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Avaryce: Thelemic Change & Laws

To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.thelema,talk.religion.misc
From: tyaginator 
Subject: Avaryce: Thelemic Change & Laws
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:48:29 GMT

[posted to thelema93-l@yahoogroups.com by "Avaryce" ]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

>> any examples of pre-Crowleyan Thelemic Laws?

From Gargantua & Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais (149(0-4) - 1553)
The First Book, chapter 57 "The Rules according to which the
Thélèmites lived"

       "All their life was regulated not by laws, statues, or rules, but
	according to their free will and pleasure.  They rose from bed when they
	pleased, and drank, ate, worked, and slept when the fancy seized them.
	Nobody woke them; nobody compelled them either to eat or to drink, or to do
	anything else whatever.  So it was that Garganuta had established it.  In
	their rules, there was only one clause:

       "DO WHAT YOU WILL

       "because people who are free, well-born, well-bred, and easy in honest
	company have a natural spur and instinct which drives them to virtuous deeds
	and deflects them from vice; and this they called honour.  When these same
	men are depressed and enslaved by vile constraint and subjection, they use
	this noble quality which once impelled them freely towards virtue, to throw
	off and break this yoke of slavery.  For we always strive after things
	forbidden and covet what is denied us."

Not only pre-Crowley, but somewhat more compelling, as well.

Jesse Krenzelok
www.magusbooks.com

Love is the law, love under will.

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