Wikipedia:WikiProject Occult

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This project is a combined effort of interested Wikipedia editors to categorize, expand, and create articles relating to the occult. Please join our discussions on the project talk. WikiProject Occult covers topics, such as: These articles should all be included in the Category:Occult, or one of its subcategories.
 * Magic (Magick): Various supernatural and mystical practices, such as folk magic or the form of ceremonial magic popularized by Aleister Crowley; included are forms of practice known as black and white magic, brujeria, stregeria, hoodoo, and sorcery.
 * Secret organizations: Societies, groups, and organizations that conceal their activities from outsiders.
 * Secret fraternal orders: Those groups and organizations called "secret societies" and esoteric orders.
 * Mystery religions: Societies, groups, and organizations with a belief system based around a mystery.
 * Occultic rituals and theurgy: Rituals and rites which are a part of a ceremony, often composed of long, elaborate, and "hidden" set of actions.
 * Occult terminology: Terms describing practices encountered in esoteric practices, including (but not limited to) supplication or prayers, conjurations, spells, incantations, and cantrips.
 * Occultic knowledge: Arcane knowledge, which includes knowledge that is esoteric or obscure or has deliberately been veiled from common discussion.
 * Occult authors: Writers whose works deal directly rather than sociologically with occult topics, who present instructive or theoretical knowledge that has been "hidden", or who take as their theme a spiritual or magical reality that extends beyond pure reason and the physical sciences.
 * Occult books and pamphlets: Books describing magical beliefs and practices, such as Grimoires, instructions in spell-craft, and Thelemite texts.
 * Symbolism: Representative symbols that carry interpreted meanings in addition to or apart from their use as literal representations of concepts; such symbols may be figurative or they may consist of symbolic meanings applied to common natural objcts, colors, scents, and numbers.

 NOTE :

This is not a project for

(1) Ritual or satanic abuse (Those interested in Satanism should visit WikiProject Religion/Left Hand Path work group. Those interested in abuse should visit WikiProject Crime).

(2) Paranormal activities (Those interested in the Paranormal should visit WikiProject Paranormal).

Featured article candidates

 * Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
 * Aleister Crowley
 * Ordo Templi Orientis

Good articles

 * Thelema

Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections
These articles have been included in one or more release versions of Wikipedia.
 * Astrology