Core tenet of Wicca
An it harm none, do what ye will.
The Rede: one line of ethics with a whole cosmology of consequence behind it — many add the threefold return.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Wiccan Rede — "an it harm none, do what ye will" — is deliberately minimal, and its brevity is a stance: no commandments, no sin, and no external authority, only a conditional placed on freedom. The interpretive work is all in "harm none," which practitioners argue includes oneself and gets genuinely difficult in real situations. The Threefold Law, that what you send out returns three times over, functions as the accounting mechanism where a judging God would be in other traditions.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Ahimsa — do no harm.
Hinduism · precept
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Compassion extends to all sentient beings.
Buddhism
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Non-violence is the highest duty.
Jainism
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The suffering of living things.
Judaism · precept
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Turn the other cheek — and the argument about war.
Christianity · precept
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The sword is legitimate, and it is the last thing you reach for.
Sikhism
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