The Abbey of Theleme: An Excerpt from the Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel: Sourceworks of Thelema (Unabridged‪)‬

Over 350 years before the British occultist Aleister Crowley was sitting quietly in a Cairo hotel room receiving the text of his Book of the Law, the famous French renaissance author Francois Rabelais was busy writing the second book of his legendary fantasy quintology Gargantua and Pantagruel, which included the story of the founding of the Abbey of Theleme, wherein but one clause was observed: "Do What Thou Wilt"!