theurgic

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The soul of the mystic would have passed into the world of spiritual existences, but he was not yet blessed with theurgic faculties, and patiently awaited for the elect.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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 Livingstone, R.W.

The old Egyptians and Chaldeans had many such words composed at will for theurgic operations.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

In some parts its general air is dreary and dim; monastic and theurgic.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

It impresses on baptism a spiritual character, and excludes every theurgic conception of the rite, every doctrine that gives to it in the least degree a mechanical efficacy.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.