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“Pharaonic Egypt never developed a radical two-worlds theory comparable to Christianity, Judaism, and Gnosticism. The Judgement of the dead connects the norms of this world with the next. What is valid here will be valid there. The attitudes and behaviors that lead to happiness, fulfillment and success in this world will find favor in the next. Classical Egyptian texts make no mention whatsoever of the idea of inversion by which in the next life the poor shall be made rich and vice versa, or those that travail and are heavy laden will be compensated for everything they have been made to suffer. The judgement of the Dead is not the great divide between this world and the next quite the contrary; it binds both worlds together inseparably.”

The Mind of Egypt by Jan Assman page 182