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Iamblichus’ Path to the Ineffable [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2010
Iamblichus of Chalcis postulated theurgy on metaphysical grounds as the only means of communion with the supreme principle of everything that exists. Iamblichus set this principle as a completely transcendent reality, unattainable by reason, and, at the ...
Molina, Jose
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L’impiego di elementi naturali nei rituali affini alla teurgia

Lexis, 2022
In the theurgic rituals attested by the Chaldean Oracles and other writings related to Neoplatonism plants, animals and stones were often used to evoke a certain divinity.
Freni, Giulia
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Nationalism and Magic

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 287-292, April 2025.
ABSTRACT The scholars of nationalism have recognised that nationalist discourses often invoke magical events and frame national past in supernatural terms. This article explores the relationship between magic and nationalism in the contemporary world.
Siniša Malešević
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A New Form of Taoist Theurgy in the Qing Dynasty: Xizhu Doufa in the Taoist–Tantric Fusion Style

Religions, 2023
The Longmen Xizhu Xinzong 龍門西竺心宗 was a Taoist sect that was active during the Qing Dynasty. The sect reportedly originated in India and has long been renowned for its Xizhu Doufa 西竺斗法.
Yuhao Wu
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Ideas of spiritual ascent and theurgy from the ancients to Ficino and Pico [PDF]

, 2020
The relationship between religion and magic has held a precarious position in the history of Ideas and ecclesiastical history. It is often held that religion petitions while magic coerces.
Pattison, Kirsty Laura
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Umění a religiozita v esteticko-filozofickém systému Dmitrije Sergejeviče Merežkovského

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2015
The study is aimed on traces of religiosity in aesthetic-philosophical system of a Russian symbolistic poet,  prosaic  writer  and  thinker  D.S. Merezhkovsky.
Jan Vorel
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SOURCE SEARCHES IN CREATIVITY OF PRIEST P. FLORENSKIJ, M. ELIADEAND J. DERRIDA [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2009
This article provides Pavel Florenskiy’s original theory of cognitive activity organization as well as the role of cult, religious experience and myths in this process.
D. ORLOV
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“Hellenic religion of suffering God” in the “Philosophy of cult” of priest Pavel Florensky: formulating the problem [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2018
This article points out the presence of common themes and directions of research in the religious and philosophical legacy of priest Pavel Florensky and Vyacheslav Ivanov, particularly the concept of religious cult put forward in Ivanov’s work “Hellenic ...
Nikolai Pavliuchenkov
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Beauty and Art in Solovjev (1850–1903) and in Bulgakov (1874–1948). Does Beauty Save the World?

Logos i Ethos, 2012
In Solovjev beauty is substance. He suggests „beauty” and „the good” to be Siamese twins and predicts that beauty will transform „material being” to a „moral order”, thus saves the world!
Katharina Breckner
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On Symbol and Symbolism in Origen’s Treatise «Contra Celsum» [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016
The article describes a context analysis of terms σUμβολον and τUπος in Origen’s treatise Contra Celsum. The Christian, Gnostic and pagan types of symbolism are distinguished as they are introduced by Origen and his opponent.
Kurdybailo Dmitrii
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