His writings, which include translations of Aleister Crowley's works and original Thelemic texts, have had a lasting impact on the study and practice of Thelema in Brazil and beyond.
At eleven years of age he became interested for the first time in the mysterious "Rosicrucians", after reading Zanoni, the novel by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
But his first contact with a self-proclaimed Rosicrucian society, the Brazilian branch of AMORC, did not satisfy him and he started his search for an initiatory school of the sort he found in Arnold Krumm-Heller's novel Rose-Croix.
[1] His time at the Military Academy of Rio de Janeiro gave him a sense of duty and discipline, which he applied to his occult research.
Those interests were not very common among his fellow students, but they gave him some knowledge to argue with his philosophy teacher in a debate that became famous for years.
[citation needed] Motta's first contact with Thelema was through John Symonds' book biography of Aleister Crowley, The Great Beast.
The order never reveals the number of its members[citation needed] but it was significantly smaller than the legally recognized Ordo Templi Orientis.
All volumes in this series were issued as hardcovers, however there was an unauthorised paperbound reprint of "The Commentaries of AL" published by Joseph J. Zver of Allentown PA in 1985.
The major portion of Volume V, #2 was also printed in a limited edition, signed spiral-bound format with a custom index by Gregory von Seewald (March 1996 e.v., The Headland Press, Old Greenwich).