In order to justify superstition and the ancient forms of worship, philosophy becomes in his hands a theurgy, a knowledge of mysteries, a sort of spiritualism.
He pandered to the emperor's love of magic and theurgy, and by judicious administration of the omens won a high position at court.
Spell Casting If you purchase necromancy, sorcery or theurgy, then you choose a single spell that you know.
This doctrine reaches its height in Plotinus, after whom it degenerated into magic and theurgy in its unsuccessful combat with the victorious Christianity.