>>96078461
>Not if you bother to count those "higher" powers' properties as part of the definition.
It’s a matter of scale, not class.
The “wizards” of Egypt that Moses faced were themselves the heralds of their own respective deities.
http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.com/2009/01/moses-magician.html?m=1F
It’s the same with the legendary wizard king Solomon, who bound demons using the authority and approval of God, which is something later Christians attempted..
http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.com/2009/01/solomon-sorcerer.html?m=1
The Greeks saw magic and prophecy as a gift from the god of the sun. That itself is indistinguishable from a miracle. Magic was/is usually the domain of the gods.
Racist Spaniards grabbed Jews to force them to bless their crops, since they saw Jews/Judaism as magical.
People back then didn’t really distinguish magic from miraculous feats. Magic was associated with higher learning in Ancient Greece. The Persian Magi were learned men, or astrologer-priests.
— ‘Pervasive throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and West Asia until late antiquity and beyond, mágos (μάγος) was influenced by (and eventually displaced) Greek goēs (γόης), the older word for a practitioner of magic, with a meaning expanded to include astronomy, astrology, alchemy, and other forms of esoteric knowledge. This association was in turn the product of the Hellenistic fascination for Pseudo-Zoroaster, who was perceived by the Greeks to be the Chaldean founder of the Magi and inventor of both astrology and magic, a meaning that still survives in the modern-day words "magic" and "magician".’
