If You Harm None is why, both in our Craft and our daily lives, we seek to bring healing to the sick, wisdom to the seeker and life to Mother Earth. Wicca frowns upon what some call "black magic", for its only purpose is to mess up other people's lives. We don't generally work even healing magic without the subject's permission. We also don't cast "love spells" that manipulate other people's emotions.
In fact, we receive our magic from the rhythms and balances of nature, which is inherently neither good nor evil. The qualities of our gifts are determined by how well we use them. Wicca takes no official positions - having no official leaders - but some Wiccans are active in such issues as health care, human rights and the environment.
Do What You Will is a call for each soul to discover her or his True Will, to understand who s/he really is, to do what s/he thinks is best to lead a happy, healthy, interesting and fulfilling life. As a result we generally have a much more tolerant attitude than other faiths when it comes to the rights of the individual, and no individual Wiccan need ever ask permission to worship as s/he sees fit.
But with rights always comes personal responsibilities. The Rede isn't a license to do anything for any reason, regardless of the consequences. Instead it's an exciting journey of personal discovery, which we travel all of our days. You might say it's the difference between "what I will" and "what I want".
Recommended books (free to download):
Robert Peterson - Out Of Body Experiences How To Have Them And What To ExpectAleister Crowley - Sephiroth Ha Dborim The Emanations Of Words
Anonymous - Starting A New Coven Looking At Yourself
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