A detailed description of the Egyptian concept of Maat; their guiding religious and spiritual doctrine.

1. the ground is Maat. This is all possible because these elements are true, and a true friend
of Maat.
Maat for the Kemites (Egyptians) was both cosmic and earthly law. Ultimately,
Maat is so all encompassing that she is ultimately incomprehensible. The concept of
speaks truth and do truth was their national philosophy. To know the truth you only
needed to listen to your heart, which was in touch with your consciousness also know as
Ka. Maat is also the basis for Kemetic philosophy among other things. It is believed by
them that Maat is an invisible spirit order of heaven, the cosmos, and the earth it self. Ra
(the ancient Egyptian sun god) swallowed Maat when he emerged from the primeval
Nun, and Maat is the paradigm of order in heaven and upon earth.

2. Wylie Jason D. Tidwell
BLS 305
November 9, 2005
Maat
Every ancient civilization has a guiding principle, and in ancient Kemet (Egypt)
their guiding principle was the concept of Maat. It was believed that Maat was the
personification of the fundamental order of the universe, without which all of creation
would perish. The primary duty of the pharaoh was to uphold this order by maintaining
the law and administering justice. At any event in which something would be judged,
Maat was said to be present, and her name would be invoked so that the judge involved
would rule correctly and impartially.
In Kemet, it is the moral code that helped protect the country from disorder,
chaos, famine, and misery. In the underworld, Annibus (the most important god of the
dead but he was replaced during the Middle Kingdom by Osiris) weighed the heart of the
deceased against Maat's feather. If the heart was heavy with wicked deeds, it would
outweigh the feather, and the soul would be fed to Ammit (Eater of the Dead). However,
if the scales were balanced, indicating that the deceased was a just and honorable person
in life, he would be welcomed by Osiris (a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but
also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the
fertile flooding of the Nile River) into the Blessed Land. Maat's presence in all worlds
was universal. In reality, Maat is what is really true. While the physical and the material
represent an aspect of reality, the spirit, or the invisible force that gives rise to and
sustains physical and natural life, the reality of Maat. A cloud is Maat, and even dirt on