Part One: King Pausole and the Wican Rede in Wican Ethics by David Richard Jones.

“In the Hippocratic oath we find ‘Harm None;’ or as it is sometimes translated ‘First do no harm.'” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “‘Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill: An ye harm none, do what ye will.'”
  2. “there is no word which can accurately be translated as ‘Sin’ or ‘Evil,’ in the sense in which these words are generally understood in the religious systems of the West”
  3. “‘Sin,’-a something tending to taint men’s actions for the worse, a principle of evil,-is wholly absent; and the words which we have above translated ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ really mean ‘Skilful’ and ‘Unskilful’ respectively.”
  4. “Dee was himself told originally to adapt the form from several in his own collection of Grimoires; but which one, was not made clear either by Dee or the Angels. A number of variations on the Seal of God or Seal of God’s Truth are to be found in MSS owned by Dee.”
  5. “The Wican Rede has many ancestors: The earliest progenitors are probably Hippocrates, St. Augustine and the utterance of Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer.”