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Suidas, &c. this theology, or worship of the gods, as it was called,
about which the magi were employed, was little more than the
diabolical art of divination; for that μαγεια, strictly taken, was the art
of divination.
Porphyry defines the magi well; Cicero calls them divina
sapientes, &c. in iisdem ministrantes; adding, that the word magus
implied as much in the Persian tongue. These people, he says, are
held in such veneration among the Persians, that Darius, the son of
Hystaspes, among other things, had it engraved on his monument,
that he was master of the magi.
Philo Judas describe the magi to be diligent enquirers into nature,
out of the love they bear to truth; and who, setting themselves apart
from other things, contemplate the divine virtues the more clearly,
and initiate others in the same mysteries.
Their descendants, the modern magi, or fire worshippers, are
divided into three classes; whereof the first and most learned,
neither ate nor kill animals; but adhere to the old institution of
abstaining from living creatures. The magi of the second class,
refrain only from tame animals; nor do the last kill all indifferently, it
being the firm distinguishing dogma of them all, τκν μετεμχυωσιυ
ειναι, that there is a transmigration of souls.
To intimate the similitude between animals and men, they used to
call the latter by the name of the former; thus, their fellow priests
they called lions; the priestesses, lionesses; the servants, cows, &c.
MAGIC, MAGIA, MATEIA,