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. The Serpent Tongue: Liber 187
  2. “The Wican Rede has many ancestors: The earliest progenitors are probably Hippocrates, St. Augustine and the utterance of Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer.”
  3. “King Pausol is not, in fact, legendary per se but the literary creation of the French novelist by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925).”
  4. “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.”
  5. “The novel takes place in fantastic kingdom of Tryphême, which has a simple code: — Ne nuis pas à ton voisin. — Ceci bien comprix, fais ce qu’il te plaît.”