"The Gods," says Iamblichus, "being benevolent and propitious, impart their light to theurgists in unenvying abundance, calling upwards their souls to themselves, procuring them a union with themselves, and accustoming them, while they are yet in body, to be separated from bodies, and to be led round to their eternal and intelligible principle."
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant
It was employed by the theurgists in all their most powerful conjurations.
"Sidonia The Sorceress V1"
William Mienhold
What is particularly worthy of admiration is, that this terrible art, which has baffled the studies and researches of philosophers, astrologers, theurgists, and other sages, was chiefly confined to the most ignorant, decrepid, and ugly old women in the community, with scarce more brains than the broomsticks they rode upon.
"Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete"
Washington Irving