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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org Subject: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. From: sohbet@juno.com (Gideon Ashlayah) Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:48:51 -0500 Cari Amici, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:04:45 PST nigris (333) wrote: ># But there are other attributes: The Thelemites of Rabelais, [...] >please elaborate on these, if you would be so kind. I admittedly >balked at reading Rabelais' 'gargantuous' masterwork which supposedly >contains the essentials of his Thelemic philosophy, mostly because it >was not properly indexed or reviewed to my taste in the books I found >at my local library. I have seldom heard much about his ideas beyond >that he put a frenchy 'Do as you please' over the entrance to his >'Abbe Theleme'. Have you read A.C.'s "The Antecedents of Thelema"? In it he gives [IMO] an intriguing interpretation/analysis of Rabelais' philosophy in relation to Thelema. The copy I have is prefaced with a statement [attributed to A.C.] reading "Our position is that Rabelais was a great adept, a sort of prophet of Thelema." It was published as a serial in three issues of Mezla; I don't know if it has been published elsewhere. [If you're interested, the specific issues are Vol. 1, No. 10 An LXXIII, Vol. 1, No. 11 An LXXIV, & Vol. 1, No. 12 An LXXV.] Love is the law, love under will. Pax vobiscum, Sohbet
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