theurgy
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"So you don't believe in theurgy, white magic?"
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
By the crime of magic, the author informs us, he means any improper communication between men and evil spirits, whether it be called theurgy, soothsaying, necromancy, chiromancy, incantation or witchcraft.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
Ecstasy for the initiates, theurgy for the crowd.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
With him, common sense was theurgy; machinery, miracle; Prometheus, the heroic name for machinist; man, the true God.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
The celebrated cures by Vespasian are connected with the ordinary theurgy of the Pythagorean School; and Apollonius is found here, as in many other instances, to be the instrument of a political party.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
