Talk:Western esotericism

This is insane new age crackpot talk. The article is hopelesss; it yelds to nothing and speaks in the vacuum. It simply states there is a unified mystery tradition without giving ONE empirical evidence, either for the whole thing, or a single doctrine.

I agree. I have done a great deal of research in this topic, and this page is basically worthless.

NPOV

The authors opinion at the end of the summary should be fixed. WP:NPOV

Dragon Rouge consider themselves to be a Left Hand Path organization and as such share no common ground with the Western Mystery Tradition, for this reason link has been removed. Should one want to include Dragon Rouge they would also need to include the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set.

Please show me a reference that shows that the whole concept of Left and Right Hand paths is NOT part of the WMT. WMT includes both the left and right hand paths of the western traditions, just as the eastern mysteries also include their left handed pratitioners. -999 (Talk) 16:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Strictly speaking the Western Mystery Tradition is the continuation of the Mystery Religions and in this context Satanism and the western Left Hand Path are too modern. It is widley known within the Occult community that LHP considers itself to be working at odds (see The Satanic Bible) with those who claim to comprise the Western Mystery Tradition (Rosicrucians, etc.) and while one could argue that Tantra has Mystical aims it is part of the Eastern Tradition. For reference please see M.P. Hall's "The Secret doctrine of all ages" (Chapters I,II and III). In response please show me a reference that the LHP considers *itself* part of the Mystery tradition. Frater Sepa

Thoughts on deleting the sections under the History heading and writing one complete historical overview? Frater Sepa