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They want to damp down apocalyptic anticipation, and they build bridges with the pagan religious thought of the age: speculation about cosmic powers (Iamblichus), a mystical monism (Plotinus), with a dash of theurgy (the Hermetic Corpus).

By magic, I specifically mean three age-old esoteric practices: divination (perception through time or space), force of will (intentional mental influence of the physical world), and theurgy (communicating with spirits).

The epithet 'thrice great' is believed to have been applied to Hermes because he knew the three parts of the wisdom of the whole universe, namely: alchemy, astrology and theurgy.

For Christians, theurgy was sorcery, but for those who were intent on saving civilization by propping up the old gods and cults, theurgy was carefully distinguished from magic.

Abraham Abulafia--Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy, and Theurgy. Los Angeles: Cherub P, 2000.

ecstasy and theurgy, "It is necessary to reintegrate the theurgical

She describes how Plato's cave in Republic VII is a photographic camera; how the chora in Timeaus is photography; the idea of oevoking of lighto in the theurgy of the philosopher Iamblichus; the story of St.

The Practical Art of Divine Magic: Contemporary & Ancient Techniques of Theurgy will add to any new age collection strong in magick studies, and tells how to create a more powerful magic and connections to spiritual bond using "godwork" to cement relationships between self and deities.

From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Professor Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power.

(19) Zito concludes her argument by referring not only to the linguistic similarities between the two texts but also to the shared interest in the animation of the statue of Hecate, the devotion to Hecate, and the rites necessary to invoke the gods in the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], and the power of magical stones to alter the will of the gods, the prominence of Helios, the animation of oracles, and the pervasive interest in Neoplatonic theurgy in the Lithica, to show that all this points towards the conclusion that the author of both poems must have been a member of the entourage of the emperor Julian.

3) He was the scribe of the gods, the judge of the gods, and a magician (by this latter function he was later believed by Neo-platonists to be an expert of theurgy, i.e.

(For a fascinating analysis of Scriabin's literal projections of light in his music, see Anna Gawboy, "Alexander Scriabin's Theurgy in Blue: Esotericism and the Analysis of Prometheus: Poem of Fire op.