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《灵魂永生》附录ESP课（下）

（1971年1月12日星期二）

（Jim H.：“我第一次来的时候，你说：“我们还会经常相见。”好像很肯定的样子。我常常在想你为什么这么肯定？”）

因为我知道你为什么来这儿，而且我知道你太太也会来。我并不是说自由意志不起作用。我只是对这个可能性领域作了一个简单的声明。

（Jim H.：“对我而言，那暗示着对我们生活的一种预知。”）

对你们来说的确如此，但那种了解你们也能获得。我们尚且无法在一个晚上讨论清楚一个题目，更别提有这么多问题了。不过，让我们回头看看你先前所说的：你几乎在所有的转世都热忱地参与到你所谓的宗教方面的努力中。而在其余的转世里，你则强烈地卷入方向完全相反的努力，这是从你们的角度说的，不过这个我们稍后再谈。让我们这么说吧，就是把神圣的灵魂翻了个面，变成了耽于肉欲。

你总是在与善恶有关的问题中纠缠，你曾在埃及的两个文明里生活过两次。其中一次，这位（Bert C.）也在。今晚要详谈那一生有点太晚了，而且你们俩都还没到能从中获益的时候。那也不是个只为享受而讲述的迷人故事，但当你们能理解它时就会有所裨益。

我反而更关心你们大家对鲁柏今晚所读资料（谈诺斯替主义）的反应。至于说如果你们认为今晚的时间好像全被一个人占用的话，我还是请你们记住我以前说过的：某一个人提出的问题就是牵涉许多人而没被提出来的问题。

你们很多人都以为自己一出生就沾染了罪恶。（对Jim H.：）你在某个前世不仅由衷相信这一点，还以此教人。

借鲁柏的话来说，你的密友（Jim的太太Jean）在那一生完全不赞同你的想法。不过，那时她是个男人，而你是个女人，一个女祭司。你的朋友（Bert C.）也是。在那一生当中，作为一个男人，Jean对你的个性有深远影响，但你极其偏爱仪式、相信法术，同时还深信生命本身是一种罪恶和错误。你的确是如今称为诺斯替派的一员。

（诺斯替主义是一种融合了柏拉图主义、东方哲学、基督教义及神学、哲学二元论于一体的一种特定的宗教与哲学系统，它出现于基督时代前后，有好几种不同的面貌。面貌尽管不同，中心教义却都是说：知识——即诺斯替Gnosis——才是从物质桎梏中求取解脱的方法，更胜于哲学或信仰。）

（Jim H.：“这就是为什么我现在如此强烈反对诺斯替主义的原因吗？是不是因为我已超越了那一点？”）

不仅如此，还因为在你心中对这种信仰仍有些许同情。当你从中解脱出来时，你发现自己的心灵还有那方面的倾向，因此不论何时你听到这种观念就大肆挞伐攻击，却不知道你攻击的是自己。

（Kathy B.：“这也是我对诺斯替文献有相似反应的原因吗？”

那时你是个男人，也是他的一个朋友。其实班上几乎所有同学都在不同时期有过这类宗教方面的努力。你们都曾是其他课程的同班同学，虽然不一定是和我在一起。由于这种长久以来的兴趣，你们中的许多人对某些特定观点就会有非常强烈的感受。你们彼此之间的联系不仅发生在某一生，在所谓的两世之间也一样进行。我们提及的某些字词可能会触动你们的记忆，只要你允许，这些记忆就会被激活。

（对Art O.：）甚至连我们的“非洲之神”都能忆起前世，只要他允许自己那样做。

（Art O.：“难道那一生就是我现在喜爱非洲音乐的原因？”）

那是原因之一。另外一个原因与你的另一生有关，在那一生中你有音乐方面的倾向。

我马上就要跟各位道晚安了。

（对Mary M.：）不过，我还有简单几句要对你讲。当你不知道怎么做才好时，放松，并告诉你自己：你的其他部分知道该怎么做，这些部分会来接管。让自己休息一下。提醒自己：你在许多方面都已经是一个非常成功的人。成功不一定是才智过人、地位崇高或富可敌国，真正的成功与内在健全有关。记住这一点。

现在，祝大家晚安！

ESP CLASS SESSION:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12,1971

（Jim H.: “The first night I was here you said, ‘We will see more of you. ’ You were quite definitive about it. I’ve often wondered, why the certainty? ”）

Because I knew why you had come here, and I knew your wife would come also. I am not saying there is no free will. I am simply making a statement about this realm of probabilities.

（Jim H.: “To me that implies a prior knowledge of our lives. ”）

It does indeed, in your terms, but that knowledge is also available to you. Now we cannot cover one topic clearly in a single evening, much less one hundred and one topics. In reference, however, to one remark you made earlier: You have in almost all of your lives been strongly involved in what you would call religious endeavors. Your remaining lives were just as religiously involved in opposite endeavors, in your terms, but we will go into that later. The holy Soul turned inside out is some fleshpot. let’s put it that way.

You have always been involved with questions concerning good and evil, and you had two existences in two civilizations in Egypt. In one of these your friend over here （Bert C.） was involved. It is too late to go into that incarnation this evening and besides neither of you are ready to benefit from it yet. It is not a fascinating story to be told only for your enjoyment, but it will help when you can understand it.

I am much more concerned with the reaction of all of you to the material that Ruburt read this evening （on Gnosticism）. Now if it seems to you that one class member is monopolizing a session, then remember what I have said before: The questions spoken by one are the unspoken questions of many.

It has seemed to many of you that you have been tinged by evil, from birth. （To Jim H.） In one of your past lives you not only heartily believed this, but taught it.

As Ruburt would put it. your sidekick over here （Jim’s wife, Jean） did not go along with your ideas at all in that life. She was a male at that time, however, and you were a female and a priestess. So was your friend （Bert C.）. As a male in that life she had an expanding effect upon your personality, but you were very given to ritual and a belief in magic acts, and to the idea that existence in itself was evil and wrong. You were indeed a member of the sect now called Gnostic.

（Gnosticism was a selected system of religion and philosophy, uniting features of Platonism, orientalism, Christianity, and dualism. It embraced pre-Christian times and later, and took several forms. In all of them its central doctrine held that knowledge - gnosis - was the means of salvation from the tyranny of matter, more than philosophy or faith.

（Jim H.: “Is that why I react so strongly against Gnosticism now, because I’ve gone beyond that point? ”）

Not only that, but because you sense in yourself still some sympathy toward the beliefs. While you are freeing yourself you recognize within your psyche a leaning in that direction, and so you lash out whenever you hear such ideas, not realizing that you lash out against yourself.

（Kathy B.: “Is that why I have a similar reaction to this Gnostic literature? ”）

You were at that time a male and a friend of his. Now almost all who come to these classes have at one time or another been engaged in such endeavors. You have all been a part of other classes, though not necessarily with me. Because of your long interest, certain aspects will hit many of you very strongly. Association operates not only within one life, but between lives in your terms. Words and phrases spoken now will trigger your memories, and those memories will become alive if you allow them to.

（To Art O.） Even our African god over there can remember his past lives if he will only allow himself to do so.

（Art O.: “Is that life the reason why I like African music now? ”）

It is one of the reasons. The other reason has to do with another life in which you were musically inclined.

Now I am going to bid you all a fond good evening.

（To Mary M.）: I have one message for our friend over here, however, and it is quite simple. When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.

I bid you all, now, a fond good evening.

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