theurgic

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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.

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.

Might not philosophy be led on in a disastrous decline to the justification of magic, incantations, and all theurgic extravagance?

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

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

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

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 Inge, William Ralph