The Magi are the visitors who follow a star to Bethlehem in Matthew, and also the priests of ancient Persia.
The Magi between history and later legend is the cleanest start.
The host places the Magi among Persian advisers who read dreams and carried out sacrifices.
For the people behind the priesthood, The Persians: Kyomarz, Mahabad, Zoroaster and the Magi is where I start.
Rudolf Steiner on the Three Magi is an esoteric reading.
For Steiner the Magi are initiates of earlier streams, and each gift is a symbol: gold for wisdom, frankincense for feeling that must be refined, myrrh for death and the life that comes through it.
In The Occult Sciences in Atlantis he lists the grades Initiates, Adepts and Magi, and says the Magi proper were almost always of royal blood.
In time he reached Persepolis, the city where the kings of Persia were entombed; the city of the learned magi, Hor, and Lun, and Mer, the three wise men.
The Magi between history and later legend
The Persians: Kyomarz, Mahabad, Zoroaster and the Magi
Rudolf Steiner on the Three Magi
For every page I tagged with Magi, see the Magi tag archive.
On The Magi between history and later legend, ESOTERICA starts from their real role:
Magi were the tutors of the Persian kings
Rudolf Steiner read the Magi in his own esoteric way.
On Rudolf Steiner on the Three Magi he links the 6 January feast of the kings to the Egyptian festival of the finding of Osiris.
The Magi between history and later legend
The Magi, who were incredibly highly trained shamans, and alchemists were attired in red-orange.
Accordingly the Magi kept advanced calendars, which notified everyone of the lunar phases, and predicted solar or lunar eclipses.
Alexander supported and gathered to himself the Elect, the Magi, the Soothsayers, the Magicians, and the Doctors of body, mind, and soul.
In later times it was the Magi, with their mighty power, who used alchemy to make gold from base metals.
They were fashioned in Egypt by the Magi of the tribes that left Atlantis and went to Egypt.
But he regarded not their angry threats; he taught, and healed the sick.6. In time he reached Persepolis, the city where the kings of Persia were entombed; the city of the learned magi, Hor, and Lun, and Mer, the three wise men.7. Who, four-and-twenty years before, had seen the star of promise rise above Jerusalem, and who had journeyed to the West to find the new-born king;8. And were the first to honour Jesus as the master of the age, and gave him gifts of gold, gum-thus and myrrh.9. These magi knew, by ways that masters always know, when Jesus neared Persepolis; and then they girt themselves, and went to meet him on the way.10. And when they met, a light much brighter than the light of day, surrounded them, and men who saw the four stand in the way declared they were transfigured; seeming more like gods than men.11. Now, Hor and Lun were aged men, and Jesus placed them on his beast to ride into Persepolis; whilst he and Mer led on the way.12. And when they reached the magi's home they all rejoiced.
In one short breath he told the story of his mission to the sons of men, and then he disappeared.32. The magi said, Some time ago we read this promise, now fulfilled, upon the dial plate of heaven.33. And then we saw this man who has just demonstrated unto us the power of man to rise from carnal flesh and blood to flesh of God, a babe in Bethlehem.34. and after many years he came and sat with us in these same groves;35. He told the story of his human life, of trials, sore temptations, buffetings and woes.36. He pressed along the thorny way of life he had risen and over thrown the strongest foes of God and man; and he is now the only master of the human race whose flesh has been transmuted into flesh divine.37. He is the God-man of to-day; but every one of earth overcome and be like him, a son of God.
This verse refers to the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the Magi to the birthplace of Jesus.
The star is the incarnating Zarathustra, and the Magi follow it as they once followed their teacher.
The Epiphany: The Magi are guided by a light to visit the infant Jesus.
Matthew’s Gospel describes the Magi following a "star" (aster) to locate Jesus.
(Vede.) (English) Magi.
M.: This day You* I crown my brother He'den'loo (Magi), of the Savior empowered on the corporeal earth to dwell by holy land and water!
The magi now illustrate on a tablet (blackboard) the prophecy of the rise and fall of nations, the origin of man and language, how the corporeal world is governed by the es world, and give the I.
Now the angel of God had taken possession of the oracle, and yet the magi knew it not, nor did Syaythaha.
The Persian Magi possessed a tradition in which the waters issued from the oven of an old woman.
Only the High Priests and Priestesses, and certain Magi, used this exit from Earth.
The Crystal itself is an interdimensional portal, a motorway into the cosmos for High Priests, Priestesses, and certain Magi.
Persian Magi: A flood originates from an oven, a story later adapted by the Koran.
One of the gifts brought by the Magi to Jesus was gold, symbolizing His kingship (Matthew 2:11).