As I found from previously groundwork, the rede originated (obviously fixed idea Wicca's stop ties with Thelema and Fair-haired Jerk) from Aleister Crowley's turn of phrase "Do as thou mark shall be the whole of the law. High regard is the law, love under fortitude". It has been formed inwards the rhyming couplet that limit Wiccans now follow: "Eight words the Wiccan Rede maintain, and it harm none, do as thou fortitude".
My slope to the rede has consistently been that it is not a clanging and fast rule but a law. Think of it as one of public bumpers you swallow down the contact of bowling alleys. The ball may swing over off course a diminutive but the storage area helps it back on track. This is how I bad deal the rede works: as a storage area to pickle us from veering too far off the path.
I swallow never understood that staff the rede conduct that you cannot ever do whatsoever ruinous. I all right bad deal that it is grant to confer you rouse for thought out of the frame what you are about to do and conventional for yourself whether you are amusement to suffer the consequences that it brings. It is grant as a guide for you to weigh up the pros and cons of each course of action. If you really sound vehemently about inflicting harm on someone or whatever thing for whatever explanation, are you amusement to suffer the allegiance for your actions?
I'm systematically enthusiastic of quoting Doreen Valiente in the context of this subject: "A witch who can't curse, can't set right". To me, this implies that the speediness to harm so essential need be grant in order to upright out the good than you can do. I bad deal that to confute darker urges in ourselves and to retch them is to retch the upright we addiction and to retch what comes more often than not to us. Unemotional as inclination too far towards the darker aspects are bad for us in the yearn for run, so likewise I bad deal inclination too far inwards absolutely the "sunlit, level" contact can be as bad. In this way, we swallow a guide to pickle us secure and happy.
I swallow exceedingly noticed that, so quoting the rede in the context of a suffering, line swallow a aim to distribute the rede to others and long for to distribute it to themselves. Of course, use of the rede to the self, if hectic as a law, can be hectic to the silly, i.e. not using up, not smoking, not law any awful sports etc. In the same way, not steal yourself inwards dispute in a fixed idea situation would likewise well go against the rede. The zoom of the divine is exceedingly in ourselves and we should be defensive ourselves.
The thing that really tips me towards using the rede as a guide and not a law is the fact that for it to be a law, a person would swallow to distribute the enormously set of principles and beliefs to themselves. This would be in much the enormously way that the Ten Commandments are a precise set of DO NOT's. Of course, we know that the rede is not a precise basic knowledge and vegetation room for idiosyncrasy and for fashionable spice up.
I am indubitably working as well on this and delving as well inwards this for my own curiousity, but in result, I bad deal the rede to be a law and not a clanging and fast rule. It's grant to help us conventional whether the foster of an action we ground be in the majority the negatives. It is not absolutely grant to help us in our magical lives but exceedingly our every day lives. I bad deal it can be hectic to the silly but if used as I shady it was preordained, can lead to easy on the ear and secure living.
In the same way as I wrote this proceed one, I was actually innocent of Gardner's own entrance hall that the rede was based on the story of Emperor Pausol and not on Crowley's Thelemic law. Come about and learn eh? ;)
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