Embodied Divinity

Accepting Our "Muddiness" Facilitates our Theosis

Gregory Shaw is an authority on ancient theurgy — magical practices designed to foster intimacy with, or union with, the divine. He wrote a fascinating book comparing Greek pagan theurgy with the Indian spiritual practice of tantra, called (appropriately enough) Hellenic Tantra. In that book, he makes this astute observation:

To recover its divinity, the…