High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Abbey of Thelema refers to a small house which was used as a temple and spiritual centre founded by Aleister Crowley and Leah Hirsig in Cefalu, Sicily in 1920.The name was borrowed from Francois Rabelais's satire Gargantua and Pantagruel, where an Abbey of Theleme is described as a sort of "anti-monastery" where the lives of the inhabitants were "spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure." This idealistic utopia was to be the model of Crowley's commune, while also being a type of magical school, giving it the designation "Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum", The College of the Holy Spirit. The general programme was in line with the A?A? course of training, and included daily adorations to the sun, a study of Crowley's writings, regular yogic and ritual practices , as well as general domestic labor. The object was for students to devote themselves to the Great Work of discovering and manifesting their True Will.

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