Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.thelema,talk.religion.misc Subject: Avaryce: Thelemic Change & Laws From: tyaginator Reply-To: avaryce@magusbooks.comSPAM User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 35 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:48:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1007027309 208.201.242.18 (Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:48:29 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:48:29 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:30096 alt.magick:277811 talk.religion.misc:367198 [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. EOF