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is important for comprehending the scheme of things as presented by Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras. The theurgist works 'like with like': at the material level, with physical symbols; at the higher level, with mental and purely spiritual practices. Starting with correspondences of the divine in matter, the theurgist eventually reaches the level where the soul's inner divinity unites with the One.
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Iamblichus' analysis was that the transcendent cannot be grasped with mental contemplation because the transcendent is supra-rational. Theurgy is a series of rituals and operations aimed at recovering the transcendent essence by retracing the divine 'signatures' through the layers of being. Education
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sense stresses the need for the individual to separate and analyze the individual components that constitute everyday consciousness and reunite them in a way that changes one's personal awareness into a state that understands and partakes in spiritual grace.
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SIORVANES, LUCAS (1998). Iamblichus. In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. Retrieved September 17, 2013, from
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accepts theurgy as a tradition that could greatly benefit a person. The main feat of Esoteric Christianity is to learn the mysteries of
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and religious, as well as magical, ritual. Iamblichus believed theurgy was an imitation of the gods, and in his major work,
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after a certain level of spiritual attainment. In a traditional and magical sense, theurgy is seen as the opposite of
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means "divine working". The first recorded use of the term is found in the mid-second-century neoplatonist work the
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Magic & Superstition in the Jewish Tradition: An Exhibition Organized by the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica
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Edmonds III, Radcliffe G. 2019. "The Illuminations of Theurgy: Philosophy and Magic" pp. 314-377.
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for those who wished to perform theurgy, the goal of which was to reunite with the Divine (called
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equally "encourages a theurgy which is a social work of maximising democratic participation and
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Practice of rituals with the intention of invoking the action/presence of one or more deities
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Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
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Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
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Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World.
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and in a word all the operations of divine possession."
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Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus
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Index

Divine magic (Dungeons & Dragons)
a series
Magic

History of magic
Magic and religion
Psychological theories of magic
Apotropaic magic
Black magic
Ceremonial magic
Chaos magic
Divination
Evocation
Goetia
Gray magic
Invocation
Natural magic
Necromancy
Sex magic
Shamanism
Sigils
Sympathetic magic
Thaumaturgy
Theurgy
White magic
Witchcraft
Magic and religion
Christian views on magic
Folk religion
Islam and magic

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