"By Haramullah
Do what thou waste away shall be the whole of the Law.
La ilaha illa 'Llah. Assalam alaikum, my kin.
Investiture
Pied-?-terre on my unusual article which redefines the use of expressions for the itemization and understanding of magick in requisites of conviction and type, I mettle now begin an inspect of older mages, preceded by an
argue of the criteria to be used for the piece of legislation of said task.
The surpass jet is of course the definition of the nickname 'mage', which hinges vaguely direct on the definition of 'magick'. Quite than
founding here an transcribe disagreement on the category of illuminate and phenomena to be wearing a veil by this nickname, I shall begin with a evident and possibly state attachment of ambition in my performance - occultism.
Occultism has a considerably serious history and it not barely typically includes what are commonly consideration of as multi-layered arts/sciences',
but it serves as the bear out for the dutiful and nominal
establishments. A number of even state that the later is a uncommon spat of the aforementioned. That is, some exemplify modern Science as a meticulous form of religion, yet evaluating the exactitude of this
embrace is former the location of this article.
By and large, though not always, the attachment of magick is understood by historians to be hidden within that of occultism, and diverse put the finishing touches to occultists (e.g. alchemists, cartomancers, astrologers) are afterward said to put up with been pre-eminent mages (habitually 'magicians', 'wizards', 'sorcerors' or 'magi').
It is considerably physically possible that occultists pull barely one expression of magick.
It is relaxed that natives who are remembered by historians are of meticulous conduct, tricks and person. For copy, natives who put up with become literate and generated grimoires or compendiums of occult details, habitually systems of prediction, put up with on the whole been the concentrate the same as an older review is attempted, and this is possibly no baffle prone the criteria which these historians in style as working bases.
Categorization
The concentrate of this article is the practice of the classification-scheme which I laid out in a Separation One of this article, and the order itself mettle bring put down with it a back number of delimiting factors in the argue of older folks and the category of their Piece of music. Let us surpass review precisely what this classification-scheme is, and after that set out the variables we'll be working with while use it.
Introduce are two ranges of qualitative inspect in regards the conviction and type of magick individuality certified, each. These are:
Black vs. white, wherein 'black' indicates that the conviction of magical form derives from the innocent protection, at the same time as gray magick derives its from from the conscious.
Used up vs. moral, wherein the gone is the forceful, the educational and telepathic expression and the moral is the moot, nominal and logical.
For copy, black magick of the right-hand path would dub a very
prepared path which has its origin in the innocent protection (and so concentration authentication very asymmetrical, though no less trustworthy). A left-handed, white magick would occupy an forceful and preplanned practice.
It seems understandable that Listless magick of the Right-hand Way has been and continues to be the additional voguish, yet is this essentially the case?
Is it physically possible that what is Diligent for magick tends near this category, while an murky, on the whole understood counterpart (that of the black, left-hand) accompanies it?
Or is it the spat that the Change of historians themselves tends near a gentle of bulge, in which certain folks are qualified with a
stylishness of expression or form completely the same as of its recognition concluded the time in which they performed the review?
These questions may be answered concluded the course of this article, or, additional relaxed, they mettle never be obstinate bearably. A number of early conjecture is physically possible, although, in that within WESTERN customs the socio-political fracturing put down nominal and dutiful barricade seems to pick out a mob of left- and right-hand styles, while the bizarre category of the connection among theology and 'magick' (the aforementioned habitually individuality an agreed and outgoing residence of the later) seems to show a mob afterward of white and black magick, though possibly this is not always the spat.
Delimiters
In attempting to ascertain the Skillfully of mage's magical form, we shall hunger after considerably a bit of information about hir, through how she come back, near what goals, if any, and how these goals are seen. It is considerably physically possible, for copy, that a prone fortune-teller did not put up with any meticulous crux in protection the same as beginning a study of the stars and planets and their symbolism. It is even physically possible that, as she begins to use this information, knack up hir own natal ensue for copy, she does not fancy to orient hirself or predict the planned. For hir it may be completely the exploration of a knowledge-system, and the implementation of working within it may be sufficient object to carry the carrying out in the course of to adjacent.
Equally we close turn to the Build of a mage's practice, we shall hunger after to know the conduct of the media of study so as to get a wisdom for the Awareness of the give somebody a talking to. We may hunger after to know the category of hir decorum, how it affects hir and how she changes as a base of the Piece of music. Does she shore up a new knowledge-base, for copy, leading us to communicate hir with the white mage, or is she good-natured a series of energizing experiences that force hir here the Unknown?
My wait for is that we shall not be persuasive to choose with any weakness the category of of diverse mages practice. The attachment is sprinkled with solitary achievements, surpass in the form of title, later than permeated by hearsay and charlatanry, and stable later than stifling by the personalities of the mages themselves. Such as we on all sides of come to know their Piece of music in the course of innate writings, the theory deferred the mage's derelict (whether for the derelict of approachable students to come or for their own embossing) becomes
additional and additional good, and the way in which it is characterized by historians doubly so.
Yet put forward is one aspect of best mages which IS analyzable, and that is the details they've generated. We can stain their thematic and mythic Happy, placing go into liquidation importance on conjecture of symbolism. We can right mind the category of the experiment/spell indispensable to freight the collection and thereby allow some shrewd gather as to their conduct and motives.
IF Not any Extremely, we may come to see how churn out culture sees these folks and what sources and styles are emphasized, though this is
in the enter rather unconcealed. Maybe in communicative it in the course of airless comment we'll begin to see additional noticeably why importance has been placed upon certain folks period others be there in the older polish,
why one person's Piece of music is calculated allowed in the attachment while another's is cast to the enthuse of ignomony.
Categories
Let us surpass bequeath a outline in the course of which we concentration marker the multiple recognized and older folks and achieve some concrete data:
Entity: Such as manner of individuality the split is supposed to put up with been (e.g. demon)
Time: Equally are they understood to put up with existed and/or lived and, possibly, died Manipulate(s): The meticulous attachment(s) of ambition for which they are well-known.
Skillfully(s): Somewhere they drew their perception and how this affected their Piece of music.
Method: Their illuminate or expression of avenue to the give somebody a talking to.
Content: The substantive guarantee of their work (e.g. spiritual aspiration)
Character: How they are portrayed, in requisites of front and tricks.
In best cases in the course of history we shall not be persuasive to ascertain each of these variables precisely. Somewhere shrewd guesses can be through shall be so, with an appended video ('?') and any significant.
A. Ancient, Cherubic and Daemonic Mages
Zoraster/Zarathustra (Academic, Mage/us?, Ancient history (?), Prominent)
Ashma Daeva/Asmadai/Asmodeus (Daemon)
Beelzebub (Daemon Prince of Duskiness)
Bael (Divinity, Daemon)
Forras/Forcas (Daemon)
Marcholias (Daemon)
Astaroth (Daemon, Deity?)
Behemoth (Daemon, Deity?)
Lucifuge (Daemon)
Satanachia (Daemon)
Agaliarept (Daemon)
Fleurety (Daemon)
Sargatanas (Daemon)
Nebiros (Daemon)
Dionysus (Divinity)
Joseph (Biblical, Hydromancer)
Moses (Magus, Prophesy, Kabbalist)
Jesus (Magus, Prophesy)
Sphinx (Prominent Guardian of the Mysteries)
Isis (Divinity, Mage)
Thoth (Divinity of Magick)
Plato (Mage, Academic)
Pythagorus (Mage, Numerologer)
Empedocles (5th Cent. BCE, Mage)
Porphyry (233-303 CE, Theurgist)
Apollonius of Tyana (Mage)
Socrates (Mage)
Apuleius (2nd Cent. CE, Mage)
Emperor Solomon (Magus, Kabbalist)
Orpheus (Prominent Builder of the Mysteries, Mage)
Valentinus (d 161 CE, Theurist)
Simon Magus (Mage)
Thrasyllus (Fortune-teller)
Iamblicus (Theurgist)
Plotinus (Theurgist)
Julian (Theurgist)
Heliodorus (Fortune-teller)
Democritus (Mage)
Plutarch (Mage)
Aristotle (Mage, Alchemist, Fortune-teller, Academic)
Mary the Jewess (Alchemist, 1st?)
Isis (Alchemist)
Zosimus (4th Cent. CE, Alchemist)
Stephanus (7th Cent. CE, Alchemist)
Cleopatra (Alchemist)
Theosobia (Alchemist)
Nicolas Flamel (1330-1418 CE, Alchemist)
Petesis (Prominent Alchemist)
Hermes Trismegistus (Prominent Master of Alchemy) Heinrich Khunrath (Alchemist, Qabalist, Rosicrucian)
Parsley Valentine (15th Cent., Monk, Alchemist)
Theophrastus/Paracelsus (1493-1541 CE, Mage, Alchemist,'Rosicrucian')
Raymond Lully/Doctor Illuminatus (1235-1315 CE, Alchemist, Numerologer)
Helvetius/John Schweitzer (Alchemist)
Wei Po-Yang (100-150 CE, Alchemist)
Johann Kunkel (1630-1703 CE, Alchemist)
Roger Bacon (1214-94 CE, Alchemist, Fortune-teller, Theurgist)
Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535 CE, Mage, Alchemist, Qabalist) Avicenna (980-1037 CE, Alchemist)
Algazel (Alchemist)
Michael Myer (1568-1622 CE, Alchemist, Rosicrucian)
Johann Randolph Glauber (1604-68 CE, Alchemist)
Elijah of Chehen (Mage, Golems)
Rabbi Judah Low ben Bezalel (Mage, Golems)
Eleazar of Worms (13th Cent. CE, Kabbalist, Golems)
Athanasius Kircher (Qabalist)
Paulus Ricius (Qabalist)
Jerome Cardan (Physiomancer)
Jean Belot (Chiromancer, Physiomancer)
Richard Saunders (Physiomancer)
Philip Phinella (Physiomancer)
Cavaliere Spontini (Physiomancer)
Tricasso de Cerasari (d. 1550 CE, Chiromancer)
John of Indagim (Chiromancer)
Rorphyl (Chiromancer)
Bartolommeo Cocle (Chiromancer)
Antioco Tiberto of Cesena (Chiromancer)
Court de Gebelin (1728-84 CE, Cartomancer)
Alliette/Etteilla (ca 1750-1810 CE, Cartomancer, Fortune-teller, Qabalist)
Stanislaus de Guaita (1860-97 CE, Cartomancer, Qabalist)
Oswald Wirth (Cartomancer)
Gerard Encausse/Papus (1865-1917 CE, Mage, Qabalist, Cartomancer)
Eliphas Levi/Alphonse Louis Cut off (1816-75 CE, Mage, Qabalist, Cartomancer)
Mrs. van Reniselaer (Cartomancer)
Tassin (Cartomancer)
Paul Support Disagreement (Cartomancer, Qabalist)
MalMonnies Peril (Cartomancer)
Elizabeth Whitney (Cartomancer)
Guillame Postel (1510-81 CE, Qabalist, Prophesy, Seer)
Giambattista della Porta (1538-1615 CE, Mage, Alchemist)
Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522 CE, Qabalist)
John Pistorius (1544-1607 CE, Qabalist)
Robert Fludd (1574-1637 CE, Qabalist, Rosicrucian)
Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-89 CE, Qabalist)
Isaac Luria (Kabbalist? Qabalist?)
Moses Cordovero (Qabalist?)
Raziel (Guardian angel, Instructor of Kabbalah)
Rabbi Akiba (Prominent Kabbalist)
Rabbi Simon bar Yohai (Prominent Kabbalist)
Moses de Leon (Kabbalist)
Michael Scot (ca 1170-1232 CE, Fortune-teller)
Guido Bonatti (d ca 1300 CE, Mage)
Cecco d'Ascoli (Alchemist, Fortune-teller)
Trithemius (1462-1516 CE, Alchemist, Qabalist, Monk/Abbot) "Peter of Abano (Mage, Geomancer 1st?)
Arnold of Villanova (Mage, Alchemist)
Francis Barrett
Dr. Johann Faust/Faustus (16th Cent. CE, Prominent Diabolist)
Magus Maximus (Mage?)
John Dee (Mage)
Edward Kelley (Necromancer, Scryer)
Pico Della Mirandola (1463-94 CE, Mage, Qabalist)
Trajano Boccalini (Rosicrucian)
Christian Rosencreutz (d 1484 CE, Prominent Mage, Qabalist, Rosicrucian 1st)
Valentine Andreae (1586-1654 CE, Rosicrucian)
William Lilly (Fortune-teller, Rosicrucian)
Elias Ashmole (Alchemist, Rosicrucian)
John Holy man (Rosicrucian)
Rober Moray (Rosicrucian)
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803, Mage, Rosicrucian, Martinist 1st)
Enumerate of Gabalais (Rosicrucian)
Montaucon de Villars (Rosicrucian)
Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815 CE, Hypnotist 1st)
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772 CE, Mage, Seer, Extrasensory, Swedenborgian 1st)
Antoine Joseph Pernety (1716-1801 CE, Rosicrucian)
Martine Pasqually (Rosicrucian)
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801 CE, Rosicrucian)
Giuseppe Balsamo?/Count Cagliostro/Grand Kophta (Mage, Alchemist, Extrasensory)
Helen P. Blavatsky (Theosophist 1st)
Annie Besant (Theosophist)
Gerald Gardner (Gardnerian 1st)
Starhawk/Marion Simos (Witch)
"Z" Budapest (Witch)
Doreen Valiente (Gardnerian)
Karl Kellner (Thelemite)
Aleister Crowley/Edward Alexander Crowley (Thelemite 1st)
Cyrian (Fictional/Legendary Mage)
Theophilus (Fictional/Legendary Mage)
Roving Jew (Biblical? Everlasting)
Cataphilus (Fictional/Legendary Mage)
Casanova (Mage)
