theurgy

In other traditions

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At home in Hellenistic & Late Antique

• 180 CEChaldaean Oraclessame word and a translator’s rendering158 pages · 15 editions
  • theourgiaon in the Chaldean system involves the purification of the soul via the techniques of theurgy. Although the precise termThe Chaldean Oracles: Text, Translation, and Commentary, 1989, p. 34 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • Theurgicral symbol in Chaldean mysticism. .. .. .. .. | 67 | | The Manifestations of the Gods .. .. .. | 68 | | The Theurgic ArtThe Chaldaean Oracles, 1908, p. 13 · original word kept by the translator
  • theurgistsments original: "στερεώματα" (stereomata) (Aug. X 27. 9 cf. p. 31 ff.), and from these also the angels descending to theOn the Chaldean Oracles, 1894, p. 14 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 265 CEPorphyry, Philosophy from Oracles (fragments)same word14 pages · 1 edition
  • theurgia — theurgy or divine work, page 954 of the Schulz edition 118. Theophilus 231 note 1. Where Theopompus spoke concerning oracles 49 and following.Porphyry: Philosophy from Oracles (Fragments, Wolff Edition), 1856, p. 253 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 270 CEPorphyry, Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes (with Vita Plotini, Ad Marcellam)same word16 pages · 7 editions
  • theurgia — theurgy or divine work, page 954 of the Schulz edition 118. Theophilus 231 note 1. Where Theopompus spoke concerning oracles 49 and following.Porphyry: Philosophy from Oracles (Fragments, Wolff Edition), 1856, p. 253 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 300 CEIamblichus, De mysteriis (divination, possession, ecstasy, theurgy)same word and a translator’s rendering1367 pages · 33 editions
  • theourgia — divine-workingosite occurs to what you were calculating: the divine is found to be unmoved, impassive, and unforced. If such powers inIamblichus, On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, 15th century, p. 42 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theourgia — divine-working/theurgylife of the intellect, having been released from the bonds of nature, meditate on an incorporeal manner of the priestlyOn the Mysteries, 1678, p. 177 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theourgia — theurgy/divine work# 4, 3 There is another argument for these things, as follows. The entire practice ofOn the Mysteries, 1857, p. 219 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 300 CEIamblichus, De mysteriis (Reply to Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo)same word and a translator’s rendering1347 pages · 32 editions
  • theourgia — divine-workingosite occurs to what you were calculating: the divine is found to be unmoved, impassive, and unforced. If such powers inIamblichus, On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, 15th century, p. 42 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theourgia — divine-working/theurgylife of the intellect, having been released from the bonds of nature, meditate on an incorporeal manner of the priestlyOn the Mysteries, 1678, p. 177 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theourgia — theurgy/divine work# 4, 3 There is another argument for these things, as follows. The entire practice ofOn the Mysteries, 1857, p. 219 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 300 CEMithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475–829)same word and a translator’s rendering17 pages · 9 editions
  • theurgy— often viewed as lower magic or common witchcraft , magic original: *mageia* — a general term for the magical arts andPapyri Graecae Magicae (Complete), 1928, p. 201 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 300 CEIamblichus, On the Pythagorean Lifesame word13 pages · 11 editions
  • theurgyng to the paradigmatic virtues. It is the business of philosophy to make us intellect, but it is the business of theurgyIamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, 1818, p. 253 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 362 CEJulian, Hymn to King Helios; Hymn to the Mother of the Godssame word14 pages · 7 editions
  • theurgic — divine-working or ritual magichead of the Academy on Euclid the Greek mathematician , in his comment on the definition of Figure, "that this occult orTwo orations of the Emperor Julian one to the sovereign sun and the other to the mother of the gods, 1793, p. 98 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgyac, and Jacob. Cf. Letter 20, To Theodorus, 454A. They, being themselves Chaldaeans, of a sacred race skilled in theurgyThe Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 (Loeb), 1923, p. 495 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgysome extravagant fables. He rejects what Moses informs us of the creation of Adam, in order gravely to utter a theurgicThe Works of the Emperor Julian (Vol. 1), 1798, p. 24 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 400 CEEunapius, Lives of the Philosophers and Sophistssame word62 pages · 5 editions
  • theurgic — miracle-working or divine magiciced a wisdom unknown to the common people. It is fitting to speak of him at greater length. He did not display anythingDe vitis philosophorum et sophistarum, 1568, p. -137 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgic — divine-working or ritual magicosophy, not even in his discourses is it easy to grasp his own attainable reasoning; I omit the Physical Natural and the[Greek: Bioi philosophon kai sophiston] De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum, 1596, p. 30 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgysdom that was hidden from the crowd. On this matter, I may well speak at greater length. He displayed no tendency towardLives of the Sophists (Philostratus and Eunapius), 1922, p. 469 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 430 CEPythagorean Golden Verses with Hierocles' commentary (soul, its vehicle, purification)same word6 pages · 7 editions
  • Theurgyur, relating to the human Quaternary The fourfold division of man's nature: usually body, soul, mind, and spirit. , wereThe Golden Verses of Pythagoras, 1917, p. 272 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 440 CEProclus, Commentary on the Timaeus (soul, world-soul, the vehicles)same word and a translator’s rendering98 pages · 14 editions
  • theourgia — divine working/theurgys separately, and the chi the Greek letter X that came to be from these, and the two circles from this; things which theProclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, 1847, p. 534 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgists — practitioners of divine ritualthe numbers of time are guarded for us through the circular revolution. Not only Plato, as we said before, but also theProclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Vol. I, 1903, p. 57 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgists — practitioners of divine magicchange in its essence. From this perspective, let us also resolve that inquiry: if there are irrational daemons, as theProclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Vol. III, 1903, p. 176 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 470 CEProclus, Elements of Theology and Platonic Theology (the self-constituted soul; reversion)same word and a translator’s rendering35 pages · 12 editions
  • theurgic — divine-workingm itself at once and through itself [it is] an existing principle. And moreover also they count the gods, which first ofProclus: Platonic Theology and Elements of Theology, 1450, p. 249 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgical — pertaining to sacred ritualsf and deception. Therefore, the purification that precedes all the words is included for these reasons; it resembles theBeginnings of Philosophy and Theology from Platonic Sources, 1820, p. 196 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgists — practitioners of divine ritualword of that [one], a marvelous [thing]; by the words, [he] has filled the whole cosmos of the names of the gods, as theProclus, Theologia Platonica; Michael Psellos, 1550, p. 631 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 470 CEProclus, On the Hieratic Art (De sacrificio et magia)same word300 pages · 8 editions
  • theurgia — divine work or ritual magicce they are perfect and full; they neither need to nor can they claim for themselves more than they are. When in theurgyPymander, Asclepius, and On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, 1532, p. 220 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgia — the deifying and priestly facultyare perfect and full, and neither need, nor can, arrogate to themselves anything beyond what they are. When one errs inDe Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (with Pimander & Asclepius), 1607, p. 53 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgiahey are perfect and full, and neither need nor are able to claim for themselves more than what they are. When in theurgyPymander. Asclepius. On the Mysteries of the Egyptians. On Plato's Alcibiades, on the Soul and the Daemon. On Sacrifice., 1532, p. 210 · original word kept by the translator
• 486 CEMarinus, Life of Proclussame word and a translator’s rendering11 pages · 3 editions
  • theurgic — pertaining to divine-working ritesto the pinnacle of the highest virtues, which that divine Iamblichus was accustomed to call, most clearly and divinely,The Life of Proclus, 1814, p. 105 · flagged as a term by the translator
• 520 CEDamascius, De principiis (Problems and Solutions on First Principles)same word15 pages · 4 editions
  • Theurges — practitioners of ritual magicand particularly adapted to the operations of Reason (*Synth. subject.*, p. 127). who are twice beyond, according to theProblems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, Volume 1, 1898, p. 15 · flagged as a term by the translator
  • theurgists — ritual practitionerss perfect entities , and being synonymous with the whole, as the seven-fold creators beyond the heavens according to theProblems Concerning First Principles, 1826, p. 311 · flagged as a term by the translator

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