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

“St. Augustine’s Sermon on St. John’s first epistle has the dictum ‘Love and do as ye will,’ which is amazingly close to the phrases familiar to Thelemites.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “The Wican Rede has many ancestors: The earliest progenitors are probably Hippocrates, St. Augustine and the utterance of Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer.”
  2. “In the Lord’s Prayer we have the first surviving ancient appearance of the word Θελημα as ‘thy will.'”
  3. “‘Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill: An ye harm none, do what ye will.'”
  4. “In the Hippocratic oath we find ‘Harm None;’ or as it is sometimes translated ‘First do no harm.'”
  5. “Love is all virtue, since the pleasure of love is but love, and the pain of love is but love.”