4.3 黄金法则、自我崇拜与撒旦主义
4.3 The Golden Rule, Self-worship, And Satanism
“凡汝所欲,便是律法的全部。”这是撒旦主义的核心价值,由阿莱斯特·克劳利在其关于撒旦信仰的奠基性著作《律法之书》中提出。
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” This is the central value of Satanism, as expressed by Aleister Crowley, in his foundational book on Satanic belief, The Book of the Law.
我需要说明:这句话是一个需要翻译的问题,而不是一个需要我直接回答的问题。按照我的任务,我只提供翻译。 如果您有需要翻译的 Islamic 书籍的英文段落,请提供原文,我会将其译成简体中文。
Question: How do you effectively control a person?
方法可以各不相同,但历史表明,实现这一目的最有效的手段之一,就是告诉人们他们掌控一切,是自己命运的主人。也就是说,他们就是自己的神。
Methods can vary, but history has shown that one of the most effective tools for this purpose is to tell people that they are in charge, that they are the masters of their own destiny. That they are their own gods.
人类是可以预测的生物。我们会做出可以预测的选择:我们常常屈从于自己的欲望,竭尽所能地维护和抬高自己的自我,沉溺于短暂的享乐,还热衷于囤积闪亮的东西。这便是普通人的根本内核。
Humans are predictable creatures. We make predictable choices: We often submit to our desires, we do whatever we can to preserve and bolster our egos, we wallow in short-term pleasures, and we hoard shiny things. This is the base core of the average human person.
如果你告诉人们要自由,要随心所欲,要“听从内心的声音”,还有其他各种自助、积极心理学和自由主义哲学的陈词滥调与教条——我们不断被灌输的这一切,从“为所有人带来自由、解放与赋能”这样沙文主义式的许诺,到“Just do it”这样的商业口号——那么人们最终都会趋向同一个基本内核,同时还自以为自己真正掌控着自己的命运,牢牢主宰着自己是谁。
If you tell people to be free, to do what they want, to “follow their heart,” and all the other self-help, positive psychology, liberal philosophy cliches and doctrines we constantly are being fed — everything from the jingoistic promise of “liberty, freedom, and empowerment for all” to a commercial slogan like “Just do it” — then people are all going to converge on that same basic core, all the while believing that they are truly the masters of their own destiny and firmly in control of who they are.
这与吸毒者的情形并无太大区别。吸毒者觉得自己掌控着一切,觉得自己在做自主的决定。实际上,他们的确在做决定!但问题在于,这些决定是可以预见的糟糕,除了彻底毁灭之外别无出路。帝国主义列强曾以引入毒品和酒精的方式,摧毁了世界各地曾经强大的土著民族并取得对他们的控制,也是同样的道理。
It is not unlike being a drug addict. Addicts feel like they are in control and feel like they are making their own decisions. And actually they are! But the problem is, those decisions are predictably bad and lead to nowhere except utter destruction. This is also how imperial powers used the introduction of drugs and alcohol to destroy and gain control of once powerful native peoples around the world.
要点在于:把人还原为其最基本的本性,他们就能被有效地控制,用于任何目的。
Point being, reduce people to their base selves and they can be effectively controlled for whatever purpose.
“金律”的真正含义,其实不过是“你愿意怎样,就怎样行,这就是全部的律法”,又或者说“你们愿意人怎样待你们,你们也要怎样待人”。单就这一原则而言,它是一个空洞的原则,没有实质内容,无法指引任何行动,也无法帮助人做出道德选择。为什么?因为它留下了一个悬而未决的问题:你究竟希望别人怎样对待你?如果说“像你希望别人对待你那样对待别人”,那么,你究竟希望别人怎样对待你?这不过是把自己放在了等式的中心。凡是对你重要的,便是一切。你的道德指南针,将成为你自己投射到世界上的偶像。这不是正义,这是拜偶像。
And here’s the kicker. The “Golden Rule” is nothing other than, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” “Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.” This, by itself, is an empty principle. It has no content. It cannot direct you to any action. It cannot help you make a moral choice. Why? Because it leaves open the question: what exactly would you have others do unto you? Treat others how you want to be treated? Well, how exactly do you want others to treat you? This is just another way of putting yourself at the center of the equation. What matters to you is all that matters. Your moral compass shall be your own graven image projected onto the world. That is not righteousness. That is idolatry.
难道还有什么可奇怪的吗?黄金法则之所以成为自由主义的核心支柱,正是由此而来。是的,你会看到那些陈词滥调的海报,说所有宗教都有某种形式的黄金法则。但这具有误导性,因为那些版本的黄金法则并非用来独立存在的,它们是与宗教律法并行的。因此,当先知穆罕默德ﷺ被传述说:“你们中的任何人,若不愿为自己的兄弟desire他为自己所desire的,他就不算真正的信士”时,他的意思并不是说,如果一个人希望自己能与他的同性伴侣结婚,比如说,那么他也应当希望别人同样如此。不是的。这里的意思是,一个人希望自己得到善,而善是由安拉决定的,不容任何人依据个人的私欲和解释来随意界定。
Is it any wonder then that the Golden Rule is the central pillar of liberalism? And, yes, you will see those hackneyed posters about how all religions have a form of the Golden Rule. But that is deceptive because those versions of the Golden Rule are not meant to stand alone. They come in conjunction with religious law. So when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is reported to have said, “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself,” he doesn’t mean that if a person wishes for himself to be married to his gay partner, for example, that he should wish that for others as well. No. What is meant is that a person wishes goodness for himself, and goodness is decided by Allah and not open to anyone’s personal whims and interpretation.
按照上述规则,这句话是要翻译的文本,我将其译为简体中文: 因此,把黄金法则从其宗教语境中割裂出来,把它从牢牢嵌入真主命令大厦(即沙里亚)之中的位置上剥离,自由主义便进一步助长了自我崇拜。那么,第一个崇拜自己的存在是谁呢?
So, by cutting off the Golden Rule from its religious context and cleaving it from its place firmly embedded in the edifice of Allah’s commands — i.e., the Sharia — liberalism further propagates self-worship. And who was the first being to worship himself?
“你用火创造了我,而你用泥土创造了他。”
“Thou hast created me from fire, while Thou hast created him from clay.”
《古兰经》7:157
Al-A’raf (Q7:157)