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The Goddess Circe

August 23, 2016 — 2 Comments

The Goddess Hekate

August 22, 2016 — 0 Comments

Magic and Gender

August 20, 2016 — 0 Comments

What is Magic? Ancient origins of Magic.

August 20, 2016 — 0 Comments

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The word is indeed Old Persian in origin (makuš or maguš). Magus was simply a Persian word for ‘priest’ and magia, consequently, was the art of cultivating the gods that had been established by Zoroaster Apuleius asserted that magus was actually the Persian word for ‘priest’.

Goddess Circe

In Greek mythology, Circe is a goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios: Titan of the Sun and Perse the Oceanid. Wikipedia.

ORIENTAL THOUGHT OVERVIEW

The metaphysical tremendous, the deep awe before the great, unchanging truth, and the full submission of all human judgement to a mystery unnamed, which is infinite, impersonal, yet intimately within all beings, all things, and in death too. By Dr Joseph Campbell.

Hekate

Hecate or Hekate is a goddess in Ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding two torches or a key and in later periods depicted in triple form. She was variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, dogs, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery. Wikipedia.

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