Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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And so in this perspective we have an image of the awesome power of the Deity Himself thundering away behind every jot and tittle of Milton's great epic.

从这个角度，我们能看到,上帝的神力隐去了,藏到了弥尔顿的史诗的一点一滴中。

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Who has not wondered ? what we would do if we had this power, the power of invisibility?

谁不会臆测,拥有神力的他会想干啥，隐形的神力？

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But in Genesis, Creation is not the result of a struggle between divine antagonists.

但是在《创世纪》中，创造并不是与其他神力斗争的结果。

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Obviously that's one of the divine attributes.

很明显这也是造物主的神力之一了吧。

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They have maybe a sense that I can influence events by willing or wishing and if I think that-- if I have kind of a mystical side to me, then probabilities don't have a clear meaning.

他们也许觉得 我可以通过意愿或者许愿,来影响事件的发展,也许...,我说不定有神力相助,如此概率这个概念就有些模棱两可了

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Once you have a metadivine realm all of these things are going to follow.

一旦你相信这个超出神力的领域是存在的。

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So gods have power only insofar as they are connected with that primordial world "stuff," a technical term that I use throughout this lecture! That means that magic is possible in such a system.

因此，众神只有在和这个原始世界的“物质“,有联系时，才会有神力，整堂课上我都会用到,“物质“这个词，这就意味着奇幻的事有可能发生。

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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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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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What would you do if you had this power, the power of this magic ring, where you could commit any crime, indulge any vice, commit any outrage and be sure you could always get away with it?

你们如果也拥有这般神力，透过来自神奇戒指的魔力，将可以违犯任何罪行，放纵自己，干下任何不道德的行为或暴行,也不用担心,因为永远可以藉由神力遁逃？

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