Wizard, Mage and Sorcerer. What are the differences?
In female version, Mage, Sorceress, Witch.
It’s not easy for me to translate from Portuguese to English this subject, because both Countries use different words for socerer, mage, warlock, and are similar.
There are many contradictions and incorrect explanations on the internet. Some are based on theoretical explanations of online games like Dungeons & Dragons.
From what I read in several books, how "In the Kingdom of Witchcraft" (N.A. Molina) can give you a precise explanation...
Sometimes the terms Wizard, Warlock and Sorcerer can seem synonymous, however there are slight differences.
Wizard is the person with the most basic knowledge of the occult, he learned some spells in grimoires of magic and practices witchcraft. Magick and witchcraft are synonymous for the same thing, everything is magick, regardless of the system.
Wizard in Latin is pluscios (plus = more, cios = to know), therefore a wise, studious of the occult who wants to learn more, in Portuguese the word is bruxo and in Spanish is brujo (more similar to latin pluscios).
An ordinary person who practices spells from a book, is a wizard. In women, witch is usually the word associated with wiccan practitioners, for example.
Mage, is an expression to define the most experienced individual, who masters more elements. He has more years of experience. Magi was the term to define the Zoroastrians priests in Empires Medo, Achaemenid, Arsacid and Sassanid. In ancient Persian magu-patior magusk was the wise man. In Assyrian-Babylonian magi was the connoisseur of the stars and the universe, ma and astrologer were synonymous. Magic (in Greek magéia) was the doctrine of the magicians.
Sorcerer, let's say he's at the top, mastered all the wizard's and Mage skills but knows more. It is the person who is born with a gift, with own developed intuition and magnetism.
The Sorcerer creates his own spells and written works, because he knows all the magick rules (from magic hours and days governed by planets, all the elements necessary for the spell to work, etc.). Know alchemy, talismanic art, herbology, and mong others. In English the terms used are similar to those of Mage or wizard, but for sorcerers it is common for Sorcerer or wizard. Other terms can be necromancer, occultist, enchanter, conjurer.
As I mentioned before, some online explanations are mere speculation based on RPG games, which is nonsense.
They say that the Wizard can only practice witchcraft, it is wrong. A wizard can practice any magick, be it candomblé, palo mayombe, gypsy magick, thelema, any system, because the basic rules of magick are universal and he knows them.
Others argue that the wizard cannot consecrate magical objects (talismans, magic wand, etc.), but this is false.
Some say that the wizard practices lower magic (simpler, rudimentary, popular, animism) and the sorcerer practices high magick ... What is considered high magick? Ceremonial magick with more pompous and complex rituals, more intellectual.
Certain authors say that goetia(the art of evoking and dominating demons) is considered High magick, in my personal view I think these magicians were quite deluded if they thought they could dominate demons.
In a nutshell I can say that low or high magic are just concepts, low magic is natural magic (with energy from magic elements, crystals, herbs, fire, candles). High magick draws on ethereal, cosmic and spirit energies.
But there are magick rituals, which mix both energies, when divinities are invoked and offerings are left (like the Orishás in Umbanda) is this not a fusion between low and high magick?
Think for yourself. Do not get confused with labels.
I tell you something; any magic works, be it simple or complex witchcraft, it is obvious that a more elaborate and complex ritual has greater effects because the magician devotes more time and energy.
I also tell you that group magick (as in a coven or cult) produces greater results due to collective energetic accretion.
Asamod
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