magicians

n. wizard, sorcerer, one who practices the art of magic; conjurer, performer of magic tricks

Magician may refer to:Magician (illusion)IllusionistEscape artistMagician (paranormal)Magician (fantasy)Magician or The Magician may also refer to:The Magician (Tarot card), the first of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deckIn music:Magician (band), a Brazilian metal band In literature:Magician a minor character from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"The Magician (Maugham novel), a novel by Somerset MaughamMagician, a fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist in the Riftwar seriesThe Magician, a novel by Leitch RitchieThe Magician's Nephew, a novel by C.S. Lewis in his Narnia seriesThe Magus, a novel by John Fowles
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Noun
1. someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
(synonym) prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist
(hypernym) performer, performing artist
(hyponym) escapologist, escape expert
2. one who practices magic or sorcery
(synonym) sorcerer, wizard, necromancer
(hypernym) occultist
(hyponym) enchanter

Magic, Magician [from Persian magus a wise man, great; cf magi] The great art; a knowledge of the mysteries of nature and the power to apply them. In its true sense it is gupta-vidya (divine knowledge), the aim of those who tread the path of wisdom; but in ages of decline its chief secrets are withdrawn from public access, and what remains passes through transformations and gradually degenerates.
"The ancients believed in the power of man by magic practices to command the services of the gods: which gods, are in truth, but the occult powers or potencies of Nature, personified by the learned priests themselves, in which they reverenced only the attributes of the one unknown and nameless Principle. As Proclus the Platonist ably puts it: 'Ancient priests, when they considered that there is a certain alliance and sympathy in natural things to each other, and of things manifest to occult powers, and discovered that all things subsist in all, fabricated a sacred science from this mutual sympathy and similarity. . . . and applied for occult purposes, both celestial and terrene natures, by means of which, through a certain similitude, they deduced divine virtues into this inferior abode.' Magic is the science of communicating with and directing supernal, supramundane Potencies, as well as of commanding those of the lower spheres; a practical knowledge of the hidden mysteries of nature known to only the few, because they are so difficult to acquire, without falling into sins against nature" (TG 197).
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Heb. hartumim, (dan. 1:20) were sacred scribes who acted as interpreters of omens, or "revealers of secret things."