Weighing of the Life-force In the rear Surface
It's quaint that way preceding the Bible's 10 Commandments came the ancient Egyptian's reading, methodically noteworthy as Maat.Maat was the Egyptian reflection of truth, remnants, order, law, uprightness, and vengeance and - as was their wish - was represented by a goddess of the extremely name. She was the embodiment of truth and vengeance. The ostrich feather grayish on her understanding was to haul truth.
Exhibit are particular versions or translations of the 42 Principles or Commandments. Hip is one version:
01 Thou shalt not kill, nor bid being kill.
01 Thou shalt not commit falseness or rape.
03 Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor burn up with wrath.
04 Thou shalt not effect atrociousness.
05 Thou shalt not barrage being nor effect being stab.
06 Thou shalt not effect hopelessness.
07 Thou shalt not do any harm to man or to animals.
08 Thou shalt not effect the coming loose of moan.
09 Thou shalt not wrong the organization nor hire them any evil imprisoned.
10 Thou shalt not conquer nor surmount that which does not belong to you.
11 Thou shalt not surmount on top than thy fair luck of fabricate.
12 Thou shalt not reduce the crops, the fields, or the vegetation.
13 Thou shalt not deprive being of what is fairly theirs.
14 Thou shalt not hire cheat authentication, nor fortify cheat allegations.
15 Thou shalt not lie, nor speak fictitiously to the maltreat of inexperienced.
16 Thou shalt not use fierce words nor realignment up any inconvenience.
17 Thou shalt not speak or act unfaithfully to the maltreat of inexperienced.
18 Thou shalt not speak pompously opposed to others.
19 Thou shalt not pay attention.
20 Thou shalt not yearn for the truth or words of religiousness.
21 Thou shalt not divulge being somersaulting or ruthlessly.
22 Thou shalt not disgrace sacred seats.
23 Thou shalt effect no wrong to be done to any workforce or prisoners.
24 Thou shalt not be jagged worsening good chitchat.
25 Thou shalt not thwart the circulation of neat water.
26 Thou shalt not apply the neat water.
27 Thou shalt not tinge the water or the land.
28 Thou shalt not surmount God's name in full of yourself.
29 Thou shalt not despise nor infuriate God.
30 Thou shalt not conquer from God.
31 Thou shalt not confer high ranking hand-outs nor less than what is due.
32 Thou shalt not dearth thy neighbor's assets.
33 Thou shalt not conquer from nor disgrace the dead.
34 Thou shalt experience again and pocket watch the owing holy days.
35 Thou shalt not prevent back the hand-outs due God.
36 Thou shalt not snoop with sacred rites.
37 Thou shalt not destroy with evil imprisoned any sacred animals.
38 Thou shalt not act with deception or audacity.
39 Thou shalt not be wrongly standoffish nor act with bragging.
40 Thou shalt not intensify your stage beyond what is confiscate.
41 Thou shalt do no less than your thesis obligations lack.
42 Thou shalt maintain the law and commit no disloyalty.
The reflection of maat, and the stance of living a amend life was chief to the Egyptians beliefs about judgement last death. This was at the same time as the dead person's personification was 'weighed' in the remnants opposed to maat (image at top of post), symbolised by the feather grayish on the understanding of the goddess.
Exhibit are afterward '42 Playful Confessions' as vetoed below. These are on the go from state aspect translations made by E. A. Wallis Encourage. Something unite, perhaps, to a thesis repetition or put off list to swear that the person is staying on wire.
Forty-Two Declarations of Faultlessness or the Playful Confessions.
01 I bind not dutiful sin.
02 I bind not dutiful stealing with foul language.
03 I bind not stolen.
04 I bind not slain men and women.
05 I bind not stolen crumb.
06 I bind not purloined hand-outs.
07 I bind not stolen the supplies of the god.
08 I bind not spoken lies.
09 I bind not carried not at home fabricate.
10 I bind not spoken curses.
11 I bind not dutiful falseness, I bind not lain with men.
12 I bind made none to scream.
13 I bind not eaten the personification [i.e I bind not grieved inanely, or felt express grief].
14 I bind not attacked any man.
15 I am not a man of cleverness.
16 I bind not stolen cultivated land.
17 I bind not been an eavesdropper.
18 I bind slandered [no man].
19 I bind not been jagged worsening amend effect.
20 I bind not repentant the companion of any man.
21 I bind not repentant the companion of [any] man. (repeats the carry on confirmation but addressed to a out of the ordinary god).
22 I bind not killer myself.
23 I bind terrorised none.
24 I bind not transgressed [the Law].
25 I bind not been wroth.
26 I bind not unite my ears to the words of truth.
27 I bind not blasphemed.
28 I am not a man of foul language.
29 I am not a agitator up of inconvenience (or a disturber of the calm).
30 I bind not acted (or judged) with unmerited indiscretion.
31 I bind not pried hip matters.
32 I bind not multiplied my words in spoken language.
33 I bind wronged none, I bind done no evil.
34 I bind not worked witchcraft opposed to the Ruler (or blasphemed opposed to the Ruler).
35 I bind never out of action [the circulation of] water.
36 I bind never raised my create (accepted snobbishly, or in infuriate).
37 I bind not cursed (or blasphemed) God.
38 I bind not acted with evil wrath.
39 I bind not stolen the cash of the gods.
40 I bind not carried not at home the khenfu cakes from the Self-esteem of the dead.
41 I bind not fleeting not at home the cash of the child, nor treated with disparage the god of my local.
42 I bind not slain the typical belonging to the god.
So we bind 42 Principles and Declarations from the Egyptians. Maybe this is how the sum has moved hip taking part in culture as" The Rush back to the Hindermost Evaluate of Life, the Life, and Something" in "The Hitchhiker's Counselor to the Galaxy", for copy. Exhibit are regular other examples in which 42 has been recycled, but I'll become it grant for today.
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