Tariq Al-Thiurjiyeen Al-Asil
طريق الثيورجيين الأصيل
Tariq Al-Thiurjiyeen Al-Asil (Traditional Path of the Theurgists) is a group of monistic polytheists, inspired by Greco-Middle Eastern pagan religion and mysticism.
The awliya for the thiurjiyeen are the antique theurgists Hermes Trismegistus, Pythagoras, Diotima, and Plato the Ancients, Plotinus, Horapollo, Asklepiades, and Heraiscus the Egyptians, the father and son Julians the Chaldeans, Porphyry the Phoenician, Zethos the Arab, Hermias, Olympiodorus, Hierocles, and Syrianos the Alexandrians, Iamblichus and Damascius the Syrians and Proclus the Anatolian.
All of these authors practiced theurgic, Greco-Middle Eastern religion and it is by their texts and commentary that our beliefs are informed. We are continuing the religion of our ancestors as they understood it and where their writings were left off, without innovating their beliefs.
We regard the indigenous religions of the Eastern Mediterranean, including those of the Egyptians, the Levantines, the Arabs, the Phoenicians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Anatolians, as well as the Greeks and Romans.
We are ideologically centered by “theurgy,” which also serves as the name of our religion, as espoused in Iamblichus’ On the Mysteries. Theurgy is a philosophical outlook on worship—we “mimic the gods” in our religious work, in order to pursue likeness to the divine. We define our religious work as philosophy, theurgy, and demiurgy.
Philosophy is the exercise of reason and dialectic, in pursuit of a greater identification of the divine. Neoplatonism is our guiding philosophical school of thought, although learning a wide variety of philosophies is encouraged, beyond this essential core.
Theurgy is “mimicry of the gods” in rite. There are material, mindful, and unitive rites, derived from Diotima’s Ladder, which we are obligated to perform. These include ritual offerings, recitation of hymns in the sacred languages, and meditative silent prayers–all of which elevate the soul towards God.
Demiurgy is “mimicry of the gods” in their creative and productive aspects. We must create in the array of human arts, sciences, and disciplines which have unfurled from the highest, eternal principles. Devotion must operate as a way of life, which increases the fidelity of material reality to the heavens and inspires other souls to ascend.
All of these activities combined are regarded as the “Sacred Art,” or Hiera Techne, which constitutes our individual pursuits of henosis or the mystic union of the soul with the One. Engaging in each activity is an opportunity to achieve gnosis –the non-discursive, purifying, experiential “knowing” of eternal principles– which self-indicates one's pursuit of unity with the gods.
For over a thousand years in antiquity, the Greeks intermixed in “Al-Mashriq,” becoming a part of Near Eastern people, culture, religion, and history. The Greek and Roman eras in the Near East gave us the literary genres of religious commentary and philosophy, which was taken up by Hellenized native philosophers and theologians. It is by these Greco-Middle Eastern sages, our forefathers, and the familial daimons that guide us, that we gain authentic insight into the religious beliefs, doctrines, and practices of our ancient indigenous religions. They are the essential link between our most ancient faiths, and the many modern tariqahs that are their spiritual successors.
Our Principles
We hold the One, identical to the Good, as the supreme and ineffable source from which the cosmos emerged, through the outpouring of its boundless beneficence. The cosmos, which is replete with divinity, remains transcended by the One.
We hold that the One possesses a singular, unified essence, whose boundless Good is manifested in Order, through the eternal actions of the all-benevolent gods. In worship, we beseech them and their intermediaries in the ascent of our souls.
We maintain that humanity is endowed with divine souls and powers of intellect, which allows us to achieve "gnosis" through various theurgic rites and religious activities. We define "gnosis" as the non-discursive, purifying, experiential ‘knowing’ of eternal principles.
We affirm our aim to pursue likeness to and mystic union with God, as far as possible, guided by the leader-deity specifically overseeing our souls, and its hierarchy of divine beings. The manner in which an individual encounters the divine is governed solely by their soul and intellect, in alignment with the Good. We pursue the civic virtues of Courage, Justice, and Temperance, guided by Wisdom. In rite, we pursue the theurgical virtues of Faith, Truth, and Love. All of these virtues are undergirded by Unity. Every human soul retains this capacity, and thus we welcome all good people without discrimination or bigotry of any kind.
We endorse the Tariq Al-Thiurjiyeen Al-Asil, established on the veracity of the One as unveiled by the purified souls and familial daimons of Al-Mashriq—Egypt, the Levant, Arabia, Phoenicia, Babylon, Assyria, Anatolia, Greece, and Rome—perpetuated across generations as a lineage of wisdom, and directed by the gods and their intermediaries. We are resuming worship in the style of our polytheistic ancestors, from where they were last left.
We advocate the use of divinely inspired and sacred texts that convey the theurgical virtues of Faith, Truth, and Love across the all of written history, but especially those written by the awliya. These texts act as guides for the soul's ascent towards God.