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

“[Witches] are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ‘Do what you like so long as you harm no one’.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “In the Hippocratic oath we find ‘Harm None;’ or as it is sometimes translated ‘First do no harm.'”
  2. “‘Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill: An ye harm none, do what ye will.'”
  3. “Rabelais is commonly given credit for the initial formulation of the libertarian ethical maxim of thelema, being the sole rule of his fictional Abbey of Thelema: ‘fay çe que vouldras’, variously translated from archaic French as ‘do what thou wilt,’ ‘do what you please,’ ‘do as you wish,’ etc.”
  4. “The Wican Rede has many ancestors: The earliest progenitors are probably Hippocrates, St. Augustine and the utterance of Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer.”
  5. “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.”