Abbey of Thelema

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Abbey of Thelema

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

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In 1920 he established the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Sicily where he lived with various followers until his libertine lifestyle saw him evicted by the Italian Government three years later.

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Koester's silent film Morning of the Magicians, 2005, recounts his visit to the Abbey of Thelema, a dwelling in Cefalu, Sicily, named as such by Crowley and his followers in 1920, where until mid-1923 they practiced an unusual philosophy that mixed communitarian living with magic.

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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. Rumours of drug abuse, orgies, and magical ceremonies led to his expulsion from Italy.

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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.