Confession to Ma’at

(as recorded in the Book of the Dead.)

omage to Thee, O Great God, Thou Master of All Truth!

I have come to Thee, O my God, and have 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 this Chamber of Ma’at . . . . . .

In Truth have I come into Thine attunement, and I have brought Ma’at in 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 forward 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 enroached upon the fields of others.

I have not filched 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 manifestations.

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-MA’AT!