Sorcerer or Sorceress
Indiscriminate terms for those who use (or are suspected of using) magic, especially when acting as independent agents and/or using their magic for "evil" purposes.
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A Sorcerer by the power of his magick had subdued all things to himself. Would he travel? He could fly through space more swiftly than the stars. Would he eat, drink, and take his pleasure? there was none that did not instantly obey his bidding.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. The dullard finds even wine tasteless but the sorcerer can be intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
These sorcerers then began the systematic destruction of all keys to the ancient wisdom, so that none might have access to the knowledge necessary to reach adeptship without first becoming one of their order.
However, sorcerers in various cultures contend that it is possible to cause a hex death even though the victim is unaware of the hex. A.G.H.
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by their rash ignorance may take the name of Magick in the worse sense, and though scarce having seen the title, cry out that I teach forbidden Arts, sow the seed of Heresies, offend pious ears, and scandalize excellent wits; that I am a sorcerer, ...
A third, by far the most numerous, section of opinion, regarded Dee as a sorcerer, or suspected this to be a probability.
The Dragons of Wisdom saw that the time was come, and that the forces of nature must be turned against "the dark brood of sorcerers.
For, having no laws of the Spiritual kind to trammel his actions, such a Dugpa "sorcerer" will most unceremoniously obtain control over any mind, and subject it entirely to his evil powers. But our Masters will never do that.
Evil sorcerers called bokors bring their victims back to a zombie state of life. This life is not a full life but a weird half-life where the zombie is incapable of thinking for itself, and it has no prior knowledge as to who it was.
Russell, J. B. 1980. A history of witchcraft: sorcerers, heretics and pagans. Thames and Hudeson, London
Russell, J. B. 1988. The prince of darkness: radical evil and the power of good in history. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
The sorcerers of a culture drive their minds deep into the fabric of the universe seeking greater control over their world. When the unpredictability of magic requires that the methods and theories of the art becomes standardized, religion develops.
They do not believe in the art of the famous physicians but rely on shamans and sorcerers. And if it is so, it is very naturally that they do not believe that because of the eating of the golden and cinnabar elixirs immortality can be obtained.
The Grand UniVerse of Primary Consciousness: The Sorcerer's Handbook to the Void (curved unifold)
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*Se'irim* or satyrs are goat demons, basisks and cockatrices can kill all but weasels with a touch or a glance, the *rahab* or *tannim* is an evil dragon, and a werewolf is a sorcerer incognito.
The term witch is typically feminine, masculine equivalents include wizard, sorcerer, warlock and magician.
 See also: Magic, Spirit, World, Ritual, Evil
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