Easy, right? Translate for a few foreign prisoners and I’m home free. Just out of college, I’m recruited for a top-secret linguistics job. You can kind of track my disillusionment. I wrote each of the following reviews as I finished each book. Then I bought the Beautiful Lies and Beautiful Agony. So, I picked up the first book in this series Beautiful Thing (by Ever Nightly) as a freebie, just for the fun of it. Plus, I truly enjoy cheesy sci-fi sometimes. I mean, why blue? I even wrote a whole blog post about it once. Visit him online at https: // am kind of enamored with the whole idea of blue aliens. His understanding of semiotics and the study of symbols arise from his training in linguistics and literary theory. Patrick Dunn (Chicago, IL) is a poet, linguist, Pagan, and a university English professor with a PhD in modern literature and language. The ultimate goal is union with the divine, but theurgy is a practical path, and every step on that path is designed to improve your life.

You will learn techniques to create stronger bonds with divine forces, call up and communicate with spiritual beings, summon a magical assistant, create statues imbued with divine spirit, and master your own mind.

Whether you practice witchcraft, ceremonial magic, or chaos magic, you can benefit from the practice of theurgy. A mixture of scholarly research and examination of source texts and daring experimentation and extrapolation leads to a complete and workable system that can inform a variety of practices, all presented in a relaxed, lighthearted, and readable way. This book revives, restores, and reinvents these practices for a contemporary pagan or magical practitioner.

With the fall of Rome, these techniques faded into obscurity, and many of them were lost forever. The results of this stronger bond were imminently practical: stronger magic, more meaningful existence, and a better life. Theurgy, or godwork, is the art of creating a stronger bond between the theurgist and his or her deities. The ancient world of Egypt, Greece, and Rome was home to a set of magical and spiritual technologies, called theurgy, that unite the practice of magic with the aims of religion.

Magic Dark, Magic Divine by A.J. Locke