Tyrwhitt adds that the dating of the Lithica was particularly difficult because the author had intentionally not recorded his name and had left personal details out of the poem, because the
theurgical discussion of the magical powers of precious stones was punishable by torture and death at the time.
Not surprisingly, in the Barbian paraphrase, the "great Poesque accent," and "the tone of the race's weddings" played by Roderick Usher, which harmonizes the Soul with the Cosmos (an idea suggested among other things by the lines borrowed form Beranger, which serve as moto to the Poesque tale--"Son coeur est un luth suspendu; /Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne" [His heart is a poised lute; as soon as it is touched, it resounds]--defines a
theurgical act.
In the opposition evinced between these two views, magic in Burack's understanding is a lower, more compromised form than the
theurgical actions performed in Idel's view.
Keep in mind though that while, for Iamblichus, union with the gods was
theurgical, that is, the work of the gods, to prepare oneself for theurgic ritual one must have the proper theoretical knowledge of the divine.
Alexander Scriabin's
theurgical utopia, his "Mysterium," which was supposed to provoke a "cosmic event" (282) two years before 1917, shows concretely how far the idea that aesthetic activity could transform history contributed to fostering the claim that revolution was necessary.
They are the main modi operandi of the
theurgical Kabbalist.
Porphyry objected to theurgy for a number of reasons: it seems to presume that the gods are passible and subject to human cajoling; ritual offerings suggest that the gods experience sense-perception; and
theurgical divination smacks of the laughable excesses of the devotees of Cybele or Magna Mater (Myst.
Following a survey of models of exegesis, the author offers an alternative interpretation of Isaac of Akko's approach to symbolic readings of liturgy and emphasis on prayer and mystical contemplation techniques as
theurgical actions affecting the Divine.
One of the most prominent sites to trace the lasting importance of the Quran as text is in the realm of divinatory and
theurgical practices, where both oral and textual articulations are to be observed.
24) Although tantrism has classically been used for
theurgical goals, its major aims (control of emotions and associations) are just as applicable in today's society.
The paper argues against those critics of the PseudoDionysius who charge that his theology lacks an adequate account of sin that, to the contrary, his entire
theurgical system depends singularly on a particular sense of human brokenness.
A contemporary theoretician of dance has analyzed the
theurgical implications of mimetic dance:
