Ik Iconography - It's Like You're Working Externally

Eamblicus is a neo platonic philosopher wrote on the mysteries, and it's a polemic explaining the necessity for the use of matter. And ere's a whole section in e he talks about calling the soul, or the spirit of the god, into the statue. So that's basically how this whole material spiritual thing interacts. It's more theurgic in that sense where you use matter as a support for the assent of the soul. The neoplatonists were doing external rituals, creating statues opening up channels between the statues and the soul,. animating it with thespirit of the god. That's alchemy.