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

“He also argues soundly that the Thompson/Porter assertion of a traditional family witchcraft source for the rede is not only unsupported but almost certainly untrue.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “King Pausol is not, in fact, legendary per se but the literary creation of the French novelist by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925).”
  2. “The only remaining question is who converted the code of Tryphême into the rhymed version that is so familiar to pagans worldwide.”
  3. “‘Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill: An ye harm none, do what ye will.'”
  4. “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.'”
  5. For the Birds