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

“From the standpoint of Wican ethics it is clear that Gerald Gardner came across this story in his wide and varied exposure to culture, but it is far from clear exactly how this exposure happened.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “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.”
  2. “Aleister Crowley expanded this idea into the modern religion of Thelema from its reference in his (or Aiwass’s depending on your point of view) holy text The Book of the Law, which has not only ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.’ but also ‘There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.'”
  3. “This is often asserted to be the root of the Wican rede because Gardner borrowed so much from Crowley and The Book of the Law in his formulation of the rituals of Gardnerian Wica.”
  4. “King Pausol is not, in fact, legendary per se but the literary creation of the French novelist by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925).”
  5. “The only remaining question is who converted the code of Tryphême into the rhymed version that is so familiar to pagans worldwide.”