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ThelemapediaThelemapedia is the original open source encyclopedia of all things Thelema. Like Wikipedia, this is a project based on community particpation, meaning that everyone is welcome to add knowledge to the encyclopedia. The goal is to make Thelemapedia the single best, most comprehensive source of information on Thelema. Thelemapedia began early in 2004 as a project of Scarlet Woman Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis. It was observed that there was no single source of information regarding Thelema, the religion that was established in 1904 with the writing of Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) in Cairo, Egypt. Since the topic was so huge, it would take years for one or two people to gather it all together and keep it organized. Therefore, it was decided that a Wiki was the logical way to go, allowing for numerous sources to add to the knowledge base. The site was officially launched in September of 2004, and has steadily grown ever since. The site has broadened to include topics such as magick, esoteric organizations, hermeticism, mythology, ritual, astrology, Qabalah, biographies, sacred texts, the Tarot, and alchemy. The project is forked In January of 2005, the project was forked due to editorial differences. The forked project was named Free Encyclopedia of Thelema. http://www.egnu.org/thelemapedia/index.php/Free_Encyclopedia_of_Thelema:About Some of the differences between the two projects are: - Thelemapedia requests that articles conform to basic editorial policies similar to those of Wikipedia, namely using cited information from the knowledge base or drawing from common knowledge—with the caveat that materials should have a general pro-Thelema stance.
- Free Encyclopedia of Thelema does not require material to be from the published knowledge base and thus allows for the publication of the results of personal research and interpretation.
- Thelemapedia encourages the use of formal writing conventions as reflected in the works of major Thelemic authorsespecially Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, Kenneth Grant, Jack Parsonsand other current writers like Lon Milo DuQuette, Martin Starr, and Richard Kaczynski (e.g. using the formal spellings magician and magical).
- Free Encyclopedia of Thelema allows for greater latitude in writing style, such as using more current styles of writing as seen in many Thelemic periodicals as well as in published books1 (e.g. using the informal spellings magickian and magickal).
- Thelemapedia prohibits the revelation of oath-bound secrets of esoteric orders such as those of Ordo Templi Orientis.
- Free Encyclopedia of Thelema allows the revelation of the secrets of esoteric orders, either paraphrased in the author's own words, or quoted from published works to the extent permitted under the fair use doctrine of copyright law.
1 The form magickal accounts for over 5% of the combined hits for magical/magickal on Google, and the forms magickal and magickian are used in published works, such as Phillip Cooper's The Magickian: A study in effective Magick (Weiser, 1993), in The Scarlet Letter (Vol. II, No. 1) article "Powertools: Low-Tech for the High Magickian" (Scarlet Woman Publishing, 1994 http://www.scarletwoman.org/scarletletter/v2n1/v2n1_powertools.html), in Nema's Maat Magick (Weiser, 1995), as well as in other sources listed in the references section. They are used more widely in the Chaos Magick community. Managing editor creates controversial promotional pages During March of 2005, the managing editor of Thelemapedia, John Bowie, created a promotional page for Thelemapedia on several hosting sites. The page consisted of quotes from two articles on the GNU FDL-licensed site Thelemapedia (30.6% original material, mostly headings and links, and 69.4% cited quotes, by word count). The pages included a copyright notice, but no immediately following GNU Free Documentation License notice, the rationale of the creator being that said quotes were used in good faith and did not violate the GNU FDL under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. One of the contributors of content to the GNU FDL licensed articles which were quoted contacted Mr. Bowie and asked him to post license notices in accordance with the generally accepted terms of the license. Mr. Bowie disputed the claim of license violation, but agreed to bring the issue to the attention of the Free Software Foundation, asking for their opinion and agreeing to comply with their decision and recommendations. However, before an FSF representative could answer, the managing editor rewrote the pages without the quotes so as to avoid the possibility of violating the license. The analysis by the Free Software Foundation concluded that the use of the quotes did indeed violate the GNU FDL, and that the GNU FDL should have been applied to the entire page by appending the required license notices. The current pages do not violate the GNU FDL. http://thelemapedia.tripod.com/ See also: Fair use, Viral license See also References - Alli, Antero. "Magick & Mysticism." Retrieved March 25, 2005.
- Cooper, Phillip (1993). The Magickian: A Study in Effective Magick. Samuel Weiser.
- Nema (1974). Liber Pennae Praenumbra. Retrieved March 26, 2005.
- Nema (1995). Maat Magick. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser.
- Oroboros, Soror (August 1994). "Powertools: Low-Tech for the High Magickian" in The Scarlet Letter (Vol. II, No. 1). Austin, TX: Scarlet Woman Publishing.
External links *Thelemapedia promotional page
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