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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2020 Theurgy was a system of magical practices in the late Roman Empire. It was applied Neoplatonism. The theurgists aimed to enable human bodies to assume divine attributes, that is, to become deities.
Eric Steinhart
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Uterine prolapse: from antiquity to today. [PDF]
Obstet Gynecol Int, 2012 Uterine prolapse is a condition that has likely affected women for all of time as it is documented in the oldest medical literature. By looking at the watershed moments in its recorded history we are able to appreciate the evolution of urogynecology and to gain perspective on the challenges faced by today′s female pelvic medicine and reconstructive ...
Downing KT.
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Non-Theurgy: Iamblichus and Laruelle
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2018 Mysticism, theurgy, non-philosophy: this text will experiment with the three in an attempt to perform a non-philosophical hijacking of so-called theurgy (theurgia).
Stanimir Panayotov
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Fake news, real needs: A qualitative study on Sino-Japanese theurgy fighting [PDF]
HeliyonMainstream fake news research has previously mostly focused on authenticity but often overlooked the individual psychological needs and actual social issues behind fake news.
Qing Gao, Qianqian Fu
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thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2020 In his work De insomniis (On Dreams), Synesios adopts a rather critical view of theurgy, resembling Porphyry’s attitude; his wording shows polemical exaggeration.
Helmut Seng
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Theurgy, Paredroi, and Embodied Power in Neoplatonism and Late Antique Celestial Hierarchies
ReligionsThis article will place the rituals of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) for the acquisition of a supernatural assistant (paredros) into conversation with broader late antique debates surrounding the place of daimones within the celestial hierarchy.
Katarina Pejovic
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“Theurgic creativity” in philosophical conceptions of F. Nietzsche, Vl. Solovyov, and N. Berdyaev [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article presents a comparative analysis of theurgic activity in the works of three thinkers from the point of the generic understanding of theurgy as a “complete transformation of reality”. Despite the literal meaning of the term “theurgy”, according
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022 The paper is devoted to the analysis of theurgic aesthetics in relation to the concept of utopia that initiates a different understanding of the philosophy of the Russian diaspora representatives through the prism of utopian theurgy of beauty and art ...
Galina G. Kolomiets, Pavel V. Lyashenko
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Theurgical project of Silver Age: from origins to problem statement [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017 Two turning points in the history of theurgy are examined in the present article. Those points had a considerable influence on the conceptualization of that phenomenon in the very beginning of the XX century, especially in the researches of the Russian ...
Nina Penyaflor Rastorgueva
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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