theurgy
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Groups of people endeavoured to combine Christianity with the old thought, with philosophy, theosophy, theurgy, and magic.
From The Jesus of History by Glover, T. R.
The celebrated cures by Vespasian are connected with the ordinary theurgy of the Pythagorean School; and Apollonius is found here, as in many other instances, to be the instrument of a political party.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
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
Ecstasy for the initiates, theurgy for the crowd.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
