Thaumaturgy is the purported capability of a magician to work magic or other paranormal events or a saint to perform miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking. A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturgus", "thaumaturge", "thaumaturgist" or "miracle worker". A saint, who is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God, may be claimed to have performed miracles, which are events not explicable by natural or scientific laws.
In the 16th century, the word thaumaturgy entered the English language meaning miraculous or magical powers. The word was first anglicized and used in the magical sense in John Dee's book Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid's Elements (1570). He mentions an "art mathematical" called "thaumaturgy... which giveth certain order to make strange works, of the sense to be perceived and of men greatly to be wondered at".
All major religions and all cultures in the world have some form of Thaumaturgic beliefs.
In the following chapters, I will articulate how the golden age of Magic and Sorcery was actually the 20th and 21st century, and how Clarke’s third law is the driving zeitgeist of the age.
The most powerful and influential magicians of the the 20th century were not Crowley, Gardener or Carroll but actually Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone and Tony Robbins or arguably Alan Greenspan, Werner Van Braun and Heisenberg.
The following are quotes from these magicians. My advice to any serious student of these arts is to read these works for yourself and find the common themes.
Similar to many great magicians, he was accused of being a fraud and a con man. Nevertheless, he did not let facts get in the way of a good story. He knew that the mythology had power to help people achieve things in the physical world. Much of his beliefs became the staple of positive thinking movements.
Napoleon hill attributed his beliefs to a "secret" Andrew Carnegie taught him. He then validated the secret talking to many powerful and wealth people of his era. Including: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Edwin C. Barnes (an associate of Thomas Edison). Hill reported that Carnegie had given him a letter of introduction to Ford, who Hill said then introduced him to Alexander Graham Bell, Elmer R. Gates, by William H. Taft, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank, E.M. Statler, Edward W. Bok, John D. Rockefeller. Rufus A. Ayers, John Burroughs, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Elbert H. Gary, James J. Hill, George Safford Parker, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles M. Schwab, Frank A. Vanderlip, John Wanamaker, F. W. Woolworth, Daniel Thew Wright, and William Wrigley, Jr.
However, these claims have proven to be false or greatly exaggerated. It seems just as authors of other religious and mystic texts, Hill appealed to other figures for credibility and to provide plausibility for the teaching.
These issues notwithstanding, the thoughtforms and mythos created by Hill became one of the most powerful uses of magic in history which propelled people to even greater highs of accomplishment.
In 2017 the Vatican released and allowed the publication of a fragment of the Codex Magisterium. This manuscript had been kept secret in the Vatican Secret archive for an unknown number of years.
The saying of St. Collis seem to echo teachings of Napoleon Hill. However, the manuscript was dated to the early middle ages. The fragment is translated below:
The wisdom of Magus Adept Hill:There has been significant debate on how a magical text previous unknown could have mirrored exactly self help literature authored in the early 20th century.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Success comes to those who become success conscious.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and never the result of selfishness.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others succeed.
Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; A negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
You give before you get.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The more you give, the more comes back to you.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Plan your work and work your plan.
You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done yesterday.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
You become what you think about.
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
(Continued in part XL.)
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