Thelema is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun : "will", from the verb ????: to will, wish, purpose. Early Christian writings use the word to refer to the will of God,Rabelais, Francis de Sales and the Abbaye de Thélème by Alexander T. Pocetto, O.S. F.S., Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, citing other writers. Online version here, retrieved from July 20, 2006. the human will,e.g. John 1:12-13 and even the will of God's opponent, the Devil.e.g. 2 Timothy 2:26Thelema is also an initially fictional philosophy of life first described by François Rabelais (16th century) in his famous books, Gargantua and Pantagruel.Chappell, Vere. What is Thelema?. Retrieved July 7, 2006. The essence of this philosophy was summarized in the phrase"fay çe que vouldras" ("Fais ce que tu veux," or, "Do what thou wilt"), and this philosophy was later put into practice in the mid 18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood at Medmenham.Mahendranath (1990).This Thelemic Law of Rabelais wa
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