theurgy
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This current was so strong that philosophy itself was swept toward mysticism and the neo-Platonist school became a theurgy.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
If the thaumaturgus had effaced in Jesus the moralist and the religious reformer, there would have proceeded from him a school of theurgy, and not Christianity.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
The impaired reason accepted the coarsest superstitions, the most extreme asceticism and most extravagant theurgy.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
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
"So you don't believe in theurgy, white magic?"
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
