Learn about the fascinating connection between François Rabelais’ Gargantua and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. In Gargantua, Rabelais introduces the Abbey of Thélème, a utopian society governed by the motto ‘Fay ce que vouldras’ (‘Do what you will’). This principle would later inspire Crowley’s central Thelemic tenet, ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the [...]