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2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Updated: February 4, 2024 EV</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">This style guide is intended for use in preparing all official publications of U.S. Grand Lodge, O.T.O., with </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Agapé</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">, and the U.S.G.L. website as primary examples. The guide is for new, contemporary texts issued by Grand Lodge. Historical documents, even ones created within living memory, have used other style choices; these should be preserved when they are quoted or reproduced. For issues not addressed in this style guide, refer to </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">The Chicago Manual of Style</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">.</span></p><br><div id="h.nf2o08lz0748" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.nf2o08lz0748_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-top: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt;"><div jscontroller="Ae65rd" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" class="CjVfdc"><div class="PPhIP rviiZ" jsname="haAclf"><div role="presentation" class="U26fgb mUbCce fKz7Od LRAOtb Znu9nd M9Bg4d" jscontroller="mxS5xe" jsaction="click:cOuCgd; mousedown:UX7yZ; mouseup:lbsD7e; mouseenter:tfO1Yc; mouseleave:JywGue; 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font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Frequently Used O.T.O. and Thelemic Terms</span></div></h2><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">brethren</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Not capitalized.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">brother(s), sisters(s), sibling(s)</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Not capitalized unless preceding the civil.name(s) of a member or a list of members.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Camp, Oasis, Lodge</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalized when used as local body category names.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Chapter</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize when referring to a body of Rose Croix.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Camp Master, Oasis Master, Lodge Master</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Rather than Campmaster, etc. </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">See</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> master and past master for capitalization style.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">committee</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Do not capitalize unless used in a proper noun (e.g. Committee of Four, Conference Committee </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">but</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> “that is what the committee decided”).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Committee of Four</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize when referring to the committee described in </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber CXCIV</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">; when calling it "the Committee of Four," do not capitalize "the."</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Degree</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Capitalize when part of a specific degree title, (e.g. “Minerval Degree,” “Third Degree,” “Rose Croix Degree”). Do not capitalize for a generic initiation, e.g.: “Abbreviations of numbered degrees should always use a Roman numeral and the degree symbol: I° or IX°. Do not use Arabic numerals or substitute asterisks for degree symbols. Do not use semi-abbreviations such as 2nd Degree.”</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.)</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Omit "the" (i.e., "E.G.C." rather than "the E.G.C."). In body text, include periods but omit spaces (i.e., "E.G.C." rather than "EGC" or "E. G. C."). </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Electoral College (E.C.)</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Capitalize when referring to a specific college. (e.g., "the U.S.G.L. Electoral College; note "the" is not capitalized. In "there are now at least three electoral colleges in the world," it is not capitalized.)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Hermit Triad: </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Rather than "Hermit's Triad" or similar.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">High Priestess</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize when referring to the office within a Chapter of Rose Croix.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">initiate(s)</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Not capitalized.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Knight of the East and West: </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">When pluralization is necessary, use (1) "Knights of the East and West" or (2) K.E.W. (not “K.E.W.s”).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">local body</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Not capitalized. Avoid the term “local body” when a more specific one (Camp, Oasis, Lodge) can be applied. Even then, “local group” or “official organization” may be preferable.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">local master, master, past master</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Not capitalized for general use, but capitalized when used as a proper noun, e.g., "reporting is the responsibility of the local master," "Soror A.U.M., Past Master of the Lodge," and, "past masters of Lodges are often more than willing to help with the ongoing work of the Lodge." Not “body” master.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Lover Triad</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Rather than "Lover's Triad" or similar.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">magical, magician</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Omit the “k,” it is not "magickal," "magickian;" it is not capitalized.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">magick</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Is both a noun (“techniques of magick”) and an adjective (“magick wand”).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Man of Earth Triad</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Rather than Man-of-Earth Triad (never “Men of Earth Triad”); always capitalized as shown.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Minerval (and any other degree titles)</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize; italicize when referring to the ritual text.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Most Wise Sovereign</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize when referring to the office within a Chapter of Rose Croix.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Novitiate, novice</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: "Novitiate" is the name of the program, and is capitalized; "novice" is the term for a particular person undergoing training for service in the clergy, and is not capitalized. E.g., "Soror A.U.M. is a novice priestess in the Novitiate Program of the E.G.C." </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">See</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> "master, past master" for capitalization style. “Novice,” like “magick,” is both a noun and an adjective.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">O.T.O.</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Omit "the" (i.e., "O.T.O." rather than "the O.T.O."). In body text, include periods but omit spaces (i.e., "O.T.O." rather than "OTO" or "O. T. O."). </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Order: </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">capitalize when referring to the organization.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">priest, priestess, deacon, deacon-sacerdote, bishop, child, children</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: These words are not capitalized unless used in a proper noun, e.g., "Everyone who knows Bishop Pelagius knows a bishop of the E.G.C." </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">See also</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://admin.oto-usa.org/styles-of-address-egc" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">Styles of Address: EGC</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">. Also capitalize when referring to a ritual office in </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber XV</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">, e.g., “In </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber XV</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">, the Children hand ritual implements to the Priestess and the Priest.”</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Rose Croix</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize. Do not hyphenate or use + between the full words when referring to the body of initiates described in </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber CXCIV</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">, e.g. “members of the Lover Triad are part of the Rose Croix.” When abbreviated as part of a Chapter name, a + should appear between the letters, e.g. "Proserpente Chapter R+C."</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">S.G.I.G</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">.: When pluralization is necessary, use (1) "Sovereign Grand Inspectors General" or (2) S.G.I.G. (not “S.G.I.G.s”).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Sovereign Grand Inspector(s) General</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Tau vs. T</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Use either, following the preference of the specific bishop. If used posthumously, attempt to find an example of the bishop's preference in their own writing; if no such example exists, or for non-specific use, "T" (and, if applicable, TT) is standard, with no period.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Thelema, Thelemite, Thelemic</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Always capitalize.</span></p></li></ul><div id="h.lpv9zfedoa2h" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.lpv9zfedoa2h_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-top: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt;"><div jscontroller="Ae65rd" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" class="CjVfdc"><div class="PPhIP rviiZ" jsname="haAclf"><div role="presentation" class="U26fgb mUbCce fKz7Od LRAOtb Znu9nd M9Bg4d" jscontroller="mxS5xe" jsaction="click:cOuCgd; mousedown:UX7yZ; mouseup:lbsD7e; mouseenter:tfO1Yc; mouseleave:JywGue; focus:AHmuwe; blur:O22p3e; contextmenu:mg9Pef;" jsshadow aria-describedby="h.lpv9zfedoa2h_l" aria-label="Copy heading link" aria-disabled="false" data-tooltip="Copy heading link" aria-hidden="true" data-tooltip-position="top" data-tooltip-vertical-offset="12" data-tooltip-horizontal-offset="0"><a class="FKF6mc TpQm9d" href="#h.lpv9zfedoa2h" aria-label="Copy heading link" jsname="hiK3ld" role="button" aria-describedby="h.lpv9zfedoa2h_l"><div class="VTBa7b MbhUzd" jsname="ksKsZd"></div><span jsslot class="xjKiLb"><span class="Ce1Y1c" style="top: -11px"><svg class="OUGEr QdAdhf" width="22px" height="22px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" focusable="false"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M3.9 12c0-1.71 1.39-3.1 3.1-3.1h4V7H7c-2.76 0-5 2.24-5 5s2.24 5 5 5h4v-1.9H7c-1.71 0-3.1-1.39-3.1-3.1zM8 13h8v-2H8v2zm9-6h-4v1.9h4c1.71 0 3.1 1.39 3.1 3.1s-1.39 3.1-3.1 3.1h-4V17h4c2.76 0 5-2.24 5-5s-2.24-5-5-5z"/></svg></span></span></a></div></div><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #537391; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Civil and Magical Names</span></div></h2><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Civil names of O.T.O. members may optionally be preceded by the terms Brother, Sister, or Sibling. Magical names should be preceded at least on the first reference with the terms Frater or Soror; siblings may choose Fratrem or Cognatum optionally. After first use in a given document, these terms may be abbreviated as Fr., Sr., Frm. or Co., respectively.</span></p><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Brother, Sister, Sibling</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Used with civil names.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Frater, Soror, Fratrem or Cognatum</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Used with magical names or mottoes.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Fratres, Sorores, or, Cognata: </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Plural forms to be used with magical names or mottoes.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Abbreviations (Fr., Sr., Frm. or Co.)</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">: Uses include:</span></p><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Tables of contents, lists of U.S.G.L. officers, and similar contexts.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">After the first reference (e.g. "Soror" written in full) in a document.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">In contexts requiring unusual brevity, as determined by authors and editors.</span></p></li></ul></li></ul><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">When crediting a writer on the page where their submission appears, their name is listed exactly as in their submission, which may or may not include a fraternal title of any kind.</span></p><div id="h.ig095rin2i4l" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.ig095rin2i4l_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; 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font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Internet References</span></div></h2><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Hyperlinks should normally appear with appropriate anchor text, with the underlying URL invisible. E.g., to direct readers to the U.S.G.L. Treasury website, it is better to write "Further information is available on the</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://treasury.oto-usa.org/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">U.S.G.L. Treasury website</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">" than "Further information is available at</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://treasury.oto-usa.org/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">https://treasury.oto-usa.org/</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">." If an entire site is best referenced by its domain name, use the freestanding domain name as the hyperlinked text. E.g., "The best source of information about the U.S.G.L. Treasury is</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://treasury.oto-usa.org/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">treasury.oto-usa.org</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">."</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Email addresses should be rendered in visible form as a hyperlink to a mailto:</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">URL for that address (e.g., "Contact us at </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">webmaster@oto-usa.org</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> if you have comments"). Not all browser configurations handle mailto URLs properly; making the address visible allows users to fall back to copying and pasting the address.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">When referring to internet resources in printed text:</span></p><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">When referring to an entire website, only the site's domain name should appear, underlined. E.g. "More information can be found at</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://treasury.oto-usa.org/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">treasury.oto-usa.org</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">."</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">URLs and e-mail addresses are underlined. Simplify URLs as much as possible; this typically includes dropping the protocol specifier (http:// or https://) and trimming trailing characters if the result is still functional -- e.g. "</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://oto-usa.org/locations/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">oto-usa.org/locations</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">" rather than "</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://oto-usa.org/locations/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">https://oto-usa.org/locations/</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">." </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Capitalization of email and website addresses. Use lowercase for email addresses and domain names. The path part of the URL (following the domain name) can be mixed case and should be reproduced verbatim.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Always manually confirm that web and email addresses that will appear in print work when typed verbatim into a browser or email client.</span></p></li></ul><div id="h.4jvnacrwa8ys" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.4jvnacrwa8ys_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-top: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt;"><div jscontroller="Ae65rd" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" class="CjVfdc"><div class="PPhIP rviiZ" jsname="haAclf"><div role="presentation" class="U26fgb mUbCce fKz7Od LRAOtb Znu9nd M9Bg4d" jscontroller="mxS5xe" jsaction="click:cOuCgd; mousedown:UX7yZ; mouseup:lbsD7e; mouseenter:tfO1Yc; mouseleave:JywGue; focus:AHmuwe; blur:O22p3e; contextmenu:mg9Pef;" jsshadow aria-describedby="h.4jvnacrwa8ys_l" aria-label="Copy heading link" aria-disabled="false" data-tooltip="Copy heading link" aria-hidden="true" data-tooltip-position="top" data-tooltip-vertical-offset="12" data-tooltip-horizontal-offset="0"><a class="FKF6mc TpQm9d" href="#h.4jvnacrwa8ys" aria-label="Copy heading link" jsname="hiK3ld" role="button" aria-describedby="h.4jvnacrwa8ys_l"><div class="VTBa7b MbhUzd" jsname="ksKsZd"></div><span jsslot class="xjKiLb"><span class="Ce1Y1c" style="top: -11px"><svg class="OUGEr QdAdhf" width="22px" height="22px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" focusable="false"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M3.9 12c0-1.71 1.39-3.1 3.1-3.1h4V7H7c-2.76 0-5 2.24-5 5s2.24 5 5 5h4v-1.9H7c-1.71 0-3.1-1.39-3.1-3.1zM8 13h8v-2H8v2zm9-6h-4v1.9h4c1.71 0 3.1 1.39 3.1 3.1s-1.39 3.1-3.1 3.1h-4V17h4c2.76 0 5-2.24 5-5s-2.24-5-5-5z"/></svg></span></span></a></div></div><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #537391; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Abbreviations</span></div></h2><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Write each term in full once before using an abbreviation. The abbreviation may appear in parentheses following that first use for added clarity. E.g. "Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) is a religious organization. Through E.G.C, we provide..." On a public website, this should be done on each page (as there is no predicting which page a visitor will read first).</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Abbreviations in which each letter is spoken separately should be written with periods following each letter (e.g., E.G.C., O.T.O., U.S.G.L.). Abbreviations that are spoken as single words (acronyms) should be written without periods (e.g., NOTOCON).</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Common noun abbreviations that are used in the plural may omit periods (e.g., "URLs"). Avoid such constructions if it is not overly cumbersome or confusing to spell out the abbreviation. E.g., "Uniform Resource Locator" is not a widely recognized term, but URL is; on the other hand, "Powers That Be" is better than "PTBs."</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">As a special case, the abbreviation for </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">era vulgaris</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> is EV (no periods, small capitals if possible). It should be separated by a space from the date to which it applies (e.g., "January 2, 1987 EV").</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">The abbreviation for </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Mysteria Maxima Mystica</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> should be written with Masonic-style triple-points (M∴M∴M∴), as should the name A∴A∴ and the degree abbreviations P∴M∴ and P∴I∴. (NB: The "M" abbreviations for the first through third degrees are archaic; but if they are used they should take one, two, and three dots respectively, as shown in</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="http://lib.oto-usa.org/libri/liber0052.html" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Liber LII</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">.) No other abbreviations should be written with Masonic-style triple-points to indicate abbreviation except in quoting material which did so in the original text. The Masonic-style triple-points do not constitute punctuation and should be followed with a period when they occur at the end of a sentence.</span></p><div id="h.f5pbakpbxt90" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.f5pbakpbxt90_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-top: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt;"><div jscontroller="Ae65rd" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" class="CjVfdc"><div class="PPhIP rviiZ" jsname="haAclf"><div role="presentation" class="U26fgb mUbCce fKz7Od LRAOtb Znu9nd M9Bg4d" jscontroller="mxS5xe" jsaction="click:cOuCgd; mousedown:UX7yZ; mouseup:lbsD7e; mouseenter:tfO1Yc; mouseleave:JywGue; focus:AHmuwe; blur:O22p3e; contextmenu:mg9Pef;" jsshadow aria-describedby="h.f5pbakpbxt90_l" aria-label="Copy heading link" aria-disabled="false" data-tooltip="Copy heading link" aria-hidden="true" data-tooltip-position="top" data-tooltip-vertical-offset="12" data-tooltip-horizontal-offset="0"><a class="FKF6mc TpQm9d" href="#h.f5pbakpbxt90" aria-label="Copy heading link" jsname="hiK3ld" role="button" aria-describedby="h.f5pbakpbxt90_l"><div class="VTBa7b MbhUzd" jsname="ksKsZd"></div><span jsslot class="xjKiLb"><span class="Ce1Y1c" style="top: -11px"><svg class="OUGEr QdAdhf" width="22px" height="22px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" focusable="false"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M3.9 12c0-1.71 1.39-3.1 3.1-3.1h4V7H7c-2.76 0-5 2.24-5 5s2.24 5 5 5h4v-1.9H7c-1.71 0-3.1-1.39-3.1-3.1zM8 13h8v-2H8v2zm9-6h-4v1.9h4c1.71 0 3.1 1.39 3.1 3.1s-1.39 3.1-3.1 3.1h-4V17h4c2.76 0 5-2.24 5-5s-2.24-5-5-5z"/></svg></span></span></a></div></div><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #537391; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Date Format</span></div></h2><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Common calendar dates:</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> Use long date format (e.g., January 23, 2005 EV) when space permits.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial; font-weight: 700;">Thelemic dates:</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> Use astrological symbols where possible. </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">See</span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://oto-usa.org/thelema/calendar/" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;">the Thelemic calendar page</span></a><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> on the public U.S.G.L. website for more information and resources.</span></p></li></ul><div id="h.hvopqivhqdcw" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.hvopqivhqdcw_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; 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font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Titles</span></div></h2><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Titles of publications, recordings, and other media should be capitalized and italicized. Additionally, nicknames, short names, or translations of titles, when used in place of those titles, will be treated as titles; that is, capitalized and italicized. Examples:</span></p><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber OZ</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> is also known as the </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Rights of Man</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber OZ</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> is a listing of the various rights of man, using words with only one syllable. ("Rights of Man" is not being used in this instance in place of a title.)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 15.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">I recited the </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Rights of Man</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">.</span></p></li></ul></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber XV </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">is the title of a document, not the name of the ritual as performed, which is the Gnostic Mass. E.g., “The ritual text of the Gnostic Mass may be found in </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Liber XV.</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">”</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Titles of classes, presentations, seminars, etc. are headline-capitalized. No quotes, no italics, unless something within the title requires it. (e.g., "An Introduction to </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">The</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">Book of Thoth</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> by Aleister Crowley"). </span></p></li></ul><div id="h.uoojz8xhg4se" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.uoojz8xhg4se_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-top: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt;"><div jscontroller="Ae65rd" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" class="CjVfdc"><div class="PPhIP rviiZ" jsname="haAclf"><div role="presentation" class="U26fgb mUbCce fKz7Od LRAOtb Znu9nd M9Bg4d" jscontroller="mxS5xe" jsaction="click:cOuCgd; mousedown:UX7yZ; mouseup:lbsD7e; mouseenter:tfO1Yc; mouseleave:JywGue; focus:AHmuwe; blur:O22p3e; contextmenu:mg9Pef;" jsshadow aria-describedby="h.uoojz8xhg4se_l" aria-label="Copy heading link" aria-disabled="false" data-tooltip="Copy heading link" aria-hidden="true" data-tooltip-position="top" data-tooltip-vertical-offset="12" data-tooltip-horizontal-offset="0"><a class="FKF6mc TpQm9d" href="#h.uoojz8xhg4se" aria-label="Copy heading link" jsname="hiK3ld" role="button" aria-describedby="h.uoojz8xhg4se_l"><div class="VTBa7b MbhUzd" jsname="ksKsZd"></div><span jsslot class="xjKiLb"><span class="Ce1Y1c" style="top: -11px"><svg class="OUGEr QdAdhf" width="22px" height="22px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" focusable="false"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M3.9 12c0-1.71 1.39-3.1 3.1-3.1h4V7H7c-2.76 0-5 2.24-5 5s2.24 5 5 5h4v-1.9H7c-1.71 0-3.1-1.39-3.1-3.1zM8 13h8v-2H8v2zm9-6h-4v1.9h4c1.71 0 3.1 1.39 3.1 3.1s-1.39 3.1-3.1 3.1h-4V17h4c2.76 0 5-2.24 5-5s-2.24-5-5-5z"/></svg></span></span></a></div></div><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #537391; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Occasions</span></div></h2><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Avoid the terms "lesser feast" and "greater feast." For an individual's birth or death, simply use those words or equivalents. For the celebration of a birth, use "feast for life." For a remembrance of a recently deceased individual (i.e. a funeral), use "feast for death." So, for example, it is incorrect to write "Brother Bob celebrated his Greater Feast on June 1," or "Brother Bob celebrated his feast for death on June 1;” it is correct to write "Brother Bob died on June 1, and his friends celebrated his feast for death three days later."</span></p><div id="h.9yjvyb72ps5m" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.9yjvyb72ps5m_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 2.2464; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-top: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt;"><div jscontroller="Ae65rd" jsaction="touchstart:UrsOsc; click:KjsqPd; focusout:QZoaZ; mouseover:y0pDld; mouseout:dq0hvd;fv1Rjc:jbFSOd;CrfLRd:SzACGe;" class="CjVfdc"><div class="PPhIP rviiZ" jsname="haAclf"><div role="presentation" class="U26fgb mUbCce fKz7Od LRAOtb Znu9nd M9Bg4d" jscontroller="mxS5xe" jsaction="click:cOuCgd; mousedown:UX7yZ; mouseup:lbsD7e; mouseenter:tfO1Yc; mouseleave:JywGue; focus:AHmuwe; blur:O22p3e; contextmenu:mg9Pef;" jsshadow aria-describedby="h.9yjvyb72ps5m_l" aria-label="Copy heading link" aria-disabled="false" data-tooltip="Copy heading link" aria-hidden="true" data-tooltip-position="top" data-tooltip-vertical-offset="12" data-tooltip-horizontal-offset="0"><a class="FKF6mc TpQm9d" href="#h.9yjvyb72ps5m" aria-label="Copy heading link" jsname="hiK3ld" role="button" aria-describedby="h.9yjvyb72ps5m_l"><div class="VTBa7b MbhUzd" jsname="ksKsZd"></div><span jsslot class="xjKiLb"><span class="Ce1Y1c" style="top: -11px"><svg class="OUGEr QdAdhf" width="22px" height="22px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" focusable="false"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M3.9 12c0-1.71 1.39-3.1 3.1-3.1h4V7H7c-2.76 0-5 2.24-5 5s2.24 5 5 5h4v-1.9H7c-1.71 0-3.1-1.39-3.1-3.1zM8 13h8v-2H8v2zm9-6h-4v1.9h4c1.71 0 3.1 1.39 3.1 3.1s-1.39 3.1-3.1 3.1h-4V17h4c2.76 0 5-2.24 5-5s-2.24-5-5-5z"/></svg></span></span></a></div></div><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #537391; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">Grammatical Issues</span></div></h2><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Punctuation used after italicized (or underlined, if necessary) title or text is not italicized (or underlined).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">Em-dashes (—) have no space before or after use.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">A comma is placed immediately before a conjunction—usually “and,” “or,” or “nor”—in a series of three or more terms.</span></p></li></ul><div id="h.d1juktg8ftma" class="CobnVe yMxPgf aP9Z7e"></div><h2 id="h.d1juktg8ftma_l" dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q JYVBee CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; 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font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 700;">For More Information</span></div></h2><p dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="line-height: 2.2464;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;">For questions of style and usage, use the following references:</span></p><ul class="n8H08c UVNKR " style="list-style-type: square; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; padding: 0;"><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0.0pt; margin-left: 0.0pt; margin-top: 0.0pt; padding-bottom: 0.0pt; padding-left: 0.0pt; padding-right: 0.0pt; padding-top: 0.0pt; text-indent: 0.0pt;"><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121; font-style: italic;">The Chicago Manual of Style</span><span class="C9DxTc " style="color: #212121;"> (latest edition)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="zfr3Q TYR86d eD0Rn " style="margin-left: 51.0pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="zfr3Q CDt4Ke " style="background-color: transparent; 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