Fay çe que Voudras
While i was researching some material written by Dr. Benjamin Franklin, i came across the following article:
"The Hell-Fire Club: Sex, Politics, and Religion in Eighteenth-Century England" by Daniel Willens (pub. in _Gnosis,_ Summer 1992)
In this article, i found one of my favorite written passages of all time:
` ` In his 1534 work _Gargantua and Pantagruel,_ François Rabelais describes a sort of "humanist" abbey called Theleme, whose only rule was "Do what thou wilt," "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 call 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." (François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. J.M. Cohen: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955, p. 159). ' '
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François Rabelais (c.1494 1553), was of course, the greatest French prose writer of the first half of the sixteenth century, and one of the most amazing satirists of all time.
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In the same article, mentioned above, i came across this, as well:
"In 1773, Sir Francis Dashwood and Dr. Benjamin Franklin revised the Book of Common Prayer ... Possibly the two Freemasons were trying to bring the Anglican Church in line with Masonic Deism."
I wonder if that version reads anything like the Boomer Bible's 'Book of Harrier Brayer?' (The Table of Harrier Days and Appointed Texts is an excellent excerpt from this fascinating satire)
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The title of this post was previously a hyperlink to the document in which it was originally found; but alas, the file can no longer be found... however, there is a similar file in the Internet Archive, which used another permutation of the phrase: "Fais ce que Veulx" in this exploration of Antecedents in Thelema
"The Hell-Fire Club: Sex, Politics, and Religion in Eighteenth-Century England" by Daniel Willens (pub. in _Gnosis,_ Summer 1992)
In this article, i found one of my favorite written passages of all time:
` ` In his 1534 work _Gargantua and Pantagruel,_ François Rabelais describes a sort of "humanist" abbey called Theleme, whose only rule was "Do what thou wilt," "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 call 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." (François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. J.M. Cohen: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955, p. 159). ' '
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François Rabelais (c.1494 1553), was of course, the greatest French prose writer of the first half of the sixteenth century, and one of the most amazing satirists of all time.
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In the same article, mentioned above, i came across this, as well:
"In 1773, Sir Francis Dashwood and Dr. Benjamin Franklin revised the Book of Common Prayer ... Possibly the two Freemasons were trying to bring the Anglican Church in line with Masonic Deism."
I wonder if that version reads anything like the Boomer Bible's 'Book of Harrier Brayer?' (The Table of Harrier Days and Appointed Texts is an excellent excerpt from this fascinating satire)
--
The title of this post was previously a hyperlink to the document in which it was originally found; but alas, the file can no longer be found... however, there is a similar file in the Internet Archive, which used another permutation of the phrase: "Fais ce que Veulx" in this exploration of Antecedents in Thelema