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Thelema () is a religion based on a philosophical law of the same name, adopted as a central tenet by some religious organizations. The law of Thelema is "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will." The law of Thelema was developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer and ceremonial magician.〔Moore, John S. (Aleister Crowley as Guru ) in ''Chaos International'', Issue No. 17.〕 He believed himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Æon of Horus, based upon a spiritual experience that he and his wife, Rose Edith, had in Egypt in 1904. By his account, a possibly non-corporeal or "praeterhuman" being that called itself Aiwass contacted him and dictated a text known as ''The Book of the Law'' or ''Liber AL vel Legis'', which outlined the principles of Thelema.〔Wilson, Robert Anton. ''The Illuminati Papers''. And/Or Press, 1980. ISBN 1-57951-002-7〕 An adherent of Thelema is a ''Thelemite''. The Thelemic pantheon includes a number of deities, primarily a trio adapted from ancient Egyptian religion, who are the three speakers of ''The Book of the Law'': Nuit, Hadit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Crowley described these deities as a "literary convenience". The religion is founded upon the idea that the 20th century marked the beginning of the Aeon of Horus, in which a new ethical code would be followed; "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law". This statement indicates that adherents, who are known as Thelemites, should seek out and follow their own true path in life, known as their True Will〔Orpheus, Rodney. ''Abrahadabra.'' Weiser, 2005, ISBN 1-57863-326-5, p.64〕 rather than their egotistic desires.〔Penczak, Christopher. ''The Temple of High Witchcraft,'' Llewellyn, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7387-1165-2 p.53〕 The philosophy also emphasizes the ritual practice of Magick. The word ''thelema'' is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun (unicode:θέλημα) (pronounced ) "will", from the verb θέλω "to will, wish, purpose." As Crowley developed the religion, he wrote widely on the topic, producing what are collectively termed The Holy Books of Thelema. He also included ideas from occultism, yoga and both Eastern and Western mysticism, especially the Qabalah.〔Crowley, Aleister.(Aleister Crowley, ''Liber XIII vel Graduum Montis Abiegni: A Syllabus of the Steps Upon the Path'' ), Hermetic webssite, retrieved July 7, 2006.〕 ==Historical precedents== The word θέλημα (thelema) is rare in classical Greek, where it "signifies the appetitive will: desire, sometimes even sexual",〔Gauna, Max. ''The Rabelaisian Mythologies'', pp. 90-91. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8386-3631-4〕 but it is frequent in the Septuagint.〔 Early Christian writings occasionally use the word to refer to the human will,〔e.g. 〕 and even the will of God's opponent, the Devil,〔e.g. 〕 but it usually refers to the will of God.〔Pocetto, Alexander T. (Rabelais, Francis de Sales and the ''Abbaye de Thélème'' ), retrieved July 20, 2006.〕 One well-known example is in the "Lord's Prayer" (), “Your kingdom come. Your will (Θελημα) be done, On earth as it is in heaven.” It is used later in the same gospel (), "He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done." In his 5th-century Sermon on , Augustine of Hippo gave a similar instruction:〔Sutin, p. 127.〕 "Love, and what you will, do." (''Dilige et quod vis fac'').〔''The Works of Saint Augustine: A New Translation for the 21st Century'', (Sermons 148-153), 1992, part 3, vol. 5, p. 182. ISBN 1-56548-007-4〕 In the Renaissance, a character named "Thelemia" represents will or desire in the ''Hypnerotomachia Poliphili'' of the Dominican monk Francesco Colonna. The protagonist Poliphilo has two allegorical guides, Logistica (reason) and Thelemia (will or desire). When forced to choose, he chooses fulfillment of his sexual will over logic.〔Salloway, David. ''(Random Walks )'', p. 203. McGill-Queen's Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7735-1679-4〕 Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used ''Thélème'', the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional abbey in his novels, ''Gargantua and Pantagruel''.〔Rabelais, François. ''Gargantua and Pantagruel''. Everyman's Library. ISBN 978-0-679-43137-4〕 The only rule of this Abbey was "fay çe que vouldras" (''"Fais ce que tu veux"'', or, "Do what thou wilt"). In the mid-18th century, Sir Francis Dashwood inscribed the adage on a doorway of his abbey at Medmenham,〔''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1911). ''Buckingham'',〕 where it served as the motto of the Hellfire Club.〔 Rabelais' Abbey of Thelema has been referred to by later writers Sir Walter Besant and James Rice, in their novel ''The Monks of Thelema'' (1878), and C. R. Ashbee in his utopian romance ''The Building of Thelema'' (1910). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thelema」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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