theurgic
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And on the cultus of angels and spirits, which was closely connected with theurgic superstition, St. Augustine's judgment is very instructive.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
In order to justify superstition and the ancient cults, philosophy in Iamblichus becomes a theurgic, mysteriosophy, spiritualism.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
The earliest practice of medicine was undoubtedly theurgic, and common to all primitive peoples.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
Physicians leagued together in the name of a god, as were the Asclepiadae, might escape, and did escape, the baser theurgic elements of temple medicine.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
In spite of, or rather because of, his Platonism, he had nothing but contempt for the later Neoplatonism, the theurgic and theosophic apparatus of Iamblichus and his friends.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
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