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Iamblichus’ Path to the Ineffable [PDF]

open access: yesSCHOLE, 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
doaj  

Nationalism and Magic

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

L’impiego di elementi naturali nei rituali affini alla teurgia

open access: yesLexis, 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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A New Form of Taoist Theurgy in the Qing Dynasty: Xizhu Doufa in the Taoist–Tantric Fusion Style

open access: yesReligions, 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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Liturgy, Theurgy, and Active Participation: On Theurgic Participation in God [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This thesis, providing a metaphysical grounding for liturgical participation, argues that ‘active participation’ in the liturgy must be understood principally as our participation in God’s act and particularly in the act of Christ and only secondarily as
KRINGLEBOTTEN, KJETIL
core  

SOURCE SEARCHES IN CREATIVITY OF PRIEST P. FLORENSKIJ, M. ELIADEAND J. DERRIDA [PDF]

open access: yesВестник 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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Umění a religiozita v esteticko-filozofickém systému Dmitrije Sergejeviče Merežkovského

open access: yesPoznańskie 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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Solovyov’s Metaphysics between Gnosis and Theurgy

open access: yesReligions, 2018
This article provides a reading of Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophy as expressed in his ‘Lectures on Divine Humanity’ and ‘The Meaning of Love’.
Aleksandr Gaisin
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“Hellenic religion of suffering God” in the “Philosophy of cult” of priest Pavel Florensky: formulating the problem [PDF]

open access: yesВестник 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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Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary ‘Magic(k)’

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023
This article illustrates textual-ritual entanglements in Western learned magic across almost two millennia through an analysis of Frater Acher’s Arbatel experience.
Bernd-Christian Otto
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