Material worship involves the use of material or physical tokens (synthemata), symbols and other offerings to raise ourselves to the encosmic divine intelligible and tertiary causes, such as archons and Daimons. This kind of theurgy is the type most commonly practiced. This form of theurgy introduces us to the Gods.

 

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