Part One: King Pausole and the Wican Rede in Wican Ethics by David Richard Jones.

“Strangely on Gardner’s O.T.O. charter (signed by Crowley as Baphomet), Gardner miscopies this phrase as ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the law.'” [via, see]

Consider also:

  1. “Rabelais is commonly given credit for the initial formulation of the libertarian ethical maxim of thelema, being the sole rule of his fictional Abbey of Thelema: ‘fay çe que vouldras’, variously translated from archaic French as ‘do what thou wilt,’ ‘do what you please,’ ‘do as you wish,’ etc.”
  2. “Aleister Crowley expanded this idea into the modern religion of Thelema from its reference in his (or Aiwass’s depending on your point of view) holy text The Book of the Law, which has not only ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.’ but also ‘There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.'”
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  4. “There is even ‘There is no law in Cocaigne save, Do that which seems good to you.’ from the satire on Crowley’s Gnostic Mass in chapter 22 of James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen.”
  5. “It all works out well in the end, of course, and the story is a comedy of erotic errors wherein old King Pausole must learn the hard way that the great Code of Tryphême has no value if it is not a true and universal law.”