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theurgy|θiːˈɜːdʒɪ|
[ad. L. theūrgia, a. Gr. θεουργία sorcery, f. θεός god + -εργος working. So F. théurgie (14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
1. A system of magic, originally practised by the Egyptian Platonists, to procure communication with beneficent spirits, and by their aid produce miraculous effects; in later times distinguished as ‘white magic’ from goety or ‘black magic’.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 59 b, Porpherie who doth muche dispute of this Theurgie or Magicke of thinges deuine doth finally conclude that with Theurgicall consecrations mans minde may be made apte to receaue Spirites and Angels. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xv. xlii. (1886) 392 There is yet another art, which is called Theurgie; wherein they worke by good angels. 1652Gaule Magastrom. xxvi, Of ceremoniall magick there are two parts, goetie and theurgie. 1751[see goety]. 1899W. R. Inge Chr. Mysticism vii. 267 The turbid streams of theurgy and magic flowed into the broad river of Christian thought by two channels—the later Neo-platonism, and Jewish Cabbalism.
2. The operation of a divine or supernatural agency in human affairs; the effects produced among men by direct divine or spiritual action.
1858Gladstone Homer III. 564 We stand here at a juncture in the poem, where its theurgy supersedes its human mechanism. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 167 The constant tendency of popular Christianity to add to the element of theurgy and thaumaturgy, to increase and develope it. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 86 The Olympian court is the masterpiece of the whole theurgy of Homer. |