any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists) |
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs |
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | |
a justification for something existing or happening | |
events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | |