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

“King Pausole applies this to his own life and has a variety of sexual relations with the 366 wives (one for each day with an extra for leap year) in his harem.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “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.”
  2. “King Pausol is not, in fact, legendary per se but the literary creation of the French novelist by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925).”
  3. “[Witches] are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ‘Do what you like so long as you harm no one’.”
  4. “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.”
  5. “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.”