A Magus (plural Magi, from Latin, via Greek μάγος from Old Persian maguš; Old English: Mage) was a Zoroastrian astrologer-priest from ancient Persia. The best known Magi are the "Wise Men from the East" in the Bible. In English, the term may refer to a shaman, sorcerer, or wizard; it is the origin of the English words magic and magician. Magus - Etymology. Magus - Greek-Persian roots. The Greek word is attested from the 5th century BC (Ancient Greek) a ...

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Magus:

Originally, the singular form of “magi.” Later, a powerful magician.

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Magus - A male occult adapt.

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Magus - Greek-Persian roots. The Greek word is attested from the 5th century BC (Ancient Greek) as a direct loan from Old Persian maguš. The Persian word is a u-stem adjective from an Indo-Iranian root *magh "powerful, rich" also continued in Sanskrit magha "gift, wealth", magha-vant "generous" (a name of Indra). Avestan has maga, magauuan, probably with the meanings "sacrifice" and "sacrificer". The PIE root (*magh-) appears to have expressed power or abil ...

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Magus - Greek-Persian roots. The Greek word is attested from the 5th century BC (Ancient Greek) as a direct loan from Old Persian maguš. The Persian word is a u-stem adjective from an Indo-Iranian root *magh "powerful, rich" also continued in Sanskrit magha "gift, wealth", magha-vant "generous" (a name of Indra). Avestan has maga, magauuan, probably with the meanings "sacrifice" and "sacrificer". The PIE root (*magh-) appears to have expressed power or abil ...

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Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, was a Samaritan (Proto-)Gnostic. The ancient Gnostic sect of Simonianism believed that he was God in human form. Almost all of the surviving sources for the life and thought of Simon Magus are contained in Christian works: in the Acts of the Apostles, in patristic works (Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus) and in the apocryphal A ...

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Magician, Magus, a Zoroastrian priest; the origin of the word magic, Magical thinking, Mana See also. Magician Magus, a Zoroastrian priest; the origin of the word magic Magical thinking Mana ...

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Simony is the ecclesiastical crime and personal sin of paying for offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the Acts of the Apostles 8:18-24. Simon Magus offers the disciples of Jesus payment for the power to perform miracles. The intertwining of temporal with spiritual authority in the Middle Ages caused endless problems with simony and accusations of simony. Secular rulers wanted to employ the educated and centrally ...

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The Latin word aeon, also spelled eon or æon, means "forever" or "for eternity". It is derived from the Greek word αίών (aion), which at one point meant "a period of existence" or "life". In geology, the word eon quantitatively refers to a period of time of 1,000,000,000 years. However, geologists refer to the period in which animals evolved into abundance as the Phanerozoic Eon, which has only lasted 545 million years, to the present day. Aeon - In philosophy and mys ...

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Archmage, archmagi, or archmagus (rarely archimage) is a title used to identify an especially powerful wizard, usually within the context of fantasy fiction. The term is a neologism strung together from the Greek word arché, meaning "first" + magus, a reference specifically to the astronomer-astrologers of ancient Persia. The archmage of the world of Ursula K Leguin's Earthsea is a fairly typical example of an archmage, in that he is the head of a college of wizards, a primus inter pares

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In the history of ideas, the Counter-Enlightenment is a name first given by Isaiah Berlin to describe currents of thought that opposed the rationalist and liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. Berlin's project in a series of essays was the critical recovery of the ideas of Giambattista Vico, Johann Georg Hamann (whom Berlin virtually rediscovered in the essay The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the origins of modern irrationalism), and Johann Gottfried Herder, and an account of their appeal, so foreign to the Enlightenment, ...

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Diminutive of mægð, mægeð maid, from Proto-Germanic *magadinom young womanhood / sexually inexperienced female (cf. Old Scandinavian magath, Old Frisian maged, Old High German magad, German Magd maid/maidservant German Mädchen girl / maid, from Mägdchen little maid), feminine variant of Proto-Indo-European base *maghu- youngster of either sex / unmarried person (cf. Old English magu "child, son," Avestanmagava- unm

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One of the earliest of the apocryphal acts of the apostles, the Acts of Peter reports a miracle contest between Simon Magus and the apostle Peter in Rome. The majority of the text has survived only in the Latin translation of the Vercelli manuscript. The Acts of Peter was originally composed in Greek during the second half of the 2d century, probably in Asia Minor. Consensus amongst academics points to it being based on the Acts of John, and traditionally both that and this work were said to be written by Leucius Charinus, whom Ep ...

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Ars Magica is a role-playing game set in Mythic Europe, an idealized (or quasi-historical) version of Europe around 1200 AD. The game revolves around magic-using wizards and their allies. The game was originally developed by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen in the late 1980s. In order to get an "authentic" feel from having such a historical setting, the game uses medieval Latin for a number of key terms. Player characters take on the role of both a Magus (or, the feminine correspective Maga), a Latin word ...

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According to Meric Casaubon’s ‘True and Faithful Relation…’ this is the spirit entity that can be found residing within the tenth Enochian Aethyr ZAX, reached by using one of the 48 Enochian calls. The Enochian system of ceremonial magic was the result of the crystal scrying exercises carried out by the 16th century Elizabethan astrologer and Magus John Dee while working with seer Edward Kelly. Although Casaubon’s book records the name as Coronzon the more famous spelling of the name is Choronzon, noting ...

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A Maggot (1985) is a novel by British author John Fowles. It is Fowles' sixth major novel, following The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Daniel Martin, and Mantissa. Its title, as the author explains in the prologue, is taken from the archaic sense of the word that means "whim," "quirk," "obsession," or even a snatch of music (see earworm). Another meaning of the word "maggot" becomes apparent later in the novel, used by a character to describe a white, oblong machine that appears to be a spac ...

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MAGUS: (pl. magi)...pronounced MAY-GUS, MY-JI (as in eye). Archaic meaning: a hereditary priest of Medes or Persia. General meaning is a magician or sorcerer. Most often used to refer to one advanced in magickal practice.

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Magus. See MAGI

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Magus (Latin). in the New Testament it means a Sage, a wise man of the Chaldeans; it is in English often used for a Magician, any wonder-worker; in the Rosicrucian Society it is the title of the highest members, the IXth grade; the Supreme Magus is the Head of the Order in the "Outer"; the Magi of the "Inner" are unknown except to those of the VIIIth grade.

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someone who is adept at magic but not a witch

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