Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Treatise on White Magic


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The result was   keep. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:35, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

A Treatise on White Magic

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This article is an unnecessary content fork of Alice A. Bailey about a book written by her. This book does not meet the notability requirements of WP:BK. If this page were considered necessary and encyclopaedic then we would leave the door open to creating separate pages for all the other writings and concepts she published during her lifetime that she claimed were telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom. Ash (talk) 07:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. This would appear to be one of Alice A. Bailey's more important and better known books.  A rudimentary Google Books search reveals multiple instances of substantial discussion and critical commentary by multiple, independent authors..  Some of these writers are scholars researching the history of "channeling" and similar subjects.  Unfortunately, not enough excerpts of some of them are online to enable this article to be expanded immediately, but it fairly clearly meets the books notability guideline.  The slippery slope argument and remarks about the texts being "telepathically dictated" would appear to indicate a scientistic or positivist bias. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * (bias) I have struck the telepathy mention from the nomination as you think it introduces bias. I would point out that this was a factual comment based on Bailey's own explanation of her work in her own words as repeated in her publications and as documented on the Alice A. Bailey page, this was not intended as deliberate bias. I have removed it to avoid any confusion on the matter.—Ash (talk) 15:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep It is an important work having to do with the occult comparable to Aleister Crowley's 1912 book Magick, which also mentions the Great White Brotherhood, and to the 1971 work of Isaac Bonewits. Keraunos (talk) 06:36, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
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