Do as Thou Will
"That it harm none, do as ye will," can you think of a more perfect law that everyone on earth should abide by? Remember to say that the next time you feel on trial because of your paganism.
But wait, something is not quite what it seems. Ideally we should not even have to be told "harm none." why do you think that is so? And yet we have black and white magick, all in accordance with duality and infinity (my supreme god principles) as to be expected.
"Do as thou will" is a principle of freedom and creativity. As such, it is the right of all who embrace it. If you use that freedom to impede the freedom of another then it becomes a subjective principle, and thereby meaningless. Just another lie by which to get what one wants.
So you see "harm none" is sort of like training wheels for the philosophically challenged. It's like a "don't step on the grass sign," And it probably causes more people to spitefully step on the grass when they see it, then it does to keep them away. In life there are a lot of things that work in ways opposite then we expect...
Now let's get to the deeper stuff...
"Do as you will and harm none," is better then "love one another." It's more univeral, effective, and balanced. The violation of this law is what I consider to be the real meaning of the fruits of the knowledge of good and evil.
Scenario: we have three people together. One of them feels moved to praise the sun perhaps as a deity. Another worships the stone. The third one doesn't worship anything. Then someone comes along offering to teach them of "good and evil." Next thing you know the man who worships the sun is arguing with the man who worships the rock, and the "holy crusader" comes along and kills both of them.
You see here we have imbalance. From a place where things just were beautiful expressions of infinity to a world of violence. Why up until a few hundred years ago people owned people of a different color as slaves. Society felt it was "righteous" and "good" but the result was evil. It's a trampoline effect that nature will try to balance itself. The overzealous crusader is trying to be "good" but achieves "evil" as a result. I imagine it works the other way too somehow.
So there you have it. Violation of "do as you will and harm none," and by principle "do as you will (as opposed to do this or not in the name of God) leads to destruction. All are part of the greater truth and entitled to freedom. If you harm one of us you harm all of us, so to harm another is to harm yourself.
Oh getting back to how this relates to black and white Magick. One may argue then that a difference exists between the subjective and objective just as in how one regards "do as you will." Perhaps revenge and darker spells of the like are of the subjective as opposed to the objective will.
I see it as more of a cultural thing. Wicca appears to me much as the feminine form of Paganism. I knew a Wiccan who was real into womens rights... Well needless to say she wasn't pleased to here that male black witches who can do as they please and female white witches who must harm none is similar to the old days in which men had the ruling power.
Magick is neither black nor white to me. Division is foolish, however Duality in the purest sense of the positive and negative should be worked with in all things.
Some speak of oneness and critisize duality as some sort of trap. Really it is everything we are and everything we do. Every from a point of oneness where all of us make up the body of God and are a connected single entity, there is still the void, nothingness, emptiness, lonliness to be counted.
darkness and light are a primal duality, but a paradox is resolved when you realize that both sides are the same. Both darkness and light on their own are blinding. The trick is in understanding that darkness exists to amplify light so that it shines.
Another example is eat when you are hungry. If we eat every second of the day bad things will happen. "Not eating" is a negative action. It's bitter. It's not fun. But after a while of not eating when we do eat its a lot tastier and more fulfilling then if we had just kept eating all day.
"Paradise" is not about not having any negativity, its about expert ways in which it is managed and controlled."
"From Negative to Positive, through Potential Existence, eternally vibrates the Divine Absolute of the Hidden Unity of processional form masked in
the Eternal Abyss of the Unknowable, the synthetical hieroglyph of an illimitable pastless futureless PRESENT." —S. L. Mathers
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