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A Abadia de Cefalù foi uma Abadia de Thelema construída em Cefalù no ano de 1920 e.v.
Fundação da Abadia
Aleister Crowley, junto com Leah Hirsig, fundou a Abadia de Thelema em Cefalù, uma comuna italiana da região da Sicília, província de Palermo; em 1920 e.v.
In 1923, a 23-year old Oxford undergraduate by the name of Raoul Loveday (or Frederick Charles Loveday) died at the abbey. His wife, Betty May, originally blamed this on his participation in one of Crowley's rituals. Later, however, she accepted the doctor's diagnosis of acute enteric fever contracted by drinking from a mountain spring. (Crowley had warned the couple against drinking the water. Lawrence Sutin reports all this in his biography of AC.) When May returned to London, she gave an interview to a tabloid paper. The Sunday Express included her story in its ongoing attacks on Crowley. With these and similar rumors about activities at Thelema in mind, Mussolini's government demanded that Crowley leave the country in 1923.[4] After Crowley's departure, the Abbey of Thelema was eventually abandoned and local residents whitewashed over Crowley's murals.
The villa still stands today, but in very poor condition. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger, himself a devotee of Crowley, later uncovered and filmed some of its murals in 1955. Recently other murals were uncovered, and pictures of them were posted on the Internet. "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 one of his songs. Experimental musicians Coil, known to be fascinated by mysticism, went a step farther in "The Sea Priestess" on Astral Disaster, whose lyrics are a bizarre interpretation of the murals in the Abbey.