Post by artemis on Jan 8, 2013 22:36:49 GMT
Many Wiccan's believe that whatever energy a person puts into the world will be returned to that person with three times the power. If you send out negativity, you will receive negativity times three. If you send out positivity, you will receive positivity times three.
Some Wiccan's also believe in the Eight-fold Law and others believe in a variant of this law.
It is often dubbed "karma" by Wiccans but its not strictly correct - both describe the process of cause and effect, however karma doesn't operate the same way. Beliefs such as Buddhism, Hinduism and other eastern religion/belief systems subscribe to the process of karma. However they do not have the same good and evil concepts as Wicca; so this is another reason why the Three-fold rule is not the same thing.
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"According to John Coughlin the Law posits "a literal reward or punishment tied to one's actions, particularly when it comes to working magic". The law is not a universal article of faith among Wiccans, and "there are many Wiccans, experienced and new alike, who view the Law of Return as an over-elaboration on the Wiccan Rede." Some Wiccans believe that it is a modern innovation based on Christian morality.
The Rule of Three has been compared by Karl Lembke to other ethics of reciprocity, such as the concept of karma in Dharmic religions and the "Golden Rule".
The Rule of Three has a possible prototype in a piece of Wiccan liturgy which first appeared in print in Gerald Gardner's 1949 novel High Magic's Aid:
"Thou hast obeyed the Law. But mark well, when thou receivest good, so equally art bound to return good threefold."
(For this is the joke in witchcraft, the witch knows, though the initiate does not, that she will get three times what she gave, so she does not strike hard.)
However, The Threefold Law as an actual "law", was an interpretation of Wiccan ideas and ritual, made by Monique Wilson and further popularized by Raymond Buckland, in his books on Wicca. Prior to this innovation by Wilson and its subsequent inclusion in publications, Wiccan ideas of reciprocal ethics were far less defined and more often interpreted as a kind of general karma.
The first published reference to the Rule of Three as a general ethical principle may be from Raymond Buckland, in a 1968 article for Beyond magazine. The Rule of Three later features within a poem of 26 couplets titled "Rede of the Wiccae", published by Lady Gwen Thompson in 1975 in Green Egg vol. 8, no. 69 and attributed to her grandmother Adriana Porter." - (quoted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Three_(Wicca) )
Some Wiccan's also believe in the Eight-fold Law and others believe in a variant of this law.
It is often dubbed "karma" by Wiccans but its not strictly correct - both describe the process of cause and effect, however karma doesn't operate the same way. Beliefs such as Buddhism, Hinduism and other eastern religion/belief systems subscribe to the process of karma. However they do not have the same good and evil concepts as Wicca; so this is another reason why the Three-fold rule is not the same thing.
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"According to John Coughlin the Law posits "a literal reward or punishment tied to one's actions, particularly when it comes to working magic". The law is not a universal article of faith among Wiccans, and "there are many Wiccans, experienced and new alike, who view the Law of Return as an over-elaboration on the Wiccan Rede." Some Wiccans believe that it is a modern innovation based on Christian morality.
The Rule of Three has been compared by Karl Lembke to other ethics of reciprocity, such as the concept of karma in Dharmic religions and the "Golden Rule".
The Rule of Three has a possible prototype in a piece of Wiccan liturgy which first appeared in print in Gerald Gardner's 1949 novel High Magic's Aid:
"Thou hast obeyed the Law. But mark well, when thou receivest good, so equally art bound to return good threefold."
(For this is the joke in witchcraft, the witch knows, though the initiate does not, that she will get three times what she gave, so she does not strike hard.)
However, The Threefold Law as an actual "law", was an interpretation of Wiccan ideas and ritual, made by Monique Wilson and further popularized by Raymond Buckland, in his books on Wicca. Prior to this innovation by Wilson and its subsequent inclusion in publications, Wiccan ideas of reciprocal ethics were far less defined and more often interpreted as a kind of general karma.
The first published reference to the Rule of Three as a general ethical principle may be from Raymond Buckland, in a 1968 article for Beyond magazine. The Rule of Three later features within a poem of 26 couplets titled "Rede of the Wiccae", published by Lady Gwen Thompson in 1975 in Green Egg vol. 8, no. 69 and attributed to her grandmother Adriana Porter." - (quoted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Three_(Wicca) )
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