I see in a lot of PBFs "Set empowerment to level 20/40/full".

I asked around a little and my understanding is that prior to a recent empowerment change, priests just didn't get spells for levels they weren't empowered past, and that xping past an empowerment breakpoint before RPing out that level's empowerment was grounds for being dismissed by the patron god.

My priest has only been empowered once, but I have spells past 20. Do I need to pause at certain levels as I xp up or did that change, too?