A sorcerer is a practitioner of magick or sorcery. This title is often given to or adopted by those who practice High Magick or Ceremonial Magic.
It may be used by a male witch in preference over the term witch or warlock or it may be used as a general term for any magic-user who does not self-identify as a witch, though some reserve this term for those who practice the dark arts.
A woman may choose to identify by the feminine variant sorceress.
Origins of This Term
The word sorcerer comes from the Latin sors meaning “lot” or “fate, fortune”, possibly referring to the answer given by an oracle.
The literal translation of the word sorcerer is something like “one who influences fate” or perhaps “teller of fortunes by lot” (drawing lots).
The word sorcerer may be used synonymously with the word magician, warlock or wizard.
The Dualism of Magical Figures
In a Bronze Age tomb, a sorceress’s skeleton was found with all the tools of the trade, proving that witchcraft and magic have always existed. Subsequent historiography also reports accounts of sorcerers who prepared magical potions such as love elixirs, amulets, and talismans.
They also used magical powers to heal wounds and illnesses. They also developed a recipe for a drink to cure madness, part of which included chanting twelve masses over the potion and then drinking it. It was therefore religious.
Since ancient times, it has always been known that sorcerers and witches have two aspects, one diurnal and one nocturnal; one corresponds to good, the other to evil. Anyone who practiced magic or witchcraft inspired a certain awe and unease because of this.
The abilities of those who wielded magic ranged from the ability to control clouds to drying up fields, from causing famine to spreading plague. No one was immune to their spells, and a magician could even influence the life process, rendering humans impotent and causing herds to abort.
People with these powers were typically uncommunicative and isolated from the world, preferring night to day. It is said that they generally traveled to meetings with the deities riding boars, wolves, or staves. Tales of these meetings exist throughout European folklore.
For example, in the Northern lands, the goddess Holda is said to have presided over witchcraft meetings. The goddess had in her retinue the Valkyries, warrior women, the souls of dead children, and various diabolical figures. Holda was generally considered good, but only if she wasn’t made angry, otherwise she turned into a very ugly and evil witch who punished disobedient children, but also farmers who didn’t take care of the land.
The Main Goal of the Sorcerer
Besides channeling energies to manifest something he wished for, a sorcerer is someone who, most of all, wants to explore his inner self, his true self, his potential and true nature. This makes sorcery more of a spiritual path rather than a salad of practices used for personal benefits.
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