theurgy Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs
noun white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists)

L. theurgia, Gr. , fr. doing the works of God; God + work: cf. F. théurgie. See Theism, and Work.

A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.
A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.