I thought maybe this was some theurgic weapon called up by an enemy of yours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

The earliest practice of medicine was undoubtedly theurgic, and common to all primitive peoples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

In theurgic (from the Greek theourgia) mysticism a mystic intends to activate the divine in the mystical experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism] Reference

Iamblichus in the next century, and many of his suc - cessors, the actual way of return to the divine was through theurgic ritual rather than philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEO-PLATONISM] Reference

But whilst Neoplatonism was more philosophical, mystical, and theurgic, Gnosticism was more specificically mythopoetic, individually creative, and religious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Theon, Gnosticism, and Mirra Alfassa] Reference

Indeed, among the peoples of antiquity, the science of therapeutics was largely of a theurgic or supernatural character, and Sibylline verses were in great repute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

The soul is able to acquire a luminous and theurgic power, mediated by the active imagination which existentiates images and forms that have been reflected, in a mirror-like manner, onto it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suhrawardi] Reference

He later (2003 and 2005, 21-5) adduced a specific instance of such a change in emphasis, showing that Ammonius glosses over the doctrine of ˜divine names™, their natural origin and theurgic efficacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garbage House] Reference

This last remark is clearly aimed at the Ficino Academy, which saw in the theurgic function of the Kabbalah an important link in their effort to cultivate a new attitude to human beings and their potential powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elijah Delmedigo] Reference

Richard Sorabji (1990, p. 12) suggested that Ammonius might have agreed not to make the school a center of pagan and theurgic ritual, which he would also de-emphasize in his teaching, or simply not to make trouble with Christians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garbage House] Reference

However, it is questionable whether in its theurgic forms kabbalah is mysticism, even on the wide definition of mysticism, although it is clearly mysticism with regard to its teaching of union with the Godhead and the Einsof, or Infinite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism] Reference

On the 28th of February, 1884, at a theurgic séance of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

Iamblichus becomes a theurgic, mysteriosophy, spiritualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference

In some parts its general air is dreary and dim; monastic and theurgic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Potter] Reference

A man therefore can act on demons and control spirits by theurgic rites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference

It was then, too, that the theurgic, or magic, elements in Neo-Platonism were made popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The old Egyptians and Chaldeans had many such words composed at will for theurgic operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

At first purely theurgic, the practice was later characterized by acupuncture and a refined study of the pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

Mystical and theurgic tendencies, born of a longing for the ideal and the beyond, began to appear in a current of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Haroun of Aleppo had, indeed, mastered every secret in nature which the nobler, or theurgic, magic seeks to fathom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

It is represented as: (a) outwardly Masonic, and (b) actually theurgic. (c) It is Manichæan in doctrine. (d) It regards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer] Reference

In his expository works on the philosophy of Plotinus, Porphyry lays great stress on the importance of theurgic practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Clearly it was not style, for style in itself was untranslatable, but it was that high theurgic magic that made the English.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hill of Dreams] Reference

Apollonius might be recommended to him for this purpose by the fame of his travels, his reputation for theurgic knowledge, and his late acts in.    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

He figured as a sort of fourth-century Paracelsus or a nineteenth-century Mahatma; but whatever skill or knowledge of medicine he possessed, he eked it out with theurgic pretences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference

That there may have been secular Asklepiads connected with the temple, who were freed entirely from its superstitious practices and theurgic rites, is regarded as doubtful; yet is perhaps not so doubtful as one might think.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

Parthey, Berlin, 1857), the book is a product of his school and proves that he, like Porphyry, emphasized the magic, or theurgic, factor in the Neoplatonic scheme of salvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

"But I can also tell you that there's a deep theurgic impulse in kabbalah, meaning attempts to manipulate the Divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Of that theurgic nature?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference

(7) Has its mythical miraculous pretensions, i.e. its theurgic department.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference

You are one of that theurgic brotherhood? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Zanoni] Reference

"wonder-workers", endowed with theurgic powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference