It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

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Wikipedia informs us that the self is the idea of a unified being, which is the source of an idiosyncratic consciousness.

我把它读出来吧,维基百科告诉我们self是，一个统一存在的概念,也就是特殊意识的来源。

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