The most serious early challenge to biblical Adamism came from the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate who, upon his rejection of Christianity and his conversion to Theurgy, a late form of Neoplatonism, accepted the idea that many pairs of original people had been created, a belief termed Coadamism or multiple-adamism ( see polygenism ).

Esoteric Christians practice these forms or traditions, which they believe are all a part of the same spiritual truth, which help to convey " mystery knowledge ", which can only be learned directly from spiritual experience via Theurgy, Kabbalah, or Mysticism.

Goetic Theurgy, another practice described in the Lesser Key of Solomon, is similar to the book's description of Goetia, but is used to invoke aerial spirits.

Theurgy is a series of rituals and operations aimed at recovering the transcendent essence by retracing the divine ' signatures ' through the layers of being.

Theurgy is a series of rituals and operations aimed at recovering the transcendent essence by retracing the divine ' signatures ' through the layers of being.

Theurgy is considered by many to be another term for high magic and is known to have influenced the members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn many of whom considered the order to be Theurgic in nature.

The second is Theurgy, divine magic reliant upon an alliance with divine spirits ( i. e. angels, archangels, gods ).

Theurgy has a clear relationship to Neoplatonism and Kabbalah and contains the concept of spiritual evolution and ultimately unification with God or the Godhead at its core.

Theurgy is possible because the powers of the gods ( the henads ) extend through their series of causation even down to the material world.

Influences on Golden Dawn concepts and work include: Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Theurgy, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Eliphas Levi, Papus, Enochian magic, and Renaissance grimoires.

* Anne Sheppard: “ Theurgy, the religious magic practised by the later Neoplatonists, has been commonly regarded as the point at which Neoplatonism degenerates into magic, superstition and irrationalism.

* Pierre A. Riffard: “ Theurgy is a type of magic.

Theurgy — The Operation of the Stars: There are two different types of magic, according to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Apology, completely opposite of each other.

Theurgy translates to " The Science or art of Divine Works " and is the practical aspect of the Hermetic art of alchemy.

* E. J. Langford Garstin, Theurgy or The Hermetic Practice: A Treatise on Spiritual Alchemy.

See also Theurgy.

* Wolfson, Elliot R. Abraham Abulafia -- Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy and Theurgy.

In the highest degree, the Reaux-Croix, the initiate was taught to use Theurgy to contact spiritual realms beyond the physical.

Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

Marie-Louise von Franz tells us the double approach of Western alchemy was set from the start, when Greek philosophy was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani

The evolution of the Greek sculpture can be observed in his depictions from the almost static formal Kouros type in early archaic period, to the representation of motion in a relative harmonious whole in late archaic period.

The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.

The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.

James Blish's A Case Of Conscience ( 1958 ) describes a world hiding from its own weapons of destruction in underground shelters ; ;

This note describes the evolution of the notion of alms ( and by extension of altruism ) from the notion of sacrifice.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

An abstract describes a chain of transfers from owner to owner and any agreements by former owners that are binding on later owners.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

In his first sermon, given during the first month of the plague, Paneloux describes the epidemic as the " flail of God ," through which God separates the wheat from the chaff, the good from the evil.

In Dream of Scipio, Cicero describes what seems to be an out of body experience, of the soul traveling high above the Earth, looking down at the small planet, from far away.

There is one fundamental equation that describes sound wave propagation, but the phenomena that emerge from it are varied and often complex.

Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

Wells's 1899 tale " When the Sleeper Wakes " describes a rudimentary version of pre-Soleri arcology, having developed from the evolution of transportation.

A page from the Bombardier's Information File ( BIF ) that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight.

In the 4th century BC Plato knew oreichalkos as rare and nearly as valuable as gold and Pliny describes how aurichalcum had come from Cypriot ore deposits which had been exhausted by the 1st century AD.

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

This formula describes the central tendency, but every family of mammals departs from it to some degree, in a way that reflects in part the complexity of their behavior.

* Istanbul details the history of the city from 1453 on, and describes the modern city.

The Last Survivor describes the many treasures left for the dead such as the weapons, armour and golden cups, strongly paralleling Scyld ’ s “ well furbished ship ..., bladed weapons and coats of mail ,” Hildeburg ’ s kin ’ s “ blood-plastered coats of mail boar-shaped helmets ” and Beowulf's treasure from the dragon.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.