The Practical Art of Divine Magic

The ancient world of Egypt, Greece, and Rome was home to a set of magical and spiritual technologies, called theurgy, that unite the practice of magic with the aims of religion.

Theurgy, or “godwork,” is the art of creating a stronger bond between the theurgist and his or her deities. The results of this stronger bond were imminently practical: stronger magic, more meaningful existence, and a better life. With the fall of Rome, these techniques faded into obscurity, and many of them were lost forever.

This book seeks to revive, restore, and reinvent these practices for a contemporary pagan or magical practitioner. A mixture of scholarly research, examination of source texts and experimentation and extrapolation leads to a complete and workable system that can inform a variety of practices, all presented in a relaxed, light-hearted, and readable way.

Whether you practice witchcraft, folk magic or ceremonial magic, you can benefit from the practice of theurgy. You will learn techniques to create stronger bonds with divine forces, call up and communicate with spiritual beings, summon a magical assistant and create statues imbued with divine spirit. The ultimate goal is union with the divine, but theurgy is a practical path, and every step on that path is designed to improve your life.

This book also analyses how different gods may interact in different way for different areas and approaches to magic, and also touches on the cults of the dead.

If you like this, we’d also recommend Dunn’s The Orphic Hymns : A New Translation for the Occult Practitioner .

336pages

Why we love it

This book has clear, functional rituals with a variety of examples of how the rituals could play out. The exercises are numerous, as are the topics covered by this book- full of legitimately useful tools and practices for those that work with spirits and gods alongside their magical practice. This is a top book we recommend for folks to get to dig in deeper with their magical theurgical practice.

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