Theurge vs Theurgist - What's the difference?
theurge | theurgist |
One who works miracles, or persuades a god or spirit to perform a supernatural work.
*1803 , Archibald Maclaine (translator), Johann Lorenz Mosheim (author), An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century
*:He acknowledged Christ to be a most excellent man, the friend of God, the admirable theurge ; he denied, however, that Jesus designed to abolish entirely the worship of demons...
*1995 , Brian P. Copenhaver and Trismegistus Hermes, Hermetica , Cambdridge University Press
*:The father was known simply as a philosopher, the son as a theurge ...
*1996 , Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire , Blackwell Publishing,
*:In other words, the theurge makes himself known to and recognized by the gods, like the mysta in his initiation, by means of 'symbols', signs or passwords (synthemata ).
*2001 , Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets , Harvard University Press,
*:In this process the human mediator's own role was significantly increased from that of middleman theurge to god-imitating demiurge, not only bringing the images to life inside himself in the form of an “inner sculpting,” but... giving them external form as spirits as well.
As nouns the difference between theurge and theurgist
is that theurge is one who works miracles, or persuades a god or spirit to perform a supernatural work while theurgist is one who claims or is alleged to perform magic with the aid of beneficent spirits.theurge
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