There are situations in daily living that demand your participation in the moment. More often than not, and especially if you are dealing with uncertainties, you are not inclined to deal with a challenge to your pattern of thinking, of reasoning. Actually, a surprising number of individuals entertain passionate emotional responses to another’s different opinions or values. The body knows when it experiences energies emanating from another energy source, directly — that is, the body experiences a situation truthfully, authentically.

It is not the person that you want to get into a battle with, rather, it is the person’s behavior. Macrocosmically, you are examining and defining your spirit’s behavior. Microcosmically, you are examining and defining your magical self, and the methodology of your examination, if you will, is your magical motto.

Your magical motto is the energetic seed at the center of your Kether-In-Malkuth. Every time you utilize your motto in magical work, you unlock behaviors that become keys that open further doors on your magical journey. Your magical motto is your tool of personal (Netzach) reflection (Hod). See and perceive your Self and others through your personal reflection embodied in your motto to properly discern another’s behavior from spiritual nature.

If we truly see ourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience, then wouldn’t it make sense to give to the body that which is physical, and acknowledge to the spirit that which is eternal?

And lastly, you maintain control over your magical motto by maintaining its secrecy because it is your spiritual name and the key to your magical Self. You do not give away your personal power, embodied in your name, to other people outside our Order because “it is by names and images that all powers are awakened and reawakened in your sphere of sensation.” If you want to be successful on your spiritual path, flow like the natural Tao of life and let be, let live and let move.

Learn to effectively detach from the mundane by using your magical motto and practice the art of separating the pure ideals of spirit from the temporal rational ways of the flesh. Empower your motto. The magical motto is not just a phrase to be meditated upon, but is a powerful symbolism of one’s personal microcosm that can, over time, induce an altered state of consciousness, more spiritually centered and upraised — more connected with one’s Higher Genius (of which the motto is a gift!). Try imagining the ball’s golden light permeating your entire body … and, as that sphere elevates upward, it is transforming them into golden bodies. And so … as it passes your feet, your feet are left glowing golden light. Once it reaches your head, your entire body is made of golden light. While doing the Four-Fold Breath feel as if you have become more than human — you become the identity or consciousness of your Magical Self (referred to by your Magical Motto). I suspect this also helps tap into and strengthen the current of our Order, being that it is the names we all traditionally are to know each other by.