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New article possibilities
The following list contains the names of people with entries in the "Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism" who don't appear to have Wikipedia entries yet:


 * Adam Haslmayr
 * Alice Ann Bailey
 * Allen Kardec
 * Arturo Reghini
 * Benedict Franz Xavervon Baader
 * Boris Mouravieff
 * Bô-Yin-Râ
 * Christian Heinrich Haugwitz
 * Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
 * Edouard Schuré
 * Éliphas Lévi
 * Élus Coëns
 * Elxai
 * Eugène Léon Canseliet
 * Fedeli d’Amore
 * François Foix-Candale
 * François-Charles Barlet
 * Frédérick-Rodolphe Saltzmann
 * Gérard Dorn
 * Giovanni da Correggio
 * Guillaume Sedacer
 * Gurdjieff tradition
 * Hermann Fictuld
 * Jacques François Etienne le Boys des Guays
 * Jacques Gohory
 * Jacques-Étienne Marconis de Nègre
 * Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies
 * Jean-Philippe Dutoit-Membrini
 * Johann Friedrich von Meyer
 * Joseph-Aimé Péladan
 * Justin the Gnostic
 * Karlfried Dürckheim
 * Leopold Ziegler
 * Louis Charbonneau-Lassay
 * Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d’ Orléans
 * Marcus the Magician
 * Melchior Douzetemps
 * Niklaus Anton Kirchberger
 * Oscar Rudolf Schlag
 * Paul Sédir
 * Paul-François-Gaspard Lacuria
 * Raimondo di Sangro di San Severo
 * Satornilus
 * Sincerus Renatus
 * Stanislas de Guaïta

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:24, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Is the Paranormal pseudoscience
A discussion has been started at Wikipedia_talk:Categorization. Unomi (talk) 05:52, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Abrahamic Religion and Magic
This section of the Religion and Magic article needs help. There is enough information about the intersection between "Abrahamic" religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) to write several books (and the evidence is that several books have been written on these subjects). But the article is so poorly sourced and poorly organized that it literally gives almost zero practical information. No offense to anybody here who has participated in that section's development. I'd be happy to help, but I'd rather do this in tandem. Most of the articles that address these matters end up quoting Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (by the way, for anybody interested in the Occult, this is a must-read). But articles abound. I will list a few in time. Right now, I have no time. :-D --Kabir Talat (talk) 16:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Just for fun, http://www.gnosis.org/ahp.htm and http://www.gnosis.org/jskabb1.htm are good links that are well-sourced (and soundly denounced by BYU's Prof. Hamblin, for whom I have a good deal of respect). I'm not suggesting that these links form the lion's share of the info in the referenced section - that would be POV in the extreme. I just remembered the links as I was typing the above. At most, Mormonism's treatment of magic/Gnosticism/Hermeticism should take up a paragraph or less. --Kabir Talat (talk) 17:19, 18 May 2010 (UTC)