theurgy

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With him, common sense was theurgy; machinery, miracle; Prometheus, the heroic name for machinist; man, the true God.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

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 The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz

Plotinus was still an independent philosopher, inheriting the traditions of Greek thought, though not the traditions of Greek life, building his system avowedly by a rational method, and altogether rejecting theurgy or religious magic.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Their system was characterized by three distinct features, the theory of the above-named Essence: the doctrine of the human soul; an emanation from the latter, hence of the same nature; and its theurgy.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

"I would not assert that theurgy may not be lawfully undertaken," replied Plotinus, "provided that the adept shall have purified himself by a fast of forty months."

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard