Theurgic

I thought maybe this was some theurgic weapon called up by an enemy of yours. ❋ Sugu Althomsons (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The old Egyptians and Chaldeans had many such words composed at will for theurgic operations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As for eudaemonism, sure, I follow Professor Long on this point although, my conception of virtue is colored by my reading Augustine, the theurgic neoplatonists, and the “Blue Socialist” tradition of William Cobbett and John Ruskin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Marcotte, Roxanne (2007)

But whilst Neoplatonism was more philosophical, mystical, and theurgic, Gnosticism was more specificically mythopoetic, individually creative, and religious. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2005)

The Jewish kabbalah is the most prominent form of alleged theurgic mysticism. ❋ Gellman, Jerome (2005)

In theurgic (from the Greek theourgia) mysticism a mystic intends to activate the divine in the mystical experience. ❋ Gellman, Jerome (2005)

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. ❋ Gellman, Jerome (2005)

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. ❋ Ross, Jacob (2005)

The notion that the reasons for the observance of the commandments have something to do with their relation to the sefirot and that their observance therefore has a theurgic function in opening the way for spiritual forces above is totally irrational, according to Delmedigo. ❋ Ross, Jacob (2005)

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. ❋ A. HILARY ARMSTRONG (1968)

Christian agapē: and the method of return was through the performance of theurgic rituals revealed by the gods themselves. ❋ A. HILARY ARMSTRONG (1968)

Physicians leagued together in the name of a god, as were the Asclepiadae, might escape, and did escape, the baser theurgic elements of temple medicine. ❋ Various (N/A)

Constantine, in distinguishing between good and bad magic, between the _theurgic_ and _goetic_, maintains a distinction made by the pagans -- a distinction ignored in the later Christian ❋ Howard Williams (N/A)

The earliest practice of medicine was undoubtedly theurgic, and common to all primitive peoples. ❋ James Sands Elliott (N/A)

Indeed, for more than six hundred years, they had no physicians, but employed theurgic methods of treatment by means of prayers, charms, and prescriptions from the ancient Sibylline B.oks, which were reputed to date from the reign of Tarquin the Proud, in the sixth century B. C. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)

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. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)