Path: typhoon.sonic.net!newsfeed.skycache.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: Ren Newsgroups: alt.religion.wicca,alt.magick Subject: Re: Taxonomizing Magic (was 1st Question ) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 16:24:46 -0800 Organization: Net Goths Lines: 46 Message-ID: <389F624D.83134FE4@primenet.com> References: <87hscd$nh1$1@news.smartworld.net> <87nbtp$8dv@bolt.sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip199.sea.gblx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@globalcenter.net X-Posted-By: @206.165.192.199 (ren) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.religion.wicca:271493 alt.magick:178536 O.k. Tyagi, and.. > WITCH: uses potions, charms, spells to heal or harm witch - a specialist of natural and herbal magick, practical medicine and folklore. > SORCERER: uses spells with forbidden substances/activities sorcerer - a specialist in the art of storing magickal energy, spirits, forces into objects, potions, and powders. > MAGE: uses rituals, spells, amulets to obtain desires mage - from the religion of the magi, wise scholars who travel about teaching and learning metaphysics, magick, and religion. > WIZARD: uses books, staves, and Words to change reality wizard - a specialist of ceremonial magick, abstract mathematics, and the conjuration and subjugation of spirits. > NECROMANCER: uses the dead as a divinatory agent necromancer - a wizard who specializes in magick that deals with the energies, spirits, and forces of both life and death, to heal, to hurt, and to divine the future. > DRUID: uses trees and mistletoe in ecological rituals druid- A Celtic priest from the professional class or Fil who represented the stern and stable guardians of Celtic society and ceremony. From Dru- which means oak wood. The Druids were in contact with the Dryads, spirits of the trees. Some worshipped the Sun God Lue among other gods. Druids were chosen from the most promising and intelligent males of the Celtic Federation and educated for twenty years before they set out to travel around and advise the different families and organizations of Celts. They often specialized in herbalism, swordsmanship, the Greek language and alphabet, religious ceremonies, law and arbitration. > PRIEST: draws on gods to perform religious rites priest/ess - Any representative of a god or goddess who has invoked a god or goddess and evokes a god and goddess to bless or curse events. Path: typhoon.sonic.net!newsfeed.skycache.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: Ren Newsgroups: alt.religion.wicca,alt.magick Subject: Re: Taxonomizing Magic (was 1st Question ) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 16:44:33 -0800 Organization: Net Goths Lines: 22 Message-ID: <389F66F1.CDA8B952@primenet.com> References: <87hscd$nh1$1@news.smartworld.net> <87nbtp$8dv@bolt.sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip199.sea.gblx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@globalcenter.net X-Posted-By: @206.165.192.199 (ren) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.religion.wicca:271498 alt.magick:178537 I'll play. Taliesin of Earthstar wrote: > SHAMAN: Uses ecstatic trance to heal or harm, or for other purposes. Shaman - a priest of totems or spirit animals who specializes in altered states of consciousness to gain access to the magickal world in order to influence the real world. A shaman is an herbalist and spiritual guide. > MYSTIC: Uses trance-states to achieve knowledge of/unity with Deity, and other > informational purposes. mystic - A popular Hindu movement which espouses the idea that the physical world of pleasure and pain is evil. Thus the mystic uses altered states of consciousness to ascend the physical and exclusively experience the spiritual for long periods of time. medium - a specialist in evoking and summoning spirits, ghosts, for the purpose of communication with the living and divination. spiritist or spiritualist - a popular 20th century practice and organization of mediumship.