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《猶記驚鴻照影》 一個女人，愛了一個男人兩輩子（頂頂推薦！）
《菀宮春》 一個公主，被皇帝看中，一代英明
《戀上皇室冷公主》、《戀上皇室貴公主》 差不多吧，都是青春校園的
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③ 奇諾之旅小說現在出到第幾本有超過10本么
作品簡介
雨澤惠一作品之一，現有小說11本，還在連載中。由MEDIAWORKS電擊文庫出版。作品在2003年被改編為13話的TV動畫和1話的OVA，並在2005年推出了第一部劇場版，第二部在2007年4月21日在日本上映。
奇諾離開了自己居住的國家,與師傅和艾爾梅斯一起在森林中的小屋裡住了下來。除了一邊幫助師傅做雜活外,還接受駕車訓練。就這樣每天駕著艾爾梅斯練習,日子就這樣一天天平淡無奇的過去了。某天,奇諾去河邊打水,遇上了一位游者,他與曾經為了救奇諾而犧牲自己的青年有著同樣的打扮,這勾起了奇諾的回憶並與其交談起來。自此之後,奇諾下定了決心,要開始他自己的旅程。
《奇諾之旅》的 世界觀是架空的。作為一部單元劇，它成功擺脫了單調重復的模式，自然如潺潺流水般講述著人心最隱蔽的痛楚。觀眾隨著主人公奇諾的旅程一起經歷形形色色的國家，而每一個故事的英文標題，更是畫龍點睛，不動聲色地擊中了故事的主旨。
《奇諾之旅》是一部寫給成人的灰色童話，作品由始至終貫穿著灰色陰暗的調子，但感覺並不令人頹廢，反而讓人平靜。《奇諾之旅》不是會讓人悲傷的作品，也不會媚俗和煽情，每一個小故事的結局都讓人在震撼之餘又苦澀的無法用於言語表述，它帶給觀眾的更多的是對自身人生態度的反思。那些陰暗的，扭曲的，愚昧的，自我欺騙的，麻木不仁的等等人類潛在的丑惡被作者加工後更深刻沉重地展現在人們面前。分明是童話，感覺卻那麼真實。
現實永遠比戲劇更荒謬，誰能否認那嬉笑怒罵後的無奈不是觸到了內心的痛處？作品中也經常利用高光，反復插敘倒敘的手法讓人產生迷離感，模糊了觀眾對作品中現實與虛幻的劃分，也表達了內容本身對世界置疑的態度。
你認為世界是美麗的么？看《奇諾之旅》吧，你會知道，世界並不美麗。
你認為世界並不美麗么？看《奇諾之旅》吧，你會知道，世界因此美麗。
也許奇諾要告訴我們的，就是在並不美麗的世界中，尋找世界的美麗之處，正如它的英文標題：the beautiful world.飽含著美麗的心情，找到屬於自己的美麗世界。
奇諾為什麼總要旅行呢？ （奇諾的自白）
「我嘛,有時覺得自己難道不是一個一無是處,愚蠢矮小的傢伙嘛？自己不是一個很骯臟的人嘛？雖然說不出原因,但是確實有那種感覺。但是,那個時候,總是覺得除了自己之外所有的一切,比如說世界啦,他人的生活啦等等,都是很完美,很溫馨的。不自覺地非常喜歡``````我希望知道的多一點,更多一點,為此才想旅行。」
以短篇連載的形式連綴的和奇諾談話的二輪車艾爾梅斯的旅行的話語。
奇諾游訪了許多的國家,並且遇到了各種各樣的人,但是在每個國家只待上三天,這是為什麼呢？
「說是因為在一個國家只能待三天，實際上是怕和人接觸多了，就會住下來``````如果住下來的話``````就不是旅行者了。」確實，接觸就意味著和人建立關系，旅行者為什麼是旅行者？ 因為能夠無拘無束地到能夠到達的地方，一旦有了羈絆，就束縛了旅行者自由的心和腳步，如果心不自由的話，無論走過的路程有多遠，都不是一個真正意義上的旅行者。
「旅行者，為什麼要旅行？」
「因為我是一名旅行者。」
看似荒誕不經的話語卻是我聽到過的最遵從內心的回答。有些事，不需要理由，僅僅就是因為是，所以是。其中的含義只可意會，不可言傳，深究是毫無意義的。踏上旅途是必然，成為旅行者亦是必然。
腳下輾轉過的路未必會留下我的痕跡，但路已經在我的心裡。前方的旅途還遠，既然已背起行囊，目的地就在遠方，現在只需要走下去，即使遇到多麼大的障礙，也要堅定不移地走下去，即使受到多麼大的誘惑，也要頭也不會地走下去。不為什麼，只是因為，我是一名旅行者。
CAST&STAFF
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奇諾-前田愛
艾爾梅斯-相ヶ瀬龍史
師傅-翠准子
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原作 ：時雨沢恵一
監督 ：渡邊高志
腳本 ：村井さだゆき
人物原案 ：黑星紅白
人物設計 ：須賀重行
美術監督 ：武藤正敏
色彩設計 ：西表美智代
攝影監督 ：大庭直之
音響監督 ：鶴岡陽太
作畫監督 ：須賀重行 福世孝明 松本文男
繪畫素描 ：渡邊高志
演出 ：工藤進
動漫製作 ：A.C.G.T.
在《奇諾之旅》中,The world isn』t beautiful, therefore it is. 世界並不完美,卻因此美麗。這種句子常在古代詩歌中出現,現在不多見。
奇諾之旅表現的不只有人性的陰暗世界,對於奇諾來說,我們只能說她是個人,她具備的是所有人的特徵,然而她又可以拋開一切去旁觀這個世界。不管這個世界多麼醜陋,她依然美麗;不管人們的罪孽多麼沉重,我們變不了的是我們只是人。
有諷刺,但更多的是真實和的少量無奈……
個人覺得奇諾不是表現人性醜陋的,更多是無奈。有誰真正是錯的。
如果現在還說什麼對的錯的,完美的醜陋的,實在是太可笑了。奇諾並沒有宣揚什麼,也並沒有權利懲罰什麼,只不過是為了想要繼續旅行下去而盡全力的一個旅人而已。
完美的世界也是不可想像的恐怖的。
至於看破紅塵……奇諾似乎還沒到不是人間煙火或者「我不入地獄誰入地獄」的境界,而且看過小說的人都會發現,奇諾的性格里孩子氣的成分還是很多的,比起動畫里澄澈的感覺,更加人性化了。
《奇諾之旅》TV版每集標題
奇諾之旅
第1話 序章 在沙漠中央a · 了解他人痛苦的國家 ——I see you ——
第2 話 吃人的故事 ——I want live ——
第3 話 序章 在滿天繁星下 · 預言之國 · 悲傷之國 ——we no the future—— · 傳統——tricksters——
第4 話 序章 在紅色海洋的正中 · 大人之國 ——natural right ——
第5話 鐵道上的三名男子——on the rails——· 不必工作的國家——workable—— · 多數決定的國家——ourselfish
第6 話 角斗場 (前篇)
第7 話 角斗場(後篇)——avengers
第8 話 魔法使之國——potentials of magic——
第9話 書本之國——nothing is written——
第10話 機械人偶的故事——one way mission——
第11話 她的旅行 ——love and bullets——· 賢者的故事
第12話 和平的國家——mother's love ——
第13話 親切之國——tomorrow never comes —— · 終章 在沙漠中央b
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惡魔（湊字）
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基本概念
惡魔（英文：Demon）是各種宗教、文學作品、影視作品、ACG作品中虛構的擁有超自然力量的邪惡存在，通常是特別強大的魔鬼。人心所浮現的惡意即是惡魔。當人類遭遇到自然力量的威脅、自己或者他人的惡意，自然而然會去尋找其源頭。而這些造成惡意的原因，被具體化形成了邪靈、惡神，甚至到最後形成了所謂的惡魔。對於人類來說,惡魔是迷信的產物,也是不存在的,但是"惡魔般的"亦及"有害的"東西卻會因人自身的惡意而困擾著人們,"惡魔"只不過是迷信的人們捏造出來替自己的邪念與惡行承擔罪責的替罪羔羊罷了.
綜觀東方或西方的歷史，人類文化早期的泛靈論（Animism）時代，並沒有惡魔的存在，那時候頂多隻有邪惡精靈的出現，或是所謂的惡作劇精靈（Trickster）。當歷史開始進入多神教時代，人們相信善與惡始終是對立的，相對於代表正義的善神，另一方面代表邪惡勢力的惡神也隨之登場，彼此共存，相互制衡。源於波斯及巴比倫等地的宗教主張善惡二元論，為人類揭示了光明與黑暗兩股勢力的源頭。如薩滿宗教中為人帶來疾病等災厄的「邪惡精靈」「惡靈」、神祇或人類之敵、誘惑人類的存在，皆可以demon稱之。但是，強調唯一真神的基督宗教（包含天主教在內）均將異教神祇視為惡魔（Demon），以否定其神格的存在，就連舊約聖經里的撒旦（Satan）也是神忠實的僕役。到了新約聖經以後的時代，……
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綜觀東方或西方的歷史，人類文化早期的泛靈論（Animism）時代，並沒有惡魔的存在，那時候頂多隻有邪惡精靈的出現，或是所謂的惡作劇精靈（Trickster）。當歷史開始進入多神教時代，人們相信善與惡始終是對立的，相對於代表正義的善神，另一方面代表邪惡勢力的惡神也隨之登場，彼此共存，相互制衡。源於波斯及巴比倫等地的宗教主張善惡二元論，為人類揭示了光明與……
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原文如下：
Jeff Peters was always eloquent when the ethics of his profession was
under discussion.
"The only times," said he, "that me and Andy Tucker ever had any
hiatuses in our cordial intents was when we differed on the moral
aspects of grafting. Andy had his standards and I had mine. I didn't
approve of all of Andy's schemes for levying contributions from the
public, and he thought I allowed my conscience to interfere too often
for the financial good of the firm. We had high arguments sometimes.
One word led on to another till he said I reminded him of Rockefeller.
"'I don't know how you mean that, Andy,' says I, 'but we have been
friends too long for me to take offense, at a taunt that you will
regret when you cool off. I have yet,' says I, 'to shake hands with a
subpoena server.'
"One summer me and Andy decided to rest up a spell in a fine little
town in the mountains of Kentucky called Grassdale. We was supposed to
be horse drovers, and good decent citizens besides, taking a summer
vacation. The Grassdale people liked us, and me and Andy declared a
cessation of hostilities, never so much as floating the fly leaf of a
rubber concession prospectus or flashing a Brazilian diamond while we
was there.
"One day the leading hardware merchant of Grassdale drops around to
the hotel where me and Andy stopped, and smokes with us, sociable, on
the side porch. We knew him pretty well from pitching quoits in the
afternoons in the court house yard. He was a loud, red man, breathing
hard, but fat and respectable beyond all reason.
"After we talk on all the notorious themes of the day, this Murkison--
for such was his entitlements--takes a letter out of his coat pocket
in a careful, careless way and hands it to us to read.
"'Now, what do you think of that?' says he, laughing--'a letter like
that to ME!'
"Me and Andy sees at a glance what it is; but we pretend to read it
through. It was one of them old time typewritten green goods letters
explaining how for $1,000 you could get $5,000 in bills that an expert
couldn't tell from the genuine; and going on to tell how they were
made from plates stolen by an employee of the Treasury at Washington.
"'Think of 'em sending a letter like that to ME!' says Murkison again.
"'Lot's of good men get 'em,' says Andy. 'If you don't answer the
first letter they let you drop. If you answer it they write again
asking you to come on with your money and do business.'
"'But think of 'em writing to ME!' says Murkison.
"A few days later he drops around again.
"'Boys,' says he, 'I know you are all right or I wouldn't confide in
you. I wrote to them rascals again just for fun. They answered and
told me to come on to Chicago. They said telegraph to J. Smith when I
would start. When I get there I'm to wait on a certain street corner
till a man in a gray suit comes along and drops a newspaper in front
of me. Then I am to ask him how the water is, and he knows it's me and
I know it's him.'
"'Ah, yes,' says Andy, gaping, 'it's the same old game. I've often
read about it in the papers. Then he concts you to the private
abattoir in the hotel, where Mr. Jones is already waiting. They show
you brand new real money and sell you all you want at five for one.
You see 'em put it in a satchel for you and know it's there. Of course
it's brown paper when you come to look at it afterward.'
"'Oh, they couldn't switch it on me,' says Murkison. 'I haven't built
up the best paying business in Grassdale without having witticisms
about me. You say it's real money they show you, Mr. Tucker?'
"'I've always--I see by the papers that it always is,' says Andy.
"'Boys,' says Murkison, 'I've got it in my mind that them fellows
can't fool me. I think I'll put a couple of thousand in my jeans and
go up there and put it all over 'em. If Bill Murkison gets his eyes
once on them bills they show him he'll never take 'em off of 'em. They
offer $5 for $1, and they'll have to stick to the bargain if I tackle
'em. That's the kind of trader Bill Murkison is. Yes, I jist believe
I'll drop up Chicago way and take a 5 to 1 shot on J. Smith. I guess
the water'll be fine enough.'
"Me and Andy tries to get this financial misquotation out of
Murkison's head, but we might as well have tried to keep the man who
rolls peanuts with a toothpick from betting on Bryan's election. No,
sir; he was going to perform a public ty by catching these green
goods swindlers at their own game. Maybe it would teach 'em a lesson.
"After Murkison left us me and Andy sat a while prepondering over our
silent meditations and heresies of reason. In our idle hours we always
improved our higher selves by ratiocination and mental thought.
"'Jeff,' says Andy after a long time, 'quite unseldom I have seen fit
to impugn your molars when you have been chewing the rag with me about
your conscientious way of doing business. I may have been often wrong.
But here is a case where I think we can agree. I feel that it would be
wrong for us to allow Mr. Murkison to go alone to meet those Chicago
green goods men. There is but one way it can end. Don't you think we
would both feel better if we was to intervene in some way and prevent
the doing of this deed?'
"I got up and shook Andy Tucker's hand hard and long.
"'Andy,' says I, 'I may have had one or two hard thoughts about the
heartlessness of your corporation, but I retract 'em now. You have a
kind nucleus at the interior of your exterior after all. It does you
credit. I was just thinking the same thing that you have expressed. It
would not be honorable or praiseworthy,' says I, 'for us to let
Murkison go on with this project he has taken up. If he is determined
to go let us go with him and prevent this swindle from coming off.'
"Andy agreed with me; and I was glad to see that he was in earnest
about breaking up this green goods scheme.
"'I don't call myself a religious man,' says I, 'or a fanatic in moral
bigotry, but I can't stand still and see a man who has built up his
business by his own efforts and brains and risk be robbed by an
unscrupulous trickster who is a menace to the public good.'
"'Right, Jeff,' says Andy. 'We'll stick right along with Murkison if
he insists on going and block this funny business. I'd hate to see any
money dropped in it as bad as you would.'
"Well, we went to see Murkison.
"'No, boys,' says he. 'I can't consent to let the song of this Chicago
siren waft by me on the summer breeze. I'll fry some fat out of this
ignis fatuus or burn a hole in the skillet. But I'd be plumb diverted
to death to have you all go along with me. Maybe you could help some
when it comes to cashing in the ticket to that 5 to 1 shot. Yes, I'd
really take it as a pastime and regalement if you boys would go along
too.'
"Murkison gives it out in Grassdale that he is going for a few days
with Mr. Peters and Mr. Tucker to look over some iron ore property in
West Virginia. He wires J. Smith that he will set foot in the spider
web on a given date; and the three of us lights out for Chicago.
"On the way Murkison amuses himself with premonitions and advance
pleasant recollections.
"'In a gray suit,' says he, 'on the southwest corner of Wabash avenue
and Lake street. He drops the paper, and I ask how the water is. Oh,
my, my, my!' And then he laughs all over for five minutes.
"Sometimes Murkison was serious and tried to talk himself out of his
cogitations, whatever they was.
"'Boys,' says he, 'I wouldn't have this to get out in Grassdale for
ten times a thousand dollars. It would ruin me there. But I know you
all are all right. I think it's the ty of every citizen,' says he,
'to try to do up these robbers that prey upon the public. I'll show
'em whether the water's fine. Five dollars for one--that's what J.
Smith offers, and he'll have to keep his contract if he does business
with Bill Murkison.'
"We got into Chicago about 7 P.M. Murkison was to meet the gray man at
half past 9. We had dinner at a hotel and then went up to Murkison's
room to wait for the time to come.
"'Now, boys,' says Murkison, 'let's get our gumption together and
inoculate a plan for defeating the enemy. Suppose while I'm exchanging
airy bandage with the gray capper you gents come along, by accident,
you know, and holler: "Hello, Murk!" and shake hands with symptoms of
surprise and familiarity. Then I take the capper aside and tell him
you all are Jenkins and Brown of Grassdale, groceries and feed, good
men and maybe willing to take a chance while away from home.'
"'"Bring 'em along," he'll say, of course, "if they care to invest."
Now, how does that scheme strike you?'
"'What do you say, Jeff?' says Andy, looking at me.
"'Why, I'll tell you what I say,' says I. 'I say let's settle this
thing right here now. I don't see any use of wasting any more time.' I
took a nickel-plated .38 out of my pocket and clicked the cylinder
around a few times.
"'You undevout, sinful, insidious hog,' says I to Murkison, 'get out
that two thousand and lay it on the table. Obey with velocity,' says
I, 'for otherwise alternatives are impending. I am preferably a man of
mildness, but now and then I find myself in the middle of extremities.
Such men as you,' I went on after he had laid the money out, 'is what
keeps the jails and court houses going. You come up here to rob these
men of their money. Does it excuse you?' I asks, 'that they were
trying to skin you? No, sir; you was going to rob Peter to stand off
Paul. You are ten times worse,' says I, 'than that green goods man.
You go to church at home and pretend to be a decent citizen, but
you'll come to Chicago and commit larceny from men that have built up
a sound and profitable business by dealing with such contemptible
scoundrels as you have tried to be to-day. How do you know,' says I,
'that that green goods man hasn't a large family dependent upon his
extortions? It's you supposedly respectable citizens who are always on
the lookout to get something for nothing,' says I, 'that support the
lotteries and wild-cat mines and stock exchanges and wire tappers of
this country. If it wasn't for you they'd go out of business. The
green goods man you was going to rob,' says I, 'studied maybe for
years to learn his trade. Every turn he makes he risks his money and
liberty and maybe his life. You come up here all sanctified and
vanoplied with respectability and a pleasing post office address to
swindle him. If he gets the money you can squeal to the police. If you
get it he hocks the gray suit to buy supper and says nothing. Mr.
Tucker and me sized you up,' says I, 'and came along to see that you
got what you deserved. Hand over the money,' says I, 'you grass fed
hypocrite.'
"I put the two thousand, which was all in $20 bills, in my inside
pocket.
"'Now get out your watch,' says I to Murkison. 'No, I don't want it,'
says I. 'Lay it on the table and you sit in that chair till it ticks
off an hour. Then you can go. If you make any noise or leave any
sooner we'll handbill you all over Grassdale. I guess your high
position there is worth more than $2,000 to you.'
"Then me and Andy left.
"On the train Andy was a long time silent. Then he says: 'Jeff, do you
mind my asking you a question?'
"'Two,' says I, 'or forty.'
"'Was that the idea you had,' says he, 'when we started out with
Murkison?'
"'Why, certainly,' says I. 'What else could it have been? Wasn't it
yours, too?'
"In about half an hour Andy spoke again. I think there are times when
Andy don't exactly understand my system of ethics and moral hygiene.
"'Jeff,' says he, 'some time when you have the leisure I wish you'd
draw off a diagram and foot-notes of that conscience of yours. I'd
like to have it to refer to occasionally.'"
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黑血麥迪的中古世紀
作者：黑血玩筆的
進階職業:詭術師
更新時間2008-1-2 13:08:00 字數：1646
詭術師（ARCANETRICKSTER）
生命骰數：d4。
職業需求
要具備詭術師的資格，人物必須符合以下全部條件。
陣營：任何非守序陣營。（林頓是由於無依無靠，所以才加入死靈法師聯盟，其人後來陣營轉變成邪惡陣營，但憑借高超的「易容」（魅力）屬性，它可以近乎自由的出入大部分區域）
技能：「文書解讀」7級，「解除裝置」7級，「脫逃」7級，「知識」（神秘）4級。
法術：可施展法師之手和另外至少一種三級或更高級別的奧術。
特殊：偷襲+2d6。
本職技能
詭術師的本職技能如下（括弧中為該技能的關鍵屬性）：「估價」（智力），「平衡」（敏捷），「唬騙」（魅力），「攀爬」（力量），「專注」（體質），「手藝」（智力），「文書解讀」（智力），「交涉」（魅力），「解除裝置」（智力），「易容」（魅力），「脫逃」（敏捷），「搜集信息」（魅力），「躲藏」（敏捷），「跳躍」（力量），「知識」（智力），「聆聽」（感知），「潛行」（敏捷），「開鎖」（敏捷），「專業」（感知），「察言觀色」（感知），「搜索」（智力），「手上功夫」（敏捷），「語言」（智力），「辨識法術」（智力），「偵察」（感知），「游泳」（力量），「滾翻」（敏捷），和「繩技」（敏捷）。
升級可得到的技能點數：4+智力調整值。
表：……
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惡魔（Demon）。人心所浮現的惡意即是惡魔。當人類遭遇到自然力量的威脅、自己或者他人的惡意，自然而然會去尋找其源頭。而這些造成惡意的原因，被具體化形成了邪靈、惡神，甚至到最後形成了所謂的惡魔。
綜觀東方或西方的歷史，人類文化早期的泛靈論（Animism）時代，並沒有惡魔的存在，那時候頂多隻有邪惡精靈的出現，或是所謂的惡作劇精靈（Trickster）。當歷史開始進入多神教時代，人們相信善與惡始終是對立的，相對於代表正義的善神，另一方面代表邪惡勢力的惡神也隨之登場，彼此共存，相互制衡。源於波斯及巴比倫等地的宗教主張善惡二元論，為人類揭示了光明與黑暗兩股勢力的源頭。如薩滿宗教中為人帶來疾病等災厄的「邪惡精靈」「惡靈」、神祇或人類之敵、誘惑人類的存在，皆可以demon稱之。但是，強調唯一真神的基督宗教（包含天主教在內）均將異教神祇視為惡魔（Demon），以否定其神格的存在，就連舊約聖經里的撒但（Satan）也是神忠實的僕役。到了新約聖經以後的……
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惡魔（Demon）。人心所浮現的惡意即是惡魔。當人類遭遇到自然力量的威脅、自己或者他人的惡意，自然而然會去尋找其源頭。而這些造成惡意的原因，被具體化形成了邪靈、惡神，甚至到最後形成了所謂的惡魔。
綜觀東方或西方的歷史，人類文化早期的泛靈論（Animism）時代，並沒有惡魔的存在，那時候頂多隻有邪惡精靈的出現，或是所謂的惡作劇精靈（Trickster）。當歷史開始進入多神教時代，人們相信善與惡始終是對立的，相對於代表正義的善神，另一方面代表邪惡勢力的惡神也隨之登場，彼此共存，相互制衡。源於波斯及巴比倫等地的宗教主張善惡二元論，為人類揭示了光明與黑暗兩股勢力的源頭。如薩滿宗教中為人帶來疾病等災厄的「邪惡精靈」「惡靈」、神祇或人類之敵、誘惑人類的存在，皆可以demon稱之。但是，強調唯一真神的基督宗教（包含天主教在內）均將異教神祇視為惡魔（Demon），以否定其神格的存在，就連舊約聖經里的撒但（Satan）也是神忠實的僕役。到了新約聖經以後的時代，唯一真神的信仰已然確立，無需再去貶抑異教神祇，因而創造出作為神的敵對者的墮落天使（Devil），關於這部分新約聖經的啟示錄上明白記載著：惡魔是墮落到人間的天使，主宰著黑暗勢力，阻止人類和上帝溝通，無所不用其極。（參見猶太教神秘主義一節）
通靈術是一種在法國十九世紀中葉興起的哲學學說，它首先……