theurgy

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After this again, the Neo-Platonists joined theurgy with philosophy, which ultimately degenerated into magic and mere mysticism.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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

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

"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

Ecstasy for the initiates, theurgy for the crowd.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor