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The ultimate goal of all theurgic practice is to advance spiritually, to draw closer to the divine, become more God like, and any spiritual gifts are seen as secondary to the pursuit of the exalted state of harmony or even oneness with the God. There is a functional framework to theurgy. Their practice involves a walking in their Gods footsteps. It’s believed that by acting as the God acts and performing the functions the God performs, you advance along the path they set out.

There is a caveat as far as practice goes. You can only embrace the full path of a divinity you can literally imitate, because theurgy parallels imitative magic. You can respect other theurgic practices as a whole, but still have to have one that you yourself could follow.

So theurgy is as broad a study as magic, and if it’s of interest this can become a series where I touch on the theurgy of different deities, even of different divine or spiritual forces.

“When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves” George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

Cousin of Magic

We have all heard a great deal about magic as it’s a very popular topic these days, at least in some circles. Theurgy is a cousin of magic and there has been a love hate relationship between the two schools of thought and practice for a very long time. It comes down to this. They agree on a world inhabited by powers higher than humanity, and they recognize a cosmic structure that has elements of engineering or artifice to it though they differ as to exactly how they identify this or what that actually means. But they are both connected… Seek More

Walking In Gods Footsteps

Buddhism is very theurgic (although without the God) with their focus on Nirvana and other gifts in the practice are secondary. Yes, and theurgy is just the pursuit of an acknowledged divine or spiritual work. It doesn’t require a deity for a focus in an absolute sense. In fact, Brahminical spirituality had elements of non-theological theurgy as well. Most of what we know of eastern asceticism is Indian theurgy having nothing to do with the teachings or veneration of Gods in a direct sense. Some schools of Christianity might consider theurgy as being blasphemous. The idea that you can become… Seek More

Original Battle Of The Sexes

Shall we start with a forgotten divinity to illustrate theurgic practice? Now much of this is very unpopular with Christians. It could even move them to violence, but it’s a combination of a Gnostic survival and anthropological and archeological research. The modern God Yahweh, also known as Jehovah, has a feminine counterpart, and there are actually references to her in the Bible. Even after feudal era chauvinism edited much of it out (and there was editing even before then) she went by many names and titles. She was called the Shekina, but most commonly she was called Ashera. Also known… Seek More

Worship Of Asherah

I saw an article about Asherah being God’s wife. Asherah should not have been neglected. I guess they thought they were serving stability, and in the process they sacrificed what little sanity they had. I was wondering why they would take her out? She fomented questioning and possible defiance. She got in the way of creating a military state. The age of empires lead to the age of reason in the aftermath of the dark age, but it could have gone differently. In the Semitic pantheon, there has been extensive cross pollination. In the demonizing of Asherah she even underwent… Seek More

Path Of Gods

Shall we conclude the history lesson and get down to theurgic practice? Specifically referencing Asherah, as only bits and pieces of her wisdom are preserved in the original Judaic form, you would need to adopt them from another cultures that also venerated her, and theurgy doesn’t require sticking strictly to cannon either. Christian Gnosticism mostly never spurned Ashera, so you can learn about her in their stories of Sophia. Sophia even goes so far as to call Yahweh a liar, even giving him the name Samael, Lord of the Blind. According to Gnostic doctrine in general, to know yourself is… Seek More

Closer to God

What if theurgy sounds appealing to you, but you don’t believe in Gods in the literal sense? Well, the original observations about the Gods were made on what we would consider an irrational but otherwise objective sense. They believed that the events they saw happening in the world, and the things that recur in reality, were manifestations of the will of the Gods even if they couldn’t actually see the specific Gods. So they made depictions to give them an idea of what kind of intelligence might govern these events or processes. Naturally anthropomorphizing them as it makes them easier… Seek More