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This is a great idea!

Frater C.U.G.

This is fantastic!! Thank you Scarlet Woman Lodge! :)

Glad you like it!

...of course, it will be as good as we all make it. I am hoping that over the next couple of years, we will make Thelemapedia the single best source of information on Thelema anywhere! The world will be ours! Muwahahaha! —Ash

Indeed ! This is an outstanding venture and excellent execution. At lease from what I see so far. I am sure I'll get a good deal of milage at of this in my office as PIO. Thank you my brothers, and please let me know if I can be of assistance with this project.

93/93

In L.V.X.,

Frater Hrumachis

Well, of course you can be of assistance...write an article! :) —Ash

I especially appreciate you allowing us young'uns (Thelemically speaking) to add to the corpus of Thelemic knowledge.

DVV

There's no age limit for the ability to write a good article! Thanks for contributing. --Ash 19:12, 21 Sep 2004 (EDT)

---Okay, read your profile...sorry, that was presumptuous of me. I should have said, "there's no limits on Thelemic newbies of whatever age to write a good article." My apologies. —Ash, the insensitive dope

Actually, this is a good vehicle for someone who is "just learning" to research topics of interest. --DVV the old fart.

Table of contents

1 style issues

2 kinda new to all this

3 Suggestion for new topic

4 Godforms?

style issues

Can we get a standard on spelling? I am extremely averse to the spelling magickal. Now, for those who must have a K, the word magick is a perfectly proper adjective, as in "magick wand." But Crowley never used the word "magickal," and I recommend that we also stick to magical when the three-syllable adjective is in order. -paradoxosalpha

I agree 100%, Nix on magickian also. -- Frater C.U.G.

"Magickal" and "magickian: are not words, as far as I'm concerned. —Ash

To hear is to obey, effendi. "Magickal" shall be magickally removed from my posts henceforth. DVV

Ok, here's a trickier one: qabalah? That's Crowley's spelling, approximating transliteration, but it's usual to spell it Kabbalah in reference to Hebrew mysticism, and cabala in reference to Christian esotery and systems of word calculation and symbolism. Should we have a standard? --Paradoxosalpha 19:31, 24 Sep 2004 (EDT)

kinda new to all this

kinda new to this. This site, I'm sure will be invaluable.

Welcome! You'll catch on. It took me 10 minutes to get writing; a week to get all the basics; and a month or two to really "get it". Now that I'm an admin and watching the site grow, I'm having to learn a whole new set of skills. If this site has done nothing but that for me, it's been more than worth it. —Ash

Suggestion for new topic

Godforms?

I see that we have a whole list of "godforms" but no entry under "godform" itself. Maybe an entry as to what a "godform" is?

I'd write it myself if I knew how to define "godform" (as opposed to "deity," "god," or "grand wazoo."). -- DVV

I'd say that the principal differences are 1) relationship with a lack of invested belief in the objective existence of the godform (Liber O I:1), 2) the option for the magician to identify with the godform through invocation (Liber O II:1-2). See also Magick Without Tears pp. 145-6; and the use of godforms in GD initiation. The most important godform, often mentioned by Crowley for its utility, is that of Harpocrates (http://www.livejournal.com/users/paradoxosalpha/34059.html).

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 ::Actually, this is a good vehicle for someone who is "just learning" to research topics of interest.  --[[User:Frater DVV|DVV]] the old fart.
-== style issue ==
+== style issues ==
 Can we get a standard on spelling? I am ''extremely averse'' to the spelling '''magickal'''. Now, for those who must have a K, the word '''magick''' is a perfectly proper adjective, as in "magick wand." But Crowley never used the word "magickal," and I recommend that we also stick to '''magical''' when the three-syllable adjective is in order. -[[User:paradoxosalpha|paradoxosalpha]]
 :To hear is to obey, effendi.  "Magickal" shall be magickally removed from my posts henceforth.  [[User:Frater DVV|DVV]]
+Ok, here's a trickier one: '''qabalah'''? That's Crowley's spelling, approximating transliteration, but it's usual to spell it '''Kabbalah''' in reference to Hebrew mysticism, and '''cabala''' in reference to Christian esotery and systems of word calculation and symbolism. Should we have a standard? --[[User:Paradoxosalpha|Paradoxosalpha]] 19:31, 24 Sep 2004 (EDT)
 == kinda new to all this ==
 I'd write it myself if I knew how to define "godform" (as opposed to "deity," "god," or "grand wazoo.").  -- [[User:Frater DVV|DVV]]
+:I'd say that the principal differences are 1) relationship with a lack of invested belief in the objective existence of the godform (Liber O I:1), 2) the option for the magician to ''identify'' with the godform through invocation (Liber O II:1-2). See also '''Magick Without Tears''' pp. 145-6; and the use of godforms in GD initiation. The most important godform, often mentioned by Crowley for its utility, is that of [http://www.livejournal.com/users/paradoxosalpha/34059.html Harpocrates].