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In summary, then, in the Old Kingdom, in which the basis for Maatian ethics was established, several things occur. First, Maat is established as a moral order with divine, natural and social dimensions. Secondly, Maat is counterposed with isfet (evil, chaos, wrong-doing) as well as with dw (evil), grg (falsehood) and 3bt (wrong-doing). Thirdly, Maat is a standard and measure of both moral life on the personal and social level. Fourthly, Maat is tied to the concept of moral and social excellence (ikr, mnh) and resultant worthiness (im3h). Finally, the ground of Maat is that it’s God’s will, and thus the king’s will and that it is good, effective and lifegiving.

Ma’at, the Moral Ideal in AE, Karenga, pg 55
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Cease despairing what you are. You are what Netjer wishes you to be. What more can be said? Creation is Ma’at. To deny the balance that exists is to deny life and to reject Our hand that has touched you. In recoiling, do not cut yourself off, for to do so is to destroy yourself. To you who call yourselves impure, cast this aside. As Netjer is pure so you are pure, if you will it, for you have Our blessing to do so. Reject not a gift given freely. Delude not yourself into sabotaging your mind. If you were truly impure We would have nothing to do with you, and yet We still open our arms. Those who put aside what We offer out of fear shall suffer – not at Our hand, but at their own. A wise man hearkens to what he can see and accepts what he cannot, in faith. You are made of pureness. Do not feel ashamed. Do not reject what joy is your rightful inheritance.

From The Aset Oracle, Kemetic Orthodox Year 7 (August 1999-2000)

After they had crossed the sky the stars were thought to descend in the west into the waters of the Underworld which extended everywhere beneath the earth and, passing through them, ascend with renewed vigour in the east. Hence a descent into the waters was not only a purification but the prelude to a rebirth.

Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt by R.T. Rundle Clark (via obsidianservant)

The popular view of Egyptian civilization as dignified and austere is incorrect. It comes from the massive temples, the grisly mummies, the crumbled and ruined tombs. Yet the temples were once bright with paint and aglitter with gold; the mummies were men, women and children who enjoyed life so much that they went to unusual extremes in the hope of perpetrating it; the tombs were Houses of Eternity, equipped with “every good and pure thing” for the enjoyment for life everlasting. We are not insulting the Egyptians or falsifying their view of the world if we catch a glimpse of them telling bawdy stories about the gods, getting drunk, writing sentimental poems to their sweetheart, or lecturing their bored children. If we laugh at them just a little, it will not diminish them; and if we fail to see that we are also laughing at ourselves, we are missing the best part of the joke.

Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz

Sun God

Rising in the wondrous East,
He rolls across the sky.
My reason to wake up each daybreak,
He asks to step outside.
I do so –
And He says to me,
“Good morning.”
I smile and bask in His bright light.
“Good morning to You too,” I say,
“and thank You for my life.”

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A poem by me, for the Netjer Ra.

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Once you have established a pattern of performing certain devotions daily, that pattern becomes the minimum of what They expect from you. […]
…once you have established a devotional routine for your gods and spirits, Whoever They may be, I would still strongly advise you to stick to that routine. In the end, you will get out of your practice what you put into it, and there is an accumulation of power and of holiness that builds up over time when you perform a ritual activity (no matter how simple it may be) each and every day. It is this accumulation that can see you through the tough times, the times when you can hardly bear to keep going with your practice, when you feel you can barely even do the bare minimum. It is this that will help you keep going.

Beth Lynch “On daily devotions” (via intaier)

Don’t chase people. If they want to leave, let them leave. Don’t open the door for them. Don’t even look at them. Indifference is always the best.

my life quote (via suspend)

Remember why you became a polytheist. Perhaps you prayed and Someone unexpected answered. Perhaps a Goddess tapped you on the shoulder and said “you’re mine.” Perhaps you realized that the world is better explained by many Gods of limited power and scope than by one all-powerful God and you decided that following Them was the best way to order your life.

It’s hard to be spiritual when your roof is leaking. If your current situation has dampened your enthusiasm for the Gods, Their virtues, and Their work, it’s understandable. And usually, They understand too – They tend to have a longer and wider perspective than we do. But whatever your reason for becoming a polytheist, it was valid then and it’s still valid now.

John Beckett “Polytheism in Difficult Times“
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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker, LIVING BY THE WORD (via

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Again again again again again again

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker, LIVING BY THE WORD (via

durgapolashi

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Again again again again again again

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