The story of Ma’at opens the series in which we will look into the the personifications of feminine power and wisdom in the Egyptian tradition.
In ancient Egyptian religion Ma’at was the personification of justice and balance. The daughter of Sun god Ra, in many versions she was the wife of Thoth, the god of knowledge, wisdom, and the Akashic Records.
On a cosmic level, Ma’at symbolized the Divine law and order, which was given to the universe by the Creator. It is according to this order that the seasons change, the stars and planets move in the sky, and gods and people exist and interact. Thus, knowing Ma’at equals knowing the inner mechanics of the universe, knowing “how the world works”.
Ma’at gives the wisdom of knowing the cycles and seasons, balance and justice, cause and effect.
The concept of Ma’at is the basis of all ancient Egyptian ideas about the universe and the ethical foundations of day-to-day life. The ultimate purpose of life was to achieve Ma’at. This culminated in the last judgement, the final account given by the soul in the Hall of Truth (or Hall of Ma’at) where a soul was judged by 42 high beings, and the heart weighted against the feather of Ma’at.
The energy of Ma’at is closely connected to the channel that in one modern version of Hermetic Kabbalah is represented by the 11th arcanum, Justice. You can see it on the picture below, on the right side of the Tree of Life, connecting Nezah and Chesed (please note that the Golden Dawn version of the Tree of Life, that is better known in the West, uses different correspondences than I do).
In this episode, I will talk about Ma’at and her energy, as well as:
bees, justice and the sacred feminine;
the holographic universe;
how to work with the channel of Ma’at;
how to know if you have the mark of Ma’at (or if someone else does);
how connecting with these ancient channels can help expand our consciousness (one answer is: if we accept the universe as holographic, we also carry a Ma’at within ourselves)
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