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Presumably you want to cultivate some sense of how you can morally use power, the limits of what you can achieve with power (and no, the answer isn't "just acquire more power" every time), and the real risks (to you AND others) of irresponsible use of power.
Would it be gauche to just suggest "Read the Bible, especially the New Testament?" In a sense, Jesus Christ is an extreme example of a human granted ultimate power over everything, including death itself, who uses it with restraint and refuses to ever be tempted by the offer of earthly power to give in to corruption.
There are plenty of modern critiques of Jesus in the vein of "if I were given Godly power and no limit on how to use it, I could come up with many more creative ways to improve people's lives and the world" which attempt to make a rational case for being more bold and inventive with power, and suggest that Jesus was in fact a 'bad guy' for ignoring most of the suffering on the planet and only intervening to e.g. fix one guy's kid or heal a handful of lepers. Effective Altruism sells itself as being a better investment of resources than tithing to your local church (among other things).
But I honestly think Jesus is indeed the ideal role model in that he represents a human attainable sort of goodness that doesn't inherently rely upon the superhuman ability to resist every single temptation to misuse power, and doesn't require the power wielder to try to anticipate every single possible downstream outcome of their actions so as to optimize the world in ways that can have... unexpected effects.
Using godly power to cure sickness, alleviate hunger and occasionally raise the dead is a pretty good baseline for responsibly using the power you've spent so long acquiring. This suggests if you aren't using at least some of your power to alleviate the ailments and discomforts suffered by people in your local community(even if you can't help the dead ones) you're doing something wrong.
Notice that Jesus pretty much never uses his Godly power to punish wickedness. Indeed, when he drove out the money-lenders he used an old-fashioned whip, he didn't call down bolts of lightning. When his apostles suggested he call down bolts of lightning in retribution for being snubbed, he refused such an act and chastised the apostles for suggesting it. Jesus much preferred to give tongue-lashings or to use a clever allegory to bring 'punishment' than to inflict pain with his power. Indeed, he never used it when it would have been solely for his own benefit. Okay he did fuck up that fig tree that one time. so the message could be it's okay to use your power on plants.
So yeah. Maybe read the Bible. Christian Ethics aren't, perhaps, the most perfect version of practical morality that can be devised in all possible worlds, but if you're planning to follow a path and engage in behaviors to increase your own power, I would humbly suggest that it provides serious grounding for how to avoid becoming the type of person who would gleefully abuse power because you accidentally trained yourself to become that person in the process of gaining power. Also, if you actually acquire the belief that there is a HIGHER power than you, that's a great way to stay humble and not abuse power you acquire because you know exactly what's in store for you if you do.
There's a lot of Scifi books that have some good messages on using power responsibly, and a few nonfiction books that I think are handy on figuring out how to actually wield power with intent (rather than flinging it about randomly), I'll have to think a bit to compose such a list.
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