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.
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.