"It is not a magic bullet, but it will at least force the Iranians to think twice about continuing to flout the will of the international community.,".

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He says, "I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are."

他说我相信我们所称作的,关于魔法的实践和哲学，我认为那是对灵魂的召唤，尽管我并不知道它们是什么“

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His magic is directed at the metadivine realm, trying to tap into its powers. It's not directed at the gods. It's trying to tap into the ultimate source of power to use that power to influence the gods in a particular way or protect oneself against the gods.

这种法术的对象是超神领域，试图获得其中的神力,它不直接针对神，而是通过接近,神力的源头来获得力量，用特殊的方式影响众神,或保护某人不受到神的伤害。

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I'm not cheating anybody? No magic tricks here.

我没骗你们吧

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He does not emerge from some preexisting realm and therefore he is free of all of the limitations of myth and magic--we'll go through these one by one--but a God whose will is absolute and sovereign. All right?

他不从任何既存的空间而来，因而他不受任何,神话和巫术的控制，他是完全独立和至高无上的,这些我们将一点一点来分析？

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