thaumaturgic

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There are no levels, but there is a more natural progression system based on skills and thaumaturgic powers.

From Forbes • Nov. 8, 2012

Men & women came to hear Doreal talk of "onement with the universal mind" or "full illumination," and to be bound together by the "thaumaturgic power that was exercised by Christ and his disciples."

From Time Magazine Archive

Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The following is a summary of the account given of the Ba'al Shem of London in the Jewish Encyclopedia: Falk claimed to possess thaumaturgic powers and to be able to discover hidden treasure.

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.

Luke shows all a romancer's thoughtlessness about miracles; he regards them as "signs": that is, as proofs of the divinity of the person performing them, and not merely of thaumaturgic powers.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion by Shaw, Bernard