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Confession to Maát

Em Hotep! (Greetings!)

I would like to offer this forum a partial list of the famous 42 Laws of Maat; it is a copy of a framed scroll the the same hanging on the wall near my altar. The "Confession to Maat" is taken from the Chamber of Maat (Sanctum of Truth) in the Egyptian Temple of Initiation, as recorded in the Book of the Dead.

"Hommage to Thee, O Great God, Thou Master of All Truth! I have come to Thee, O mt God, and hve brought myself hither, that I may become conscious of Thy decrees. I know Thee and am attuned with Thee and Thy two and forty Laws which exist with Thee in the Chamber of Maat.....

"In Truth have I come into Thine attunement, and I have brought Maat into my mind and soul.

"I have destroyed wickedness for Thee.
I have not done evil to mankind.
I have not oppressed the members of my family.
I have not wrought evil in the place of right and
truth.

I have had no intimacy with worthless men.
I have not demanded first consideration.
I have not decreed that excessive labor should be performed for me.
I have not brought forth my name for exaltation to honors.
I have not defrauded the oppressed of property.
I have made no man to suffer hunger.
I have made no one to weep.
I have caused no pain to be inflicted upon man or animal.
I have not defrauded the Temples of their oblations.
I have not diminished from the bushel.
I have not encroached upon the fields of others.
I have not fliched away land.
I have not added to the weights of the scales to cheat the seller.
I have not misread the pointer of the scales to cheat the buyer.
I have not kept the milk from the mouths of children.
I have not turned back the water at the time when it should flow.
I have not extinguished the flame when it should burn.
I have not repulsed God in His mnifestations.

Affirmation
"I am pure! I am pure! I am pure!
My purity is the purity of the Divinity of the Holy Temple.

"Therefore, evil shall not befall me in this world, because I, even I, know the laws of God which are God.

CRO-MAAT!"*

(*literally, "In Truth it shall be!")

If I can find a copy of the original 42 Laws, I will post them here; I'm sure they would make very interesting reading.

Blessings of the Season to all,

Johannalienor.

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