Chapter 15: Who serves humanity?

As revealed to God’s Messenger Marshall Vian Summers on October 23, 1993 in Boulder, CO
1993年10月23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

In the Greater Community, you have great allies. They are significant but hidden. Your allies represent a very secret bond. This bond is not a political power. It is not a worldly society. It is not a power with vast armies. It is not something that can rescue you from the clutches of another alien force. You have a different kind of ally, one far more dedicated and reliable.

在大社区，你有伟大的盟友。他们是重要的，但又是隐秘的。你的盟友代表一种非常秘密的纽带。这种纽带不是政治力量。它不是一个世俗的社会。它不是一个拥有庞大军队的力量。它不是能把你从其他外星力量的魔掌中拯救出来的盟友。你拥有一种不同类型的盟友，一个更加专注和可靠的盟友。

Your allies serve humanity because they serve the reclamation and expression of Knowledge everywhere in the Greater Community. They represent the Wise in many worlds who support a greater purpose in life. Together they share a greater Knowledge and Wisdom that can be transferred across vast distances of space and across all the boundaries of race, culture, temperament and environment. Their Wisdom is pervasive. Their skill is great. Their presence is hidden. They recognize you because they realize that you are an emerging race, emerging into a very difficult and competitive environment in the Greater Community.

你的盟友为人类服务，因为他们在大社区的各个地方为内识的开垦和表达服务。他们代表了许多世界的智者，他们支持生命中更伟大的目的。他们一起分享着更伟大的内识和智慧，可以跨越遥远的空间，跨越种族、文化、气质和环境的所有界限。他们的智慧无孔不入。他们的技能是伟大的。他们的存在是隐匿的。他们认识到你们，因为他们意识到你们是一个新兴的种族，正在进入一个非常困难且竞争激烈的大社区的环境之中。

They realize you are unprepared, and therefore they give to you, as they give to many other emerging worlds in this era, a greater possibility for preparation in The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. The Greater Community Way of Knowledge has been translated specifically for human beings into a form, a language and a set of concepts that are understandable to you, that are within your reach and that call upon familiar ideas and experiences. Only a Greater Intelligence could render such a preparation into the world. It is the Will of God that this be done, and the Wise who are your allies serve this unquestioningly.

他们意识到你们还没有准备好，因此他们给了你们，就像他们给了这个时代的许多其他新兴世界一样，在大社区内识之路中准备了更大的可能性。大社区内识之路已被专门为人类翻译成一种形式、一种语言和一套概念，这些概念对你们来说是可以理解的，是你们可以触及的，是你们熟悉的想法和经历的召唤。只有更伟大的智慧才能将这样的准备带到世界上。这是上帝的意志，而作为你们的盟友的智者们则毫无疑问地服务于此。

Your allies in the Greater Community are alive in the physical universe. They have as their counterparts those invisible allies that you have who are called the Unseen Ones. Here, however, we shall speak of your allies within the physical universe itself, for you need to be aware that they exist and that they are aware of you. You need to be aware that they have achieved what you are now setting out to accomplish. And you need to realize that in the Greater Community you are not alone, though you will indeed feel like you are alone in the great reaches of space.

你们在大社区的盟友在物理宇宙中存活着。它们有一些无形的盟友，他们被称为不可见者。然而，在这里，我们将谈论你在物理宇宙中的盟友，因为你需要意识到他们的存在和他们对你们的意识。你需要意识到，他们已经实现了你们现在所设定的目标。你需要意识到，在大社区里，你并不孤单，尽管你确实会感觉到你在广阔的空间范围内是孤独的。

Your allies are called the Harim, which is a word meaning “those with skill” in Septoral, a commonly used language in the Greater Community. This word, though new to you, is used to illustrate both the assistance available to you and some of the realities that you will find in a greater context of life that extends far beyond the boundaries of your world and the limits of your awareness.

你的盟友被称为哈里姆（Harim），这个词在Septoral中意为”有技能的人”，这是大社区的一种常用语言。这个词，虽然对你来说很陌生，但用来说明你可以得到的帮助，以及你将在更广阔的生命环境中发现的一些现实情况，这个环境远远超出了你世界的边界和你意识的局限。

The Harim exist to support the reclamation of Knowledge everywhere—wherever intelligent life dwells and wherever intelligent life has originated in the physical universe. They serve as intermediaries between the invisible world where you have come from and the visible world where you live now. Great is their skill and accomplishment. Few in your world have ever achieved their state of awareness. Their mission is not simply to support and assist their own races and cultures. Instead, their role is to support Knowledge in the Greater Community. Their accomplishments make peaceful relations possible between worlds. They make higher education possible and make possible the elevation of worldly societies.

哈里姆（Harim）的存在是为了支持内识的开垦，无处不在——无论智慧生命居住在何处，无论智慧生命起源于物理宇宙。他们是你来自的无形世界和你现在生活的有形世界之间的中介者。他们的技能和成就是伟大的。在你的世界里，很少有人能达到他们的意识状态。他们的任务不仅仅是支持和帮助他们自己的种族和文化。相反，他们的作用是支持大社区的内识。他们的成就使世界间的和平关系成为可能。他们使高等教育成为可能，使世界社会的提升成为可能。

The Harim work for peace in the Greater Community, and thus their mission and their scope are enormous. They represent individuals from many worlds. Some have met each other and others have never met each other. Yet they are held together through a great network of communication that utilizes the Unseen Ones, who can go anywhere and who can deliver information from one world to another through non-physical means. This great network of communication extends to your world. It represents a marvelous accomplishment in the mental environment.

哈里姆（Harim）为大社区的和平而工作，因此他们的使命和范围是广阔的。他们代表来自许多世界的个体。有些个体已经见过面，有些个体从未见过面。然而，他们通过一个伟大的通信网络联系在一起，通过不可见者，他们可以去任何地方，可以通过非物理的方式从一个世界传递信息到另一个世界。这个伟大的通信网络延伸到了你的世界。它代表了心理环境中的一个了不起的成就。

You cannot fully comprehend the magnitude of what is being presented here, but you can appreciate the fact that this great network of communication is in the world and available to humanity. Through this network of communication, a Greater Community Way of Knowledge and a preparation for the Greater Community are being given to you. Therefore, not only do you have assistance from beyond the physical universe, you have assistance from within it as well.

你不能完全理解这里所介绍的盟友的规模，但你可以欣赏这样一个事实，即这个伟大的通信网络在这个世界上，并且可以为人类所用。通过这个通信网络，一项大社区的内识之路和大社区的准备工作正在给你。因此，你不仅有来自物理宇宙之外的援助，你也有来自物理宇宙内部的援助。

The Harim are not preoccupied with human development or human affairs. In their care are many worlds—worlds in various stages of emergence into the Greater Community, worlds that have matured in the Greater Community and worlds that are declining in the Greater Community. The Harim is active now in your world because of your emergence into the Greater Community. They represent Knowledge and Wisdom on a grand scale and within a far larger context, a context that makes everything that is being presented here in this Teaching universally applicable. What is true in the Greater Community must be true for your world, for your world is not different in this regard.

哈里姆(Harim)并不专注于人类的发展或人类事务。在他们的照顾下，有许多世界——处于进入大社区的不同阶段的世界，在大社区中已经成熟的世界和在大社区中正在衰退的世界。哈里姆(Harim)现在在你们的世界里很活跃，因为你们已经进入大社区。他们在一个更大的范围内代表着内识和智慧，这个范围使本教学中所介绍的一切都普遍适用。在大社区中的真实，对你们的世界来说一定是真实的，因为你们的世界在这方面并无不同。

The Wise Ones who support your world serve as an example to show that everything we are speaking of can be demonstrated and learned regardless of the limitations and difficulties in your world. How they associate with each other and how they communicate across the great distances is a marvel and is something that you can now begin to appreciate, at least conceptually. Why are they hidden? Because they are generally not welcome in their own worlds unless their race has evolved to a high level. If their race has evolved to a high level, then it has gone into secrecy itself because the Wise remain hidden, and wise societies remain hidden for the very same reasons.

支持你们世界的智者作为一个例子，表明我们所讲的一切都可以被证明和学习，无论你的世界有什么限制和困难。他们如何相互联系，如何跨越遥远的距离进行交流，是一个奇迹，是你现在可以开始欣赏的奇迹，至少在概念上是这样。为什么它们被隐藏起来？因为他们在自己的世界里通常不受欢迎，除非他们的种族已经进化到了一个高水平。如果他们的种族已经进化到了高水平，那么他们本身就已经进入了秘密状态，因为智者仍然是隐藏的，而智者的社会也因为同样的原因而保持隐匿。

Power in the universe is recognized in both the technological and the mental arenas. There are limits to technological power, of course, though you have not reached these limits yet. The powers of the mind, the powers of a group mind and the ability to influence the mental environment, however, represent a more advanced and mature approach to the use of power in the Greater Community. The limits to physical power open greater doors to this other kind of power in the universe. Here those who are smarter can defeat those who are stronger, and those who are wiser can avoid those who are invasive.

宇宙中的力量在技术和心理领域都是公认的。当然，技术力量是有限度的，尽管你们还没有达到这些限度。然而，心灵的力量、群体心理的力量和影响心理环境的能力，代表了在大社区中使用力量的更先进和成熟的方法。对身体力量的限制为宇宙中的这种其他力量打开了更大的大门。在这里，那些更聪明的个体可以打败那些更强大的个体，而那些更明智的个体可以避免那些有侵略性的个体。

Strength in the mental environment represents a greater development of power in the Greater Community. This is true in your world as well. Though the understanding of the mental environment is only in its beginning stages here, it potentially represents a great achievement for humanity and one that will enable you to offset the interference of other Greater Community forces in your world, whose social cohesion and technological ability far exceed your own.

心理环境中的力量代表了大社区中力量的更大发展。这在你的世界中也是如此。虽然对心理环境的理解在这里只是处于开始阶段，但它有可能代表人类的一项巨大成就，它将使你们能够抵消你们世界中其他大社区力量的干扰，他们的社会凝聚力和技术能力远远超过你们世界。

The Harim recognize that nations and entire populations of any world cannot be elevated all at once. Only certain individuals can be prepared to contribute to their race in order to elevate it, strengthen it and so forth. Through their efforts and demonstrations, their own society and population at large can slowly advance. Therefore, the work is done through individuals here and there. It is not done through governments. It is not done through organized religions. It is not done through large groups. It is not done through social groups, political groups or economic groups. Instead, it is done through individuals who are prepared to assume a greater understanding and ability. Their contribution will far exceed what they could have accomplished without this preparation. What greater service can you perform for your world than to prepare it for the future in order to guarantee its future well-being and advancement? Remember, you work for the present and for the future. Human beings do not yet understand this, but this is known to be true in the Greater Community.

哈里姆（Harim）认识到，任何世界的国家和整个种群都不可能一下子提升起来。只有某些个人能够准备好为他们的种族做出贡献，以提升和增强种族。因此，通过他们的努力和示范，他们自己的社会和整个种群可以慢慢进步。因此，这项工作是通过各个地方的个人来完成的。它不是通过政府完成的，不是通过有组织的宗教完成的，不是通过大型团体完成的，不是通过社会团体、政治团体或经济团体完成的。相反，这项工作是通过那些准备好承担更大理解和能力的个人来完成的。他们的贡献将远远超过他们在没有这种准备的情况下所能完成的。你能为你的世界提供的最大服务是什么？那就是为未来做准备，以确保它的未来福祉和进步。记住，你是为现在和未来而工作。人类还没有完全理解这一点，但在大社区中这是众所周知的事实。

The Harim will not communicate to many people in the world because this is not necessary. And they cannot have direct communication on an ongoing basis. What they have learned is what you are reading today, what we are giving to you in this moment. What we are giving to you in this moment teaches what has been learned and demonstrated in the Greater Community. It represents the work of the Harim, for their example and their skill have verified what can be done in the physical universe in any particular world and what needs to be done given your world’s current state and future circumstances.

哈里姆（Harim）不会与世界上的许多人沟通，因为这没有必要。而且他们不能持续地进行直接沟通。他们所学到的是你今天所读到的，是我们在此刻给你的。我们在这一刻给你的，是在大社区里学到的和展示的内识。它代表了哈里姆（Harim）的工作，因为他们的例子和技能已经历证了在任何特定世界的物理宇宙中可以做什么，以及在你世界的现状和未来环境下需要做什么。

Remember, the Harim do not represent a political force, a national government or any one world population. Its members dwell in secret and communicate with each other in secret. Though in some places they serve official religious or political roles, they do not represent their respective governments in their greater work. Governments by nature are concerned with order and survival. The Harim are concerned with truth and education. Therefore, their work cannot be constrained or limited by any government, either worldly or interplanetary.

请记住，哈里姆（Harim）并不代表一个政治力量、国家政府或任何一个世界的种群。它们的成员秘密地生活并彼此秘密地沟通。尽管在某些地方它们担任官方的宗教或政治角色，但在更大的工作中它们并不代表各自的政府。政府本质上关心的是秩序和生存，而哈里姆（Harim）关心的是真理和教育。因此，它们的工作不能被任何政府，无论是世俗的还是星际的，所约束或限制。

The Harim’s numbers are few, and their skill is only revealed to certain individuals at certain times and is rarely demonstrated publicly. They are hidden, and that is why they are able to maintain their Wisdom. Their power has been protected from the usurpation of governments, trade organizations and guilds, military powers and so forth. You cannot yet see and understand how great an achievement this is, what it means and what it can teach you about power and ambition in life. Your world now needs individuals to advance in this understanding because they can give to the world something that the world cannot give itself.

哈里姆（Harim）的数量很少，他们的技能只在特定时间向某些个体透露，很少公开展示。他们是隐秘的，这就是他们能够保持其智慧的原因。他们的力量得以保护，免受政府、贸易组织和行会、军事力量等的篡夺。你还不能看到和理解这是一项多么伟大的成就，它意味着什么，以及它可以教你关于生活中的权力和野心什么。你的世界现在需要在这种理解中进步的个人，因为他们能够给予世界一些世界无法自己给予的礼物。

You need help from beyond the world to prepare for the Greater Community. How can you prepare yourself? You do not know what is out there. You do not know the political and economic situation as it exists even within your part of the universe. You do not know how to defend yourself, and you do not know who to defend yourself against. How will you tell who is friendly and who is not? Your visitors will be able to present any number of images or demonstrations to you. How will you know what they are doing unless you can read their intelligence? And how can you read their intelligence if you are not developed in the mental environment? How can you discern their purpose if you are not skilled in The Greater Community Way of Knowledge? How can you match a race that is thousands of years more advanced than you in technology?

你需要来自世界之外的帮助，为大社区做准备。你如何为自己做准备？你不知道世界之外的情况。你不知道甚至在你所在宇宙部分内的政治和经济状况。你不知道如何保护自己，也不知道应该防备谁。你如何辨别谁是友好的，谁不是？你的访客可以向你展示各种形象或演示。如果你不能解读他们的意图，你怎么能知道他们在做什么？如果你在心理环境中没有得到发展，你怎么能解读他们的意图？如果你不熟悉大社区内识之路，你怎么能辨别他们的目的？你怎么能与一个在技术上比你先进几千年的种族相提并论？

The only way that you can advance, and the only way that you will be able to interpret, discern and contend with forces from the Greater Community is through the development of Knowledge. This is true because Knowledge is the only part of your mind that cannot be influenced or dominated. It is the only part of your mind that is pure. It cannot be infiltrated. It cannot be manipulated, either in the mental or in the physical environment. It is unaffected by technology. It is unaffected by the demonstrations of power. It is unaffected by the manipulations of fear. It is the only part of you that is free. Therefore, the more you associate with Knowledge and become united with Knowledge, the freer you will become, the more capable you will be in encountering new experiences and new forces in life and the more able you will be to discern your visitors’ motives and activities beyond any appearance.

你能够进步的唯一途径，也是你能够解释、辨别并与来自大社区的力量抗衡的唯一途径，就是通过内识的发展。这是真的，因为内识是你心灵中唯一不能被影响或支配的部分。它是你心灵中唯一纯净的部分。它不能被渗入。它不能被操纵，无论是在心理上还是在物理环境上。它不受技术的影响。它不被力量的展示所影响。它不被恐惧的操纵所影响。它是你身上唯一自由的部分。因此，你与内识的联系越紧密，与内识的结合越多，你就会变得越自由，你就越有能力在生命中遇到新的经验和新的力量，你就越有能力辨别你的来访者的动机和活动，超越任何外表。

Perhaps you cannot yet realize the importance of this. That is because your mind is referenced in the past. The Greater Community was not relevant in your past, generally speaking, unless of course you have had Greater Community contact in this life. However, most people will have to go beyond their past referencing and what they can relate to or experience in order to entertain the greater Wisdom that is being presented here. Our words convey important messages, but most importantly they can incite a deep response in you, if you can give that response and feel it.

也许你还不能意识到这一点的重要性。这是因为你的心智是以过去为参照的。一般来说，大社区与你的过去并不相关，当然，除非你在今生有大社区的接触。然而，大多数人将不得不超越他们过去的参照，以及他们能够涉及或经历到的关系，以便接受这里所呈现的更伟大的智慧。我们的话语传达了重要的讯息，但最重要的是它们能在你身上激起深刻的回应，如果你能给予这种回应并感受到它。

If you know how to prepare for the future, you will know what to do today. If you know what to do today, you will be freed from what you did yesterday. For your future will be unlike your past, very unlike your past. Your future will give you possibilities and challenges that your ancestors never dreamed of.

如果你知道如何为未来做准备，你就会知道今天该做什么。如果你知道今天该做什么，你就会从昨天的行为中解脱出来。因为你的未来将不同于你的过去，非常不同于你的过去。你的未来将给你带来你的祖先从未梦想过的可能性和挑战。

You have allies in the Greater Community. They understand what you will be facing. They have faced these things themselves. They understand what you will have to contend with, for they have had to contend with these things themselves. They know what the development of Knowledge means and how it must be carried out within societal life, for they have accomplished this themselves.

你在大社区有盟友。他们理解你将面临的事情。他们自己也曾面对这些事情。他们理解你将不得不面对的事情，因为他们自己也曾不得不面对这些事情。他们知道内识的发展意味着什么，以及必须如何在社会生活中进行，因为他们自己已经完成了这些。

You will not meet these individuals. They will not jump on board a space craft and travel the long distance to your planet. They will not come and speak to the President of the United States or the United Nations or any government or group here. But they do speak to those who can be initiated into Knowledge. And they speak through means that can bridge the great gulf of time and space. They do not travel about dispensing and preaching Wisdom. Their ideas come via a different kind of a network, a network that is out of reach to even the skillful in planetary governments.

你不会遇到这些个体。他们不会坐上太空飞船，长途跋涉来到你们的星球。他们不会来和美国总统或联合国或这里的任何政府或团体交谈。但他们确实会对那些可以被启动为内识的人说话。他们通过能够弥合时间和空间的巨大鸿沟的方式讲话。他们并不到处分发和宣扬智慧。他们的想法是通过一个不同的网络来实现的，这个网络甚至对行星政府中的有技能的个体来说都是遥不可及的。

We assure you, there are many skillful individuals and groups in the Greater Community who, if you encountered them without your being strong with Knowledge, would be able to discern and control your thoughts and make you think what they want you to think. They are that powerful and effective. As you can now influence and manipulate your physical environment to a certain degree, they have learned to influence and manipulate the mental environment to an even greater degree. But they cannot influence Knowledge. In fact, they may not even be aware of Knowledge.

我们向你保证，在大社区中有许多有技能的个体和团体，如果你遇到他们，而你又没有强大的内识，他们将能够辨别和控制你的思想，让你思考他们想要你思考的想法。他们是如此强大和有效。由于你们现在可以在一定程度上影响和操纵你们的物理环境，他们已经学会在更大程度上影响和操纵心理环境。但他们不能影响内识。事实上，他们甚至可能没有意识到内识的存在。

Perhaps you are beginning to get an image or an idea of what is being presented here. There is an effort in the Greater Community to foster good. It represents the way God works in physical existence, which is behind the scenes and through inspired individuals. God does not intervene. God does not control everything for everyone because God is wise. God knows better. God works behind the scenes through inspired individuals and through united relationships at all levels—at the level of individuals, families, groups, cities, nations and worlds.

也许你已经开始对这里所展示的内容有了一个印象或想法。在大社区中，有一种促进善的努力。它代表了上帝在物理存在中的工作方式，也就是在幕后，通过受启发的个体进行工作。上帝并不干预。上帝不为每个人控制一切，因为上帝是明智的。上帝更清楚。上帝在幕后通过受启发的个体与各个层面的联合关系——在个人、家庭、团体、城市、国家和世界的层面上工作。

There are greater powers at work that assist humanity and that serve humanity. They ask nothing in return except that you study The Way of Knowledge and become serious students who learn to look beyond your personal interests and fears in order to see beyond the limiting ideas of your mind. They ask that you begin to feel, to see and to ask that Knowledge reveal itself to you. They ask that you gain a greater ability, with patience and reverence for life. What can you give them in return except to receive their gifts? They do not need your wealth. They certainly do not need your ideas. They do not need anything from the world, except for humanity to learn to live in peace with itself and to contend successfully with the Greater Community. This is a great enough challenge for an emerging world.

有更大的力量在工作，协助人类，为人类服务。他们不要求任何回报，只要求你学习内识之路，成为认真的学生，学会超越个人利益和恐惧，以便超越你心智中的限制性想法。他们要求你开始感受、观察，并要求内识向你揭示自己。他们要求你获得更大的能力，对生命有耐心和敬畏之心。除了收到他们的礼物，你能给他们什么作为回报？他们不需要你的财富。他们当然也不需要你的想法。他们不需要世界上的任何东西，除了让人类学会与自己和平相处，并成功地与大社区抗衡。这对一个新兴的世界来说是一个足够大的挑战。

The Harim extend over vast regions. They are associated with each other through the Unseen Ones, who communicate with them and who deliver messages for them. The Unseen Ones represent your spiritual allies who work on behalf of worlds individually and worlds together. For now, it is important for you to consider that you are not alone in the physical universe.

哈里姆（Harim）延伸到广阔的区域。他们通过不可见者相互联系，不可见者与他们交流并为他们传递讯息。不可见者代表你的精神盟友，他们为各个世界并与多个世界一起共同工作。现在，重要的是你要知道，在物理宇宙中，你并不孤单。

In the Greater Community, there are societies that exist at every stage of evolution, and there are societies that have failed for every reason. There are societies at war. There are societies at peace. There are societies that trade. There are societies that do not trade. There are societies that belong to commercial guilds. There are societies that do not belong to commercial guilds. There are societies that travel in space. There are societies that do not travel in space. There are societies that are primitive. There are societies that have beginning technology, such as your own. And there are societies that have gone beyond the limits of technology into new kinds of education and development. There are societies that have been defeated. There are societies that have been victorious. There are societies that have gone into hiding. There are societies that search from star to star for a home. There are societies that are exclusively engaged in commerce. There are societies that are law-abiding and civil. There are societies which are not. There are societies that are physically strong, and there are societies which are not.

在大社区中，存在着各个进化阶段的社会，也存在着因各种原因而失败的社会。有处于战争中的社会。也有和平的社会。有贸易的社会。也有不进行贸易的社会。有属于商业行会的社会。也有不属于商业行会的社会。有的社会在太空中旅行。也有不在太空中旅行的社会。有一些社会是原始的。有的社会拥有初级科技，比如你们自己的社会。还有一些社会已经超越了技术的极限，进入了新的教育和发展领域。有的社会已经被打败了。有的社会已经取得了胜利。有的社会已经躲藏起来。有的社会在恒星与恒星之间寻找家园。有的社会专门从事商业活动。有的社会遵纪守法，民风淳朴。也有不守法的社会。有身体强壮的社会，也有身体不强壮的社会。

If you can consider these ideas, you will think of examples within your own world. Yet consider how much greater is the panorama of life in the Greater Community and how much stronger are the opposing forces there. One benefit here is that the physical universe is quite large. And though space travel is actively carried on, more actively in certain areas than in others, no one can get around that quickly. The universe is too big, and therefore societies such as yours can live in relative isolation for a very long time. There are worlds in the Greater Community that have never been discovered by other races. The universe is too vast. There are unexplored regions in the Greater Community, and there are regions that are largely inhabited. There are regions where it is safe to travel, and there are regions where it is not safe to travel. There are regions that are defended and protected, and there are regions that are not.

如果你能考虑这些想法，你会想到你自己世界中的例子。然而，想想大社区的生命全景有多大，那里的对立力量有多强。这里的一个好处是，物理宇宙是相当大的。虽然太空旅行正在积极进行，在某些地区比其他地区更积极，但没有人可以那么快地走动。宇宙太大，因此像你们这样的社会可以在相对孤立的情况下生活很长时间。在大社区中有一些世界从未被其他种族发现过。宇宙太广阔了。在大社区中，有一些未被开发的地区，也有一些地区基本上有种族居住。有些地区的旅行是安全的，有些地区的旅行则是不安全的。有的地区受到防卫和保护，有的地区则没有。

You live in a great municipality of life. It is as if humanity were just venturing out of the house for the first time and beginning to explore its front and back yards. You do not even know your neighborhood yet. In this neighborhood, there are big kids on the block, but you are the little tiny kid who does not know anything.

你们生活在一个巨大的生活市镇中。就好像人类刚刚第一次走出家门，开始探索它的前院和后院。你甚至还不知道你的邻居。在这个街区，有很多大孩子，但你是一个什么都不知道的小不点。

How will you prepare for life in the Greater Community? Many people think that they will simply export human culture and religion and attempt to persuade others of the superiority of their morals and ethics. However, honestly speaking, humanity at this time makes a very poor demonstration. Its great accomplishment is occurring on the individual level and on the level of small groups and associations. On the level of nations and races and cultures, your behavior is still very primitive and brutish. We are not being cruel here. We are simply giving you a Greater Community perspective.

你将如何为大社区的生命做准备？许多人认为，他们将简单地输出人类文化和宗教，并试图说服其他种族相信他们的道德和伦理的优越性。然而，老实说，人类在这个时候做的示范非常差。它的伟大成就发生在个人层面以及小团体和协会层面。在国家、种族和文化的层面上，你们的行为仍然是非常原始和野蛮的。我们并不是在苛责你们。我们只是给你一个大社区的视角。

How will you prepare for the Greater Community? You will prepare through Knowledge. Technologically you are way behind. In your social cohesion you are way behind. You are just beginning to realize the need now for world community, yet even that idea is largely rejected and is still highly unpopular. As human societies now move towards merging together and becoming more interdependent with each other, wars, struggles and ancient animosities are arising between them. However, your nations will join because they must. It is your destiny. It is your evolution. You will do it or perish. Therefore, the need is greater than the resistance.

你将如何为大社区做准备？你将通过内识来准备。在技术上，你们远远落后。在你们的社会凝聚力方面，你们也远远落后。你们现在才刚刚开始意识到对世界社区的需要，然而即使是这个想法也在很大程度上被拒绝了，仍然非常不受欢迎。随着人类社会现在走向合并，变得更加相互依存，战争、斗争和古老的敌意在他们之间产生。然而，你们的国家将加入，因为他们必须加入。这是你们的命运。这是你们的进化。你们将这样做或灭亡。因此，需求比阻力更大。

Preparation for the Greater Community is being offered for several reasons, some of which are not so obvious. What is obvious is that you need to prepare for the Greater Community. What is not obvious is that the preparation itself will enable you to contend with the problems inherent in your own world, problems that have become severe and global in nature.

为大社区做准备是出于几个原因，其中一些不是那么明显。显而易见的是，你需要为大社区做准备。不明显的是，准备工作本身将使你能够应对你自己的世界所固有的问题，这些问题已经变得很严重，具有全球性。

You need a Greater Community Way of Knowledge to see what you have to accomplish and to be challenged to accomplish it. You need a Greater Community Way of Knowledge in order to remain a self-determined race, or else you will fall under the control of an alien society. Your self-determination is important here, for it guarantees you a future where the greater aspects of your nature can emerge and take precedence over your more animal instincts. Such is the promise of life in your world. However, having promise does not guarantee a successful result. That is why you have allies within the world, within the Greater Community and beyond all the physical manifestations of life.

你需要一种大社区的内识方式，以看到你必须完成的工作，并接受挑战来完成它。你需要一个大社区的内识之路，以便保持一个自我决定的种族，否则你们将落入一个外来社会的控制之下。你们的自决在这里很重要，因为它保证了你们的未来，在这里你们本性中更大的方面可以出现，并优先于你们更多的动物本能。这就是你们世界中的生命承诺。然而，有承诺并不能保证成功的结果。这就是为什么你们在这个世界上有盟友，在大社区里有盟友，在所有生命的物理表现之外有盟友。

God is not preoccupied with the workings of this one world. God is not preoccupied with your success or your failure. But God has set into motion that which gives you the greatest possibility for success. When people say, “Well, my scripture says that God appeared before this man, and God appeared at the edge of the desert, and God parted the sea,” they are talking about the Unseen Ones. God does not come to the world. God has never been to the world. God is everywhere. Only a tiny god could come to the world, show up, make things happen, appear before certain individuals and speak to the prophets. Only a small god could come to your house. And it is a small god. It is God’s messengers, who are part of God. In the Greater Community, the understanding of God is so much greater. In the Greater Community, you don’t sit and say, “Well, when is God going to come to my house? When is God going to give me some attention? When is God going to come and take care of my situation? When is God going to come and work out this problem that I am facing?” You cannot think like that in the Greater Community, for life is too big.

上帝并不专注于这一个世界的运作。上帝并不关心你的成功或失败。但是，上帝已经启动了给你带来最大成功可能性的工作。当人们说：”好吧，我的经文说上帝在这个人面前出现，上帝在沙漠边缘出现，上帝把海分开，”他们说的是不可见者。上帝不会来到这个世界。上帝从来没有到过这个世界。上帝是无处不在的。只有一个小神能来到世界，出现，使事情发生，出现在某些人面前，对先知们说话。只有一位小神能来到你的家里。而且是一位渺小的神。它是上帝的信使，他们是上帝的一部分。在大社区里，对上帝的理解是如此之大。在大社区里，你不会坐在那里说：”那么，上帝什么时候会到我家来？上帝什么时候会给我一些关注？上帝什么时候会来照顾我的处境？上帝什么时候会来解决我面临的这个问题？”在大社区里，你不能这样想，因为对于生命来说，这实在是太大了。

Go out on a clear night and look up. Your destiny is there. Your difficulties are there. Your opportunities are there. Your redemption is there. To successfully survive and advance in the Greater Community, you must become unified as a race, and you must preserve your environment, no matter what the cost. It must be done because it is your evolution and destiny. It won’t happen because you want it. It will happen because it must be done.

在一个晴朗的夜晚出去走走，抬头看看。你的命运就在那里。你的困难在那里。你的机会在那里。你的救赎就在那里。为了成功地在大社区中生存和发展，你们必须成为统一的种族，你们必须保护你们的环境，无论付出什么代价。必须这样做，因为这是你们的进化和命运。它不会因为你们想要它而发生。它将会发生，因为它必须被完成。

Everything that happens in life happens because it must, not because someone wanted it to. Things that happen because someone wanted them to have no permanency. They are temporary. Yes, you can make a splash in the water, but your splash will be forgotten very quickly. Yes, you can have an impact on your physical environment, but over the span of time your mark on the world will be lost and forgotten. Yet your influence and development in Knowledge will not be forgotten, for the results of Knowledge are permanent; its results are for everyone. Even though in the course of your life you may only meet certain people and communicate to certain individuals, you are giving something into the mental and physical environment for everyone here. You are also giving something into the Greater Community. With every individual and group of individuals in the Greater Community who can receive your gift, Knowledge becomes stronger in the Greater Community. It becomes stronger with your development and your accomplishment. And it becomes weaker without it.

生活中发生的一切都因为它必须发生，而不是因为有人想要它发生。因为有人想要而发生的事情，没有永恒性。它们是暂时的。是的，你可以在水中溅起水花，但你的水花很快就会被遗忘。是的，你可以对你的物理环境产生影响，但随着时间的推移，你在这个世界上的印记将被丢失和遗忘。然而，你在内识方面的影响和发展不会被遗忘，因为内识的结果是永久的；其结果是为每个人服务的。尽管在你的生命过程中，你可能只遇到某些人，与某些人交流，但你在这里为每个人的心理和物理环境给予了一些礼物。你也在为大社区提供一些礼物。随着大社区的每一个种族和团体都能接受你的礼物，内识在大社区变得更加强大。它随着你的发展和你的成就而变得更加强大。没有它，它就会变得更弱。

As you go beyond the boundaries of your world, both physically and in terms of your awareness, you enter a larger arena of life made up of greater opposing forces. Like a little child who peers out from the front door into the street and imagines what it must be like out there, you look up at the stars and you imagine what is going on out there. Everything looks so vacant and empty, so distant and so impersonal. Yet there is a great deal going on out there even though the distances are vast. And unless you go to an area where a great deal of commerce is being carried on, you will not meet many others.

当你超越了你的世界的界限，无论是物理上还是意识上，你都进入了一个由更大的对立力量组成的更大的生命竞技舞台。就像一个小孩从前门向外窥视街道，想象外面世界的样子，你抬头看星星，想象世界之外发生了什么。一切看起来如此空旷、遥远和空虚。然而，尽管距离遥远，那里却有许多事情在发生。除非你去到一个进行大量商业活动的区域，否则你不会遇到太多种族。

The world you live in, however, is not in some remote or distant corner of the universe that no one has ever been to. In fact, your world really is not that remote at all. Few races have had occasion or the need to come here, but your world has been visited throughout its history—sometimes even very frequently, as it is now. Yet now you are being scrutinized by several different groups for different reasons. There is a great deal of planning going on about how to influence humanity, how to use humanity, how to take advantage of the world’s wonderful natural resources, how to develop humanity according to the political aim of one or two other races and how to prevent humanity from falling into an enemy’s camp.

然而，你生活的世界并不在宇宙的某个偏远或遥远的角落，没有人去过。事实上，你们的世界真的一点都不遥远。很少有种族有机会或需要来这里，但你们的世界在整个历史上一直被访问，有时甚至非常频繁，就像现在这样。然而，现在你们正被几个不同的团体以不同的理由进行审查。有大量的计划正在进行，关于如何影响人类，如何利用人类，如何使用世界上美妙的自然资源，如何根据一两个其他种族的政治目标发展人类，以及如何防止人类落入敌人的阵营。

Your isolation is over. The implications for this are awesome—perhaps terrible, perhaps wonderful. This gives humanity what it needs right now, which is a big collective problem. It gives you who are reading this book a sober view into your life and into your future. It calls upon a greater incentive within you to enable you to develop and to find your purpose, for you have come to serve this world at this time. It is not an accident that you came at this time and to this place. You came here to assist in some specific way the world’s emergence into the Greater Community because this is the biggest thing that is happening here. This is the most consequential event in human history. This will change your thoughts, your priorities, your institutions, and eventually even your religions, for they were made for humans alone and cannot entertain the scope of the Greater Community.

你们的孤立状态已经结束。这方面的影响是可怕的——也许是可怕的，也许是美妙的。这给了人类现在需要的礼物，这是一个大的集体问题。它让正在阅读这本书的你对自己的生活和未来有了清醒的认识。它唤起了你们内心更大的动力，使你能够发展并找到你的目的，因为你在这个时候来为这个世界服务。你在这个时候来到这个地方，并不是一个意外。你来到这里是为了以某种特定的方式帮助世界出现在大社区中，因为这是发生在这里的最大的事情。这是人类历史上最重要的事件。这将改变你们的思想、你们的优先事项、你们的机构，甚至最终改变你们的宗教，因为它们只是为人类而生，不能满足大社区的范围。

In the Greater Community, God is Knowledge because God cannot be localized. God cannot be the resident of one world. God cannot give priority to one world. God is everywhere. How can you have a personal religion, like you have in the world, without God being localized? In the Greater Community, then, God is Knowledge. Knowledge is that part of God that works within the individual, initiating great relationships between individuals and setting into motion activities that contribute to the well-being of the race to which those individuals belong. Beyond this, Knowledge contributes to the well-being of all races, such as at the level of the Harim.

在大社区中，上帝是内识，因为上帝不能被局部化。上帝不能成为一个世界的居民。上帝不能优先考虑一个世界。上帝是无处不在的。你怎么能有个人的宗教，就像你在这个世界上一样，如果上帝不被本地化，你怎么能有个人的宗教？那么，在大社区里，上帝是内识。内识是上帝的一部分，它在个人内部工作，启动个人之间的伟大关系，并启动有助于这些个体所属的种族的福祉的活动。除此之外，内识还为所有种族的福祉做出贡献，例如在哈里姆（Harim）的层面上。

Do not think that this sounds too great for you to consider. You need to think of these things now. Do not return to your safe little familiar ideas and activities. Life is calling you. It is calling you to consider greater things and to call upon a Greater Power within yourself which will enable you to learn greater things and to achieve greater things. Return to your individual life, but with a greater awareness, a greater discernment and the need to understand things on a larger scale. Life is working here in spite of human goals, plans and motivations. Life is bringing humanity into the Greater Community because that is humanity’s evolution.

不要认为这听起来太伟大了，你可以考虑。你现在需要考虑这些事情。不要回到你安全的、熟悉的小想法和活动中去。生命在呼唤你。它在呼唤你考虑更伟大的事情，呼唤你内在的更伟大力量，这将使你能够学习更伟大的事情，实现更伟大的事情。回到你的个人生活，但要有更大的意识、更强的辨别力和在更大范围内理解世界的需要。尽管有人类的目标、计划和动机，但生命正在这里工作。生命正在把人类带入大社区，因为那是人类的进化。

Yet how this will be achieved and what its results will be will largely be determined by human response and response-ableness, or responsibility. You are the race that is being discovered. Therefore, you are the race that needs to be prepared. To serve you, there are races in the Greater Community who can respond to the Harim and who are influenced by them. They do not represent military forces or world governments necessarily. They are your potential allies, but they cannot become directly involved at this time.

然而，这将如何实现，其结果如何，在很大程度上将由人类的回应和回应能力，或责任决定。你们是正在被发现的种族。因此，你们是需要准备的种族。为了服务于你们，在大社区中有一些种族可以对哈里姆（Harim）做出回应，并受到他们的影响。他们不一定代表军事力量或世界政府。他们是你们潜在的盟友，但他们目前不能直接参与。

You have the possibility for great friendships as well as great allies. Yet you have not gone far enough into the Greater Community, either mentally or physically, to see what exists there. However, you have the possibility of having great friends if you can be pure of heart and if you can focus your service not only on meeting the needs of humanity but on developing relationships with other races. These great friends come with good intentions, not to exploit you, not to control you, not to gain access to your resources, not to influence your development, not to colonize you and not to take you over. Can you have this same approach with them? Given current human behavior and understanding, the possibility does exist, but it is improbable that this will be your emphasis once you are able to travel beyond the boundaries of your world. There are Greater Community forces even in your solar system who are planning defenses against this occurring. They can keep you from venturing very far without a great deal of effort on their part.

你有可能建立伟大的友谊，也有可能成为伟大的盟友。然而你还没有深入到大社区，无论是心理上还是物理上，看看那里有什么。然而，如果你能保持纯洁的心灵，如果你能把你的服务不仅集中在满足人类的需要上，而且集中在与其他种族发展关系上，你就有可能拥有伟大的朋友。这些伟大的朋友带着良好的意图而来，不是为了剥削你们，不是为了控制你们，不是为了获得你们的资源，不是为了影响你们的发展，不是为了殖民你们，不是为了接管你们。你能对他们采取这种同样的方法吗？鉴于目前人类的行为和理解，这种可能性确实存在，但一旦你们能够来到你们世界的边界之外，这将是你们的重点，这是不可能的。甚至在你们的太阳系中，也有大社区的力量在计划防御这种情况的发生。他们可以阻止你们走得很远，而不需要他们做大量的努力。

You need Knowledge to see, to know what to do and to do what you know. You need to develop in The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. That is why this must be the primary emphasis for you. Let fear not be your motivation; let wishful thinking not be your motivation. Let Knowledge itself be your motivation. Fear will not prepare you. Wishful thinking will not prepare you. Saying everything will be wonderful or saying everything will be disastrous will not prepare you. You must prepare. Let Knowledge motivate you. Let your deeper sense of what is right and correct motivate you. Nothing is being asked of you except to receive the gift of Knowledge that is being given to your world through this Teaching.

你需要内识去看，去知道做什么，去做你知道的事。你需要在大社区内识之路中发展。这就是为什么这必须成为你的首要重点。不要让恐惧成为你的动机；不要让一厢情愿的想法成为你的动机。让内识本身成为你的动力。恐惧不会使你准备好。一厢情愿的想法不会让你准备好。说一切都将是美好的，或说一切都将是灾难性的，都不会使你准备好。你必须准备好。让内识激励你。让你对什么是正确和正确的更深层的感觉来激励你。除了接受通过这个教学送给你世界的内识礼物之外，我们没有要求你什么。

We honor the one who has received us who has made this possible for you. However, this is a gift that must also be given by you. Do not exploit it. Do not try to use it for your personal advantage. Do not try to become a master and appoint yourself the right to interpret the Greater Community Way of Knowledge for others unless we have given you this right. To achieve this you must be very advanced, which you are not. Remember, we are the Unseen Ones, and this gift we give to serve you, to prepare you, to enable you and to direct you because God is at work in the world.

我们尊敬那位接纳我们并使这一切成为可能的人。然而，这也是一份必须由你给予的礼物。不要利用它。不要试图为你的个人利益使用它。不要试图成为大师，指定自己有权利为他人解释大社区内识之路，除非我们已经给你这个权利。要做到这一点，您必须非常先进，而你并非如此。记住，我们是不可见者，我们给予的这份礼物是为了服务于你，为你做准备，使你能够做好准备并指导你，因为上帝在这个世界上工作。