Before the advent of medicine, there was theurgy and philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Physicians, Medicine And Christ, The Great Physician I] Reference
My power (Lamia tells me) is theurgy, the study and command of immaterial essences. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
Oration, where Pico makes positive use of magic and theurgy as steps toward the ascent. From Wordnik.com. [Giovanni Pico della Mirandola] Reference
Sorcery, witchcraft, demonology, and theurgy all had their own ceremonial trappings, but those were not among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
Groups of people endeavoured to combine Christianity with the old thought, with philosophy, theosophy, theurgy, and magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
This current was so strong that philosophy itself was swept toward mysticism and the neo-Platonist school became a theurgy. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Julian learned theurgy (something I dabbled with in my teenage years) from Maximus, a student of Iamblichus (I was self-taught). From Wordnik.com. [Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference
By the practice of theurgy one could not just communicate with such beings but actually let them inhabit oneself during ritual ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Bruno brings with it the old gods and demons located in the stars, planets, and elements and the theurgy associated with them in the Hermetic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [DEMONOLOGY] Reference
Neo-Platonism, which concerned itself to a large extent with demonology, leaned more and more towards theurgy, and was finally completely absorbed by it. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
But they did not confuse theurgy with philosophy, and the amount of attention paid to theurgy varied a good deal from one school or individ - ual to another. From Wordnik.com. [NEO-PLATONISM] Reference
And now this third death, the one for which everyone at Toynton Grange had probably been superstitiously waiting, in thrall to the theurgy that death comes in threes. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
Everybody knew that the Empire used demonology and Ethshar used theurgy, but that just made sense, since the gods were on Ethshar's side, and the demons on the Empire's. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
He was unsure just how effective theurgy actually was since the gods had gone into their self-imposed exile, however, and he preferred to stick to the more straightforward approach. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
All the religions then known admitted a sort of magic, which was distinguished into celestial magic, and infernal magic, necromancy and theurgy — all was prodigy, divination, oracle. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Jamblichus, toward theurgy and magic, and an alliance with polytheism and popular superstition. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference
The celebrated cures by Vespasian are connected with the ordinary theurgy of the Pythagorean School; and. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
They were useful weapons against the momentary resurrection of polytheism, mythology, theurgy, and idolatry. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Egyptian superstition, theurgy, magic, and charlatanism of every sort, tried to amalgamate with the imported Greek culture. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
The school of Alexandria was a noble school, but, nevertheless, it gave itself up to the practices of an extravagant theurgy. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus] Reference
After this again, the Neo-Platonists joined theurgy with philosophy, which ultimately degenerated into magic and mere mysticism. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Arian Controversy] Reference
This erroneous development began when introspection commenced to despise and neglect its correlative in natural science, and to woo mysticism, theurgy, astrology, or magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
Julian studied Neoplatonism in Asia Minor in 351 – at first under Aedesius the philosopher – then with Neoplatonic theurgy from Aedesius’ student, Maximus of Ephesus. From Wordnik.com. [Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference
"So you don't believe in theurgy, white magic?". From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
22 and that the Grecian mysteries should have been supported by the magic or theurgy of the modern. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
“theurgy”. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History]
This was called "theurgy". From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
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