它的真实情况——它既有固有的问题，也有巨大的机遇。

Redemption is based upon accomplishment. This is the appropriate understanding to have. Therefore, when you pray for peace, for healing, for education, for Wisdom or for equanimity, what you are really calling for is a means for you to gain access to Knowledge, the Greater Mind that you possess, which joins you and bonds you to all life everywhere. You are calling for greater requirements to be given to you. Asking for peace or equanimity, Wisdom or Grace means that you are asking to be given those things that make the fulfillment and experience of these things possible. However, if you ask for escape from life or a reprieve from life or the avoidance of life, you are asking for nothing. In this case, should your request for peace and equanimity be granted and an answer given, you will not understand the answer. The opportunity is to be found in resolving the problems of life and in facing the problems of the Greater Community as they have bearing on your world. Accomplish something here and cultivate a greater awareness and understanding, and you will have a reward that could never be obtained otherwise.

救赎是基于成就的。这是要有的适当理解。因此，当你为和平、为治愈、为教育、为智慧或为平静而祈祷时，你真正呼唤的是一种手段，让你获得内识，即你所拥有的更伟大的心智，它将你与世界各地的所有生命联系起来。你在召唤给予你更大的要求。祈求和平或平静、智慧或恩典，意味着你在要求得到那些使这些事情的实现和经历成为可能的东西。然而，如果你要求逃离生命或缓和生命或回避生命，你就是在要求什么。在这种情况下，如果你对和平和平静的要求被批准，并给予答案，你将不理解这个答案。机会是在解决生命中的问题和面对大社区的问题中找到的，因为它们与你的世界有关系。在这里取得一些成就，培养更多的意识和理解，你将获得其他方式无法获得的回报。

The Greater Community is your new home. It is not new, but it is your new home while you are in the world. You do not live in a village any more, a little municipality or even one nation alone anymore. You are a citizen of a whole world. The Greater Community requires you to have this understanding and this identity because from a Greater Community perspective, human beings are all the same. They are all alike. The differences between you are insignificant. No matter where you are born, what language you speak, where you go to church or what kind of food you eat, from a Greater Community perspective you are a member of the human race. You are a human being. You are a citizen of this world.

大社区是你的新家。它不是新的，但它是你在这个世界上时的新家。你不再生活在一个村庄，一个小市镇，甚至不再单独生活在一个国家。你是整个世界的公民。大社区要求你有这种理解和认同，因为从大社区的角度来看，人类都是一样的。他们都是一样的。你们之间的差异是微不足道的。无论你在哪里出生，说什么语言，在哪里上教堂，吃什么食物，从大社区的角度来看，你都是人类的一员。你是一个人。你是这个世界的公民。

This perception of yourself is necessary for your development because you are a member of one race and one world. Your race needs to become unified, even with all of its diversity—its idiosyncrasies, its cultural distinctions and its ethnic divisions. You are still a human being, a member of one race, of one world. Gain this awareness and great things can be done through you. The Creator can work through you. Your purpose can be experienced, and its contribution can be given. Only the Greater Community can offer this to you. You cannot gain this if you are bound to your culture, to your race, to your nation, to your family, or to your daily affairs.

对自己的这种认识对你的发展是必要的，因为你是一个种族和一个世界的成员。你的种族需要变得统一，即使它有所有的多样性——它的特异功能、它的文化区别和它的种族划分。你仍然是一个人，是一个种族、一个世界的成员。获得这种意识，伟大的事情就能通过你完成。造物主可以通过你工作。你的目的可以被经历，其贡献可以被给予。只有大社区能向你提供这些。如果你被束缚在你的文化、你的种族、你的国家、你的家庭或你的日常事务中，你就无法获得这些。

As you learn over time to gain a Greater Community perspective and understanding, you will realize what needs your attention and what problems and difficulties you must set aside or avoid. Then your life will become simple, direct, magnificent and demanding—all the things that lead to accomplishment and to true satisfaction. Life asks a lot of you because your prayers for peace have been answered. You live in a demanding situation because your need for Knowledge and self-integration is so pressing. If you regret that the world is the way it is, you will miss its opportunity. If you regret having to consider or accept that your world is emerging into the Greater Community, then you will miss the answer to your prayers. God gives you something to do that takes you out of your misery and requires that you demonstrate a greater Wisdom and intelligence, both for others and for yourself.

随着时间的推移，你学会了获得大社区的视角和理解，你会意识到什么需要你的关注，什么问题和困难你必须搁置或避免。然后，你的生命将变得简单、直接、宏伟和富有挑战性——这些都是通向成就和真正满足的因素。生命对你有很多要求，因为你的和平祈祷已经得到了回应。你生活在一个充满挑战的环境中，因为你对内识和自我整合的需求是如此迫切。如果你对世界的现状感到遗憾，你将错过它的机会。如果你对不得不考虑或接受你的世界正在出现在大社区之中感到遗憾，那么你将错过你祈祷的答案。上帝给你一些工作去做，这些工作能让你摆脱痛苦，要求你展示更大的智慧和智能，无论是对他人还是对你自己。

This is the way because in these greater activities, greater relationships are fostered and greater abilities are called upon. You are freed from the past and are called into the present to something greater where you are needed, where you are destined to be and where your contribution is required. This is fulfillment. The Greater Community is calling this from you because you live in the Greater Community, because you are part of a race that is emerging into the Greater Community and because forces from the Greater Community are engaging with the world and are encountering people everywhere. Do not try to understand this, for your understanding cannot encompass its full meaning. However, you can experience it and recognize its value and its meaning for you specifically.

这就是方法，因为在这些更大的活动中，更大的关系得到了培养，更大的能力得到了调用。你从过去中解脱出来，被召唤到现在的更大的地方，那里需要你，你注定要在那里，那里需要你的贡献。这就是成就。大社区正在呼唤你，因为你生活在大社区中，因为你是一个正在进入大社区的种族的一部分，因为来自大社区的势力正在与世界接触，正在与各地的人们相遇。不要试图理解这一点，因为你的理解不能包含其全部意义。然而，你可以经历它，认识到它的价值和它对你的具体意义。

If you can accept that you have come from beyond the world to serve the world, then you will realize that the world you have come to serve is offering the conditions that will bring forth that which you came to give. If you can accept this, then you will stop condemning the world and start looking for its opportunities and allow it to call from you that which you came to give. This calling is natural and the response from you will be natural, more natural than anything else that you can think of. If you can accept these things, then you have entered the path of redemption, accomplishment and fulfillment. It is a long path, a path with many challenges and great learning requirements, but it is a path that will set you apart from others to such an extent that you can gain a greater understanding and a greater ability. And others will benefit from your accomplishment and from your education.

如果你能接受你从世界之外来为世界服务，那么你会意识到你来服务的世界正在提供条件，将带来你来给予的内识。如果你能接受这一点，那么你将停止谴责这个世界，开始寻找它的机会，并允许它从你那里召唤你来给予的礼物。这种召唤是自然的，来自你的回应也将是自然的，比你能想到的其他任何事情都要自然。如果你能接受这些事情，那么你就进入了救赎、成就和履行的道路。这是一条漫长的道路，一条有许多挑战和巨大的学习要求的道路，但这是一条将使你与他人区分开来的道路，以至于你可以获得更大的理解和更大的能力。而其他人将从你的成就和你的教育中受益。

Your preparation for the Greater Community represents the greatest and most vital education that can be fostered and extended in the world today. This education is the only thing that will enable you to solve the growing global problems of the world that seem so overwhelming and that your societies seem so incapable of facing and so poorly equipped to resolve. Preparation for the Greater Community is the most essential thing. It involves all aspects of learning. It requires that the student of Knowledge become effective at solving problems on a small scale so that problems on a larger scale can be recognized, attended to and resolved.

你对大社区的准备代表了当今世界上可以培养和扩展的最伟大和最重要的教育。这种教育是唯一能使你们解决世界上日益增长的全球问题的答案，这些问题看起来是如此的压倒性，你们的社会似乎没有能力面对，也没有能力解决。为大社区做准备是最基本的工作。它涉及到学习的所有方面。它要求内识的学生能够有效地解决小规模的问题，从而使更大规模的问题能够被认识、关注和解决。

What is the Greater Community? It is your answer. It is what you have come to attend to. Working in your own specific way, you will play a part in the world’s evolution and will fulfill your mission here and the mission of those who have sent you. This is the great promise that we offer. This is the great promise that is born of the world’s emergence into the Greater Community. And this is the great promise that Knowledge within you must respond to, for in this it has no choice.

大社区是什么？它就是你的答案。它是你要关注的工作。以你自己的方式工作，你将在世界的演变中发挥作用，并将完成你在这里的使命和那些派你来的使命。这就是我们提供的伟大承诺。这是世界出现在大社区时产生的伟大承诺。这也是你体内的内识必须响应的伟大承诺，因为在这一点上它没有选择。