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The English word “Magus” comes from a Latinized form of the Greek μάγος magos. The Greeks, in turn, acquired the term from Persian magus. In the 4th Century, the word entered into the Greek vocabulary following their contact with practitioners of Zoroastrianism. The Greeks did not quite understand the Zoroastrian tradition, but what they didContinue reading “Logos and Magi”