Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thelema/Archive 4

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OTO Bodies

Anyone feel that individual OTO bodies could use a wiki page? I just joined the project, and would love to help out. This isn't necessarily my strong suit (although back issues of Agape provide great sources), but would love to hear other opinions.

I think that "competing" branches of OTO should have individual pages. I do not think that this should extend down to individual Lodges or other subordinate units of branches. I think that the purpose should be to illustrate the ideas and histories of the organizations. Just my opinion. Estéban (talk) 08:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

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WikiProject_Thelema Out Of Date Things

I noticed that "The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference" (redflame93.com/DeskReference.html) is at a no longer registered domain. Additionally, the "user thelema" userbox doesn't seem to work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fr.333 (talk • contribs) 00:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Thelema

Anyone here? We've got a dispute going at that article and Talk:Thelema about the scholarly sources on Rabelais and Aleister Crowley. Dan (talk) 01:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Saints article

Been trying to resolve a dispute over Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica. Can we get some other voices involved, regarding the difference between the EGC and other organizations like EGnU? (Zack Anderson) 75.73.50.113 (talk) 20:56, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Didn't have that article on my watchlist or I'd already have tried to help. Seems the name of the article might be too specific and maybe it should be moved. I'll be over. (P.S. you should put new sections at the end of talk pages, not the beginning). Will in China (talk) 21:35, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Magical Tools

Wiccans have the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_tools_in_Wicca

Because of the extensive outlines in various Thelemic literature (such as MiTP), it would not be too difficult for Thelemites to have a similar article. Would it make sense to make a Magical tools in Thelema article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.61.89 (talk) 18:21, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages

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I think that could be very useful --Rodneyorpheus (talk) 20:48, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Rating Project Pages

Since I've been going round updating a bunch of the Wiki Project Thelema pages over the past months, I've started re-examining the ratings that the articles had and bringing those up to date. I'd tried to stick closely to the Project guidelines, but please feel free to discuss in this section any other rating changes you'd like to see. --Rodneyorpheus (talk) 21:45, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Reassessment, particularly quality reassessment, needs to be done regularly. Regarding importance assessment, one thing I'm trying to enact over at the Christianity WikiProject is to have the navigation template for the subject, which in this case would be either Template:Thelema series or Template:Thelema, listing only those articles which are deemed as being of the "Top" importance to the project. Other articles could be linked by other navigation templates. But having a clear idea as to which articles are of the most importance, and, by extension, which should be the first choices to further develop or add new material to, might be useful in any event. Thank you for the work. John Carter (talk) 17:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I think that's a great idea. However currently I think we only have two articles rated Top, since I've tried to stay pretty conservative with ratings wherever possible. So either we'd need to re-rate things to bring a few more up to Top rating, or make it Top & High. Either is fine by me - what do others think? Rodneyorpheus (talk) 18:14, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Generally, any article which has a {{main article}} link in the main article itself is also generally of "top" importance. I'm not sure if that would work in this case, though. A separate History of Thelema article might be useful, and I would definitely count Aleister Crowley as Top importance. If there were a Theology of Thelema or maybe Philosophy of Thelema, I might add them as well. Articles of that type tend to be somewhat consistent across "religion" projects. Those would be about the only ones I would add that aren't already included as links from the main Thelema article, and, like I said, I'm not really sure about all of them. John Carter (talk) 18:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Pageview stats

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The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. I can also get provide the full data for any project covered by the bot if requested, though I normally don't keep it for much longer than a couple weeks after the list is generated. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 04:34, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

This is great, well done! --Rodneyorpheus (talk) 07:14, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

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Thelema articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Request for input in discussion forum

Given the closely linked subjects of the various religion, mythology, and philosophy groups, it seems to me that we might benefit from having some sort of regular topical discussion forum to discuss the relevant content. I have put together the beginnings of an outline for such discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/2011 meeting, and would very much appreciate the input of any interested editors. I am thinking that it might run over two months, the first of which would be to bring forward and discuss the current state of the content, and the second for perhaps some more focused discussion on what, if any, specific efforts might be taken in the near future. Any and all input is more than welcome. John Carter (talk)

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Related articles

I went through one of the current encyclopedias of the occult for the WikiProject Occult, as can be seen on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Occult page. The source used contained a number of articles relating to Aleister Crowley, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and Thelema. I am not sure that they all deserve necessarily to have separate articles here, and certainly some of them pertain to Thelema in only a minor way, but I thought it might make sense to have at least a basic list of some relevant subjects. Items listed below which don't merit individual articles are certainly eligible for redirects, of course.

• Abrahadabra; Adept; Adeptus Exemptus; Adeptus Major; Adeptus Minor; Aeon; Aima Elohim; Aiwass; Alchemy; Aleister Crowley; Allen Bennett; Alpha et Omega; Ameset; AMORC; Ankh; Anna Bonus Kingsford; Anna Sprengel; Anton Szandor LaVey; Anubis; Apophis; Aquarius; Aral; ARARITA; Arch-fay; Argentum Astrum; Aries; Arnoldo Krumm-Heller; Aroueris; Arthur Edward Waite; Ascendant; Astrology; Atlantis; Aura; Aurum Solis;
• Babalon; Book of Shadows; Book of the Law; Bornless One ritual; Builders of the Adytum;
• Cabala; Cabalistic cross; Cabeiri; Cadeucus; Cancer; Canopic gods; Capricorn; Castle of Heroes; Ceremonial magic; Charge of the Goddess; Charles Williams; Chnoubis; Cipher manuscript; Color scales; Companions of the Coinherence; Coptic language; Corpus Christi; Cromlech Temple; Crucifixion; Cup;
• Dadouchus; Death; Decans; Degrees (fraternal); Devil; Dion Fortune; Directions in occultism; Doreen Valiente; Druidry; Duamutef;
• Edom; Eliphas Levi; Elman Zata; Enochian magic; Enochian watchtowers; Equinox; Eucharist; Eve; Evil Persona; Evocations;
• Flashing colors; Flashing tablet; Flying roll; Fool; Forty-two Assessors; Franciscus de Bry; Frater Achad; Fraternal lodge; Fraternitas Saturni;
• Geomancy; George Pickingill; Gerald Gardner; Gemini; Godforms; Goetia; The Goetia;
• The Hanged Man; Hapi; Harpocrates; Harry Smith; Harvey Spencer Lewis; Heh; Hermetic Order of Luxor; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Hexagram; Horus; Hru; Hua; Hugo Alverda;
• IAO; Initiation; Intelligence; Invisible Stations; Invisibility; Isaac Luria; Isis; Israel Regardie;
• Jack Parsons; John Williams Brodie-Innes;
• Key of Solomon;
• Libra; License to deport; Lotus wand; Lovers;
• Macrocosm and Microcosm; Magic; Magical lodge; Magical sword; Magick; Meditation; Middle Pillar exercise;
• Nemyss; Neopaganism;
• Order of the Stella Matutina; Ordo Templi Orientis; Osiris;
• Paroketh; Paschal Beverly Randolph; Paul Foster Case; Pentagram; Pentagrammaton; Phrath;
• Qebehsenuf;
• Ra Hoor Khurt; Rising on the planes; Rituals of the Hexagram; Rituals of the Pentagram; Rosicrucians; Royal stars; Ruach;
• Sagittarius; Samuel Jacob Hayim Falk; Samuel Liddell Masters; Satanism; Scorpio; Scrying; Seven Earths; Sex and occultism; Shroud of Concealment; Sigil; Sleep of Sialim; Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia; Solitary practitioner; Sphere of sensation;
• Taliahad; Talisman; Talismans; Tarot; Tattvas; Tattvic tides; Taurus; Telesmatic imagery; Thelema; Theosophical Society; Thomas Lake Harris;
• Vault of Christian Rosencreutz; Veil of the Sanctuary; Vibratory formula of the Middle Pillar; Victor Neuberg;
• Wand; Watchtowers; Wheel of Fortune; Wicca; Will; William Butler Yeats; William Wynn Westcott; The World;

John Carter (talk) 17:59, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Richard Kaczynski

I would like to inform you of a Nomination for Deletion of the article about Richard Kaczynski, biographer of Aleister Crowley, which may be of interest to members of this project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Richard_Kaczynski_%282nd_nomination%29 Rosencomet (talk) 20:09, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Deleting Thelema userbox

93, I was wondering why the Template:User thelema userbox and all of the other userboxes on this page have been deleted? 93 93/93 JessicaSideways (talk) 04:29, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed MOS for Religion

There is now a proposed general Manual of Style for Religion and other articles relating to ethoses or belief systems at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Manual of style. Any input would be welcome. I personally believe at least one of the reasons why many articles in this field have been as contentious as they have been is because of lack of such guidelines, and would very much welcome any input from others to help come up with some generally acceptable solutions to some of these problems. John Carter (talk) 22:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Circletriangle.gif

image:Circletriangle.gif has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 03:12, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

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Deletion discussion for Category:Thelema stubs

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Popular pages report

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Universal hexagram upside down

This may have been addressed and I could be wrong, but the central 5 pointed portion of the universal hexagram should be with a single point up. The current version is essentially upside down to Crowley's diagrams. For example, the cover of the 1st edition of Magick: http://www.lawbright.com/logdos/magick1.jpg and this original illustration: http://www.lawbright.com/logdos/magick2.jpg I suggest it be rotated to the form Crowley himself used. --Solar (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

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Need Help with a Draft of a neo-Gnostic Occultist

Hello those who are here, I am looking for help about a draft article on William Wallace Webb who is a neo-Gnostic bishop who founded the Qabbalistic Alchemist Church, upon other churches who had relations with William Breeze, Stephen Hoeller, etc. KEleison (talk) 04:32, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

I looked at it, searched Google Books - nothing. He's simply not notable. Skyerise (talk) 23:09, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

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