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

“There is even ‘There is no law in Cocaigne save, Do that which seems good to you.’ from the satire on Crowley’s Gnostic Mass in chapter 22 of James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen.” [via, see]

Consider also:

  1. “King Pausol is not, in fact, legendary per se but the literary creation of the French novelist by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925).”
  2. “The only remaining question is who converted the code of Tryphême into the rhymed version that is so familiar to pagans worldwide.”
  3. “The conflict in the story comes when a handsome young stranger arrives in the Kingdom and Pausole is faced with applying this principle to his beautiful daughter Aline when she and the handsome stranger fall in love.”
  4. “John J. Coughlin in his excellent study of the genesis of the Wican rede shows fairly convincingly that Doreen Valiente, with her talent for poetic composition, is the probable author.”
  5. “His style was heavily influenced by Rabelais which probably accounts for the inclusion of the maxims that eventually became the Wican rede, as The Adventures of King Pausole borrows many themes and ideas from Gargantua and Pantegruel; the variant of the thelemic dictum being but one among many.”