象形文字主要是语音符号；它们代表的是声音，而不是图像，其本质上的语言是科普特语。

Hieroglyphs were mainly phonetic; they represented sounds, not pictures, and the underlying language was Coptic.

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这时形式已经与它的本质完全地分离了，仅仅作为一个符号，成为街上的一阵过眼烟云的流行。

Here, form had been totally separated from its nature. Only as a symbol, Zen became prevalent in the street just like a fleeting cloud.

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一切事物都是能量，这些教导里的信息本质也不例外，无论文本、图像、符号或歌曲都是一个极高频率的能量。

Everything is energy and the information inherent in the Teachings, whether in the form of text, diagrams, symbols or songs is of a very high frequency of energy.

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I am going to be turning to the second passage on the sheet in which something about the nature of these systems, I think, can be made clear.

我将会将上面第二页的东西,关于符号系统的本质。

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