2006-11-12 18:33:29 · 8 answers · asked by thematrixxone 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-11-12 18:35:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have the same root. A magus was a Zoroastrian priest in ancient Persia. Magi (the plural) studied the stars and were considered the scholars and scientists of their day. Common folk were mystified by their apparent knowledge of the natural and supernatural. Their legendary status spread to the Greeks and Romans, and eventually through the ages, until their craft, dubbed "magic", was synonymous with witchcraft, which was any supernatural power that didn't come from the Judeo-Christian God.
There is a famous incident in the book of the Acts of the Apostles in which a man, Simon Magus, tries to buy from the disciples the power to impart the Holy Spirit by laying on hands. The name is intentional. He is of course humiliated in the story.
2006-11-13 02:50:39 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magi is a name used to describe a person that does magic.
2006-11-13 02:39:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magi are the practitioners of spiritual and religious rites; where as magic is the act of magicians and thought of by some as the results of the magi.
We know it today as various supernatural, mystical, and paranormal practices or the act of slight of hand, tricks, and illusions.
2006-11-13 02:38:50 · answer #4 · answered by PCee 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
magic stems from magi. please read below...
For other uses of Magi and Magus, see Magi (disambiguation)
The Wise Men are given the names Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar in this Romanesque mosaic from the Basilica of St Apollinarius in Ravenna, Italy. In fact, their number is unknown as it was never stated in the Bible; only that there were three gifts---the supposition that this implied three givers is speculation.
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The Wise Men are given the names Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar in this Romanesque mosaic from the Basilica of St Apollinarius in Ravenna, Italy. In fact, their number is unknown as it was never stated in the Bible; only that there were three gifts---the supposition that this implied three givers is speculation.
The Magi (singular Magus, from Latin, via Greek Î¼Î¬Î³Î¿Ï ; Old English: Mage; from Old Persian maguÅ¡) was a tribe from ancient Media, who - prior to the absorption of the Medes into the Persian Empire in 550 BC - were responsible for religious and funerary practices. Later they accepted the Zoroastrian religion, however, not without changing the original message of its founder, Zarathustra (Zoroaster), to what is today known as "Zurvanism", which would become the predominant form of Zoroastrianism during the Sassanid era (AD 226–650). No traces of Zurvanism exist beyond the 10th century.
The best known Magi are the "Wise Men from the East" in the Bible, whose graves Marco Polo claimed to have seen in what is today the district of Saveh, in Tehran, Iran. In English, the term may refer to a shaman, sorcerer, or wizard; it is the origin of the English words magic and magician.
2006-11-13 02:38:36 · answer #5 · answered by mustbetoughtobeme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magi are a group of wise men who pay homage to Jesus, or are astrologers.
Magic is basically miracle/something done with special powers, witchcraft, enchantment, sleight of hand
2006-11-13 02:35:42 · answer #6 · answered by xdannifenx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
magi are two or more magicians, magic is what they do
2006-11-13 02:36:12 · answer #7 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no diffenrence. They are both evil and isidious, born and bred in hell by sdatan himself. Stay as far away as possible and put your faith in Jesus Christ. That is real life.
2006-11-13 02:35:28 · answer #8 · answered by godshandmaiden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋