theurgy

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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

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

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 Renan, Ernest

Egyptian superstition, theurgy, magic, and charlatanism of every sort, tried to amalgamate with the imported Greek culture.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

It is supposed that the Neo-platonists of the second and third Alexandrian Schools were the followers of Indian Yogis, more especially was their theurgy brought from India by Pythagoras, according to the tradition.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)