I’ve had three magical mottos since I started studying magic. My first (a motto focused on aspiration, hope, and frankly embarrassing pretension) I had until I achieved Knowledge and Conversation of my HGA, at which point I changed it in order to focus on the issues that my HGA pointed out to me (duality, prejudice, self-loathing). I had that until grad school, when I started work on making my foundation secure. In some systems, this would be the work of the adeptus major and adeptus exemptus, but I don’t really belong to those systems. I changed it to focus on issues of power and fate and determination, self- and other-. I’ve had it ever since, although it long since stopped really representing me. So now I’m taking on a new motto, representing my determination to control the thing that most holds me back in my spiritual and mundane work: I…
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