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Theurgy
Theurgy (; from
Greek θεουργία,
Theourgia) describes the practice of
rituals, sometimes seen as
magical in nature, performed with the intention of invoking the action or evoking the
presence of one or more
gods, especially with the goal of uniting with the divine, achieving
henosis, and perfecting oneself.
theurgy
Noun
1. magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits
(hypernym) magic
Theurgy
(n.)
In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.
(n.)
A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.
(n.)
A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Theurgy
Theurgy theurgia (Greek) [from
theos god +
ergon work] Mystery-term popularized by Iamblichus for a method of individual communion with the gods, or bringing the gods down to earth. It consisted in purifying the psycho-astral links between the mind and its divine counterpart, whereby the theurgist was not only brought into conscious communion with his own higher self, but also with other divine entities. The first school in the Christian period
"was founded by Iamblichus among certain Alexandrian Platonists. The priests, however, who were attached to the temples of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia and Greece, and whose business it was to evoke the gods during the celebration of the Mysteries, were known by this name, or its equivalent in other tongues, from the earliest archaic period. Spirits (but not those of the dead, the evocation of which was called
Necromancy) were made visible to the eyes of mortals. Thus a theurgist had to be a hierophant and an expert in the esoteric learning of the Sanctuaries of all great countries. The Neo-platonists of the school of Iamblichus were called theurgists, for they performed the so-called 'ceremonial magic,' and evoked the
simulacra or the images of the ancient heroes, 'gods,' and daimonia ( {Greek char} divine, spiritual entities). In the rare cases when the presence of a
tangible and
visible 'spirit' was required, the theurgist had to furnish the weird apparition with a portion of his own flesh and blood -- he had to perform the
theopaea,
to be continue "
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theurgy
n.
علم غيب بذريعہ ملائک, معجزہ, کرامت, جادو
