• Thumbnail for Simon Magus
    Simon Magus (Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος, Latin: Simon Magus), also known as Simon the Sorcerer or Simon the Magician, was a religious figure whose confrontation...
    42 KB (5,396 words) - 02:09, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caspar (magus)
    in which there are Brahman [i.e. Indian] Christians; there Gaspar the Magus held dominion". The phrase hic rex caspar habitavit (here lived King Caspar)...
    14 KB (1,542 words) - 19:18, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balthazar (magus)
    Bethlehem) The Three Kings We Three Kings of Orient Are Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How Lovely Shines the Morning Star) Noted works Church cantatas...
    9 KB (877 words) - 16:58, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magi
    Magi (redirect from Magus)
    Magi (PLUR), or magus (SING), is the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions. The earliest known use of the word magi is in the...
    30 KB (3,285 words) - 19:07, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melchior (magus)
    Bethlehem) The Three Kings We Three Kings of Orient Are Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How Lovely Shines the Morning Star) Noted works Church cantatas...
    5 KB (426 words) - 14:28, 22 May 2024
  • Der Spiegel des großen Magus is an East German film directed by Dieter Scharfenberg. It was released in 1980. Eberhard Esche: Magus Juraj Ďurdiak: Elias...
    1 KB (54 words) - 14:56, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Johann Georg Hamann
    on nobility and trade. He wrote under the pen name of "the Magus of the North" (German: Magus im Norden). Hamann was a believer in the Enlightenment until...
    20 KB (2,224 words) - 08:29, 20 August 2024
  • 1870) Artikel V, der deutsche Gedanke und die dänische Monarchie (Altona, 1873) Der Freimaurerbund und das Licht (Hannover, 1877) Der Magus des Nordens. Novelle...
    8 KB (1,060 words) - 15:28, 24 March 2023
  • ISBN 978-0-7387-4999-0 Okkultismus und Erotik in der Literatur des Fin de siècle. Edition Magus, Königswinter 1983 Der heilende Regenbogen: Sinnvolle Spiele, Experimente...
    10 KB (1,234 words) - 06:05, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biblical Magi
    In Christianity, the Biblical Magi (/ˈmeɪdʒaɪ/ or /ˈmædʒaɪ/; singular: magus), also known as the Three Wise Men, Three Kings, and Three Magi, are distinguished...
    77 KB (9,191 words) - 02:29, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gnosticism
    (calling itself many different names) and of Gnosticism founder, Simon Magus, whom in the Biblical Narrative the Acts of the Apostles is quoted as being...
    144 KB (17,419 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2024
  • ISBN 978-0-87586-296-5. Retrieved 20 September 2012. Waitz, Hans., “Simon Magus in der altchristlichen Literatur”, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft...
    2 KB (227 words) - 20:41, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johann Georg Faust
    Georgius Sabellicus, Faustus junior, fons necromanticorum, astrologus, magus secundus etc. According to Trithemius, in Gelnhausen and Würzburg, Sabellicus...
    20 KB (2,515 words) - 18:13, 19 August 2024
  • Emmerson, Richard Kenneth; Herzman, Ronald B. (1980). "Antichrist, Simon Magus, and Dante's Inferno XIX". Traditio. 36: 373–98. doi:10.1017/S0362152900009296...
    10 KB (1,265 words) - 00:47, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mandaeism
    of John the Baptist. One offshoot was in turn headed by Dositheus, Simon Magus, and Menander. It was in this milieu that the idea emerged that the world...
    98 KB (10,548 words) - 11:17, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wandering Jew
    figure. In the Japanese manga and accompanying anime series The Ancient Magus' Bride, the Wandering Jew is represented in the antagonist of Cartaphilus...
    82 KB (10,596 words) - 00:34, 23 August 2024
  • Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster) steeped in alchemical, hermetic, occult and mystical imagery and ideas interweaving the life of Elizabethan Magus Dr...
    4 KB (540 words) - 14:32, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fraternitas Saturni
    the Gradus Pentalphae, followed by the Gradus Sigilli Salomonis and the Magus Heptagrammatos. The third order called the S. S. G., was formed by the degrees...
    15 KB (1,622 words) - 15:51, 4 August 2024
  • Adeptus Major Grade VII – Adeptus Exemptus Grade VIII – Magister Grade IX – Magus King Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Forster Johann Christoph von Wöllner Nikolay...
    5 KB (525 words) - 23:48, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zoroaster
    the Greek and Roman worlds." That "dubious honor" went to the "fabulous magus, Ostanes, to whom most of the pseudepigraphic magical literature was attributed...
    88 KB (9,479 words) - 20:30, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faust, Part Two
    introduced paper money from Mephisto, which is adorned with pictures of Simon Magus. The Emperor begins to understand its meaning and to squander it, as do...
    18 KB (2,600 words) - 19:48, 23 June 2024
  • epistles, in line with radical criticism. He identified Paul with Simon Magus, the Samaritan sorcerer who opposed Peter. Many scholars, since Ferdinand...
    5 KB (688 words) - 21:42, 26 July 2024
  • *Magus-naz ('the one with strength, the powerful one'; cf. Goth. mahts, German Macht). Rudolf Much has also proposed to compare it with Novio-magus (now...
    10 KB (1,263 words) - 01:44, 3 February 2024
  • Sancus (section Simon Magus)
    shrine on the Quirinal were destroyed. Justin Martyr records that Simon Magus, a gnostic mentioned in the Christian Bible, performed such miracles by...
    41 KB (5,370 words) - 10:14, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rotting Christ
    previously been a part of the band; George Tolias, George Zaharopoulos (Magus Wampyr Daoloth of Necromantia) and a session musician known only as Panayiotis...
    29 KB (2,529 words) - 16:50, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Three Books of Occult Philosophy
    Classification of demons Grimoire Hermetic Qabalah The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer Van Der Poel, Marc (1997). Cornelius Agrippa: The Humanist Theologian...
    6 KB (582 words) - 08:46, 23 August 2024
  • which the fathers of the church handed down of the intercourse of Simon Magus with his consort Helena (Iren. i. 23; Tertullian de Anima, 34; Epiphanius...
    55 KB (7,358 words) - 00:08, 20 August 2024
  • Greek Ὀστάνης), also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes, is a legendary Persian magus and alchemist. It was the pen-name used by several pseudo-anonymous authors...
    10 KB (1,134 words) - 11:43, 28 July 2024
  • have known John the Baptist, and been either a teacher or a rival of Simon Magus. Dositheos probably lived in the first century CE. Eusebius and the Pseudo-Clementines...
    13 KB (1,772 words) - 05:42, 5 July 2024
  • "Schemhamphorae." This was later copied by Francis Barrett in his book The Magus, in Chapter 21. Anon (1880). Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. This pseudepigraphal...
    33 KB (3,271 words) - 20:12, 15 August 2024