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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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Among other claims, Geonget proposes that Pantagruelism is more Christian than Stoic (disagreeing with Screech), and based on epikeia (equity); that the name Bacbuc in the Fifth Book includes the syllable buc, which means perplexity in Hebrew, and should be related to the witch Baboue; that agilles is a key word for Evangelicals and for Rabelais; and that we are intended to see the Abbey of Thelema as the Heavenly Jerusalem, and in a sense as the center of the world.
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He travelled widely, settling for some years in Sicily with a group of disciples at the Abbey of Thelema.
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