Standard player-character Magi belong the Order of Hermes, a society of magically "Gifted" humans founded in 767 A.D. by the witch Trianoma and magus Bonisagus after the latter developed a breakthrough in communicating and manipulating magic (termed 'Hermetic Magic' for its roots in both the Greek deity Hermes, upon which the ancient Roman Cult of Mercury was based, and the works of the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus).
George Winslow Plummer (1876 – January 23, 1944) was Imperator and Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in America from 1909 to 1944.
The pages of X-Force show a group of Purifiers digging up the corpse of Graydon Creed, his body is then taken back to the purifiers base where it is re-animated by Bastion using the techno-organic virus taken from an "offspring" of Magus.
The King's Magus, Merick (John Rhys-Davies), detects that there is something special about Farmer when King Konreid (Burt Reynolds) and his entourage arrive to comfort Stonebridge.
(Another Cypriot magus named Atomos is referenced by Josephus, working at the court of Felix at Caesarea.)
The character John Constantine from the Hellblazer graphic novels is sometimes referred to as a magus.
The concept of a magus takes its name from the priests of the Magian religion of the ancient Medes, who wielded considerable power and influence, until they were suppressed as a result of a revolt by the pretender Smerdis against Cambyses II.
In the comics, the heroes first fought Thanos and Nebula (Infinity Gauntlet mini series), then The Magus and his Dopplegangers (Infinity War mini series).
Pierre Grassou de Fougères is a mediocre painter who lives off painting forgeries commissioned by an old swindler and art-dealer named Elias Magus.
There he meets Adam Warlock, whose alternate future self the Magus would become the leader of the Church of Truth.
Paul had been invited to preach to the Roman proconsul of Paphos, Sergius Paulus, but is heckled by Elymas, a "magus", whom Paul miraculously causes to go temporarily blind, thus converting the proconsul.
"The Illusionist", a novel by Anita Mason, is a fictionalised account of the life and death of Simon Magus.
The formation meeting took place on June 1, 1867 in Aldermanbury, London, with Robert Wentworth Little elected Supreme Magus.
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The transition of this member, Illustrious Frater Sylvester Clarke Gould, late of Manchester, N. H., on July 19, 1909, prevented the fulfillment of his personal ambition, and the actual work of organization and institution devolved upon the Imperator and Supreme Magus of the Society, George Winslow Plummer, who had received full initiation
The Scarlet Fig: or, Slowly through a Land of Stone, edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells, and published by Rose Press in 2005, is the third and final novel of the Vergil Magus sequence by Avram Davidson.
The head of the Church and object of its worship was Adam Warlock's evil self, the Magus.