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

“Always in rhyme they are, there is something queer about rhyme. I have tried, and the same seem to lose their power if you miss the rhyme. Also in rhyme, the words seem to say themselves. You do not have to pause and think: ‘What comes next?’ Doing this takes away much of your intent.” [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. “The only remaining question is who converted the code of Tryphême into the rhymed version that is so familiar to pagans worldwide.”
  4. For the Birds
  5. “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.”