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Theurgy   Listen
noun
Theurgy  n.  
1.
A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.
2.
A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.
3.
In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.





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"Theurgy" Quotes from Famous Books



... more for the danger of expressing them, Julian was easily won to heathenism by the fatherly welcome of the philosophers at Nicomedia (351). Like a voice of love from heaven came their teaching, and Julian gave himself heart and soul to the mysterious fascination of their lying theurgy. Henceforth King Sun was his guardian deity, and Greece his Holy Land, and the philosopher's mantle dearer to him than the diadem of empire. For ten more years of painful dissimulation Julian 'walked with the gods' in secret, before the young lion of heathenism ...
— The Arian Controversy • H. M. Gwatkin


Words linked to "Theurgy" :   occult, causal agency, causal agent, supernatural


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