adepts
Those with mastery
Adepts is the plural of adept, meaning people highly skilled or proficient in something: The workshop attracted adepts of various martial arts.
The word often appears in spiritual or esoteric contexts—adepts of meditation, alchemy, or mystical traditions.
An adept has moved beyond beginner status to genuine mastery.
Those with dominion
- virtuososSupremely skilled performers
- savantsExceptionally learned individuals
- gurusVenerated teachers or experts
- maestrosExpert musical directors
wizards · authorities · specialists · connoisseurs · scholars · sages · mentors · prodigies
Starts or new members
- disciplesDevoted followers of teachings
- practitionersPeople who perform a discipline
- devoteesPassionate adherents
- acolytesDevoted followers or assistants
seekers · mystics · occultists · magi · alchemists · sorcerers · shamans · neophytes
Having natural ability
- accomplishedHighly skilled, expert
- dexterousPhysically skilled, agile
- capableHaving required skills
- competentSufficiently able, qualified
versatile · polished · skillful · practiced · proficient · experienced · trained · seasoned
masters
Those with dominion
- virtuososSupremely skilled performers
- savantsExceptionally learned individuals
- gurusVenerated teachers or experts
maestros · wizards · authorities · specialists · connoisseurs · scholars · sages · mentors · prodigies · pundits
initiates
Starts or new members
- disciplesDevoted followers of teachings
- practitionersPeople who perform a discipline
- devoteesPassionate adherents
acolytes · seekers · mystics · occultists · magi · alchemists · sorcerers · shamans · neophytes · magicians
talented
Having natural ability
- accomplishedHighly skilled, expert
- dexterousPhysically skilled, agile
- capableHaving required skills
competent · versatile · polished · skillful · practiced · proficient · experienced · trained · seasoned · well-versed
- expertsexperts, expert, specialist, masters, specialists
- occultwitchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, black magic, tarot
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
- spiritual practitionersmeditators, practitioners, devotees, contemplatives, monastics
- Ascended MastersQuan Yin, dictations, ascension, mahatmas, rays of light
- RosicrucianismRosicrucian, fraternity, brotherhood, manifestos, manifesto