Miracle vs Theurgy - What's the difference?
miracle | theurgy |
A wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.
A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
* 1966 November 25, "A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck", in Life , volume 61, number 22, page 13:
* 1993 , Hatch N. Gardner and Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang (Turner Publishing Company), page 78:
* 2003 , Eric Lionel Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (Cambridge University Press), page 218:
An awesome and exceptional example of something
* 1847 , Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life , page 323:
* 2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning), page 670:
A form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.
* 1871 , , Book X, Chapter 9,
* 1873 , , Chapter VII: The Testimony of Jesus to Himself,
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* 1913 , ,
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 261:
*:Spiritual magic or theurgy was based on the idea that one could reach God in an ascent up the scale of creation made possible by a rigorous course of prayer, fasting and devotional preparation.
A supernatural intervention in human affairs.
As nouns the difference between miracle and theurgy
is that miracle is a wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers while theurgy is a form of magic designed to allow for worship or conjuration of, or communication with spirits or deities.miracle
English
(wikipedia miracle)Noun
(en noun)- Many religious beliefs are based on miracles .
- An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.
- Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.
- It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.
- Seen in this light it was a miracle of economic history that Europe was able to undertake so much higher a proportion of its expansion overseas, and secure a massive injection of resources and big markets without a commensurate growth in her numbers.
- The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture.
- It was a miracle' of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of ' miracle : the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Derived terms
* miraculous * miraculousness * miraculouslyAnagrams
* * ----theurgy
English
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- And from this he concludes that theurgy is a craft which accomplishes not only good but evil among gods and men; and that the gods also have passions, and are perturbed and agitated by the emotions which Apuleius attributed to demons and men, but from which he preserved the gods by that sublimity of residence, which, in common with Plato, he accorded to them.
- This, again, in our popular theurgy , is materialised into the First person of the Trinity approving the Second, because he stands to the contract already in the Council of the Trinity passed.
- They therefore devoted themselves to examining the nature of the soul, and taught that its freedom consists in communion with God, to be achieved by absorption in a sort of ecstatic trance. This doctrine reaches its height in Plotinus, after whom it degenerated into magic and theurgy in its unsuccessful combat with the victorious Christianity.
- For instance I have heard many people say that Dionysus was a mortal man because he was born of Semele, and that he became a god through his knowledge of theurgy and the Mysteries, and like our lord Heracles for his royal virtue was translated to Olympus by his father Zeus.