theurgy

The theurgy (from Greek θεουργία) is a Greek religious-magical practice which consists of the invocation of ultra-terrestrial powers, angels or gods, in order to communicate or join them, attracting benefits and spiritual cooperation.

Ingredients and practice This is manifested through ceremonial ritual operations-unspeakable, precisely and solemnly directed -positions that use analogical formulas or symbols which are adapted to attract the desired supernatural energy. The symbols, postures and language used should not necessarily be understandable and should not be rationally known. The same names of the entities invoked are in "barbarian language" or in an ancient language or unknown to the practitioners. The efficacy of ritual depends on ethics and the suspension of the psyche and human rationality in order to achieve the activation of the higher psychic elements that receive the divine energy. Characters

Famous therigues of antiquity were the Emperor Julian the Apostate (or Julian the Theurgo) and the philosophers Iamblichus, Proclus and Sirianos. In the middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, it was demonized and considered evil and unacceptable. The practice of theurgy was renamed ars goetia, a locution derived from a Greek word meaning "witchcraft," "black magic." Nowadays

The practice has been taken up in recent times by some practitioners and esoteric movements, and may particularly remember the case of Aleister Crowley.

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