@Seeker said
"I mean I completely understand the meaning behind True Will but could you elaborate on "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law?" I'm not exactly sure how that works when compared to the Wiccan Rede."
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Seeker, completely understanding the meaning of True Will will resolve the apparent disparity between the Law of Thelema and the Wiccan Rede. I say apparent, because in truth, there is none. "Harm" implies conflict and more specifically, the imposition of one Will upon another. The concept of True Will teaches that if one is doing one's True Will, it cannot, by definition, interfere or conflict with the True Will of another.
The difficulty is in the word "harm", however. It will be readily apparent that if you are doing your True Will, and have conflict with another who is not, and who may be purposefully disrupting the balance of the universe for selfish gain, then that conflict requires resolution. If you assist this person toward doing their True Will, the conflict ceases. If you injure, dismember, or deprive this person of life, then you have imposed your Will upon their existence, which is a violation of the Law... or at the very least, considered immoral by a standard of Thelemic ethics.
This is not to say that you can't defend yourself. Even by the logic of the Wiccan Rede: "An it harm none..." If you allow yourself to be harmed, then one has been harmed, not none. The Rede and the Law of Thelema are injunctions to solve our problems in mutual, rather than exclusive ways.
@Nui said
" 42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will.
Do that, and no other shall say nay.
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!"
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