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Glossary - ExWitch Australia (formerly 'Born Again Pagan Ministries') |
 | | In 1920 he established his famous Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily, where, as in Rabelais' fictional abbey of the same name, the motto was 'Do as thou wilt.' Stories of drug-taking, sexual orgies and even child-Sacrifice soon began to circulate, until in the end Mussolini ordered Crowley's expulsion from Italy. |
 | | It is said that Crowley and Russian magician and metaphysician Gergor Ivanovich Gurdyev of the Vril Society sought contact with Hitler, but actual contact is unconfirmed. |
 | | In May 1946, Crowley Initiated Gerald Gardner into the ninth degree of the Ordo Templi Orientis and, since material attributable to him appears many in Wiccan texts, Crowley is considered to have influenced the formulation of some of Gerald Gardner's ideas. |
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