如果你講道理,並願意花幾分鐘看完和檢視這一篇的內容,你將不再對「為何神不以人人都能了解的方式顯現」有不解或疑惑。也將對認識神的真實本質,更邁向明晰。
聽神談【為何神不以人人都能了解的方式顯現?】
尼爾:為什麼你不顯現你自己?如果真的有這麼一位神,而你就是那一位,為什麼你不以我們全都能了解的方式來顯現你自己?
我曾這樣做,一次又一次地。現在,我就正在這樣做。
尼爾:不是。我是指以一種不具爭議性的、無法被否定的顯現方法。
比如說?
尼爾:比如現在就出現在我眼前。
我現在就在這樣做呀!(I am doing so right now.)
尼爾:你在哪裡?
在你所目擊的每個地方。
尼爾:不是這樣的。我指的是以一種不具爭議性的方式。以一種沒人能否認的方式顯現。
那會是怎樣的方式?你希望我以哪一種形式或形狀出現?
尼爾:以你實際上有的形式或形狀啊!
那是不可能的,因為我並沒有你所了解的形式或形狀(form or shape)。我可以採用你能了解的一種形式或形狀,但是,那樣的話,每個人都會假設他們所見到的就是神唯一的形式和形狀,而非神的許多形式或形狀中之一。
人們相信我是他們眼中所看到的樣子,而非他們沒有見到的樣子。但我是那「「偉大而看不見」的東西(the Great Unseen),而非我在某特定一刻讓我自己成為的樣子。換一種說法就是, 我是「我所不是」的東西(I am what I am not.)。我是從「我所不是」來的,而我永遠會回到那裡去。
然而,當我以某一種或另一種形式——以一種我認為人們所能了解我的形式——顯現時,人們就會永遠認定我是那種形式。
而當我對其他的人,又以他們所能了解的任何其他形式出現時,第一次看過我的人會說我沒有出現,因為我顯現給第二次看我的人的樣子,和給第一次看我的人的樣子不同,說的話也不同——所以那怎會是我呢?
你明白了吧,我以任何種形式或方式顯現我自己並不重要——不論我選擇用哪種方式或哪種形式顯現,沒有一種會是不具爭議的。
摘自《與神對話 I》第1章
Neale: Why is it that You do not reveal Yourself? If there really is a God, and You are It, why do You not reveal Yourself in a way we can all understand?
I have done so, over and over. I am doing so again right now.
Neale: No. I mean by a method of revelation that is incontrovertible; that cannot be denied.
Such as?
Neale: Such as appearing right now before my eyes.
I am doing so right now.
Neale: Where?
Everywhere you look.
Neale: No, I mean in an incontrovertible way. In a way no man could deny.
What way would that be? In what form or shape would you have Me appear?
Neale: In the form or shape that you actually have.
That would be impossible, for I have no form or shape you understand. I could adopt a form or shape that you could understand, but then everyone would assume that what they have seen is the one and only form and shape of God, rather than a form or shape of God—one of many.
People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.
Yet when I come in one particular form or another—a form in which I think people can understand Me—people assign Me that form forevermore.
And should I come in any other form, to any other people, the first say I did not appear to the second, because I did not look to the second as I did to the first, nor say the same things—so how could it have been Me?
You see, then, it matters not in what form or in what manner I reveal Myself—whatever manner I choose and whatever form I take, none will be incontrovertible.