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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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... the West. This presentation was due, in no small part, to the work of such philosophers as Victorinus, who translated the earlier works of the Neo-Platonists so that it escaped the tendencies, represented by Jamblichus, toward theurgy and magic, and an alliance with polytheism and popular superstition. Victorinus himself became a Christian, passing by an easy transition from Neo-Platonism to Christianity; a course in which he was followed by Augustine, and, no doubt, by ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.


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


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