Thelemapedia talk:Community Portal

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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.

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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?

5 T-shirts

6 Linking to Wikipedia

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)

I made some redirect pages last night Kabbalah and cabala both go to qabalah now. Frater C.U.G.

In my original entry, I used "qabalah" to refer to Hermetic Qabalah, and "Kabbalah" to refer to Jewish Kabbalah. Purely arbitrary and any modifications are welcome. DVV

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).

For that matter, is there a clean way to link a plural to a singular? I was writing an article earlier where I wanted to refer to the word "Thelemite" (which should have an article) but the word in my text was "Thelemites". Any trick for this? -- isomeme

Yes there is! You just open double brackets and type the name of the article that you want to link ("Thelemite"), then a vertical line | followed by the word that you want to actually appear ("Thelemites") and close the double brackets. You can see an example right here in the Community Portal if you look at the way that the earlier signatures are scripted. --Paradoxosalpha 11:35, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)

T-shirts

Okay, when do we get Thelemapedia T-shirts? You can't have a community project like this without T-shirts. :D DVV

This idea is too good! I will look into it... :) —Ash

Consider a CaféPress store. Thiebes

Linking to Wikipedia

You can link to the original Wikipedia for mundane things such as countries, etc. For example, use [[Wikipedia:London|]] to produce London - note that the final '|' is needed or the link will appear as Wikipedia:London.

I would recommend that we hack the code to put some kind of inidiation on these links, perhaps something like London W and I also think it would be a good idea to make such links open a new browser window so people don't get confused about where they are...

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