Thelemapedia: Encyclopedia II - Thelemapedia - The project is forked

Thelemapedia - 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. [2] Some of the differences between the two projects are:

Use of the knowledge base:

• 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.

Writing style:

• Thelemapedia encourages the use of formal writing conventions as reflected in the works of major Thelemic authors—especially Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, Kenneth Grant, Jack Parsons—and 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).

Oath-bound secrets:

• 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 [3]), 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.

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