第66篇 玉苒廈的行星君王

Paper 66 The Planetary Prince of Urantia
第66篇 玉苒廈的行星君王

66:0.1 (741.1) THE advent of a Lanonandek Son on an average world signifies that will, the ability to choose the path of eternal survival, has developed in the mind of primitive man. But on Urantia the Planetary Prince arrived almost half a million years after the appearance of human will.

66:0.1 (741.1) 在一個普通世界,一位拉那南德聖子的降臨,標誌著原始人類的心智中已經萌發了意志——即選擇永恆續存之路的能力。但在玉苒廈,行星君王抵達時,人類意志已經出現將近五十萬年了。

66:0.2 (741.2) About five hundred thousand years ago and concurrent with the appearance of the six colored or Sangik races, Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, arrived on Urantia. There were almost one-half billion primitive human beings on earth at the time of the Prince’s arrival, and they were well scattered over Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Prince’s headquarters, established in Mesopotamia, was at about the center of world population.

66:0.2 (741.2) 大約五十萬年前,在六個有色或桑吉克種族出現的同時,行星君王卡裡迦夏抵達了玉苒廈。在君王抵達時,地球上有近五億原始人類,他們廣泛分佈於歐洲、亞洲和非洲各地。君王的總部設在美索不達米亞,大致位於世界人口的中心地帶。

1. Prince Caligastia
1. 君王卡裡迦夏

66:1.1 (741.3) Caligastia was a Lanonandek Son, number 9,344 of the secondary order. He was experienced in the administration of the affairs of the local universe in general and, during later ages, with the management of the local system of Satania in particular.

66:1.1 (741.3) 卡裡迦夏是一位拉那南德聖子,屬於第二類的第9,344號。他在管理地方宇宙的整體事務方面經驗豐富,而在後期,則特別擅長撒旦尼亞地方系統的管理。

66:1.2 (741.4) Prior to the reign of Lucifer in Satania, Caligastia had been attached to the council of the Life Carrier advisers on Jerusem. Lucifer elevated Caligastia to a position on his personal staff, and he acceptably filled five successive assignments of honor and trust.

66:1.2 (741.4) 在路西法執掌撒旦尼亞之前,卡裡迦夏曾隸屬於耶路瑟姆的生命載運者顧問委員會。路西法將卡裡迦夏提升至其私人幕僚的職位,而他也圓滿完成了五項備受信任與榮譽的任務。

66:1.3 (741.5) Caligastia very early sought a commission as Planetary Prince, but repeatedly, when his request came up for approval in the constellation councils, it would fail to receive the assent of the Constellation Fathers. Caligastia seemed especially desirous of being sent as planetary ruler to a decimal or life-modification world. His petition had several times been disapproved before he was finally assigned to Urantia.

66:1.3 (741.5) 卡裡迦夏很早就曾謀求擔任行星君王一職,然而,每當他的申請提交至星座理事會審議時,總是無法獲得星座之父們的同意。卡裡迦夏似乎特別渴望被派往一個十進制或生命改良型世界擔任行星統治者。在他最終被派往玉苒廈之前,他的申請曾多次遭到駁回。

66:1.4 (741.6) Caligastia went forth from Jerusem to his trust of world dominion with an enviable record of loyalty and devotion to the welfare of the universe of his origin and sojourn, notwithstanding a certain characteristic restlessness coupled with a tendency to disagree with the established order in certain minor matters.

66:1.4 (741.6) 卡裡迦夏帶著對其出身及旅居宇宙福祉的忠誠與奉獻這份令人稱羨的履歷,從耶路瑟姆出發,去擔負統治世界的重任,儘管他性格中帶有某種不安分,且傾向於在一些細枝末節上與既定秩序相左。

66:1.5 (741.7) I was present on Jerusem when the brilliant Caligastia departed from the system capital. No prince of the planets ever embarked upon a career of world rulership with a richer preparatory experience or with better prospects than did Caligastia on that eventful day one-half million years ago. One thing is certain: As I executed my assignment of putting the narrative of that event on the broadcasts of the local universe, I never for one moment entertained even in the slightest degree any idea that this noble Lanonandek would so shortly betray his sacred trust of planetary custody and so horribly stain the fair name of his exalted order of universe sonship. I really regarded Urantia as being among the five or six most fortunate planets in all Satania in that it was to have such an experienced, brilliant, and original mind at the helm of world affairs. I did not then comprehend that Caligastia was insidiously falling in love with himself; I did not then so fully understand the subtleties of personality pride.

66:1.5 (741.7) 當那位才華橫溢的卡裡迦夏離開系統首府時,我正在耶路瑟姆。在五十萬年前那個重大的日子裡,卡裡迦夏所擁有的準備經驗之豐富、前景之光明,是任何一位展開世界統治生涯的行星君王都無法比擬的。有一點是確定的:當我執行將該事件的敘述播報至地方宇宙的任務時,我從未有過哪怕一星半點、一瞬即逝的念頭,認為這位高貴的拉那南德聖子竟會在如此短的時間內背叛其行星監護的神聖託付,並如此可怕地玷污了其崇高宇宙聖子類別的美好聲譽。我當時確實認為,玉苒廈是整個撒旦尼亞中五、六個最幸運的行星之一,它將有一位如此經驗豐富、才華橫溢且富有獨創性的心智來掌管世界事務。當時我並未察覺卡裡迦夏正悄然陷入對自我的迷戀;對於人格體驕傲的細微之處,黨時的我也未能完全體察。

2. The Prince’s Staff
2. 君王的屬員

66:2.1 (742.1) The Planetary Prince of Urantia was not sent out on his mission alone but was accompanied by the usual corps of assistants and administrative helpers.

66:2.1 (742.1) 玉苒廈的行星君王並非獨自前往履行使命,而是由常規的助理及行政輔助人員團隊隨行。

66:2.2 (742.2) At the head of this group was Daligastia, the associate-assistant of the Planetary Prince. Daligastia was also a secondary Lanonandek Son, being number 319,407 of that order. He ranked as an assistant at the time of his assignment as Caligastia’s associate.

66:2.2 (742.2) 位居該團隊之首的,是行星君王的副手達裡迦夏。達裡迦夏同樣是一位第二類拉那南德聖子,在該類別中的編號為319,407。在受命擔任卡裡迦夏的副手時,其職級為助理。

66:2.3 (742.3) The planetary staff included a large number of angelic co-operators and a host of other celestial beings assigned to advance the interests and promote the welfare of the human races. But from your standpoint the most interesting group of all were the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff—sometimes referred to as the Caligastia one hundred.

66:2.3 (742.3) 行星屬員包括大量天使協作者,以及眾多其他天界存有,他們受命促進人類各族的利益並提升其福祉。但從你們的角度來看,最引人注目的群體,莫過於君王屬員中的肉身成員——有時被稱為卡裡迦夏百人團

66:2.4 (742.4) These one hundred rematerialized members of the Prince’s staff were chosen by Caligastia from over 785,000 ascendant citizens of Jerusem who volunteered for embarkation on the Urantia adventure. Each one of the chosen one hundred was from a different planet, and none of them were from Urantia.

66:2.4 (742.4) 這一百位重新物質化的君王屬員,是由卡裡迦夏從耶路瑟姆超過785,000名自願參與玉苒廈冒險的揚升公民中挑選出來的。這一百位獲選者中的每一位都來自不同的行星,且沒有一位來自玉苒廈。

66:2.5 (742.5) These Jerusemite volunteers were brought by seraphic transport direct from the system capital to Urantia, and upon arrival they were held enseraphimed until they could be provided with personality forms of the dual nature of special planetary service, literal bodies consisting of flesh and blood but also attuned to the life circuits of the system.

66:2.5 (742.5) 這些耶路瑟姆的志願者是由熾天使運送,直接從系統首府帶到玉苒廈的,抵達後,他們被保持在熾天使裹挾的狀態,直到能為他們配備具有特殊行星服務雙重性質的人格形態——這些實體由血肉構成,卻也能與系統的生命迴路相調諧。

66:2.6 (742.6) Sometime before the arrival of these one hundred Jerusem citizens, the two supervising Life Carriers resident on Urantia, having previously perfected their plans, petitioned Jerusem and Edentia for permission to transplant the life plasm of one hundred selected survivors of the Andon and Fonta stock into the material bodies to be projected for the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff. The request was granted on Jerusem and approved on Edentia.

66:2.6 (742.6) 在這一百位耶路瑟姆公民抵達之前的某個時候,兩位常駐玉苒廈的監管生命載运者已事先完善了其計畫,便向耶路瑟姆和伊甸廈提出申請,請求准許將一百位經篩選的安東與芳達血統倖存者的生命原質,移植到即將為君王屬員的肉身成員準備的物質軀體中。該請求在耶路瑟姆得到准許,並在伊甸廈獲得批准。

66:2.7 (742.7) Accordingly, fifty males and fifty females of the Andon and Fonta posterity, representing the survival of the best strains of that unique race, were chosen by the Life Carriers. With one or two exceptions these Andonite contributors to the advancement of the race were strangers to one another. They were assembled from widely separated places by co-ordinated Thought Adjuster direction and seraphic guidance at the threshold of the planetary headquarters of the Prince. Here the one hundred human subjects were given into the hands of the highly skilled volunteer commission from Avalon, who directed the material extraction of a portion of the life plasm of these Andon descendants. This living material was then transferred to the material bodies constructed for the use of the one hundred Jerusemite members of the Prince’s staff. Meantime, these newly arrived citizens of the system capital were held in the sleep of seraphic transport.

66:2.7 (742.7) 因此,生命載運者在安東與芳達的後裔中,挑選了五十名男子與五十名女子,作為該獨特種族中最優秀血統存續的代表。除了一兩個例外,這些為種族進步作出貢獻的安東族人彼此並不相識。他們在思想調整者指引與熾天使引導的協調作用下,從相距甚遠的各地被召集到君王行星總部的門前。在這裡,這一百個人類受試者被交由來自阿瓦隆技藝精湛的志願者委員會負責,該委員會負責主導從這些安東後裔體內提取部分生命原質的過程。這份活體物質隨後被轉移至為君王屬員中一百名耶路瑟姆成員所構建的物質軀體中。與此同時,這些剛抵達的系統首府公民,則處於熾天使傳送的睡眠狀態中。

66:2.8 (742.8) These transactions, together with the literal creation of special bodies for the Caligastia one hundred, gave origin to numerous legends, many of which subsequently became confused with the later traditions concerning the planetary installation of Adam and Eve.

66:2.8 (742.8) 這些事件,加上為卡裡迦夏的百人團實質創建了特殊軀體,衍生出許多傳說,其中許多後來與關於亞當和夏娃在行星上就位的後世傳統混為一談。

66:2.9 (743.1) The entire transaction of repersonalization, from the time of the arrival of the seraphic transports bearing the one hundred Jerusem volunteers until they became conscious, threefold beings of the realm, consumed exactly ten days.

66:2.9 (743.1) 從載有一百位耶路瑟姆志願者的熾天使運送抵達之時,直到他們成為該領域中具有意識的三重性存有,整個重新人格化的過程,總共耗時整整十天。

3. Dalamatia—The City of the Prince
3. 達拉瑪希亞 — 君王之城

66:3.1 (743.2) The headquarters of the Planetary Prince was situated in the Persian Gulf region of those days, in the district corresponding to later Mesopotamia.

66:3.1 (743.2) 行星君王的總部位於當時的波斯灣地區,即後來的美索不達米亞地區。

66:3.2 (743.3) The climate and landscape in the Mesopotamia of those times were in every way favorable to the undertakings of the Prince’s staff and their assistants, very different from conditions which have sometimes since prevailed. It was necessary to have such a favoring climate as a part of the natural environment designed to induce primitive Urantians to make certain initial advances in culture and civilization. The one great task of those ages was to transform man from a hunter to a herder, with the hope that later on he would evolve into a peace-loving, home-abiding farmer.

66:3.2 (743.3) 當時美索不達米亞的氣候與地貌,在各方面都極為有利於君王屬員及其助手們的各項工作,這與後來有時出現的狀況截然不同。為了促使原始的玉苒廈人在教化與文明方面取得某些初步的進展,就需要如此有利的氣候,作為自然環境的一部分。那個時代最重大的任務,便是將人類從獵人轉變為牧人,並期盼他們日後能進化為熱愛和平、持守家園的農民。

66:3.3 (743.4) The headquarters of the Planetary Prince on Urantia was typical of such stations on a young and developing sphere. The nucleus of the Prince’s settlement was a very simple but beautiful city, enclosed within a wall forty feet high. This world center of culture was named Dalamatia in honor of Daligastia.

66:3.3 (743.4) 玉苒厦上的行星君王總部,正是此類年輕且處於發展期的星球駐地的典型代表。君王駐地的核心是一座極為簡樸卻美麗的城市,四周環繞著十二米高的城牆。這座世界文化中心被命名為達拉瑪希亞,以表達對達裡迦夏的敬意。

66:3.4 (743.5) The city was laid out in ten subdivisions with the headquarters mansions of the ten councils of the corporeal staff situated at the centers of these subdivisions. Centermost in the city was the temple of the unseen Father. The administrative headquarters of the Prince and his associates was arranged in twelve chambers immediately grouped about the temple itself.

66:3.4 (743.5) 這座城市被劃分為十個分區,十個肉身屬員理事會的總部大廈分別坐落於這些分區的中心。城市的正中央是無形上父的聖殿。君王及其隨從的行政總部則設於十二間廳室之中,這些廳室緊緊環繞著聖殿本身。

66:3.5 (743.6) The buildings of Dalamatia were all one story except the council headquarters, which were two stories, and the central temple of the Father of all, which was small but three stories in height.

66:3.5 (743.6) 達拉瑪希亞的建築全都是一層的,唯獨理事會總部為兩層,以及萬有之父的中央聖殿——雖然很小,卻有三層樓高。

66:3.6 (743.7) The city represented the best practices of those early days in building material—brick. Very little stone or wood was used. Home building and village architecture among the surrounding peoples were greatly improved by the Dalamatian example.

66:3.6 (743.7) 這座城市展現了早期的最佳建築材料——磚。幾乎沒有使用石頭或木材。達拉瑪希亞的典範,極大地提升了周邊民族的住宅建造與村落建築的水準。

66:3.7 (743.8) Near the Prince’s headquarters there dwelt all colors and strata of human beings. And it was from these near-by tribes that the first students of the Prince’s schools were recruited. Although these early schools of Dalamatia were crude, they provided all that could be done for the men and women of that primitive age.

66:3.7 (743.8) 在君王總部附近,居住著各種膚色、各種階層的人。而君王學校的第一批學生,正是從這些鄰近的部落中招募而來的。儘管達拉瑪希亞的這些早期學校十分簡陋,但它們已為那個原始時代的男女提供了當時所能做的一切。

66:3.8 (743.9) The Prince’s corporeal staff continuously gathered about them the superior individuals of the surrounding tribes and, after training and inspiring these students, sent them back as teachers and leaders of their respective peoples.

66:3.8 (743.9) 君王的肉身屬員不斷將周邊各部落的傑出人士聚集在身邊,在對這些學生進行培訓與激勵之後,便將他們送回各自的民族中,擔任教師與領袖。

4. Early Days of the One Hundred
4. 百人團的早期歲月

66:4.1 (743.10) The arrival of the Prince’s staff created a profound impression. While it required almost a thousand years for the news to spread abroad, those tribes near the Mesopotamian headquarters were tremendously influenced by the teachings and conduct of the one hundred new sojourners on Urantia. And much of your subsequent mythology grew out of the garbled legends of these early days when these members of the Prince’s staff were repersonalized on Urantia as supermen.

66:4.1 (743.10) 君王屬員的到來,給人留下了深刻的印象。雖然這個消息花了近一千年的時間才傳遍各地,但美索不達米亞總部附近的那些部落,卻深受這一百位玉苒廈新旅居者的教誨與行為影響。而你們日後的許多神話,正是源自這些早期歲月被曲解的傳說,當時,君王屬員的成員們在玉苒廈被作為超人重新人格化了。

66:4.2 (744.1) The serious obstacle to the good influence of such extraplanetary teachers is the tendency of mortals to regard them as gods, but aside from the technique of their appearance on earth the Caligastia one hundred—fifty men and fifty women—did not resort to supernatural methods nor superhuman manipulations.

66:4.2 (744.1) 此類來自其他行星的導師發揮正面影響的主要障礙,在於凡人傾向於將他們視為神明;不過,除了他們現身地球的方式之外,卡裡迦夏的百人團——五十名男子與五十名女子——並未訴諸超自然的方法,亦未進行超人類的操縱。

66:4.3 (744.2) But the corporeal staff were nonetheless superhuman. They began their mission on Urantia as extraordinary threefold beings:

66:4.3 (744.2) 然而,這些肉身屬員無疑是超人。他們以非凡的三重存有之姿,在玉苒廈展開了他們的使命:

66:4.4 (744.3) 1. They were corporeal and relatively human, for they embodied the actual life plasm of one of the human races, the Andonic life plasm of Urantia.

66:4.4 (744.3) 1. 他們有身體,且相對接近人類,因為他們體現了某個人類種族的真實生命原質,即玉苒廈的安東族生命原質。

66:4.5 (744.4) These one hundred members of the Prince’s staff were divided equally as to sex and in accordance with their previous mortal status. Each person of this group was capable of becoming coparental to some new order of physical being, but they had been carefully instructed to resort to parenthood only under certain conditions. It is customary for the corporeal staff of a Planetary Prince to procreate their successors sometime prior to retiring from special planetary service. Usually this is at, or shortly after, the time of the arrival of the Planetary Adam and Eve.

66:4.5 (744.4) 君王屬員的這一百位成員,依據他們先前凡人的身份,按性別進行了均等分配。該團體中的每一位都有能力成為某種新型肉身存有的共同父母,但他們已受過嚴謹的指導,只有在特定條件下才可借助生育。按照慣例,行星君王的肉身屬員通常會在從特殊行星服務卸任之前的某個時候,生育出他們的繼任者。這通常發生在行星亞當與夏娃抵達之時,或其後不久。

66:4.6 (744.5) These special beings therefore had little or no idea as to what type of material creature would be produced by their sexual union. And they never did know; before the time for such a step in the prosecution of their world work the entire regime was upset by rebellion, and those who later functioned in the parental role had been isolated from the life currents of the system.

66:4.6 (744.5) 因此,這些特殊的存有對於他們的性結合會孕育出何種物質性生物,幾乎一無所知,甚至完全不知情。而他們也始終未能知曉;在他們執行世界使命的過程中,尚未到邁出這一步之際,整個體制便因叛亂而陷入動盪,而那些後來擔任父母角色的成員,早已從系統的生命環流中被隔離出來。

66:4.7 (744.6) In skin color and language these materialized members of Caligastia’s staff followed the Andonic race. They partook of food as did the mortals of the realm with this difference: The re-created bodies of this group were fully satisfied by a nonflesh diet. This was one of the considerations which determined their residence in a warm region abounding in fruits and nuts. The practice of subsisting on a nonflesh diet dates from the times of the Caligastia one hundred, for this custom spread near and far to affect the eating habits of many surrounding tribes, groups of origin in the once exclusively meat-eating evolutionary races.

66:4.7 (744.6) 就膚色和語言而言,這些卡裡迦夏屬員中的物質化成員,與安東族相仿。他們與該領域的凡人一樣進食,但有一點不同:該團體的重造之軀僅靠非肉類飲食便能完全滿足。這正是決定他們在一個水果與堅果豐饒的溫暖地區定居的考量因素之一。以非肉類飲食為生的習俗可追溯至卡裡迦夏百人團時代,因為這項習俗遠近傳開,影響了許多周邊部落的飲食習慣,這些部落都起源於那些曾經僅以肉類為食的進化種族。

66:4.8 (744.7) 2. The one hundred were material but superhuman beings, having been reconstituted on Urantia as unique men and women of a high and special order.

66:4.8 (744.7) 2. 這一百位屬員雖有物質形體,卻是超人類的存有,他們在玉苒廈被重塑為高階且特殊的獨特男女。

66:4.9 (744.8) This group, while enjoying provisional citizenship on Jerusem, were as yet unfused with their Thought Adjusters; and when they volunteered and were accepted for planetary service in liaison with the descending orders of sonship, their Adjusters were detached. But these Jerusemites were superhuman beings—they possessed souls of ascendant growth. During the mortal life in the flesh the soul is of embryonic estate; it is born (resurrected) in the morontia life and experiences growth through the successive morontia worlds. And the souls of the Caligastia one hundred had thus expanded through the progressive experiences of the seven mansion worlds to citizenship status on Jerusem.

66:4.9 (744.8) 儘管這個群體在耶路瑟姆享有臨時公民身份,但他們尚未與他們的思想調整者融合;當他們自願並獲准與沉降類別聖子協同參與行星服務時,他們的調整者便被分離。然而,這些耶路瑟姆居民卻是超人類,他們擁有不斷揚升、持續成長的靈魂。在凡人的肉身生命期間,靈魂尚處於胚胎階段;它在靈質性生命中誕生(復活),並通過相繼的靈質性世界而經歷成長。卡裡迦夏百人團的靈魂,正是通過七個宅廈世界中的漸進性經驗,得以擴展至耶路瑟姆的公民地位。

66:4.10 (744.9) In conformity to their instructions the staff did not engage in sexual reproduction, but they did painstakingly study their personal constitutions, and they carefully explored every imaginable phase of intellectual (mind) and morontia (soul) liaison. And it was during the thirty-third year of their sojourn in Dalamatia, long before the wall was completed, that number two and number seven of the Danite group accidentally discovered a phenomenon attendant upon the liaison of their morontia selves (supposedly nonsexual and nonmaterial); and the result of this adventure proved to be the first of the primary midway creatures. This new being was wholly visible to the planetary staff and to their celestial associates but was not visible to the men and women of the various human tribes. Upon authority of the Planetary Prince the entire corporeal staff undertook the production of similar beings, and all were successful, following the instructions of the pioneer Danite pair. Thus did the Prince’s staff eventually bring into being the original corps of 50,000 primary midwayers.

66:4.10 (744.9) 根據指示,這些屬員並未進行有性生殖,但他們確實費盡心力研究自身的體質,並仔細探索了智性(心智)與靈質性(靈魂)連結的每一個可想像的層面。就在他們旅居達拉瑪希亞的第三十三年,遠在城牆竣工之前,丹族團體的第二號與第七號無意間發現了一種伴隨其靈質性自我(據稱是非性且非物質的)結合而產生的現象;而這次探索的結果,最終成為了首個第一類中道受造物。這個新存有對行星屬員及其天界協作者而言完全可見,但對各人類部落的男女卻不可見。在行星君王的授權下,整個肉身屬員團都著手創造類似的存有,並在遵循那對先驅丹族成員的指示後,全都成功了。由此,君王的屬員最終創造出了由50,000名第一類中道者組成的最初隊伍。

66:4.11 (745.1) These mid-type creatures were of great service in carrying on the affairs of the world’s headquarters. They were invisible to human beings, but the primitive sojourners at Dalamatia were taught about these unseen semispirits, and for ages they constituted the sum total of the spirit world to these evolving mortals.

66:4.11 (745.1) 這些中道受造物在處理世界總部的事務方面發揮了巨大作用。它們對人類而言是隱形的,但達拉瑪希亞的原始旅居者,曾被教導關於這些看不見的半靈體;長久以來,對這些正在進化的凡人而言,它們便是靈性世界的全部。

66:4.12 (745.2) 3. The Caligastia one hundred were personally immortal, or undying. There circulated through their material forms the antidotal complements of the life currents of the system; and had they not lost contact with the life circuits through rebellion, they would have lived on indefinitely until the arrival of a subsequent Son of God, or until their sometime later release to resume the interrupted journey to Havona and Paradise.

66:4.12 (745.2) 3. 卡裡迦夏百人團本身是不朽的,或者說不死的。系統生命環流中能中和衰亡的補充成分,在他們的物質形體內循環流動;倘若他們沒有因反叛而失去與生命迴路的聯繫,他們本可無限期地存活下去,直到下一位神之子降臨,或是直到他們日後獲釋,以繼續那中斷的前往哈沃納與天堂的旅程。

66:4.13 (745.3) These antidotal complements of the Satania life currents were derived from the fruit of the tree of life, a shrub of Edentia which was sent to Urantia by the Most Highs of Norlatiadek at the time of Caligastia’s arrival. In the days of Dalamatia this tree grew in the central courtyard of the temple of the unseen Father, and it was the fruit of the tree of life that enabled the material and otherwise mortal beings of the Prince’s staff to live on indefinitely as long as they had access to it.

66:4.13 (745.3) 這些撒旦尼亞生命環流中的中和性補充成分,源自生命樹的果實,這是一株生長於伊甸廈的灌木,由諾拉歇德的至高者在卡裡迦夏抵達時送至玉苒廈。在達拉瑪希亞時代,這棵樹生長於無形上父之聖殿的中央庭院裡;正是這顆生命之樹的果實,使君王屬員中那些身為物質形態及原本難免一死的存有,只要能持續獲取這果實,便能無限期地存活下去。

66:4.14 (745.4) While of no value to the evolutionary races, this supersustenance was quite sufficient to confer continuous life upon the Caligastia one hundred and also upon the one hundred modified Andonites who were associated with them.

66:4.14 (745.4) 盡管這種超級食糧對進化種族並無效用,卻足以賦予卡裡迦夏百人團,以及與他們相伴的一百位改良型安東族人綿延不絕的生命。

66:4.15 (745.5) It should be explained in this connection that, at the time the one hundred Andonites contributed their human germ plasm to the members of the Prince’s staff, the Life Carriers introduced into their mortal bodies the complement of the system circuits; and thus were they enabled to live on concurrently with the staff, century after century, in defiance of physical death.

66:4.15 (745.5) 在此應說明的是,當那一百位安東族人將其人類種質貢獻給君王屬員時,生命載運者便將系統迴路的補充體植入他們的凡人軀體中;正因如此,他們得以與屬員們一同存活,世世代代,超越了肉體死亡的限制。

66:4.16 (745.6) Eventually the one hundred Andonites were made aware of their contribution to the new forms of their superiors, and these same one hundred children of the Andon tribes were kept at headquarters as the personal attendants of the Prince’s corporeal staff.

66:4.16 (745.6) 最終,這一百位安東族人得知了自己對上級新形體的貢獻,而就是這一百位安東部落的子女,被留在了總部,擔任君王肉身屬員的隨從。

5. Organization of the One Hundred
5. 百人團的組織結構

66:5.1 (745.7) The one hundred were organized for service in ten autonomous councils of ten members each. When two or more of these ten councils met in joint session, such liaison gatherings were presided over by Daligastia. These ten groups were constituted as follows:

66:5.1 (745.7) 百人團被組織成十個自主理事會,每個理事會由十名成員組成,以履行職責。當這十個理事會中有兩個或以上舉行聯席會議時,此類聯絡聚會均由達裡迦夏主持。這十個小組的構成如下:

66:5.2 (745.8) 1. The council on food and material welfare. This group was presided over by Ang. Food, water, clothes, and the material advancement of the human species were fostered by this able corps. They taught well digging, spring control, and irrigation. They taught those from the higher altitudes and from the north improved methods of treating skins for use as clothing, and weaving was later introduced by the teachers of art and science.

66:5.2 (745.8) 1. 食物與物質福利理事會。 該小組由昂(Ang)主持。這支能幹的團隊致力於促進人類的食物、飲水、衣物以及物質進步。他們教授了水井挖掘、泉水控制及灌溉。他們向來自高海拔地區及北方的人們傳授改良的皮革處理方法,以製作衣物;而織布技術,則是後來由藝術與科學的教師們引入的。

66:5.3 (746.1) Great advances were made in methods of food storage. Food was preserved by cooking, drying, and smoking; it thus became the earliest property. Man was taught to provide for the hazards of famine, which periodically decimated the world.

66:5.3 (746.1) 食物儲存的方法取得了重大進展。人們通過烹煮、風乾和燻製來保存食物;食物也因此成為了最早的財產。人類學會了為饑荒的威脅儲備糧食,這種災難曾週期性地使世界人口銳減。

66:5.4 (746.2) 2. The board of animal domestication and utilization. This council was dedicated to the task of selecting and breeding those animals best adapted to help human beings in bearing burdens and transporting themselves, to supply food, and later on to be of service in the cultivation of the soil. This able corps was directed by Bon.

66:5.4 (746.2) 2. 動物馴化與利用理事會。 該理事會專責甄選與培育那些最適合協助人類負重、代步、提供食物,以及日後輔助農耕的動物。這個能幹的團隊由邦(Bon)督導。

66:5.5 (746.3) Several types of useful animals, now extinct, were tamed, together with some that have continued as domesticated animals to the present day. Man had long lived with the dog, and the blue man had already been successful in taming the elephant. The cow was so improved by careful breeding as to become a valuable source of food; butter and cheese became common articles of human diet. Men were taught to use oxen for burden bearing, but the horse was not domesticated until a later date. The members of this corps first taught men to use the wheel for the facilitation of traction.

66:5.5 (746.3) 幾種現已滅絕的有用動物曾被馴化,同時還有一些則作為家畜延續至今。人類與狗相伴已久,而藍種人早已成功馴化了大象。經過精心培育,牛的品種得到顯著改良,成為寶貴的食物來源;奶油和乳酪也成為人類日常飲食中的常見食品。人們學會了用牛來負重,但馬直到較晚的時期才被馴養。這個團隊的成員最先教導人類使用輪子,以使牽引更為省力。

66:5.6 (746.4) It was in these days that carrier pigeons were first used, being taken on long journeys for the purpose of sending messages or calls for help. Bon’s group were successful in training the great fandors as passenger birds, but they became extinct more than thirty thousand years ago.

66:5.6 (746.4) 正是在這一時期,信鴿首次被投入使用,人們在長途跋涉時攜帶它們,用以傳遞訊息或發出求救訊號。邦的團隊成功將巨大的凡鐸鳥馴化載客鳥,但它們早在三萬多年前便已滅絕。

66:5.7 (746.5) 3. The advisers regarding the conquest of predatory animals. It was not enough that early man should try to domesticate certain animals, but he must also learn how to protect himself from destruction by the remainder of the hostile animal world. This group was captained by Dan.

66:5.7 (746.5) 3. 掠食性動物征服顧問團。對早期人類而言,僅嘗試馴化某些動物是不夠的,他們還必須學會如何保護自己,以免被其餘的敵對動物吞噬。這個小組由丹(Dan)帶領。

66:5.8 (746.6) The purpose of an ancient city wall was to protect against ferocious beasts as well as to prevent surprise attacks by hostile humans. Those living without the walls and in the forest were dependent on tree dwellings, stone huts, and the maintenance of night fires. It was therefore very natural that these teachers should devote much time to instructing their pupils in the improvement of human dwellings. By employing improved techniques and by the use of traps, great progress was made in animal subjugation.

66:5.8 (746.6) 古代城牆的用途,不僅在於防禦凶猛的野獸,也是為了防範敵對人類的突襲。那些居住在城牆之外、棲身於森林中的人們,只能依賴樹屋、石屋,以及維持夜間篝火來維生。因此,這些教師將大量時間投入教導學生如何改善人類居所,也就理所當然了。通過採用改良的技術並設置陷阱,人類在制服猛獸方面取得了長足的進步。

66:5.9 (746.7) 4. The faculty on dissemination and conservation of knowledge. This group organized and directed the purely educational endeavors of those early ages. It was presided over by Fad. The educational methods of Fad consisted in supervision of employment accompanied by instruction in improved methods of labor. Fad formulated the first alphabet and introduced a writing system. This alphabet contained twenty-five characters. For writing material these early peoples utilized tree barks, clay tablets, stone slabs, a form of parchment made of hammered hides, and a crude form of paperlike material made from wasps’ nests. The Dalamatia library, destroyed soon after the Caligastia disaffection, comprised more than two million separate records and was known as the “house of Fad.”

66:5.9 (746.7) 4. 知識傳播與保存學院。 該團隊負責組織並指導早期時代純粹教育性的工作,由法德(Fad)主持。法德的教育方法,主要是在監督勞動的同時,指導人們採用更先進的勞動技法。法德制定了第一個字母表,並引進了一套書寫系統。這個字母表包含二十五個字母。這些早期民族所使用的書寫材料包括樹皮、泥板、石板、一種由錘打過的獸皮製成的類羊皮紙,以及一種由黃蜂窩製成的粗糙的類似紙張的材料。在卡裡迦夏背叛後不久即遭毀壞的達拉瑪希亞圖書館,曾收藏超過兩百萬份獨立記載,並被稱為「法德之屋」。

66:5.10 (746.8) The blue man was partial to alphabet writing and made the greatest progress along such lines. The red man preferred pictorial writing, while the yellow races drifted into the use of symbols for words and ideas, much like those they now employ. But the alphabet and much more was subsequently lost to the world during the confusion attendant upon rebellion. The Caligastia defection destroyed the hope of the world for a universal language, at least for untold ages.

66:5.10 (746.8) 藍種人偏愛字母文字,並在這方面取得了最為顯著的進展。紅種人則偏好象形文字,而黃色人種則逐漸習慣以符號來表達詞語和概念,這與他們如今所使用的那些非常相似。然而,在叛亂引發的混亂期間,字母表以及許多其他文明成果,都隨之從世界上消失了。卡裡迦夏的背叛,摧毀了世界對一種通用語言的希望,這至少在難以計數的時代裡都是如此。

66:5.11 (747.1) 5. The commission on industry and trade. This council was employed in fostering industry within the tribes and in promoting trade between the various peace groups. Its leader was Nod. Every form of primitive manufacture was encouraged by this corps. They contributed directly to the elevation of standards of living by providing many new commodities to attract the fancy of primitive men. They greatly expanded the trade in the improved salt produced by the council on science and art.

66:5.11 (747.1) 5. 產業和貿易理事會。 該理事會致力於促進各部落內的產業發展,並推動各和平部落之間的貿易往來。其領導人是諾德(Nod)。該團隊鼓勵各種形式的原始製造業。他們通過提供許多新穎的商品來激發原始人的興趣,從而直接促進了生活水準的提高。他們大幅擴大了改良鹽的貿易規模,這種鹽是由科學與藝術理事會所生產的。

66:5.12 (747.2) It was among these enlightened groups educated in the Dalamatia schools that the first commercial credit was practiced. From a central exchange of credits they secured tokens which were accepted in lieu of the actual objects of barter. The world did not improve upon these business methods for hundreds of thousands of years.

66:5.12 (747.2) 正是在這些於達拉瑪希亞學校接受過教育的開明群體中,首次實踐了商業信貸。他們通過一個中央信用交換所取得代幣,這些代幣被廣泛接受,以取代實際的易貨物品。在接下來的幾十萬年裡,人類的商業模式再也未能超越這些方法。

66:5.13 (747.3) 6. The college of revealed religion. This body was slow in functioning. Urantia civilization was literally forged out between the anvil of necessity and the hammers of fear. But this group had made considerable progress in their attempt to substitute Creator fear for creature fear (ghost worship) before their labors were interrupted by the later confusion attendant upon the secession upheaval. The head of this council was Hap.

66:5.13 (747.3) 6. 啟示宗教學院。 這個組織的運作起初較為遲緩。玉苒廈文明,確確實實是在必需之砧與恐懼之錘間鍛造而成的。然而,在他們的工作因分離叛亂所引發的混亂而被迫中斷之前, 他們在試圖以對造物主的敬畏取代對受造物的恐懼(即鬼神崇拜)方面,已取得相當進展。該理事會的負責人是哈普(Hap)。

66:5.14 (747.4) None of the Prince’s staff would present revelation to complicate evolution; they presented revelation only as the climax of their exhaustion of the forces of evolution. But Hap did yield to the desire of the inhabitants of the city for the establishment of a form of religious service. His group provided the Dalamatians with the seven chants of worship and also gave them the daily praise-phrase and eventually taught them “the Father’s prayer,” which was:

66:5.14 (747.4) 君王的任何一位屬員都不會提出使進化複雜化的啟示;他們僅將啟示呈現為在徹底耗盡了進化力之後所達到的最高潮。但哈普終究還是順應了城中居民希望建立一種宗教儀式的願望。他的團隊向達拉瑪希亞居民傳授了七首崇拜吟誦,還給了他們每日讚美詞,並最終教導他們「天父的禱文」,內容如下:

66:5.15 (747.5) “Father of all, whose Son we honor, look down upon us with favor. Deliver us from the fear of all save you. Make us a pleasure to our divine teachers and forever put truth on our lips. Deliver us from violence and anger; give us respect for our elders and that which belongs to our neighbors. Give us this season green pastures and fruitful flocks to gladden our hearts. We pray for the hastening of the coming of the promised uplifter, and we would do your will on this world as others do on worlds beyond.”

66:5.15 (747.5) 「萬有的父啊,我們尊崇祢的聖子,求祢以恩典垂顧我們。求祢使我們脫離對除祢以外一切事物的恐懼。求祢使我們成為神聖導師的喜悅,並讓真理永遠存於我們的唇間。求祢救我們脫離暴力與憤怒;賜予我們對長輩的敬重,以及對鄰舍財物的尊重。求祢在這季節賜予我們青翠的牧場與豐饒的羊群,使我們心中歡喜。我們祈求那應許的提升者早日降臨,並願我們在這世上遵行祢的旨意,正如其他人在其他世界所做的那樣。」

66:5.16 (747.6) Although the Prince’s staff were limited to natural means and ordinary methods of race improvement, they held out the promise of the Adamic gift of a new race as the goal of subsequent evolutionary growth upon the attainment of the height of biologic development.

66:5.16 (747.6) 儘管君王屬員僅能通過自然手段與常規方法來改良種族,但他們許下了承諾:在生物發展達到巔峰之際,亞當的賜予將會帶來一個新種族,以此作為後續進化成長的目標。

66:5.17 (747.7) 7. The guardians of health and life. This council was concerned with the introduction of sanitation and the promotion of primitive hygiene and was led by Lut.

66:5.17 (747.7) 7. 健康與生命的守護團。 該理事會致力於引入衛生制度和推廣初級衛生保健,由盧特(Lut)領導。

66:5.18 (747.8) Its members taught much that was lost during the confusion of subsequent ages, never to be rediscovered until the twentieth century. They taught mankind that cooking, boiling and roasting, was a means of avoiding sickness; also that such cooking greatly reduced infant mortality and facilitated early weaning.

66:5.18 (747.8) 該組織的成員傳授了許多知識,這些知識在後世動盪混亂的歲月中失傳,直至二十世紀才得以重新發現。他們教導人類,烹飪,即水煮和燒烤,是預防疾病的手段;此外,這類烹飪方式還能大幅降低嬰兒死亡率,並有助於提早斷奶。

66:5.19 (747.9) Many of the early teachings of Lut’s guardians of health persisted among the tribes of earth on down to the days of Moses, even though they became much garbled and were greatly changed.

66:5.19 (747.9) 路特健康守護團的許多早期教導,儘管已嚴重失真且發生巨大改變,但仍在地球上的各部落中流傳下來,一直到摩西時代。

66:5.20 (748.1) The great obstacle in the way of promoting hygiene among these ignorant peoples consisted in the fact that the real causes of many diseases were too small to be seen by the naked eye, and also because they all held fire in superstitious regard. It required thousands of years to persuade them to burn refuse. In the meantime they were urged to bury their decaying rubbish. The great sanitary advance of this epoch came from the dissemination of knowledge regarding the health-giving and disease-destroying properties of sunlight.

66:5.20 (748.1) 在向這些無知的民眾推廣衛生觀念的過程中,最大的障礙在於:許多疾病的真正病因過於微小,肉眼無法看見;此外,他們都對火懷有迷信般的敬畏。花了數千年時間,才說服他們焚燒廢棄物。在此期間,他們被敦促掩埋腐敗的垃圾。這個時代在衛生方面的重大進步,得益於人們廣泛認識到陽光具有促進健康與消滅疾病的功效。

66:5.21 (748.2) Before the Prince’s arrival, bathing had been an exclusively religious ceremonial. It was indeed difficult to persuade primitive men to wash their bodies as a health practice. Lut finally induced the religious teachers to include cleansing with water as a part of the purification ceremonies to be practiced in connection with the noontime devotions, once a week, in the worship of the Father of all.

66:5.21 (748.2) 在君王到來之前,沐浴純粹是一項宗教儀式。要說服原始人將清洗身體作為一種保健習慣,確實相當困難。盧特最終說服了宗教導師們,將用水潔身納入淨化儀式的一部分,這種儀式與午間祈禱一並進行,每週一次,藉此崇拜萬有之父。

66:5.22 (748.3) These guardians of health also sought to introduce handshaking in substitution for saliva exchange or blood drinking as a seal of personal friendship and as a token of group loyalty. But when out from under the compelling pressure of the teachings of their superior leaders, these primitive peoples were not slow in reverting to their former health-destroying and disease-breeding practices of ignorance and superstition.

66:5.22 (748.3) 這些健康守護者還試圖引進握手,以取代唾液交換或飲血,作為個人友誼的印記與群體忠誠的象征。然而,一旦脫離了高階導師的教導所帶來的強大壓力,這些原始民族便很快回到過去那些損害健康、滋生疾病的無知與迷信的習俗中。

66:5.23 (748.4) 8. The planetary council on art and science. This corps did much to improve the industrial technique of early man and to elevate his concepts of beauty. Their leader was Mek.

66:5.23 (748.4) 8. 行星藝術與科學理事會。 該團體對提升早期人類的工業技術,以及提升其對美的觀念,貢獻良多。他們的領導者是梅克(Mek)。

66:5.24 (748.5) Art and science were at a low ebb throughout the world, but the rudiments of physics and chemistry were taught the Dalamatians. Pottery was advanced, decorative arts were all improved, and the ideals of human beauty were greatly enhanced. But music made little progress until after the arrival of the violet race.

66:5.24 (748.5) 那時整個世界的藝術與科學都處於低迷狀態,但達拉瑪希亞人仍接受了物理與化學的基礎教育。陶藝日益精進,裝飾藝術全面提升,而對人類美的理念也得到了極大的提升。然而,在紫色人種抵達之前,音樂方面幾乎沒有什麼進展。

66:5.25 (748.6) These primitive men would not consent to experiment with steam power, notwithstanding the repeated urgings of their teachers; never could they overcome their great fear of the explosive power of confined steam. They were, however, finally persuaded to work with metals and fire, although a piece of red-hot metal was a terrorizing object to early man.

66:5.25 (748.6) 儘管老師們一再敦促,這些原始人仍不願嘗試利用蒸汽動力;他們始終無法克服對密閉的蒸汽所蘊含爆發力的極度恐懼。然而,他們最終還是被說服開始加工金屬與使用火,儘管對早期人類而言,一塊熾熱的金屬仍是極其恐怖的物體。

66:5.26 (748.7) Mek did a great deal to advance the culture of the Andonites and to improve the art of the blue man. A blend of the blue man with the Andon stock produced an artistically gifted type, and many of them became master sculptors. They did not work in stone or marble, but their works of clay, hardened by baking, adorned the gardens of Dalamatia.

66:5.26 (748.7) 梅克為推動安東族的文化進步,以及提升藍種人的藝術水平,做出了巨大貢獻。藍種人與安東族血統的融合,孕育出一個在藝術方面天賦異稟的族群,其中許多人成為了雕塑大師。他們雖未以石材或大理石創作,但那些經窯燒硬化後的黏土作品,卻裝點著達拉瑪希亞的花園。

66:5.27 (748.8) Great progress was made in the home arts, most of which were lost in the long and dark ages of rebellion, never to be rediscovered until modern times.

66:5.27 (748.8) 家庭技藝方面取得了巨大進展,但其中大部分在漫長而黑暗的反叛時代中失傳,直至現代才得以重新發現。

66:5.28 (748.9) 9. The governors of advanced tribal relations. This was the group intrusted with the work of bringing human society up to the level of statehood. Their chief was Tut.

66:5.28 (748.9) 9. 先進部落關係的管理者。 這個群體肩負著將人類社會提升至國家形態的任務。他們的首領是圖特(Tut)。

66:5.29 (748.10) These leaders contributed much to bringing about intertribal marriages. They fostered courtship and marriage after due deliberation and full opportunity to become acquainted. The purely military war dances were refined and made to serve valuable social ends. Many competitive games were introduced, but these ancient folk were a serious people; little humor graced these early tribes. Few of these practices survived the subsequent disintegration of planetary insurrection.

66:5.29 (748.10) 這些領袖在促成部落間通婚方面貢獻良多。他們鼓勵年輕人相互追求,並在雙方經過審慎考量,且有充分機會相互了解之後才結婚。原本純粹用於軍事目的的戰舞經過改良,轉而服務於有益的社會目的。雖然引入了許多競技遊戲,但這些遠古的人們性情嚴肅;這些早期部落中幾乎沒有幽默感。在隨後因行星反叛導致的瓦解中,這些習俗得以存留下來的寥寥無幾。

66:5.30 (749.1) Tut and his associates labored to promote group associations of a peaceful nature, to regulate and humanize warfare, to co-ordinate intertribal relations, and to improve tribal governments. In the vicinity of Dalamatia there developed a more advanced culture, and these improved social relations were very helpful in influencing more remote tribes. But the pattern of civilization prevailing at the Prince’s headquarters was quite different from the barbaric society evolving elsewhere, just as the twentieth-century society of Capetown, South Africa, is totally unlike the crude culture of the diminutive Bushmen to the north.

66:5.30 (749.1) 圖特及其夥伴們致力於推動和平性質的群體聯盟,規範戰爭並使其更人道,協調部落間的關係,並改善部落管理機構。在達拉瑪希亞周邊地區,發展出更為先進的文化,而這些改善後的社會關係,對於影響更偏遠的部落大有裨益。然而,君王總部所盛行的文明模式,與其他地方正在進化的野蠻社會截然不同,正如二十世紀南非開普敦的社會,與北方那些身材矮小的布須曼人的原始文化完全不同。

66:5.31 (749.2) 10. The supreme court of tribal co-ordination and racial co-operation. This supreme council was directed by Van and was the court of appeals for all of the other nine special commissions charged with the supervision of human affairs. This council was one of wide function, being intrusted with all matters of earthly concern which were not specifically assigned to the other groups. This selected corps had been approved by the Constellation Fathers of Edentia before they were authorized to assume the functions of the supreme court of Urantia.

66:5.31 (749.2) 10. 部落協調與種族合作最高法院。這個最高理事會由凡恩(Van)主持,是負責監督人類事務的其他九個專門理事會的上訴法庭。該理事會職能廣泛,負責處理所有未明確分配給其他團體的世間事務。這個精選團隊在獲授權承擔玉苒廈最高法院的職能之前,已獲得伊甸廈星座之父們的批准。

6. The Prince’s Reign
6. 君王的統治

66:6.1 (749.3) The degree of a world’s culture is measured by the social heritage of its native beings, and the rate of cultural expansion is wholly determined by the ability of its inhabitants to comprehend new and advanced ideas.

66:6.1 (749.3) 一個世界的教化程度,取決於其原生居民所承襲的社會遺產;而教化擴展的速度,則完全取決於其居民理解新穎且先進思想的能力。

66:6.2 (749.4) Slavery to tradition produces stability and co-operation by sentimentally linking the past with the present, but it likewise stifles initiative and enslaves the creative powers of the personality. The whole world was caught in the stalemate of tradition-bound mores when the Caligastia one hundred arrived and began the proclamation of the new gospel of individual initiative within the social groups of that day. But this beneficent rule was so soon interrupted that the races never have been wholly liberated from the slavery of custom; fashion still unduly dominates Urantia.

66:6.2 (749.4) 對傳統的依附,通過將過去與現在建立情感性連結,從而帶來穩定與合作;但它同時也會扼殺主動性,並奴役人格的創造力。當卡裡迦夏的百人團抵達,並開始在當時的社會群體中宣揚個人主動性這一新福音時,整個世界正深陷於傳統習俗所造成的僵局之中。然而,這段造福世人的統治期很快便被中斷,以致各族群從未完全擺脫習俗的奴役;時下風尚至今仍過度主導著玉苒廈。

66:6.3 (749.5) The Caligastia one hundred—graduates of the Satania mansion worlds—well knew the arts and culture of Jerusem, but such knowledge is nearly valueless on a barbaric planet populated by primitive humans. These wise beings knew better than to undertake the sudden transformation, or the en masse uplifting, of the primitive races of that day. They well understood the slow evolution of the human species, and they wisely refrained from any radical attempts at modifying man’s mode of life on earth.

66:6.3 (749.5) 卡裡迦夏百人團,即撒旦尼亞宅廈世界的畢業生,雖深諳耶路瑟姆的藝術與教化,但在一個由原始人類居住的野蠻行星上,這類知識幾乎毫無價值。這些睿智的存有深知,不該貿然對當時的原始種族進行突然的轉變,或大規模的提升。他們非常清楚人類物種的緩慢進化過程,因此明智地避免了任何試圖改變人類地球生活方式的激進嘗試。

66:6.4 (749.6) Each of the ten planetary commissions set about slowly and naturally to advance the interests intrusted to them. Their plan consisted in attracting the best minds of the surrounding tribes and, after training them, sending them back to their people as emissaries of social uplift.

66:6.4 (749.6) 這十個行星理事會各自緩慢且自然地著手推進託付給他們的事務。他們的計畫在於吸引周邊部落中最優秀的人才,經過培訓後,再將他們送回各自的族群,作為社會提升的使者。

66:6.5 (749.7) Foreign emissaries were never sent to a race except upon the specific request of that people. Those who labored for the uplift and advancement of a given tribe or race were always natives of that tribe or race. The one hundred would not attempt to impose the habits and mores of even a superior race upon another tribe. Always they patiently worked to uplift and advance the time-tried mores of each race. The simple folk of Urantia brought their social customs to Dalamatia, not to exchange them for new and better practices, but to have them uplifted by contact with a higher culture and by association with superior minds. The process was slow but very effectual.

66:6.5 (749.7) 除非某個民族提出明確請求,否則絕不會向該種族派遣外族使者。那些致力於某個部落或種族提升和進步的人,始終都是該部落或種族的本土居民。百人團絕不會試圖將某個種族的習俗與道德規範強加給另一個部落,哪怕它們是來自更優越的種族。他們始終耐心地致力於提升與推進各民族歷經時間考驗的傳統習俗。玉苒廈的淳樸民眾將他們的社會習俗帶到達拉瑪希亞,並非為了用更新、更好的做法來取代它們,而是為了通過與更高層次教化的接觸,以及與卓越心智的交往,使這些習俗得以提升。這個過程雖然緩慢,卻極為有效。

66:6.6 (750.1) The Dalamatia teachers sought to add conscious social selection to the purely natural selection of biologic evolution. They did not derange human society, but they did markedly accelerate its normal and natural evolution. Their motive was progression by evolution and not revolution by revelation. The human race had spent ages in acquiring the little religion and morals it had, and these supermen knew better than to rob mankind of these few advances by the confusion and dismay which always result when enlightened and superior beings undertake to uplift the backward races by overteaching and overenlightenment.

66:6.6 (750.1) 達拉瑪希亞的導師們試圖在生物進化的純粹自然選擇之外,加入有意識的社會選擇。他們並未擾亂人類社會,但確實顯著地加速了其正常且自然的進化。他們的動機是通過進化來實現進步,而非通過啟示來引發革命。人類耗費了漫長的歲月,才獲得現今所擁有的那點微薄的宗教與道德;這些超人深知,每當開明且優越的存有試圖通過過度教導與過度啟蒙來提升落後種族時,總會引發混亂與恐慌,因而絕不應剝奪人類這少許的進步成果。

66:6.7 (750.2) When Christian missionaries go into the heart of Africa, where sons and daughters are supposed to remain under the control and direction of their parents throughout the lifetime of the parents, they only bring about confusion and the breakdown of all authority when they seek, in a single generation, to supplant this practice by teaching that these children should be free from all parental restraint after they have attained the age of twenty-one.

66:6.7 (750.2) 當基督教傳教士深入非洲腹地時——在那裡,子女理應在父母有生之年始終受父母的管教與指導——若他們試圖在短短一代人之內,通過教導「子女年滿二十一歲後便應擺脫一切父母的管束」來取代這項傳統,他們只會帶來混亂,並導致所有權威的崩潰。

7. Life in Dalamatia
7. 達拉瑪希亞的生活

66:7.1 (750.3) The Prince’s headquarters, though exquisitely beautiful and designed to awe the primitive men of that age, was altogether modest. The buildings were not especially large as it was the motive of these imported teachers to encourage the eventual development of agriculture through the introduction of animal husbandry. The land provision within the city walls was sufficient to provide for pasturage and gardening for the support of a population of about twenty thousand.

66:7.1 (750.3) 行星君王的總部,儘管精美絕倫,且旨在令那個時代的原始人為之驚嘆,但整體而言卻樸實無華。建築規模並未特別龐大,因為這些外來導師的初衷,是通過引進畜牧業,以促進農業的長遠發展。城牆內的土地面積足以提供牧場與菜園,以養活約兩萬人口。

66:7.2 (750.4) The interiors of the central temple of worship and the ten council mansions of the supervising groups of supermen were indeed beautiful works of art. And while the residential buildings were models of neatness and cleanliness, everything was very simple and altogether primitive in comparison with later-day developments. At this headquarters of culture no methods were employed which did not naturally belong on Urantia.

66:7.2 (750.4) 中央崇拜聖殿以及超人監管團隊的十個理事會大廈內部,確實是精美的藝術傑作。雖然這些住宅建築堪稱整潔與乾淨的典範,但與後來的發展相比,一切都顯得十分簡樸,甚至可謂原始。在這個教化總部,沒有採用任何不屬於玉苒廈的方法。

66:7.3 (750.5) The Prince’s corporeal staff presided over simple and exemplary abodes which they maintained as homes designed to inspire and favorably impress the student observers sojourning at the world’s social center and educational headquarters.

66:7.3 (750.5) 君王的肉身屬員負責管理這些簡樸且堪稱典範的居所,他們將其打造成能令人深受啟發、並給旅居在世界社交中心與教育總部的學生觀察者留下良好印象的住所。

66:7.4 (750.6) The definite order of family life and the living of one family together in one residence of comparatively settled location date from these times of Dalamatia and were chiefly due to the example and teachings of the one hundred and their pupils. The home as a social unit never became a success until the supermen and superwomen of Dalamatia led mankind to love and plan for their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s children. Savage man loves his child, but civilized man loves also his grandchild.

66:7.4 (750.6) 家庭生活的明確秩序,以及一家人在一處相對穩定位置的居所中共同生活,可追溯至達拉瑪希亞時期,這主要歸功於百人團及其學員的示範和教誨。家庭作為一個社會單位,直到達拉瑪希亞的男女超人引導人類去愛他們的孫輩及曾孫輩,並為他們規劃未來時,才真正獲得成功。野蠻人愛自己的孩子,但文明人亦愛及自己的孫輩。

66:7.5 (750.7) The Prince’s staff lived together as fathers and mothers. True, they had no children of their own, but the fifty pattern homes of Dalamatia never sheltered less than five hundred adopted little ones assembled from the superior families of the Andonic and Sangik races; many of these children were orphans. They were favored with the discipline and training of these superparents; and then, after three years in the schools of the Prince (they entered from thirteen to fifteen), they were eligible for marriage and ready to receive their commissions as emissaries of the Prince to the needy tribes of their respective races.

66:7.5 (750.7) 君王的屬員們如同父母一般生活在一起。誠然,他們沒有自己的孩子,但達拉瑪希亞的五十個模範家庭中,所收養的孩童從未少於五百名,這些孩子都來自安東族和桑吉克族的優越家庭;其中許多孩子都是孤兒。這些孩子有幸接受這些超凡父母的管教與培訓;隨後,在君王的學校就讀三年後(他們於十三至十五歲時入學),便具備結婚資格,並準備好接受委任,作為君王的使者前往各自種族中的貧困部落。

66:7.6 (751.1) Fad sponsored the Dalamatia plan of teaching that was carried out as an industrial school in which the pupils learned by doing, and through which they worked their way by the daily performance of useful tasks. This plan of education did not ignore thinking and feeling in the development of character; but it gave first place to manual training. The instruction was individual and collective. The pupils were taught by both men and women and by the two acting conjointly. One half of this group instruction was by sexes; the other half was coeducational. Students were taught manual dexterity as individuals and were socialized in groups or classes. They were trained to fraternize with younger groups, older groups, and adults, as well as to do teamwork with those of their own ages. They were also familiarized with such associations as family groups, play squads, and school classes.

66:7.6 (751.1) 法德倡導了達拉瑪希亞的教育計畫,該計畫以工業學校的形式實施,學生通過實踐來學習,並藉由每日完成實用任務來逐步完成學業。這套教育計畫在品格培養上並未忽視思考與情感,但它將手工訓練置於首位。教學方式兼具個別指導與集體教學。學生們既由男性或女性教師單獨指導,也由男女教師協同授課。在集體教學中,一半按性別分班進行;另一半則男女合班。學生們在手工技巧上接受個別指導,在團體或班級中進行社會化訓練。他們被教導既要與年幼者、年長者及成人融洽相處,又要與同齡人開展團隊合作。此外,他們也熟悉了諸如家庭、遊戲小組和學校班級等這樣的群體。

66:7.7 (751.2) Among the later students trained in Mesopotamia for work with their respective races were Andonites from the highlands of western India together with representatives of the red men and the blue men; still later a small number of the yellow race were also received.

66:7.7 (751.2) 在美索不達米亞接受培訓、以便為各自種族效力的後期學員中,有來自印度西部高地的安東族人,以及紅種人與藍種人的代表;再後來,還接納了少數黃種人。

66:7.8 (751.3) Hap presented the early races with a moral law. This code was known as “The Father’s Way” and consisted of the following seven commands:

66:7.8 (751.3) 哈普為早期種族帶來了一套道德律法。這套戒律被稱為「父之道」,包含以下七條誡命:

66:7.9 (751.4) 1. You shall not fear nor serve any God but the Father of all.

66:7.9 (751.4) 1. 你不可敬畏、也不可侍奉除萬有之父以外的任何神。

66:7.10 (751.5) 2. You shall not disobey the Father’s Son, the world’s ruler, nor show disrespect to his superhuman associates.

66:7.10 (751.5) 2. 你不可違抗父之聖子——這世界的統治者,也不可對他的超人同伴表現出不敬。

66:7.11 (751.6) 3. You shall not speak a lie when called before the judges of the people.

66:7.11 (751.6) 3. 你不可在受民眾法官傳喚出庭時說謊。

66:7.12 (751.7) 4. You shall not kill men, women, or children.

66:7.12 (751.7) 4. 你不可殺害男子、婦女或孩童。

66:7.13 (751.8) 5. You shall not steal your neighbor’s goods or cattle.

66:7.13 (751.8) 5. 你不可偷盜鄰居的財物或牲畜。

66:7.14 (751.9) 6. You shall not touch your friend’s wife.

66:7.14 (751.9) 6. 你不可染指你朋友的妻子。

66:7.15 (751.10) 7. You shall not show disrespect to your parents or to the elders of the tribe.

66:7.15 (751.10) 7. 你不可對父母或部落中的長者不敬。

66:7.16 (751.11) This was the law of Dalamatia for almost three hundred thousand years. And many of the stones on which this law was inscribed now lie beneath the waters off the shores of Mesopotamia and Persia. It became the custom to hold one of these commands in mind for each day of the week, using it for salutations and mealtime thanksgiving.

66:7.16 (751.11) 這套律法在達拉瑪希亞實行了近三十萬年。如今,大量刻有這項法律的石碑,已沉沒在美索不達米亞和波斯海岸外的水域。人們逐漸形成了一種習俗:每週的每一天,都將其中一條誡命銘記於心,用它來表達問候及用餐時的感恩。

66:7.17 (751.12) The time measurement of these days was the lunar month, this period being reckoned as twenty-eight days. That, with the exception of day and night, was the only time reckoning known to the early peoples. The seven-day week was introduced by the Dalamatia teachers and grew out of the fact that seven was one fourth of twenty-eight. The significance of the number seven in the superuniverse undoubtedly afforded them opportunity to introduce a spiritual reminder into the common reckoning of time. But there is no natural origin for the weekly period.

66:7.17 (751.12) 當時的時間單位是陰曆月,這個週期被定為二十八天。除了晝夜之外,這便是早期人類所知的唯一計時方式。七天一週的制度是由達拉瑪希亞的導師們所引入的,這源於七恰好是二十八的四分之一。「七」這個數字在超級宇宙中的重要性,無疑為他們提供了機會,得以將一種靈性提醒融入日常的時間計算中。但「週」這個概念並無自然起源。

66:7.18 (751.13) The country around the city was quite well settled within a radius of one hundred miles. Immediately surrounding the city, hundreds of graduates of the Prince’s schools engaged in animal husbandry and otherwise carried out the instruction they had received from his staff and their numerous human helpers. A few engaged in agriculture and horticulture.

66:7.18 (751.13) 在城市周邊一百英里(約一百六十公里)的半徑範圍內,人口分布相當密集。在緊鄰城市的區域,數百名君王學校的畢業生從事畜牧業,並在其他方面踐行他們從君王屬員及其眾多助手那裡所學到的教導。其中也有少數人從事農業和園藝。

66:7.19 (751.14) Mankind was not consigned to agricultural toil as the penalty of supposed sin. “In the sweat of your face shall you eat the fruit of the fields” was not a sentence of punishment pronounced because of man’s participation in the follies of the Lucifer rebellion under the leadership of the traitorous Caligastia. The cultivation of the soil is inherent in the establishment of an advancing civilization on the evolutionary worlds, and this injunction was the center of all teaching of the Planetary Prince and his staff throughout the three hundred thousand years which intervened between their arrival on Urantia and those tragic days when Caligastia threw in his lot with the rebel Lucifer. Work with the soil is not a curse; rather is it the highest blessing to all who are thus permitted to enjoy the most human of all human activities.

66:7.19 (751.14) 人類並非注定要從事農耕勞作,作為所謂罪的懲罰。「你必汗流滿面,方可食得田間的出產」,並非因人類在背叛者卡里迦夏的領導下,參與了路西法反叛的荒謬行徑,而所宣判的懲罰。在進化世界中,耕作土地是建立進步文明所不可或缺的;而這項誡命,正是行星君王及其屬員在這三十萬年間(從他們抵達玉苒廈,直到卡裡迦夏與反叛者路西法同流合污的悲劇發生之前)所有教導的核心。耕作土地並非一種詛咒;相反地,對所有得以享受這項最富人性活動的人而言,這反而是至高的祝福。

66:7.20 (752.1) At the outbreak of the rebellion, Dalamatia had a resident population of almost six thousand. This number includes the regular students but does not embrace the visitors and observers, who always numbered more than one thousand. But you can have little or no concept of the marvelous progress of those faraway times; practically all of the wonderful human gains of those days were wiped out by the horrible confusion and abject spiritual darkness which followed the Caligastia catastrophe of deception and sedition.

66:7.20 (752.1) 反叛爆發之際,達拉瑪希亞的常住人口近六千人。這個數字包含正式學生,但不包括訪客與觀察者——後者的數量向來超過一千人。然而,你們恐怕很難,甚至根本無法想像那個遙遠時代的驚人進步;當時人類所取得的一切非凡成就,幾乎全都被卡裡迦夏那場以欺騙與叛亂為特徵的災難所引發的可怕混亂與極度精神黑暗所摧毀。

8. Misfortunes of Caligastia
8. 卡裡迦夏的不幸事件

66:8.1 (752.2) In looking back over the long career of Caligastia, we find only one outstanding feature of his conduct that might have challenged attention; he was ultraindividualistic. He was inclined to take sides with almost every party of protest, and he was usually sympathetic with those who gave mild expression to implied criticism. We detect the early appearance of this tendency to be restless under authority, to mildly resent all forms of supervision. While slightly resentful of senior counsel and somewhat restive under superior authority, nonetheless, whenever a test had come, he had always proved loyal to the universe rulers and obedient to the mandates of the Constellation Fathers. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his shameful betrayal of Urantia.

66:8.1 (752.2) 回顧卡裡迦夏漫長的生涯,我們只發現他行為中有一項引人注目的特徵,或許值得關注:他極度個人主義。他傾向於附和幾乎所有抗議陣營,而且通常對那些以溫和方式表達隱晦批評的人抱有同情。我們察覺到這種傾向的早期跡象:即在權威之下感到不安,並對各種形式的監督略感不滿。儘管他對資深顧問略感不滿,在上級權威之下也稍顯不安,但每當面臨考驗時,他始終都對宇宙支配者展現出忠誠,並服從星座之父的指令。直到他可恥地背叛玉苒廈為止,從未有人發現他有任何真正的過失。

66:8.2 (752.3) It should be noted that both Lucifer and Caligastia had been patiently instructed and lovingly warned respecting their critical tendencies and the subtle development of their pride of self and its associated exaggeration of the feeling of self-importance. But all of these attempts to help had been misconstrued as unwarranted criticism and as unjustified interference with personal liberties. Both Caligastia and Lucifer judged their friendly advisers as being actuated by the very reprehensible motives which were beginning to dominate their own distorted thinking and misguided planning. They judged their unselfish advisers by their own evolving selfishness.

66:8.2 (752.3) 值得注意的是,無論是路西法還是卡裡迦夏,都曾就他們的苛責傾向,以及他們內心逐漸滋生的自傲及其伴隨而來的自我重要感膨脹,受到過耐心的教導與充滿關愛的提醒。然而,所有這些旨在幫助的努力,卻都被誤解為無端批評,以及對個人自由的不當干涉。卡裡迦夏和路西法都將這些友善的勸諫者,視為受那些極其卑劣的動機驅使,而這些動機,正開始主宰他們自身扭曲的思維與誤入歧途的計劃。他們竟以自身日益膨脹的自私,來揣度這些無私的勸諫者。

66:8.3 (752.4) From the arrival of Prince Caligastia, planetary civilization progressed in a fairly normal manner for almost three hundred thousand years. Aside from being a life-modification sphere and therefore subject to numerous irregularities and unusual episodes of evolutionary fluctuation, Urantia progressed very satisfactorily in its planetary career up to the times of the Lucifer rebellion and the concurrent Caligastia betrayal. All subsequent history has been definitely modified by this catastrophic blunder as well as by the later failure of Adam and Eve to fulfill their planetary mission.

66:8.3 (752.4) 自君王卡裡迦夏抵達以來,行星文明在將近三十萬年的時間裡,以相當正常的步調持續發展。儘管作為一個生命改造世界,並由此會面臨諸多異常現象及不尋常的進化波動,但在路西法反叛及伴隨而來的卡裡迦夏背叛之前,玉苒廈在其行星發展歷程中,取得了令人滿意的進展。這場災難性的失誤,以及亞當與夏娃後來未能完成其行星使命,徹底改變了此後的歷史。

66:8.4 (752.5) The Prince of Urantia went into darkness at the time of the Lucifer rebellion, thus precipitating the long confusion of the planet. He was subsequently deprived of sovereign authority by the co-ordinate action of the constellation rulers and other universe authorities. He shared the inevitable vicissitudes of isolated Urantia down to the time of Adam’s sojourn on the planet and contributed something to the miscarriage of the plan to uplift the mortal races through the infusion of the lifeblood of the new violet race—the descendants of Adam and Eve.

66:8.4 (752.5) 在路西法反叛之際,玉苒廈的君王墜入黑暗,從而引發了這個行星長期的混亂。隨後,在星座支配者與其他宇宙掌權者的協調行動下,他被剝奪了主權。他經歷了被隔離的玉苒廈不可避免的滄桑變遷,直至亞當在行星上駐留;並在這項計畫的夭折中難辭其咎,該計畫旨在通過注入新紫色種族——即亞當與夏娃的後裔——的生命之血,來提升凡人種族。

66:8.5 (753.1) The power of the fallen Prince to disturb human affairs was enormously curtailed by the mortal incarnation of Machiventa Melchizedek in the days of Abraham; and subsequently, during the life of Michael in the flesh, this traitorous Prince was finally shorn of all authority on Urantia.

66:8.5 (753.1) 在亞伯拉罕時代,瑪可文塔•默基瑟德以凡人化身降世,極大地限制了那位墮落君王干預人類事務的能力;隨後,在邁克爾以肉身在世期間,這位背叛的君王最終被徹底褫奪了在玉苒廈的一切權柄。

66:8.6 (753.2) The doctrine of a personal devil on Urantia, though it had some foundation in the planetary presence of the traitorous and iniquitous Caligastia, was nevertheless wholly fictitious in its teachings that such a “devil” could influence the normal human mind against its free and natural choosing. Even before Michael’s bestowal on Urantia, neither Caligastia nor Daligastia was ever able to oppress mortals or to coerce any normal individual into doing anything against the human will. The free will of man is supreme in moral affairs; even the indwelling Thought Adjuster refuses to compel man to think a single thought or to perform a single act against the choosing of man’s own will.

66:8.6 (753.2) 關於玉苒廈上存在人格性魔鬼的教義,儘管在背叛且邪惡的卡裡迦夏曾現身於該行星一事上尚有一定依據,但其所謂這個「魔鬼」能夠影響正常人類心智,使其違背自身自由與自然選擇的說法,卻純屬虛構。即使在邁克爾贈與到玉苒廈之前,無論是卡裡迦夏還是達裡迦夏,都從未能壓迫凡人,或強迫任何正常個體做出任何違背個人意志之事。在道德事務上,人的自由意志至高無上;就連內住的思想調整者,也絕不會強迫人產生任何違背自身意志的念頭,或做出任何違背自身意志的行為。

66:8.7 (753.3) And now this rebel of the realm, shorn of all power to harm his former subjects, awaits the final adjudication, by the Uversa Ancients of Days, of all who participated in the Lucifer rebellion.

66:8.7 (753.3) 如今,這位星球的叛逆者已喪失一切傷害其昔日臣民的能力,正等待尤沃薩的亙古常在者,對所有參與路西法反叛者作出最終的裁決。

66:8.8 (753.4) [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]

66:8.8 (753.4) [由內巴頓的一位默基瑟德所呈獻。]
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