8/28/2006 - Eye For An Eye

An Eye For An Eye, many of us are familler with this phase and it is commonly assocaited with the bible, but here is something you might not be aware of, before the bible came along An Eye For An Eye as a Summerian phrase. I wanted to speak upon this idea becasue of the fact that it is a part of traditional Paganisim. You might have noticed that some of the entires I have posted here have provided methods of brigning harm against others, though not without cause.

Generally in the Neo-Pagan movement and Wiccan beleif system they do not practice the Eye For An Eye ideology, but they have adopted what is known as the Three Fold Law, which basicaly states all that you do will thrice come back to you. But an Eye for an Eye was very much a part of tridtional Paganisim and still practiced by more traditional oriented Pagans.

So just what is an Eye For An Eye, it basicaly means that if one has wronged you, you are premitted to reteliate against them in a way that is just and realtive to what they have done to you. Which basicaly means if you are avenging a rival you are not premittied to bring greater harm to your enemey then what they have brought to you.