magicians! They were not simple conjurers though, but magicians who used their magical abilities to advise kings and queens on matters of state.
Magi filled the courts of pagan nations, and had a place in European tradition as well. You will have heard of Merlin the magician, who was supposedly advisor to King Arthur of Camelot. The wizard of Id is another (perhaps more familiar) member of the class of magi.
Daniel, in the Old Testament, was a magus (nb. I think ‘magus’ is the singular form of ‘magi’). Daniel and his three friends, who we read of in the book of Daniel, were certainly magi – employed to foretell the future, interpret dreams, and so advise the king on matters of state. Daniel and his mates though, you will remember, distinguished themselves from their fellow magi by refusing to follow all the practices of their peers, and by relying solely on their God for their prophetic powers.
This was clearly not the norm, and your average magus, so far as I can work out, was not normally a god-fearing man of prayer, but a figure much closer to the astrologers and psychics we see advertising on late-night TV and who always have prominent columns in women’s magazines!
Rev. David B. Smith (the ‘Fighting Father’) Parish priest, community worker,martial arts master, pro boxer, author, father of three.
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