The Monks of Thelema was a novel by Walter Besant and James Rice. It was published in 1878 by Chatto & Windus, London.
This novel includes descriptions of a sort of "church of Thelema", similar to the Abbey of Thélème, described in Rabelais's Gargantua. Aleister Crowley later founded a religion with this name (see Thelema, Abbey of Thelema).
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“If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all—both old and young.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)