Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
theurgic .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
magic .
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Examples
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Over the course of time, the magical-theurgical tradition was able to dominate Jewish life the world over, forcing the more strenuous and demanding rational model to become suppressed and marginalized.
David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010
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One of Idel's central premises in his scholarship is to barrage the reader with a plethora of citations designed to present a unified understanding of the occult-theurgical tradition as determinative in Jewish hermeneutics.
David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010
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Over the course of time, the magical-theurgical tradition was able to dominate Jewish life the world over, forcing the more strenuous and demanding rational model to become suppressed and marginalized.
David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010
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One of Idel's central premises in his scholarship is to barrage the reader with a plethora of citations designed to present a unified understanding of the occult-theurgical tradition as determinative in Jewish hermeneutics.
David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010
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Idel argues that the common view of the mystical-theurgical Kabbalah as an alien accretion in rational Talmudism, exemplified by the work of Maimonides as inheritor of Sephardic-Andalusian tradition, is incorrect:
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Even the legendary “Konami Code” is hardly theurgical despite my childhood beliefs.
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Third and last of the Kabbalistic "answers" of why the world is the way it is, and what to do about it, is that of practical Kabbalah (kabbalah ma'asit), sometimes called magical Kabbalah or theurgical Kabbalah.
Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 3: Three Answers To The Ultimate Question 2009
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From this perspective, we can see in this early work the presentation of a highly developed mystical-theurgical system.
Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009
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Accordingly, he sold the boat and donated the proceeds to a theurgical hospital for injured or aged sailors.
With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987
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The medical science of the ancient Romans was largely theurgical, and was founded on a pretended influence over spiritual beings, whether gods or demons.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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