……在現在所知蒙古國的土地上。此實體然後加入了抵抗來自西方陸地人們的人民中……然後,該實加入房屋建造者中、城市城市者中、裝修房屋者中。2108-1(... in the land now known as Mongolia. The entity then among those peoples who were in the defense of those coming in from the western land . . . The entity then among those who builded as builders of homes, as builders of cities, as builders of those that decorated homes.)
該實體協助召開該體驗裡的五大國家,或五個中心的商討,從而給此人帶來經驗,即,必須按自己的時間自己的年齡,在現在經驗裡重複。那麼,並非差異,而是對知識的統一,並非外在而是內在,才是真正的源頭。1210-1(The entity aided in bringing about the counsel of the five nations, or the five centers in the experience, and thus brought to man in those experiences that which must be as it were in its own day, in its own age, repeated in the experiences in the present. Not the differences then but the onenesses with the knowledge, not without but from within, is the real source.)
至於攻防的方式,正如之前所示的,大部分是尚未發現的東西,是那些時期的籌備工作的一部分。這些事物關係到制定長期的國防召集,其中可能存在他人干涉的任何企圖,以造成自己的毀滅……因此,我們發現在目前的經驗裡,該實體是一位元和平主義者,不僅對於進攻如此,而且對於防守也是如此,是一位相當與天俱來的有準備的和平主義者。877-11(As to the manner of defense and offense, as has been indicated, much that is yet to be found again was a part of those preparations in those periods. For these had to do with the setting of long-period drums for defense in which there might be any attempts by others to interfere, to cause their own undoing . . . Hence we find in the present experience the entity while a pacifist, not only with that of offense but defense as well, is rather innately a prepared pacifist.)
隨時間推移,由此產生更具攻擊性的姿態:
在此之前的一生,在現在的蒙古人種的遠東國家,那時人們團結成群,防止野獸和人類的侵略。4713-1(In the one before this, in now the far eastern countries of the Mongoloids, when the peoples were becoming united as groups to guard against the invasion of beast and man.)
JamesReston在他1971年7、8月的中國的旅程中,報導了一個轉變的積極階段,所有工人都不斷地在挑戰自我批判和自我改善。他發表他的印象是:人們對此有著熱情39。另一位觀察員,E. Van Heuvel,目睹了一個自信所帶來的輕鬆心情,消費品的進步,工藝的自豪感,以及自由的新光環40。報告指出態度和人際關係的平等主義,由最低生活水準保證所支持。這些都是用專制手段達成的41,如果此手段垮掉,這些成果和其它成就會遭遇到什麼則是不確定的。
這個,在這裡,隨著把它應用到人類生活,將有一天成為基督的搖籃。真的,這遠離人類可數的時間,但只是神心靈的一天——因為明天,中國將醒來。3976-29(This, here, will be one day the cradle of Christianity, as applied in the lives of men. Yea, it is far off as man counts time, but only a day in the heart of God - for tomorrow China will awake.)
如果美國沒有接受人類間更親密的兄弟情誼,沒有愛人如己,那麼,文明一定會走向西方——那麼蒙古,某一可恨的民族,一定會再次出現。3976-15(If there is not the acceptance in America of the closer brotherhood of man, the love of the neighbor as self, civilization must wend its way westward — and again must Mongolia, must a hated people, be raised.)
James Reston在結束訪華後,在東京的電視節目上討論了這點。他說的其中一件事是,中國正在作出協調一致的努力,以“帶出人類最好的東西”45。
我們能夠要求更多嗎?或者,我們敢不敢滿足於更少的?我們對此正在做什麼呢?
註腳:
21.Jacques Marcuse, "The Love Affair of Comrade Wang," New York Times Magazine,November 8, 1964; "Chinese Reds Condemn Those Young People Who 'Idle Away Their Time' Planning Early Marriage," New York Times, September 15, 1968; Topping, pp. 806, 825; New York Times, June 10, 1965.
22.New York Times, September 18, 1971.
23.Topping, pp. 811,830,
24.Chai and Chai, p. 27.
25.Arthur W. Galston, "Attitudes on Acupuncture," Natural History, March 1972, pp. 14 ff; George G. O'Malley, "Oriental Medicine,"A.R.E. Journal, July 1972, pp. 149—155; G.L. Willox, "Contemporary Chinese Health, Medical Practice and Philosophy," in Contemporary China, ed. Ruth Adams (New York: Vintage, 1966), pp. 105-120.
26.Joseph R. Levenson, Modern China and Its Confucian Past (Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1964).
27.New York Times, July 7, 1971; C.H.G. Oldham, "Science and Education in China," in Contemporary China, pp. 281—317; John M.H. Lindbeck, "Chinese Science: It's Not a Paper Atom," New York Times Magazine, January 8, 1967, pp. 38 ff.
28.New York Times, September 12, 1971.
29.Marcuse, p. 40.
30.Laura Pilarski, "Little Tibet in Switzerland," National Geographic, November 1968, pp. 711-727; Stanley Ghosh, Embers in Cathay (Garden City: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 41-58, 168-205.
31.Fitzgerald, p. 30.
32.Topping, p. 804.
33.Topping, pp. 811,816.
34.Needham, Vol. II: History of Scientific Thought (1956), p. 582.
35.Mao Tse-tung, Where Do Correct Ideas Come from? May 1963, 1st pocket ed., p. 1. Quoted in "the little red book."
36.New York Times, June 10, 1965.
37.James Reston, New York Times, August 4, 1971.
38.New York Times, November 24, 1971.
39.New York Times, July 28, 1971.
40.New York Times, July 25, 1971.
41.New York Times, August 9, 1971.
42.These would include, among authors cited here, Audrey Topping and her father Chester Ronning. In addition, C.P. Fitzgerald, Edgar Snow, and Helen (Foster) Snow have lived for long periods of time in China.
43.New York Times, July 11, 1971, Section IV.
44.See statement by Senator James 0. Eastland, based on records of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, reported in New York Times, August 13, 1971, in which he deplores the "positive hues" in which reporters had been describing China.
45.New York Times, September 1, 1971.
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