French physician and writer Rabelais celebrated " rabelaisian " freedom as well as good feasting and drinking ( an expression and a symbol of freedom of the mind ) in defiance of the hypocrisies of conformist orthodoxy in his utopian Thelema Abbey ( from θέλημα: free " will "), the devise of which was Do What Thou Wilt:

In 1955, Anger and his friend Alfred Kinsey traveled to the derelict Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Sicily in order to film a short documentary titled Thelema Abbey.

While at the Abbey of Thelema in Italy, he wrote Liber Samekh based on the Bornless Ritual, a ritual designed as an example of how one may attain the Knowledge and Conversation with one ’ s Holy Guardian Angel.

It was privately performed while Crowley was at the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily, Italy, and its first public performance was March 19, 1933 by Wilfred T. Smith and Regina Kahl in Hollywood, California at the first Agape Lodge.

After Crowley's departure, the Abbey of Thelema was eventually abandoned and local residents whitewashed over Crowley's murals.

Filmmaker Kenneth Anger, himself a devotee of Crowley, later uncovered and filmed some of its murals in his film Thelema Abbey ( 1955 ) now considered a lost film.

" Abbey of Thelema " remains a popular name for various magical societies, Witchcraft covens, and Satanist grottoes.

It is also the name of a fan club for controversial rock star Marilyn Manson, who included the line " We're gonna ride to the Abbey of Thelema, to the Abbey of Thelema ..." in his song " Misery Machine ".

* Abbey of Thelema movie on IMDB

* Abbey of Thelema, in Cefalù

Jane Wolfe, the " Red Flame ", at the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Italy

In 1918, Jane Wolfe began corresponding with the English author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and two years later she gave up her career in Hollywood to join Crowley at his " Abbey of Thelema " at Cefalù, Sicily, living there from 1920 until it closed in 1923.

Jane Austen, who referred to Fanny Burney as " the first of English novelists ," in Northanger Abbey refers to her inspiring novels:

A cartulary of Abingdon Abbey, compiled between 1072 and 1084, refers to " mons albi equi " at Uffington (" the White Horse Hill ").

In some American college preparatory schools, such as Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Kent School, The Church Farm School, The Haverford School, Portsmouth Abbey School, and more, sixth form refers to the final year of education prior to college.

No doubt because of Ball's writings, the Dieulacres Abbey Chronicle account of the revolt refers to Piers, seemingly as a real person who was a leader with Ball in the revolt.

1240 ), sometimes erroneously called in English Caesar of Heisterbach ( there is no Latin tradition in the manuscripts that refers to this author as Caesar, therefore this variant is unwarranted ), was the prior of the former Cistercian Heisterbach Abbey, in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf, Germany.

" Apple Scruffs ", from George Harrison's album All Things Must Pass, refers to the Apple scruffs, a group of teenage girls who staked out The Beatles ' Apple Corps offices, Abbey Road Studios, and Paul McCartney's home, often sleeping outside in rough weather, waiting for a glimpse of a Beatle.

This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area.

This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area.

This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area.

A charter of Henry de Crokesley from around 1187 refers to him granting the manor at Dundridge to Missenden Abbey and setting aside land for the chapel-of-ease at St Leonards.

Some of his works include " Jedburgh Abbey "; " Pontaine Marshes " ( 1847 ); " Backwoods of America " ( 1857 ); " Richmond Hill " ( 1862 ); " Indian Summer " ( 1866 ); " Greenwood Lake " ( 1870 ); " Lake Nemi in Italy " ( 1879 ); " Old Church at Arreton, Isle of Wight " ( 1880 ); " Ramapo Valley " ( 1881 ); " Autumn on the Hudson " ( 1882 ; however, the New York Daily Tribune refers to a painting by Cropsey called " Autumn on the Hudson " in its morning edition of Jan. 7, 1861 ): " Wawayanda Valley " ( 1883 ); " Spring-time in England " ( 1884 ); " October in Ramapo Valley " ( 1885 ); " Autumn on Lake George ," and " A Showery Day " ( 1886 ).

The station's former name Abbey refers to Abbey Road ( not the one in England ), a short local road which is located further behind the school and the CN railway ( which runs parallel to the transitway ).

The 11th Century Domesday Monacorum refers to it as Hawkashyrst, belonging to Battle Abbey.

Its current name refers to the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster Abbey, rather than to its component Westminster School of which Lord Burlington's College Dormitory building forms the west side.

A grant from William I in 1067 to Westminster Abbey, which refers to the stone church of St Magnus near the bridge (" lapidee eccle sci magni prope pontem "), is generally accepted to be 12th century forgery, and it is possible that a charter of confirmation in 1108-16 might also be a later fabrication.

Dryburgh Bridge refers to two different footbridges erected near Dryburgh Abbey, Borders, Scotland, between the villages of Dryburgh and St. Boswells ( part of a ribbon of settlements including Newtown St. Boswells ), across the River Tweed.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

As a young man, Grimoard became a Benedictine monk in the small Priory of Chirac, near his home, which was a dependency of the ancient Abbey of St. Victor near Marseille, and he was sent there for his novitiate.

Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.

At the Abbey, Elizabeth was treated with all the respect due to a queen dowager, lived a regal life, and received a pension of £ 400 and small gifts from the King.

The promenade, which was originally built in 1908, overlooks the sea, towards the promontory of Portofino, and the main landmarks are the small lighthouse of Punta Vagno, the San Giuliano Abbey, the Lido of Albaro.

Battle Abbey is a partially ruined abbey complex in the small town of Battle in East Sussex, England.

In St Dunstan's Chapel, at the east end of the Abbey, is a small disused bell inscribed T. MEARS FECT.

The Benedictine Abbey of St. James is mentioned for the first time in 1453, and around it a small hamlet developed with the centuries.

Shortly after his work on the nave at Downside Abbey he was commissioned to design the small Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath, the first part of which was completed in 1929.

Following this second " comeback " in 1992, Johnson's contracts with a variety of record labels, including Verve and Antilles, resulted in five albums as a leader, from small groups to separate brass orchestra and string orchestra recordings, as well as sideman appearances with his leading disciple, trombonist Steve Turre and the vocalist Abbey Lincoln.

The township is home to Saint John's Abbey and Saint John's University, a Catholic school that is notable as being one of a small number of all-male colleges remaining in the United States.

A small church now stands within the enclosure, more than commonly interesting from having been built with the materials of the once celebrated Abbey of Strata Florida.

Byland Abbey is a ruined abbey and a small village in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England at.

He sent a small army into the Battle of Flodden Field, commanded by his alleged son Sir John Stanley who later entered the monastery of Westminster Abbey.

In 1740, a small chapel was built to house the statue but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and so Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine.

One winter's night, two French nuns, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem ( most likely modeled after Bethlehem, Connecticut – given the Abbey of Regina Laudis in that real town and the proximity to New York City ), where they meet Amelia Potts, a painter of religious pictures.

The original 1904 design included two small towers on the main ( east ) facade, facing Westminster Abbey.

Much of the history of the village is dominated by Glastonbury Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and indeed its name comes from a 12th century causeway from Glastonbury which was built to transport local Blue Lias stone from what is now Street to rebuild the Abbey, although it had previously been known as Lantokay and Lega ( note: there is a quite different small hamlet called Street in Somerset, just north of the village of Holcombe, with which this article is not concerned ).

The first records of inhabitants on Brownsea Island occurred in the 9th century, when a small chapel and hermitage were built by monks from Cerne Abbey near Dorchester.

Consisting of the towns of Torquay, Paignton with its pier and Brixham, the bay has 20 beaches and coves along its coastline, ranging from small secluded coves to the larger promenade style seafronts of Torquay's Torre Abbey Sands and Paignton Sands.

Some recording companies and many small independent labels could not afford large purpose-built echo chambers such as the Abbey Road chamber, so enterprising producers and engineers often made use of any large reverberant space.

After his death a small church was erected which developed into the Abbey of St. Gall, the nucleus of the Canton of St. Gallen in eastern Switzerland the first abbot of which was Saint Othmar.

The river flows through ( or by ) Luton, Harpenden, Welwyn Garden City, to Hertford where it changes from a small shallow river to a deep canal at Hertford Castle Weir, which then flows on to Ware, Stanstead Abbotts, Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Waltham Abbey, Enfield Lock, Ponders End, Edmonton, Tottenham, Upper Clapton, Hackney Wick, Stratford, Bromley-by-Bow ( past Fish Island ), Canning Town and finally Leamouth where it meets the River Thames ( as Bow Creek ).