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After a student, [[Raoul Lovejoy]], died of enteric fever from drinking from a stream, the Italian and British press went on attack about the “evil Black Magican in Cefalu” in the end the ruckus the press raised forced Mussolini to expel Crowley from Italy ending the experiment at the abbey.  
After a student, [[Raoul Lovejoy]], died of enteric fever from drinking from a stream, the Italian and British press went on attack about the “evil Black Magican in Cefalu” in the end the ruckus the press raised forced Mussolini to expel Crowley from Italy ending the experiment at the abbey.  
==Links of Interest==
*[http://www.inventati.org/amprodias/thelema/paulos.htm Modern Photos of the Abbey]


==References==
==References==
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*Crowley, Aleister. (1979). ''The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.'' London;Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul.
*Crowley, Aleister. (1979). ''The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.'' London;Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul.
*Kaczynski, Richard. (2002). ''Perdurabo : the Life of Aleister Crowley.'' Tempe, AZ : New Falcon Publications.
*Kaczynski, Richard. (2002). ''Perdurabo : the Life of Aleister Crowley.'' Tempe, AZ : New Falcon Publications.
==External links==
*[http://www.inventati.org/amprodias/thelema/paulos.htm Modern Photos of the Abbey]

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The first mention of the Abbey of Thelema was in Gargantua and Pantagruel written by Francois Rabelais in 1532. Aleister Crowley founded his Abbey of Thelema in 1920 in Cefalu, Sicily as an experiment in spiritual monasticism in part to prove that The Law of Thelema when applied to a group of people works.

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Crowley, Leah, and the Kids at the Abbey

The students who studied under Crowley trained in magick, yoga, and self-analysis. They were encouraged to break free from society’s inhibitions in order to find their true wills.

After a student, Raoul Lovejoy, died of enteric fever from drinking from a stream, the Italian and British press went on attack about the “evil Black Magican in Cefalu” in the end the ruckus the press raised forced Mussolini to expel Crowley from Italy ending the experiment at the abbey.

References

  • Crowley, Aleister. (1979). The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. London;Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Kaczynski, Richard. (2002). Perdurabo : the Life of Aleister Crowley. Tempe, AZ : New Falcon Publications.