theurge
noun1
One who works miracles, or persuades a god or spirit to perform a supernatural work.
- 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...1803, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, translated by Archibald Maclaine, An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, page 174:
- The father was known simply as a philosopher, the son as a theurge...1995, Brian P. Copenhaver, Trismegistus Hermes, Hermetica, Cambdridge: University Press, page xxv:
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- 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).1996, Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire, Blackwell Publishing, page 285:
- 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.2001, Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets, Harvard University Press, page 54:
- Related terms
- theurgy