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Contents 1 Great work 2 Major Arcana articles 3 Timothy Wyllie 4 the 7 'planes,' i.e. worlds (continuums in the universe, not planets) 5 Hermetism article

[edit] Great work

The page and the user boxes look great. I'm glad this project was able to be kept up while I've been offline. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 09:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Major Arcana articles

The Tarot Major Arcana series seem to have an awful lot of unsourced material that is laying there for almost 2 years (eg. The Magician). Could anyone please check possible sources for it? I do not have many books I can go through myself. --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. (talk) 00:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I have Waite's book, but if anyone else does feel free to beat me to this.--Dchmelik (talk) 13:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Timothy Wyllie

This is an article started recently, but the original editor has now left, and needs a lot of work. From what I gather he has published information on "non-human intelligences" such as angels. Would this fall under the remit here? Paulbrock (talk) 17:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Making a quick read of the article, I think it is more under the scope of WikiProject Paranormal. --Legion fi (talk) 04:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] the 7 'planes,' i.e. worlds (continuums in the universe, not planets)

Most of the Theosophy plane (metaphysics) articles are part of this project, including the physical, though the astral is not, and the higher ones are (including the rest that I lately made articles on.) I am wondering if it was right to add those to the project, but why the astral is not listed, or if I should not have added the rest of the higher ones so quickly.--Dchmelik (talk) 13:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to see anyone disagree with any of it being included. Theosophy, astral, planes of existence, etc. These are all topics that in some way or another fall under occult, whether through the medium of esoterica or from somewhere else. I for one support it. — _Maggot^Syn 13:31, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks; I just started joining projects so I do not know how they work... I also made a mental projection article, and I am not sure if it is more of 'paranormal activity' or if occult activities count--I consider it occult, though I will only add it if astral projection is already here.--Dchmelik (talk) 13:47, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Projects are just ways to get editors together, to share opinions on a particular topic that helps to build the pedia, or something similar along those lines. I can think of a number of different topics that deal with mental projection aside from theosophy, but also have to do with the occult. The Kybalion and The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn come to mind right off the bat. Welcome to the project. We speak rarely around here. — _Maggot^Syn 14:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hermetism article

I noticed the 'to do: improve' section lists Hermetism and perhaps Hermeticism article, and says they were deleted, but now they are there. Should the request be removed, or are there statements that should be put in the new article? It does seem to have the basics.--Dchmelik (talk) 17:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)