Talk:Michele Moramarco

Notability/sourcing on other pages
I created this page since there is a page on this author on Italian Wikipedia. However the various mentions on English Wikipedia are unsourced and of questionable notability, so moved here.In ictu oculi (talk) 04:49, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * The fact that someone has a page on the Italian Wikipedia does not mean they should have one on the English Wikipedia (different rules). This guy does not seem to pass the requirements set out at WP:AUTHOR. The fact that he "leads" the "Real Ordine degli Antichi Liberi e Accettati Muratori" (Royal Order of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons) sounds impressive at first glance, but in reality isn't.  It's a tiny self-created splinter group.  Blueboar (talk) 20:27, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Blueboar. Yep. In fact that's actually exactly what it sounds like to my sceptical ears :) ...in creating this page it wasn't just that there's an it.wikipedia page, you're right, that in itself means little. I was mainly being pragmatic. In terms of an Italian writers there is as much notability here as for some other Italian writers with English Wikipedia entries (check the category) although in non-Italian sources (English, Czech, Polish, German, French) the notability is only established for being the editor of Nuova Enciclopedia Massonica, Reggio Emilia, Centro di Studi Albert Schweitzer, 1989 mentioned NOT for this group above - the other items are non-notable. The page being here allows content which has been appearing here from editors in Italy (which I do not mind, I edit on Italian Wikipedia, so why not) on these articles below: Freemasonry I know zero about (apart from Mozart which doesn't count). But as the editor of an encyclopedia that is getting cited in academic works, any encyclopedia, this writer is as notable as several other writers in the Italian writer category. The masonic material, be my guest and go round the articles and challenge/delete as appropriate. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:46, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I have asked for input from the Freemasonry Project (if anyone knows about this guy, they are likely to be the ones). Blueboar (talk) 14:17, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

From Zoroastrianism
Mazdean-Christian Universalism

In the last decade of the 20th century, a group of American and Italian members of the Universalist Church of America, dissatisfied with the liberal trends which had taken over the denomination in the USA after the merger with the Unitarians and basing their researches on the findings of the German school of history of religions headed by Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), started asserting that the essence of Christianity is to be found in the injection of Zoroastrian ideas (a benevolent vision of God, the presence of an evil agency in the world, etc.) into the Jewish religion. A Mazdean-Christian theology was developed, which was first exposed in the columns of the Brooklyn Universalist Christian and then in a book, Il Mazdeismo Universale, written by the Italian scholar Michele Moramarco. A Mazdean-Christian Alliance was formed in March 2010.

From Universalism
Zoroastrianism

Clear universalist trends appear in the Zoroastrian scriptures, especially in the Farvardin Yasht where the followers of Zarathushtra are enjoined to revere the wise and righteous of all countries. During the Parthian era, Zoroastrianism had strong links with Hellenistic cults, and its dualistic teachings were blended into early Christian Gnosticism. Even during the Sasanian era, despite the heavy orthodox stances imposed by the Zoroastrian clergy, representatives of diverse religious and philosophical schools were occasionally gathered at Court to discuss theological questions with the most learned Zoroastrian mobeds (priests). By the end of the nineteenth century, many Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians) were influenced by Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy, with its universalist esotericism. Lately (2008), a Universalist Zoroastrian group, Ohrmazd Mandal (The Circle of God), was started by Michele Moramarco, an Italian scholar who had been long connected with British Unitarianism and American Universalism. The devotional book of this group, though based on the Avesta (the Zoroastrian Holy Scripture),included prayers and texts from different spiritual sources (Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Buddhist, Hindu, etc.). In 2011 the group melted with the Mazdean Christian Alliance.

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