Home -> Articoli -> Egitto Fantasmi e magia nell'antichità

The best Magicians

The best Magicians
In the Egyptian calendar there were some days dominated by hostile powers much stronger than the ones that the magicians were evocating and therefore no magic ceremony could then be done.. In them acted evil forces that would invalidate any holy ceremony. We must also recognize that in the other favorable days the Egyptian did not miss a chance and did wonders, or at least thus was firmly believed in the antiquity. Even the great Greek philosophers were convinced that the power owned by the priests of the land watered by the holy Nile and by the savants skilled in the magic practice was boundless. They got this efficiency in this art by pronouncing with a special and very exact tone certain words and certain names that were called the “power words”. With those spells they could submit the gods to their will, oblige them to heal the sick people, destroy the evil eye, resuscitate the dead, give to them the power to transform their body as incorruptible from corruptible so that their soul could live for all the eternity. Their spells allowed the dead people to assume at their pleasure different shapes and to project their soul in an animal, a tree or a man, Summing it up the universe had to submit to them and they knew how to dominate the wind, the rain, the tempest, the rivers and the sea. Illness and death evocated by them destroyed their enemies, and they succeeded in all that thanks to the formulae contained in the books of the “Life’s Double House”.
Lots of people believed in the existence of those books and in them trusted also the Greek Philosopher Democritos who, to find them, went into t he tomb of Dardanos, the Phoenician Here, for what tells the legend, he found them and, always according to the legend, he brought them in Greece, and full of faith in the wonderful enterprises of the Egyptian magician, he based his magic doctrine on those papyri.
Thus great magicians in the pyramids’ shadow and according to the legends there were many of them. However when we collect all the data that have reached us, and we have read everything, we are astonished by the fact that their more important and great magician was just Moses, the Bible one. It must have been very well known if even Saint Stephen in th e Acts boast the fact that the great law maker was learned in all the Egyptian wisdom and that he was “Powerful in wisdom and deeds”. Besides if one believe in the magic why wonder: Moses brought up at the Pharaoh’s court and taught like a prince of the blood, had free access to the books of the “Life’s Double House”that were kept in the royal libraries and moreover he also had very good teachers, who made him pronounce with the right intonation and without making any error “The Words of Power”: to say them just as Isis the great Goddess who was “Strong Tongued”.
In front of the young man over all the secrets from the past, the future revealed itself. By then ll the mysteries of the life and of death were open to him. It was then that having discovered his true origin and who was his people that Moses moved and put all his power to save Israel’s sons.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
E.A. WALLIS BUDGE, Egyptian Magi, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk, 1975, first published in 1899
pp. 10-11