Talk:Paschal Beverly Randolph

Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 07:45, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

from article: ''However, the major difference between Randolph's sex magic and that of Reuss and Crowley is that Randolph was working from a standpoint of gender parity and the latter were male-centered exclusively. In practical terms, this means that Randolph sought to produce spiritual and magical effects through prayers or invocations agreed upon prior to the mutual orgasm of both partners ("the nuptive moment"), whereas Reuss and Crowley believed that women were little more than passive vehicles for male spiritual attainment and the male orgasm.''

Citations? Some of this seems easy enough to show by quotation, but not the word "exclusively" or the implicaton that Reuss and Crowley rejected Randolph's method. I think I could show that this distorts AC's words somewhat, and I've seen conflicting claims about Reuss. Dan 18:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

African America?
His biography is clear that he was NOT African American. SO what's going on here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.97.174.71 (talk) 11:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Citation please? --Rodneyorpheus (talk) 17:49, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Death
I recently came across Lucus County Probate Court records. Based of these, which I cited in the article, I have entered a possible new age for Randolph and also that the assessor in the Probate Records 1:254 list the death as accidental. Sorry, I previously put suicide. I also have the plot number of Randolph's unmarked grave in Forest Cemetery (Mulberry Street, Toledo) as Section H, Lot 120, Grave No. 3. The grave was visited to make certain it was unmarked. Royalhistorian (talk) 03:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * "R. Swinburne Clymer, a later Supreme Master of the Fraternitas, stated that years after Randolph's demise, in a death-bed confession, a former friend of Randolph had conceded that in a state of jealousy and temporary insanity, he had killed Randolph." This was told to the writer in an interview with the late Grand Master Dr. Gerald E. Poesnecker in Memphis, Tennessee. Royalhistorian (talk) 04:58, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Malagasy heritage
If he was of partial Malagasy heritage, why is this not mentioned even a single time in the text of the current version of this article? 76.190.213.189 (talk) 20:51, 30 December 2023 (UTC)