Theurgy and Thaumaturgy: A Comparison

Theurgy Versus Thaumaturgy Theurgy is the enlightenment path within Western meditation. Thaumaturgy is defined

as "miracle working" or what some would call practical magic. While Asian systems stress theurgy,

Western schools traditionally focused the majority of their efforts on thaumaturgy.

The enlightenment track is there, but practical considerations usually occupy the majority of a magician's

time. A susbstantial contributor to this is the lack of ecclesiastical orders devoted to

metaphysics since the time of the Inquisition in the West. Another major contributor

is the status of a working economic system in the West. Western societies pulled ahead of

everone else economincally as early as 1200 AD and never looked back. The result was that