Wizard
One skilled in wizardry. A magician, a sorcerer, a warlock, one adept in the black arts; the male counterpart of a witch. The word is derived from 'wise', and still means a very clever and/or skillful person.
Wizard : is a term that comes from the Old English 'wis', meaning "wise", adept, a sage, or a magician skilled in the summoning of supernatural powers.
Wizard
From the Old English "wys-ard," meaning "wise one." Originally may have referred to anyone whose wisdom was respected; later came to mean a male witch; now used to mean a powerful and wise magician.
Words of Power, Law of ...
Wizard of Oz and the Illuminati Mind Control: The Skill of Lying, the Art of Deceit
Jim's Wizard of Oz Criticism Page
JFK assassination film hoax - A simple introduction
The "Plane Crash" of Senator Wellstone ...
Witches and wizards during the medieval age were renowned as healers who used many charms. They were frequently known as "charmers" and employed Christian prayers spoken or written in Latin, or, as some claimed, debased Christian prayers.
Wizard Rules
What is Magic?
What is the Occult?
Magick is Dangerous
Symbolic Action
Ethics in Magic
Origins of the Rede
Threefold Law or Murphey's Law? or "Don't BE in the pool you're going to PEE in" ...
Many stories of wizardry and magic grew up around the figure of Scot. A rhyme told of his peculiar powers:
When he stampeth his foot in Spain
The bells do ring in Notre Dame.
Adventure laid the way for countless fantasy games, so that today even an elementary school computer spelling game like Wizards is organized around a magical model of powers, spells and levels.
Before I set sail in a handmade open boat through the Arabian Sea I was tricked into accepting a huge and priceless star ruby by a wizard in India. It was of an exactly octarine hue.
The decline of Daoism from its utopian ideals is evident, according to Evola, in the rise of popular, folk religious Daoism (daojiao), "surviving only as a cult practiced by monks and wizards.
According to some of his contemporaries, he was the reincarnation of James IV, the wizard King of Scots. He used to ride a bicycle through the Paris of the 1890s in full Highland dress.
quite of our own day, yet men know him not because of the true wisdom, which he practiced as a sage, and sanely; but one man singles out one feature for praise in him and another something else; while some, because he had interviews with the wizards ...
A handful of people who were somehow believed to reach beyond the "here and now", and gather information about events "yet to come" have popped up in every culture and every era. They have been called mediums, wizards, necromancers, witches, ...
To argue against these expressions of simple beauty and truth merely betrays dishonesty. It is for precisely this reason that the pentagram, the "wizard's foot" of old, was chosen as a means of obtaining supremacy over lying, deceitful spirits.
Do you not, therefore, call a sinner, an unjust man, a thief, a housebreaker, a wizard, one who is sacrilegious, and a robber of sepulchres? What other persons would the cryer nominate, who should call robbers together?" ...
Trace through the Middle Ages, too often by the lurid light of flames blazing round a human body, the path along which the pioneers of Science toiled, and it will be found that the magicians and wizards were the finger-posts that marked the way.
The latter is ennobling and holy; the former is of just the same nature as the phenomena of two centuries ago, for which so many witches and wizards have been made to suffer.
The term witch is typically feminine, masculine equivalents include wizard, sorcerer, warlock and magician.
 See also: Magic, World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual
|
