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Interesting fact re incumbent PM Sunak - he founded a hedge fund firm called Theleme Partners.

The Abbey of Theleme is a ref to Francois Rabelais, the hilarious genius who parodied contemporary Renaissance life. The abbey was unlike any other & links to the Hellfire Clubs...🧵 Francis Dashwood painted as...
The Thélème motto was "do what thou wilt" (FAY CE QVE VOVDRAS), a corruption of earlier Christian doctrine. In the abbey this meant that the monks & nuns admitted should do as they please - by virtue of their natural grace, anything they would want to do would be God approved
This natural grace was that they were the "best" of society, the most perfect, well-bread, well-educated, rich, and hawt.

The structure of the abbey was based around a hexagonal shape, just like the Francis Dashwood’s c 18th mausoleum at West Wycombe, above the Hellfire Caves Drawing of the hexagon-shap...
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