生命經由一連串的演化過程，在你們現在稱為幾十億年時光的一瞬間完成。而在這神聖的瞬間，你們由海洋——生命之水——來到陸地上，來到你們現在保有的形式。

 

 

我覺得它很有趣——事實上，是一個持續不斷的趣味來源——你們人類有這樣一種「把每件事都分辨為對和錯」的必要。你們從沒浮現過「你們創造出那些標籤，是為了幫助你們定義物質事物——及定義你們自己」的想法嗎？

 

你們（除了你們中最精細的心智外）從沒料想過「一件事可以同時既是對的也是錯的」；在相對世界(the relative world)裡，事情才是非此即彼的。在絕對世界(world of the absolute)——有時間/無時間——的世界裡，所有的事物即每一件事物。

 

沒有男性和女性，沒有之前和之後，沒有快和慢、此處和彼處、上和下、左和右——而且沒有對和錯。

 

你們的太空人和宇航人(cosmonauts)已經獲得過這個感受。他們想像自己被火箭送上去到外太空，只為了當他們到那裡之後，去發現他們向上看到地球。或他們是那樣看嗎？或許他們在向下看到地球！然而，太陽又在何處？上面？下面？非也！在那裡，左偏一點。因此現在，突然之間，一樣東西既非上也非下——它是左右邊的……而所有的定義就這樣消失了！

 

因此，那是在我的世界——我們的世界——我們真正的界域裡。所有的定義都消失了，使得連「以確定的名稱來談論這界域」都變得很困難。

 

 

宗教是你們試圖說出這無法形容之真相(the unspeakable)的嘗試。但它並沒有做得很好。

 

不，我的孩子，進化論者並不對。我在一眨眼間創造出所有這一切——只在一瞬間——正如創造論者(Creationists)所說的。而……正如進化論者宣稱的，它用了你們稱為好幾十億年的時間，透過一個演化過程產生的。

 

他們兩方都是「對的」。正如宇航人發現的，這全都取決於「你如何看它」。

 

但，真正的問題是：一個神聖的瞬間或數十億年——有何差別？為何不將那些神秘視為神聖？為何不允許那些神聖的是神聖的，而別去干擾它？

 

 

 

 

Neale: Then the evolutionists are right!

 

I find it amusing—a source of continual amusement, actually—that you humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you’ve made those labels up to help you define the material—and your Self.

 

It never occurs to you (except to the finest minds among you) that a thing could be both right and wrong; that only in the relative world are things one or the other. In the world of the absolute, of time-no time, all things are everything.

 

There is no male and female, there is no before and after, there is no fast and slow, here and there, up and down, left and right—and no right and wrong.

 

Your astronauts and cosmonauts have gained a sense of this. They imagined themselves to be rocketing upward to get to outer space, only to find when they got there that they were looking up at the Earth. Or were they? Maybe they were looking down at the Earth! But then, where was the sun? Up? Down? No! Over there, to the left. So now, suddenly, a thing was neither up nor down—it was sideways… and all definitions thus disappeared.

 

So it is in My world—our world—our real realm. All definitions disappear, rendering it difficult to even talk about this realm in definitive terms. Religion is your attempt to speak of the unspeakable. It does not do a very good job.

 

No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this—all of this —in the blink of an eye; in one holy instant—just as the creationists have said. And… it came about through a process of evolution taking billions and billions of what you call years, just as the evolutionists claim.

 

They are both “right.” As the cosmonauts discovered, it all depends on how you look at it.

 

But the real question is: one holy instant/billions of years—what’s the difference? Can you simply agree that on some of the questions of life the mystery is too great for even you to solve? Why not hold the mystery as sacred? And why not allow the sacred to be sacred, and leave it alone?