(^52) A Wiccan Bible

Liber ab Tres I

(Book of Three—Part I)

Book of Potential and Fate

52

“Mind the Three Fold Law ye should—three times bad and three times good”

Line 23 From Rede of the Wiccae

As submitted to Green Egg magazine by Lady Gwen Thompson

“Less in thy own defense it be, always mind the rule of three”

Line 23 From the Wiccan Rede

From my own Book of Shadows

ne of the jokes about Wicca is that there are as many different traditions in

Wicca as there are Wiccans. Although there is some truth to this statement,

there are a few documents that practically every Wiccan counts as sacred.

The first of these to be discussed is the Wiccan Rede. No one can be 100

percent sure where the Wiccan Rede came from so no one can be 100-

percent sure exactly how it should be quoted. I received it with line 23 as

quoted above from my Book of Shadows when I was a teen. It appeared in Green Egg

magazine in 1975 with line 23 a bit differently and under a different title. Certainly the

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