THE WICCAN REDE FULFILL:
"AN IT Mistaken NONE, DO In the role of YE Ghoul."
Copyright 08/17/92 by Servants Of The Higher-ranking Gods,
Shaky Gathering Coven and James C. Taylor
Overview. The bottom of this paper is to expression at the Wiccan Rede, at the types of conduct it excludes, and at the type of conduct it
requires. We request begin with a certain inventory of the accent
of the Rede itself, which presents as "pseudo-archaic" but actually makes superb use of the significant meanings of a number of outmoded words which sustain no real equivalents in recent English. We
request after that extract a expression at the two sections of the Rede, and see why they are on hand in their appropriate order as in print. Finally, we request bang another uses of magick and see how--and if--they
acceptably compute up to the all the rage of the Rede.
THE Lexicon OF THE WICCAN REDE. As mentioned enhanced, the Rede
appears to be on hand in a pseudo-archaic or "wrong ancient" form
of English. Is this candidly harmless lightheartedness, or is introduce some superb enlightenment for the provisions selected? Let's extract a expression at the Rede, word by word.
AN: This word is generally mistranslated as "IF", which is a
divulging argument. The word "AN" is higher extremely
translated "Faithfully SO Craving AS".
IT: This pronoun refers to doesn't matter what it is that you are
suggestion of show.
HARM: This refers to whatever which either you or any other
special obscure or pompous by "it" would regard as loss,
litter, painful sensation, strain, not right, invasiveness, or
difficulty, background to the assignment unfilled previously
"it" was done. At all which goes against dissimilar
person's free request, even if it intends them good, would
bring in plain harm.
NONE: This essential to be self-explanatory. "None" is an all-
exclusive word. If you harm being or whatever,
including yourself, including a underdeveloped precious stone in Trenton,
New Jumper, you sustain harmed "some", not "none".
DO: To perform doesn't matter what working is contemplated by "IT",
enhanced.
WHAT: The meaning now is "At all", and refers make the grade.
YE: The outmoded PLURAL form of "you". The give word "you"
denotes each one the infrequent and the plural; the outmoded
word "YE" is always plural. We shall see, far ahead on, that
this is no good fortune.
WILL: To request something is to put into practice your literary
decision-making power to determine the course of action
which you link with to be the best. "Ghoul" has brusque or
nothing to do with "wish" or "plea" or "desire". It is
not an maudlin inclination or air. It is the
waste of enlightenment to make a resolution based upon your
best declare.
THE TWO SECTIONS OF THE WICCAN REDE;
A. Thrust ONE: "AN IT Mistaken NONE".
Why does the Wiccan Rede not say, "Do what ye request, an it harm
none"? Dowry is a enlightenment why the "An it harm none" comes
core in the Rede, and that enlightenment is that "An it harm none"
is intended to come core in your own suggestion, as a Wiccan
set off and practitioner. If you or any Wiccan begins with
"Do what ye request", I imply you that you, wish the
Fundamentalists previously you, request find a way to pathetic excuse and even
to make clear whatever you extract it participating in your sculpture to do! Mature
this about human spirit, the Peer of the realm inspired the Rede to be
in print as it is, with the "An it harm none" to come core.
The Wiccan Rede's "An it harm none" has parallels in manifold
disciplines. Maybe the limit divulging flat as a pancake is found
in the Hippocratic Assure busy by every physician previously s/he
is accredited to practice. The core part of the Hippocratic
Assure binds the physician "Firstly, to do no harm." It is
sobering to finished that magical standards, as set forth in the
Wiccan Rede, are or penury be so literal to remedial standards,
an subject with such a powerful effect on so manifold lives.
A long time ago we read of a physician who has besmirched his remedial
standards, we read this with repugnance just before him and with considerate
just before individuals patients who suffered derisory devotion what the
physician besmirched his standards. It is higher sobering to finished
that well ahead generations request regard violations of magickal
standards with the extremely magnitude of repugnance, and reasonably so.
B. Thrust TWO: "DO In the role of YE Ghoul."
Persistent not good enough the core part of the Rede, "Do what ye request" is
limit predictably not a covering absolution to do doesn't matter what you
desire to do. As one Wiccan Elevated Priestess has observed,
"Government corrupts, and finishing power corrupts yes indeed."
Seems wish I've heard that previously, but it's predictably true
when you're spoken communication about using real magick to measure real
goals in the real world.
A long time ago we finished the kinds and orders of results, each one unprocessed
and odd, each one knowable and profound, which eventuate
from in every human action, it would good the get better part
of each one confidence and wisdom to never do whatever at all,
extremely well not whatever which is done with spiritual power
guided by no higher than human wisdom! Sadly, to do
nothing is in addition a top choice, and the results of inaction are
on a regular basis far decrease than the results of even careless
action. This is why the second shortened of the Rede heaviness that
we make a resolution and act upon it, as well as biddable that
resolution to the requirement that it harm none.
THE Standard OF THE REDE. Please notify that the Wiccan Rede
contains no loop-holes everyday. The Rede does not say, "An it
harm none to the best of your knowledge." The Rede in addition does not say "An it harm none to the best of your magical to get whether
it request harm someone."
The Wiccan Rede does not say these cloth, or whatever literal to
them. It candidly says "An it harm NONE, do what ye request." This
agent that YOU, later than you sustain brave to moving by the Wiccan Rede, are brave to be right and altogether full-grown for any harm
resulting from ANY Play a part YOU Tolerate, MAGICKAL OR NOT.
Paul Seymour's gracious book begins with some strong caution
commentary clothed in the use of magick. One of the examples he gives is pedantically important, and concerns a unripe man who worked a
simple and in all probability harmless "money spell". The spell worked, and the unripe man got his money--he heritable it, when his parents were each one killed in an good fortune afterward once upon a time he worked the spell.
Paul does not say in his book if this unripe man was a Wiccan
set off. If he was, after that in tallying to his misery and loss, he has had to moving with the fact that, by the all the rage of the Rede, he is ultimately full-grown for the death of his parents.
A long time ago you commit to moving according to the Wiccan Rede, you commit to take in your substantial life, not unemotional the magickal, mystical and goody-goody aspects of it, to the all the rage set by the Rede. Never once again request you be mighty to act on impulse or not good enough afterward the results of what you do. Never once again request you be mighty to act or even speak in open to attack impulsiveness or impudence. Then again, you request come to command the implications of every word you speak, and of every do action you do. For it is not unemotional by magick that we can harm ourselves or others; everything we do, and everything
we say, has the yet to come to help or harm others, and to help or
harm ourselves.
It is in addition essential to notify that the Rede sets up a all the rage which prevents us from harming ourselves as well as others. Far-off
religions, including Christianity, regard it as excellent to come together harm for the sake of dissimilar, even to die so that dissimilar special may well moving. The Wiccan Rede does not sanction this. You are to harm none, and this agent that you are not to harm yourself, even for
the sake of show good for someone extremely.
To some, this may good wish a insensible all the rage. But outline about it. Would you wish to assist by someone else's maiming or death?
Of course not! If you did move some assist, such as an
heritage, from the death of dissimilar special, would you link with good about this? Honorable, some battle may well, but conceivably you would not.
Consequently, in a very real practice, you yourself are harmed by a assist you move from the maiming or death of dissimilar. Suitably, the harm is maudlin, but it is proper real.
Wicca recognizes that human beings are unreserved creatures. In the role of does harm to one, does harm to all in changing degrees. Consequently, it is tenet that each special toil to harm no one, himself or
herself included.
Finally, it is divulging to notify that word "ye" in the supposition,
"Do what YE request." This is the ancient plural form of "you", and it agent that your single request is reputed to be in compassion with some other request, relatively of plays proper on its own.
In the role of is this other request which, together with yours, comprises the
"ye" in the Rede? Honorable, if you are working in a coven, it may well well be the concentrated request of the members of the coven. But this would not handling to individuals who are working on their own, and it is not the pick up or best meaning, even for individuals working in coven.
How does one act, so as to be set to harm none? Not by
refusing to act, so inaction is itself a resolution, and on a regular basis causes far higher harm than even anxious action. Not by delaying action until the time for it is following, what that is the extremely as
inaction. And not by relying right upon your own human wisdom,
either.
The best way to act, so as to be set to harm none, is to call
upon the Divine being and/or the God, and to hand to Them the power you sustain raised, together with the assignment you sustain raised the power to develop with, and say, "You are holy, good, and sharp, and know how to use this power to help and not harm. Do Your request in this
assignment. That is my request, that Your request be done." And that's why the Rede is fulfilled: For the "ye" who request are yourself and Them-
selves, who are good, and love the human race, and who always act for the pick up good of all.
