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I just found this link and thought I would share it!!!

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Permalink Reply by Drakill Tannan on August 25, 2011 at 10:03am

The website looks quite old, and was made by somone with no experience at web-building. I could have done better!
Additionally, it seems more focused in selling things than informing.

Errors i found:

1) First and foremost, stating that wicca and witchcraft are part of the occult, when they belong to the polar oposite: mystisism.

2) Equaling Wicca with witchcraft, witchcraft is simply put sorcerery, wicca is a religion, entirely different things.

3) Implies demons as evil entities, and states that calling upong them does not attack the supremacy of god, as if god was oposite to demons. Not a very pantheistic veiw, sounds more popular-christianlike than occult, or mystic.

4) States the witch hunts were aimed at.. well witches! Ironaically enough they weren't, originally they targeted heretics, so masons are more likely to have been the main target, after that they targeted any political enemy of the church, after the Mallus Maleficarum (or whatevern it is called) it targeted pretty much everyone, people who accused others of being witches got a part of their possetions once they "Witches" were killed, and the church kept 90% of them as well, so you can imagine how things went. The official stoyry is that after the Mallus Maleficarum or whatever, they did target witches, but that's just the cover-up.

5) Could not find any article about Eliphas Levy, Sir Issac Newton nor Cornelius Agrippa

6) King Solomon's article implies he was a pagan witch, he was not. Furthermore it makes little notice of the twin colums of his temple: Jakin and Boas, wich treated in another article are said to be the representation of good and evil, when they in truth repesent the pasive-active polarities. There is also no mention of the Seal of solomon, wich is the Hexagram. In the Hexagram article the picture shown is not the hexagram, rather the Eneagram, a sufi symbol unasociated with the hexagram. Even if it was just the picture screwed up, it makes no mention of the "As above so below" Principle wich it explains, nor does it explain why it represents the Marco-Cosmos, or that it even does.

7) The informaion regarding Hermes Trimegistus is significantly wrong. He was not a composite of the gods Hermes and Thoth, rather Hermes and Thoth were the same god, wich was not a mythical being (or so the documents claim) but rather a person living in Egypt who who is the source of all occultism (not just western, all!). That he is treated as a secondary figure is also off-place, Hermes, the emerald tablet and hermetism should be the main article in an occult wiki. Mind you, there is no mention of the emerald Tabley on the wiki, as far as i could tell.

8) Quotes AMORC as the rosicrucians. I've heard from several people before that AMORC are not the -real- rosicrucians, and have reasons to suspect they are just a highly fanatical cult, but of that i can't be sure. At the very least it should be noted AMORC is but one of the rosicrucian orders. Furthermore there is no Mentino of Max Heindel, writer of the Rosicrucian concept of the cosmos, wich is a key and quite good book on (at least hsi order) the order of the rose cross.

It does get many things right, however, for instance i was worried it would claim the Necronomicon was real. I'd say it is not a deeply researched wikia, and honestly would rather look for reliable information elsewhere though.