\u201cBehind the Lightning Mask: Theurgy in Late Antiquity\u201d with Leonard George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The roots of astrological magic lie in the ancient world. The vision of a cosmos and hypercosmos seething with hidden life and humming with occult links is found in revelations such as the Chaldean Oracles<\/em>, and in the works of philosophers such as Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus. Based on these sources, theurgy (\u201cdivine action\u201d) aligned human and divine intention, transforming the operator into a co-creator of the universe. The instrumental possibilities in this animate, hyperlinked, participatory reality foreshadow developments in magic such as are found in the Gh\u0101yat al-\u1e24ak\u012bm (Picatrix).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cBehind the Lightning Mask: Theurgy in Late Antiquity\u201d with Leonard George. The roots of astrological magic lie in the ancient world. The vision of a cosmos and hypercosmos seething with hidden life and humming with occult links is found in revelations such as the Chaldean Oracles, and in the works of philosophers such as Plotinus, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[37,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologicalmagic.com\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}