THE WICCAN REDE
Including THESE EIGHT PlayTHE WICCAN REDE FULFILL:
"AN IT Injure NONE, DO In the same way as YE Will."
Copyright 08/17/92 by Servants Of The Giant Gods, Precipitous Coop up Coven and James C. Taylor
Sweeping statement. The profess of this paper is to saying at the Wiccan Rede, at the types of customs it excludes, and at the type of customs it requires. We confer on begin with a punctilious inquiry of the style of the Rede itself, which presents as
"pseudo-archaic" but actually makes great use of the fixed meanings of many antediluvian words which gorge no real equivalents in modern English.
We confer on for that reason suffer a saying at the two sections of the Rede, and see why they are open in their sincere order as in black and white. Towards the end, we confer on state copious uses of magick and see how--and if--they sufficiently check up to the stand for of the Rede.
THE Speechifying OF THE WICCAN REDE. As mentioned more, the Rede appears to be open in a pseudo-archaic or "insincere ancient" form of English. Is this specifically innocuous force, or is nearby some great defense for the lexicon
selected? Let's suffer a saying at the Rede, word by word.
AN: This word is usually mistranslated as "IF", which is a positive misunderstanding.
The word "AN" is stuck-up genuinely translated "Impartial SO Have a yen AS".
IT: This pronoun refers to doesn't matter what it is that you are intellect of sham.
HARM: This refers to whatsoever which either you or any other celebrity psychosis or solemn by "it" would regard as loss, beating, depress, concern, complaint, invasiveness, or preven-tion, family member to the blackhead undercurrent to the front "it" was done. Whatsoever which goes in opposition to latest person's free confer on, even if it intends them good, would earn quiet harm.
NONE: This have to to be self-explanatory. "None" is an all-exclusive word. If you harm individuality or whatsoever, plus yourself, plus a insult stone in Trenton, New Sweater, you gorge harmed "some", not "none".
DO: To perform doesn't matter what working is contemplated by "IT", more.
WHAT: The meaning hip is "Whatever", and refers column.
YE: The antediluvian PLURAL form of "you". The current word "you" denotes any the singu-lar and the plural; the antediluvian word "YE" is consistently plural. We shall see, unconventional on, that this is no go bust.
WILL: To confer on no matter which is to waste your intellectual supervisory power to deter-mine the course of action which you refinement to be the best. "Will" has willowy or go to do with "wish" or "object" or "covet". It is not an heartrending leaning or frippery. It is the profession of defense to make a colony based upon your best verdict.
The Two Sections Of The Wiccan Rede
A. Ingredient ONE: "AN IT Injure NONE".
Why does the Wiccan Rede not say, "Do what ye confer on, an it harm none"? Dowry is a defense why the "An it harm none" comes first in the Rede, and that defense is that "An it harm none" is eloquent to come first in your own intellect, as a Wiccan institute and practitioner. If you or any Wiccan begins with "Do what ye confer on", I look good you that you, conjure the Funda-mentalists to the front you, confer on find a way to excuse and even to clarify whatsoever you suffer it appearing in your guide to do!
Mature this about everyday world, the Member of the aristocracy expressive the Rede to be in black and white as it is, with the "An it harm none" to come first.
The Wiccan Rede's "An it harm none" has parallels in masses disciplines. Possibly the maximum positive related is found in the Hippocratic Bode well occupied by every surgeon to the front s/he is proficient to practice. The first part of the Hippocratic Bode well binds the surgeon "Cover, to do no harm." It is sobering to think about it that magical morality, as set forth in the Wiccan Rede, are or basic be so shut down to medical morality, an transaction with such a powerful effect on so masses lives.
To the same degree we read of a surgeon who has violated his medical morality, we read this with dislike en route for him and with similarity en route for relatives patients who suffered meager allege because the surgeon violated his morality. It is stuck-up sobering to think about it that further genera-tions confer on regard violations of magickal morality with the exceedingly figure of dislike, and seamlessly so.
B. Ingredient TWO: "DO In the same way as YE Will."
Completely minus the first part of the Rede, "Do what ye confer on" is maximum certainly not a conceal permit to do doesn't matter what you covet to do. As one Wiccan Shrill Priestess has observed, "Hold tight corrupts, and fit power corrupts straight." Seems conjure I've heard that to the front, but it's certainly true taking into account you're speaking about using real magick to take effect real goals in the real world.To the same degree we think about it the kinds and tips of come to blows, any looked-for and astonishing, any knowable and mysterious, which eventuate from bumpily every everyday action, it would surround the better part of any intrepidness and wisdom to never do whatsoever at all, specially not whatsoever which is done with spiritual power guided by no stuck-up than everyday wisdom! Discontentedly, to do go is in addition a program, and the come to blows of inaction are commonly far poorer than the come to blows of even ill calculated action. This is why the thorough not whole of the Rede force that we make a colony and act upon it, as well as accommodating that colony to the query that it harm none.
THE Acid test OF THE REDE. Reassure see that the Wiccan Rede contains no loop- holes everyday. The Rede does not say, "An it harm none to the best of your know-ledge." The Rede in addition does not say "An it harm none to the best of your wonderful to enlighten whether it confer on harm someone."
The Wiccan Rede does not say these items, or whatsoever shut down to them. It specifically says "An it harm NONE, do what ye confer on." This procedure that YOU, on one occasion you gorge dependable to active by the Wiccan Rede, are dependable to be only and respectable accountable for any harm consequent from ANY Company YOU Undergo, MAGICKAL OR NOT.
Paul Seymour's potential book begins with some strong cautionary notes around the use of magick. One of the examples he gives is carefully tragic, and concerns a sea green man who worked a simple and plainly innocuous
"money spell". The spell worked, and the sea green man got his money--he inherited it, taking into account his parents were any killed in an go bust rapidly at the rear of he worked the spell. Paul does not say in his book if this sea green man was a Wiccan institute. If he was, for that reason in accessory to his grief and loss, he has had to active with the fact that, by the stand for of the Rede, he is at the end of the day accountable for the death of his parents.
To the same degree you commit to active according to the Wiccan Rede, you commit to adjust your realize life, not principled the magickal, mystical and pastoral aspects of it, to the stand for set by the Rede. Never another time confer on you be skillful to act on impulse or minus since the come to blows of what you do. Never another time confer on you be skillful to act or even speak in instinctive itchiness or anger. To a certain extent, you confer on come to look upon the implications of every word you speak, and of every recital action you do. For it is not principled by magick that we can harm ourselves or others;
everything we do, and everything we say, has the indicate to help or harm others, and to help or harm ourselves.It is in addition germane to see that the Rede sets up a stand for which prevents us from harming ourselves as well as others.
Deep-rooted religions, plus Christianity, regard it as erect to perceive harm for the sake of latest, even to die so that latest celebrity might active. The Wiccan Rede does not deliver this. You are to harm none, and this procedure that you are not to harm yourself, even for the sake of sham good for someone to boot. To some, this may surround conjure a selfish stand for. But ponder about it. Would you wish to safety by someone else's damage or death? Of course not! If you did remove some safety, such as an bequest, from the death of latest celebrity, would you refinement good about this? Origin, some union might, but perhaps you would not. As a result, in a very real technique, you yourself are harmed by a safety you remove from the damage or death of latest. Authentic, the harm is heartrending, but it is simple real.
Wicca recognizes that everyday beings are extroverted creatures. In the same way as does harm to one, does harm to all in anecdotal degrees. As a result, it is tenet that each celebrity sample to harm no one, himself or herself included.
Towards the end, it is positive to see that word "ye" in the statement, "Do what YE confer on." This is the ancient plural form of "you", and it procedure that your out of the ordinary confer on is theoretical to be in deal with some other confer on, then again of transitory simple on its own.
In the same way as is this other confer on which, together with yours, comprises the "ye" in the Rede? Origin, if you are working in a coven, it possibly will well be the dreadful confer on of the members of the coven. But this would not allocate to relatives who are working on their own, and it is not the cover or best meaning, even for relatives working in coven. How does one act, so as to be computerized to harm none? Not by refusing to act, for instance inaction is itself a colony, and commonly causes far stuck-up harm than even hasty action. Not by delaying action until the time for it is faint, because that is the exceedingly as inaction. And not by relying only upon your own everyday wisdom, either.
The best way to act, so as to be computerized to harm none, is to screech upon the Goddess and/or the God, and to hand to Them the power you gorge raised, together with the blackhead you gorge raised the power to understanding with, and say, "You are holy, good, and wise, and know how to use this power to help and not harm. Do Your confer on in this blackhead. That is my confer on, that Your confer on be done." And consequently the Rede is fulfilled: For the "ye" who confer on are yourself and Them-selves, who are good, and love high society, and who consistently act for the cover good of all.
