Maat

Goddess of truth and universal balance, Maat represents the law that governs the cosmos and the heart. By living according to her principle, the soul finds harmony and justice. She teaches righteousness as the path to spiritual freedom.

Maat, Ma’at in the language of Kemet, is the personification of Divine Order, the force of cosmic harmony that sustains the stability of the universe.
Born from the heart of the god Ra, she was placed beside him in the solar barque to maintain the balance between light and darkness, between creation and dissolution.

Throughout every age of Egypt, Maat was not only a goddess, but a living principle:
truth (maat) and moral righteousness that guided the lives of men and the rule of the pharaohs.
Every just action was an act of Maat, every lie or disharmony a wound to the universal order.

In the Book of the Dead, the heart of the deceased is weighed by Anubis on the Scales of Maat, balanced against the sacred feather of Truth.
If the heart is as light as the feather, the soul is pure and may enter the Fields of Light.
If it is heavy, it falls into the silence of oblivion.

In the initiatic schools of Kemet, to live according to Maat meant to walk the path of balance, where word, thought, and action are united.
One who embodies Maat becomes a point of harmony between Heaven and Earth, a priest of the cosmos.