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

“The only remaining question is who converted the code of Tryphême into the rhymed version that is so familiar to pagans worldwide.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “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.”
  2. “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.”
  3. “In the Lord’s Prayer we have the first surviving ancient appearance of the word Θελημα as ‘thy will.'”
  4. “King Pausol is not, in fact, legendary per se but the literary creation of the French novelist by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925).”
  5. “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.”