The Image of the magi isn't quite hard to understand it is about the person who uses magic, magi:from the wording magi-c, this common term is more about what you lean then what you are, as one who pursues magic as a whole, it is qute an vast universe of un-related and related wisdom, wisdom is good in the presences of magic but lessons in reality are much more worth while,
reality is you start somewhere.....
hense the term Neo-Phyte or beginner
from the root wording of Neo- past
and Phyte, litle or mini....
Phyte also comes from the word, physicus
meaning of the knowing physical....
"or" to understand life as in physics, or math of life, ie pattern"
as a neophyte you gain wisdom of how things are and work according to the information, secrets and physical test of doing, a neophytie starts with a basic understand of tools, cultures and the patterns of how they interact with the whole of magic, in witch this is called newbie "defining a beginner in their terms" not ours
Occult is where we gain our individual information of levels or titles as in label.....
the next level or title or label is an Adept: from the wording above or becoming above : root word Advocate and department or emptive
meaning first, before "clone word on the pre-emptive"
As an Adept you have gain the workings of the basics and practical exercises to hold this title, it is now time to put your advocative training to work for you and gain a beginner side of path or direction
this leads you to 3 callings in this level,
Sage,Mage,Magus
Sage: is a record keeper and learned student, adviser to the mysteries of things around them using both the Adept skill they learned and lessons on how to filter this wisdom and energy to become more correct in their skills taught by this level some sages can get as high if not higher then some mages.....education counts
Mage: is a very direct magic user instead of keeping a full record they tend to mix and match magic, sometimes building it in the hopes to be a magiester(master of magic) old term for some magic users, related term Wizard "from the word Zard" or Zar based on the ideal of terming Romanian and the Wi-zaerd the oldest germanic influences (gothic) some want to believe Merlyn is accually a rank for wizards a high one, like a diwyn, or celwyn but that is Roleplayers and story telling of the outsider, our Wize secrets are our own, Mage, is magic/get and it is a term that most mages only care to practice never own, A mage in truth is a young wizard to be, without a teacher, or one with a teacher, that has yet not taught him wizardryl, mages can be women, but much like the term wizard it is rare to have that title or label, as a mage one learns the workings of the Gates, sygils and keys to the energies, not the direct wisdom of turning this happens by talisman or contract or bond, as given by the Magic Users head "teacher, advisr,Wizard, or other in the levels of magic's offering,
(note) "to those here it is at Wizards,Wizess, or Academies Officals to offer" to the prospective mage....
Magus: student and teacher of the lessons of the dead or lost, often though to be from a school of Dark magic, these lessons are just like most lessons apart of the magi and nothing more....
They aren't from some Blackened Arcane but at time you will feel they should have been, they are like most, only an image of the working of life and death, nothing more.....and a real magus know this they share in the accompaning truth of all things, just like the sage or mage, but a diffrent road...
In any of these you will gain great wisdom and power and in all you will answer your own questions, but that is for you to decide and
accept, as you go from neo to adept to the world of the magi...
Enter into the garden of will awaking the sleeping dragon still
and read from the book of memory to know the power of will
in shadow the key you find lost and gone from the day you awaken will ever it dawn....
Grand your messenger known
from the key to the house is shown
7 steps you climb as you solve this rhyme
in silence you awaken the door and from greater depths will you explore....
As you gather the will of sight forever will day twist with night
in time and space the circle will curve
and others of will power serve
7 steps to climb in time
if you begining to master this rhyme...
1. in memory walk to spark to find in deep will you arrive
2. to sleep and dream and hope quite grand but with you it is like sand
3. begining is to end and ending a start with whom you gather all things apart
4. power you gather whole but no book or key or message known
5. with key you walk hand and hand and sandy dream will you begin
6. to know the dragons tongue you gather in the open sun
7. past the trial you find hearty and you shall find your party
