theurgy

Divine or supernatural intervention in human affairs.

The performance of miracles with supernatural assistance.

Magic performed with the aid of beneficent spirits, as formerly practiced by the Neo-Platonists.

The working of some divine or supernatural agency in humau affairs; a producing of effects by supernatural means; effects or phenomena brought about among men by spiritual agency.

A system of supernatural knowledge or powers believed by the Egyptian Platonists and others to have been communicated to mankind by the beneficent deities, and to have been handed down from generation to generation traditionally by the priests.

The art of invoking deities or spirits, or by their intervention conjuring up visions, interpreting dreams, prophesying, receiving and explaining oracles, etc.; the supposed power of obtaining from the gods, by means of certain observances, words, symbols, etc., a knowledge of the secrets which surpass the powers of reason—a power claimed by the priesthood of most pagan religions.

In mod. magic, the pretended production of effects by supernatural agency, as contradistinguished from natural magic.

A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.

In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.