6 sentences with 'magician'
Example sentences and phrases with the word magician and other words derived from it.
• « The Gnostics believed that Jesus had been a teller of secrets, almost a magician, who provided clues in his life and teachings on how to achieve union with God. This had more to do with magic than with a recognisable set of rituals or religious customs. »
• « Similarly, many thinkers were intensely interested in the works of an ancient (and, it turns out, fictional) philosopher and magician named Hermes Trismegistus, Hermes the "Thrice Blessed", who had supposedly discovered a series of magical formulas that explained the universe. There was a great crossover between what we might think of as magic and spirituality on the one hand and "real" science on the other. »
• « On 28 December 1895, Antoine Lumiére went to see the magician Georges Méliés, director of the Robert Houdin Theatre in Paris. »
• « At the appointed time, the magician arrived at the café, where a huge sign on the façade read: "Cinématographe des Frères Lumiére. Admission: one franc". »
• « Other myths that make up this prehistory of aviation (Ki-Kung-Shi and his flying armour or Simon the magician in Nero's Rome) speak of man's need, since ancient times, to fly. »