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The following are sources listed in the article that are not actually used (referred to). Putting them here in case anyone needs them later.
Crowley, Aleister (1910). "Liber XIII vel Graduum Montis Abiegni". The Equinox. 1 (3–4). United Kingdom: Mandrake Press & Holmes: 5 ff.
Crowley, Aleister (1919a). "De Lege Libellum". The Equinox: The Review of Scientific Illuminism. 3 (1). Detroit: Ordo Templi Orientis, Thelema Publications: 99 ff.
Crowley, Aleister (1973). The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley: Three Texts. New York: Samuel Weiser. ISBN0-87728-222-6. OCLC821060.
U.D., Frater (2005). High Magic: Theory & Practice. Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN0-7387-0471-7.
Urban, Hugh B. (2012). "The Occult Roots of Scientology?: L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the Origins of a Controversial New Religion". Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 15 (3): 91–116. doi:10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.91. JSTOR10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.91.
Urban, Hugh B. (2017). Lewis, James R. (ed.). "Secrets, secrets, SECRETS!" Concealment, Surveillance, and Information-Control in the Church of Scientology. Handbook of Scientology. Leiden: Brill. ISBN978-9004328716.
@Grorp: Thanks for calling attention to those. The sources at the end in your list regarding the relationship between Thelema and Scientology were added by me years ago as references in-text. Obviously someone has removed the relevant text but for some reason left in the references. (I have not monitored this article for a long time.) I had long planned on adding a new section to the article about the immense influence that Thelema has had on religions, philosophies, and other movements and ideologies that came after the advent of Thelema. Those ideologies are as diverse as Wicca, Neopaganism, some variants of Satanism (which is unfortunate in my opinion, as, unlike Thelema, Satanism is a philosophy of narcissism, but I digress...), the New Age movement, 1960s counterculture, and the hippie movement, among many, many countless other ideologies and belief systems. One could potentially even argue that the modern gay rights movement wouldn't have happened without Thelema.
Thelema has also been argued by many scholars of Religion to have been one of many influences on the development of Scientology. (For example, it is a well-documented fact that the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, was an early member of the O.T.O. and likely even knew Crowley personally.) This fact makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, both Thelemites who are afraid that this association will make people think that Thelema is a "cult", and Scientologists who are afraid that people will negatively associate Scientology with occultism. (The Church of Scientology officially denies that L. Ron Hubbard was ever associated with Thelema or Crowley, despite virtually undeniable evidence to the contrary.) I originally had a sentence or two in the intro of the article mentioning that Thelema had been an influence on the development of many diverse belief systems, Scientology among them. This angered some people, either people who thought it made Thelema look "bad" or people who thought it made Scientology look "bad", so I assume one of those such people removed it somewhere along the way but for some reason either intentionally, or more likely unintentionally, forgot to also remove the references.
My intention was always to create a new large section of the article, perhaps even an entirely new article, documenting the vast influence that Thelema has had on society and other religious movements, but years go by faster than I ever imagined they would and it is one of countless tasks that I intended to do but never got around to. And for the record, my position is to be neither pro- nor anti-Scientology, nor pro- nor anti-Thelema when it comes to Wikipedia. My intent is to neutrally, factually, and without bias document the vast and often hidden impact that Thelema has had on the course of history and society. It's truly remarkable just how many seemingly unrelated things in society and culture can trace their roots back to Thelema.
Writing the section--or hopefully an entire article--is still something I intend to do eventually. But for now, I'm just giving some backstory as to an explanation for at least part of that list of orphan references. I wonder if the other sources you listed may have become unused in the article for similar reasons: because they didn't fit with someone's personal bias/opinions/beliefs. Vontheri (talk) 23:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You did a good job adding citations and/or citation-needed tags to each entry. Still not sure why it needs its own article. I cannot imagine it will ever grow. There are only 36 items on the list (10 still uncited). That's not a lot. Also, the letter section headings are distracting; it's a far more interesting list to just scroll through, not search. Below is a better rendition (if you put the # back to *; I used it to count the entries). ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 05:12, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
^Shoemaker, David (2022). Living Thelema: A Practical Guide to Attainment in Aleister Crowley's System of Magick. Red Wheel/Weiser. p. 271. ISBN978-1578637799.
^Thompson, Cath (2018). All This and a Book. Hadean Press Limited. ISBN978-1-907881-78-7.
^Grant, Kenneth (1980). Outside the Circles of Time. Muller. ISBN978-0584104684. Contains a lengthy account of the writing of Nema's Liber Pennae Praenumbra.
^"Official bio". Noname Jane's Official Site. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
^Beta, Hymenaeus (2008). "Foreword" to Three Essays on Freedom (J.W. Parsons). York Beach, Maine: Teitan Press. pp. x–xi. ISBN978-0-933429-11-6.
^Parsons, John Whiteside (2008). Three Essays on Freedom. York Beach, Maine: Teitan Press. p. 67. ISBN978-0-933429-11-6.
^Wasserman, James (2012). In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966-1989. Lake Worth, FL: Ibis Press. p. 187. ISBN978-0-89254-201-7.
^Wicker, Christine (2005). Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America. HarperSanFrancisco. pp. 207–236. ISBN0-06-072678-4.
^Wolfe, Jane (2008). Jane Wolfe: The Cefalu Diaries 1920 - 1923. Temple of the Silver Star. ISBN978-0997668636.
Um, it's still a living religion. Why would you think the list would never grow? There are a number of living people on the list, and there are most likely articles that could be added if support were added to the relevant articles. I'm sorry you're distracted by the alphabet, but I see no reason to change the headings. Not sure why you are discussing it here rather than there. Skyerise (talk) 08:32, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]