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“Chief among these expressions is “to put god into one’s heart,” also renders as to “place” or “give” god into one’s heart.  This expression is so typical of the new movement that we can legitimately accord it the rank of a self-designation and eequate personal piety with “giving god into one’s heart.”

The active embrace of god is the third stage of the “history of the heart” discussed in chapter nine.  In the New Kingdom, the interventions of the deities into human affairs were no longer considered to be restricted to warfare or political history in the broader sense of the term.  They extended into all aspects of personal life.  Cases of miraculous healing, as well as of sudden sickness and misfortune, came to be interpreted as manifestations of divine power; life as a whole came to be seen as the object of divine attention and guidance….. Accordingly, the Middle Kingdom ideal of the “heart-guided” individual is replaced in the New Kingdom by that of the “god-guided heart.” The heart is no longer inscribed by society with the norms of ma’at, but has taken god into itself.  This ideal reflects a structural change in the concept of ma’at within a transformed religious context that now sets god and the world against each other and that sees the world as emanating from the creative, animating, and destiny-forging will of god.  Ma’at no longer refers to the principle of immanent justice, but is now the expression of a form of connectivity stemming from god’s will.  “Being just” no longer means integrating oneself into the network of the community via self-effacement and solidiarity, but now requires giving oneself up in humility and obedience to the will of god, who, as Amenemope declares, “gives ma’at to whom he pleases.”

The Mind of Egypt, by Jan Assman (bolding mine)