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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"theurgy"”.
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Theurgy and the Snake: The Yoga Kalandar and Bengali Sufism
… Sufi and Neoplatonic hypostases and ritual theurgy with Sāṃkhya cosmology; and 3) to describe how the text’s cosmology was integrated in later colonial and modern forms of indigenous Bengali mystical poetry, especially the Bāul songs of Lālan Fakir that make numerous creative references to …
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Dante's Divine Comedy as a theurgic act, a guide for the blessed reader from a state of misery to a state of bliss.
… that, the dissertation will draw an outline of theurgy, emphasizing the theurgic tradition and its Christian adaptation as it relates to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5th century CE). The dissertation will then provide the arguments for the main claim in five steps. The first step will …
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'After Modernity', from Solovyov to Bulgakov
… to The Philosophy of Economy (1912); and then ‘theurgy’ and ‘theocracy’, both given extensive treatment The Unfading Light and texts from the 1920s that follow upon it.
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Collapse Into Silence: Denys the Areopagite as the Key Source of Richard of St. Victor
… such as angelology, the differences between theurgy and hierurgy and how this difference bears on Richard’s sacramentalism and symbology, the role of Moses as philosophical archetype, and the concept of love when reaching the apex of contemplation (chapter 4). Finally, this thesis offers some …
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Magic, astrology and music: the background to Marsilio Ficino's astrological music therapy and his role as a Renaissance magus
… half considers the practical magical rituals of theurgy, as revealed through the writings of the neo-platonists Iainblichus and Proclus and the Chaldaean Oracles. The central notion, that of time and its two orders, leads to a consideration of astrology as divination and a conclusion on the way …
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Nietzsche's orphans: music and the search for unity in revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921
… central concepts (music, life-transformation, theurgy, unity, genius, nation), as well as the philosophical heritage of Nietzsche and the Christian thinkers Vladimir Solov’ev, Aleksei Khomiakov, Ivan Kireevskii and Lev Tolstoi. Nietzsche’s orphans’ struggle to reconcile an amoral view of …