thaumaturgy

• I wouldn't be surprised if all they'd ever known of magicians have consisted of crass commercial performances enacted by those charlatans for whom cheap thaumaturgy and clumsy legerdemain constitute the sum total of their so-called powers. —  open source theology - Comments
• Its action may be concentrated or increased by the human will, so as to work wonders, one of which is to cause a person who is magnetized by another to obey the operator, this obedience being manifested in many very strange ways Still there were thousands of physiologists or men of science who doubted the theory of the action or existence of Animal Magnetism, and the vital fluid, as declared by the Mesmerists, and they especially distrusted the marvels narrated of clairvoyance, which was too like the thaumaturgy or wonder-working attributed to the earlier magicians. —  The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence
• When thaumaturgy is discredited, the childish desire to work miracles may itself have passed away. —  The Life of Reason
• He deals with miracles as Renan deals with them, believing that credence in "thaumaturgy" will drop off from the human mind as credence in witchcraft has done--that Lazarus underwent resurrection, since, having found the Life, he had passed through the state of death. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
• The quiet familiarity with the deep true things of life, till on a sudden they are transfigured in the light of God, and truth is a new and glowing thing, independent of arguments and the strange evidence of thaumaturgy--this is the normal way; and Jesus holds by it. —  The Jesus of History

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