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"So Mote it Be" is the one of those archaic phrases that numerous
people in the Pagan group use, but its origins will not be Pagan at all.
In keeping with Webster's dictionary, that the phrase mote was
originally a Saxon verb and that meant "must." It appears back in his
poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, who used that the line Of the actual fact
that wordes mote be cousin to the deed in his prologue for the
Canterbury Tales.
Occultist Aleister Crowley used "So mote it be" in some of his
writings, and claimed it being an historical and magical phrase, also
it's doable he borrowed it from that the Masons. In Freemasonry, "So
mote or not it's" often is the equivalent of "Amen" or "As God wills it
to get." Gerald Gardner, that the founder of contemporary Wicca, was
additionally known to have Masonic connections, although there's a few
question regarding whether or not or not he was a Grasp Mason as he
claimed being. In spite of, it's no surprise that the phrase turns up in
contemporary Pagan practice, contemplating of the very fact that
influence the Masons had on each Gardner and Crowley.
In trendy Wiccan traditions, of the actual fact that phrase often
seems like a means of wrapping up a ritual or magical working. It's
basically a manner of proverb, "And so it shall be."
