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Abbey of Thelema

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Abbey of Thelema
Rabelais’ vision of the ideal society. [Fr. Lit.: Gargantua, Plumb, 394]
See : Utopia


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While Crowley claimed his signature phrase was dictated to him via a disembodied entity called Aiwass, it can be traced back to both Rabelais (whose Abbey of Thelema in Gargantua and Pantagruel had a similar slogan) and St.
Rabelais's trivial pursuit is often facetious: 217 children's games in 1:22, 63 verbs of violent motion in the third book prologue, 170 adjectives for tired testicles in 3:28; and sometimes serious, as in the detailed description of the Abbey of Thelema.
 
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