Confessions of Dying Kmt Man 

Coming Back Around Again

It is said that this part of the cosmos came to be 21 billion years ago, billions of years in order to bring us to this moment of truth.  How long does one of us live: 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years, 100?  Much less the simple twinkling of an eye in light years? Kmt understood the new road to traverse; our Innocent Ones assumed responsibility for starting the world's civilization.  They held on for over 4000 years, while making wonderful contributions to the foundations of life, living, and learning. 

All that is born dies, nothing lasts forever.  The ancients saw natural death as but a transition to new life of another kind. Un-natural death, however, tears apart life and leaves much pain andsuffering.  The destruction of Black civilization in Kmt was unnatural and unforgiving.  Today even the walls of ancient temples still standing cry out for justice---a justice that only the sober, sound soul of indigenous Black populations descending from that great African civilization can bring about in this world and in this lifetime.  But they must be free of their white, Arab, and Jew enslaver's ideologies, beliefs, and religions.

Over centuries one point became clear: Brute force, murderous zeal, clever-cunning-killers were too formidable.  In waves they came, spanning 2700 years.  In time, that advanced African civilization was put to sleep for over 2000 years, picked through like vultures pick through dead bodies on a warm desert morning.  The tables were turned: the first became last, and the last became first.   Much time passed and much of what was the best that Africans had offered humanity came to an end with the centuries of predation/pillage forced upon Africans.  Over 500 years ago, our great ancestors answered like no other in face of the Holocaust of Black Enslavement.  Our great ones produced standards of heart never to be matched because in face of the enslavers, carrying Bibles, Korans, and Torahs, they believed in their own ancestors and not the slave brute's gods.  Appreciate this. 

There was a time that our ancestors faced being tossed to sharks without white/Arab religions; most did not even speak the enslaver's language, and did not read the enslaver's writing.  They knew nothing of their religions, gods, or mystical stuff---only that these murderers, rapers of children, killers of babies, and breeders of women were enslaving them in the most wasteful misuse of human life and potential ever forced upon any people in world history.  We are here because our wonderful Black ancestors had historical clear visions, foresaw the centuries, showed us hundreds of years in brief pages, and completed their mission and role. Now is our time.

In modern times, another chapter in history has begun in Black history: the period of Black obsolescence in former slave nations around the world.  It is a slow drip soon to be a flooding river bank.  Darfur is merely a harbinger for Nazi holocausts against Black people which will make Hitler's work appear small scale.  The religions of those Blacks in Darfur are Islamic/Muslim, but those Arabs want that land, and as such Black life even pacified/passive/prostrated/praying to Arabs and Islam is not enough for those Black women and children to be allowed to live.  Islam was created by Arabs, it is an Arab religion, language, and culture which other races (they oppressed in ancient times) happen to organize their lives around, today.  Those who are apart of it let them be what they are.  Respect them; but never again let them run over you.  They actually owe you substantively everything they have acquired through slavery and land conquest. 

Blacks in white relationships are no different.  Facing obsolescence in every European nation, Christianized Blacks will be treated just like the Jews in Nazi Germany.  In time they will see; that which is hard as steel appears unchangable, but even steel melts into liquid, then gas when it gets hot enough.  None of those Jews ever thought they'd end up in ovens; they would have prepared differently.  The pace of degeneracy picked up; they could not adjust, and so they were run into the ground, literally.  Blacks today face an even quicker pace.  They will have to sober up fast if they are to live through this period.  Not to waste time, though. Our visions have turned towards justice, cleaning up, and moving on, even if we have to move through walls. 

Those Black folk who are morally sound today have begun to climb slopes of another mountain in order to scale higher pyramids in this world.  We look heedlessly at any modern enslavers---anyone who enslaves---like Harriet Tubman looked at these brutesnearly two centuries ago: like the scum of the earth they are.  Our tasks are clearly the opposite of what has been done to us, and how we have reacted to it.  On our knees, we must today get up. Dependent, we must today stand tall alone.  Passive, crawling, scared; we must with straight back see as brave/selfless people see.  Just think if even a hand full of Black people thought as Hariet Tubman thought and acted with the courage she expressed everyday.  In the past, our mislead/passive/disorganzed collective response equaled 500 years of enslavement, when whites would not allow you to try to enslave them today for five minutes.  Lessons should have been learned---give to the Romans what is from the Romans---all of it; get your own, create your own, build your own, believe in yourself.  

Independence is the only path to freedom.  Self reliance is the only path to independence.  Self knowledge and intellect is the only path to self reliance.  Study and sober scientific analysis is the only accurate path to self knowledge.  Hard work is the only road to success.  We will accomplish this with our heads held high, beating African drums and our vision focused on a distant future, free of enslavers control of our lives.  Some Black people will selfishly/ignorantly hang on to the slave religions and ideas that they have gotten passed down through the ages from parents, grand parents, great grands, great great grands on back to the Arab, Jew or/and European slavemaster.  Like drugs, they are strung out.  Like a virus, they spread it to generations unborn.  Give them their space; let them find their bearings; the heat from the white /Arab nazi movements will awaken the few fortunate to live.  If they are not humble/honest, they will not listen.  Let them go.  Most of them are immoral, self hating, disrespecting of anything indigenous to progressive Black tradition/culture.  They march selfishly to spiritual suicide, selfishly claiming how "blessed" they are as hundreds of millions of Black children suffer and died miserable deaths after living even more miserable lives.

But what's the use of talking about them and their individual glories, anyway? Our goals are collective and achievable. We should not dwell on our past loses because this moment opens a new period if we seize it.  We should learn from the mistakes; admit our shortcomings; correct errors; repent, repay, repair all of those you have harmed in this life and the next.  Instead of continuing along these wrong paths, we should look forward to see the dawn and what arises out of the heat caused by collapsing global social/economic systems.  There will be huge openings for the just/honest to clean themselves up.  Those of us who are morally sound will carry out all tasks with perfection and that is what we will do. Absolutely nothing should be allowed to stop us. Nothing.   

And yet, things will not be easy.  Our enemies are used to having there way with us; and most of our people are used to crawling around, passively accepting a second and third class life while others who happen to be born white have a first class life at our expense.  Whites just pledged $7.4 billion dollars to tiny Palestine, their historical enemies; they enslaved and colonized Africa for over 500 years and have never pledged over $3 billion to the entire Black aspect of the African continent in 500 years. They are unjust but they fight to win; we are just but do not fight until surrounded and almost wiped out. And so they win; degenerate, murderous, unjust, selfish, predatory, parasitic, always cheating Black people, everything for themselves and nothing of substance for nonwhites---but they win because they do what is necessary to win.  Here injustice is subsidiary, our central problem is not with them, they are not the root of our shortcomings---for if they want to fulfill their role, let them be the enslaving degenerates that they have shown themselves to be in history.  Go and look at it.   

The core problem is with us, the ones sworn to do right, the best of our best, the salt of the earth, the living tree, the ones always claiming to be cheated, the ones claiming innocence, the ones standing around watching.  And yet we lay down, again and again, we bend over, somewhere down low, somewhere low down, somewhere on drugs (including religions), somewhere giving less than our best, somewhere making excuses, somewhere praying without work, somewhere collaborating with injustice, somewhere seeking the easy way out, somewhere cheating our ancestors, somewhere giving up, somewhere just beat down, just passively marching around, just pleading and praying---and doing nothing else.  Some see only themselves, no one else counts, just them, just what they can get out of this rotten system for themselves; they live in a house of mirrors, fake costumes, and cheap glass.  Let them go.  That type cannot help anyway.

Look to the best of our best, the ones who put African rebirth at the very heart of their existence and keep it there through even the worst of time.  They will have a just reward.  For we are not mere individuals.  At our best, we are an inexhaustible force when we are focused like the example set by Harriet Tubman.   Men and women should daily show that kind of courage, that kind of resolve, that kind of love.  Our innocent ones, our children, our best and brightest, are prepared and are awaiting us. They want light not mist and fog, answers in this world not silly white/Arab religious mess devoid of spiritualism and morality, toughness not softness, heart not snitches, strength not weakness, bravery not cowardice. The just should fulfill its role. The problem is simple, even for those with a hard spirit. The problem is to open your hearts with honest.

In this new era we must wash our souls and wash them well.

In time, history will be written by our best prepared and those who who heedlessly fight alongside them.  When our children's children begin to read and families begin to remember, they will have a history to read and it will recount how this population of Black people either got on their own path, their own way, their own calling independent of the slave masters and their religions, or were wiped out, finished, exterminated---much like the American Indians (Chechimecans). This is the quiet before the storm, but the storm is already here.  Without a job and a livable wage there is no chance for housing, food, clothing, education, health care, transportation, recreation or even healthy family life.  Robotisized computer automated manufacturing has literally driven millions of Black people out into the streets, homeless, hungry, and unemployed---without any means of being legally employed in this capitalist system.    

Obsolete populations under dying capitalism are fitted for slaughter by Nazis.  Study historical tendencies carefully, especially those genocides of Blacks in Namibia, the Sudan, the Caribbean, and North/South America. Then get to work, as honest/intelligent Black people, on moral systems that work for justice in this world.  Let the day dreamers have the other worlds the whites, Arabs and Jews have made up.     

From Kmt Maat Morality to Ethnic/Race Religions

Although there are presently over 3758 written religions in the world today, written religions came into being late in human history.  People for over 200,000 years speculated on questions of when, who, how, why when addressing their own lives and how they came to be.  Without concrete evidents and a method of study that isolated certainty as its goal, science, mystical conclusions were the norm.  Rituals, dances, chants, sacrifices, bone through the nose, facial mutilation, genital mutilation, rain dances, and all kinds of beliefs arose.  It was only when these ideas were put to paper that religions took on international significance. 

Religions go hand-in-hand with scrolls, books, writers, talkers, thinkers, true believers--- mostly always mystical people claiming to be divine and to live forever.  In real life they all die just like you and me.  Only their works live on, the substance of their life, the lessons they lived by, and stories (some real, other made-up) of their lifeworks handed down as oral tradition.  In time an individual(s) with some scholastic skill writes down what has happened, in their own words.  Religious teams (only men) meet, debate, decide on which texts go into their book, write, edit, sum up, publish then later mass print their "holy" books---first for their own disciples, tribes, ethnic groups, and race. 

The development of world religions take centuries.  In time, they go out of their race.  When they get in wars with nonbelievers, people who do not speak their language, people who are from a different clan/tribe/ethnic group/religion/race the winner imposes their culture (including religion) on the population they defeated.  That defeated population is converted; most are enslaved or killed in time, however.  In time, the religions, cultures, and languages of the defeated populations are destroyed/hybridized/corrupted/assimilated, or completely wiped out.  Like ancient African Kmt's civilization was killed.  This is what happened to Blacks in Africa, and everywhere white (including Jews) and Arab deathships/slaveships unmercifully cargoed innocent Black people by the millions around the world to be worked to death enslaved. 

Everyone of their religions sanctioned Black enslavement.  Everyone of their religious leadership cores sanctioned Black enslavement.  They said their gods said it was ok.  Go back and study.  When they created machines for more productive wage labor, they say their gods said it was time to end direct enslavement and start the exploitation of Blacks as cheap wage labor in factories/textiles.

But Africans had their own great/indigenous moral systems, moral codes, and ethical principles long before the destruction of Black civilizations. Maat was the first and most developed system of Black morality and ethics in the ancient world for over 6000 years in Kmt.  Semites and whites invaded, occupied, and destroyed ancient Kmt along with the African civilization, economy, government, educational system, health care system, moral and ethical system, cosmology, writing system, family, architecture,, civil engineering system---everything.  These destroyers of Black life even fashioned three religions that became world religions as their race conquered, colonized and converted subjugated black, brown, red and yellow skin people around the world.  Where-ever the destroyers went (with sword, blade, knife, gun, cannon or nuclear bomb, germ warfare, guile and missionaries) they forced their culture via religion on the people that they enslaved and destroyed.

Semites wrote the Torah hundreds of years after Moses died, with decades of revisions.  Whites wrote their bible in Rome at the Nicaean Conference hundreds of years after they said Jesus died and rose from the dead.  Arabs wrote the Qur'an decades after Mohammed died with hundreds of years of additions.  All three religions were used as justifications to invade, pillaged, rape, conquer and destroy Black civilization and people's for thousands of years culminating with the holocaust of Black enslavement globally and the seizing of the entire continent of Africa for Arabs, Jews, and Europeans.

Moral Systems & Philosophies 

• Maatism (Created by Indigenous Black Africans in ancient Kmt)
• o Kmt, Africa (Nile Valley) created in 7707kmtst
• o Holy Book: Maat
• o Six foundations: race, class, gender, culture, generation, psychological oneness based on the guiding principles
• o Spread throughout world from Diaspora and Mother land
• o Impact:KAism (KMTic Maatist Morality). We seek our own hearts.  We seek our own souls.  We seek our own spirits.  We do not need their religions or any religions for that matter.  We need morality, ethics, and systems of justice in this world.  Not pies in the sky. 
  

Religion & Philosophies 

• Christianity (Made-up/copied/created by whites)
• o Western Europe, Latin America (Catholic)
• o Holy Book: Bible 350ad
• o Three beliefs: monotheistic, Jesus Christ as savior, 10 Commandments
• o Spread through Age of Imperialism (White Man's Burden)
• o Impact: Crusades, dominant institution during the Middle Ages, Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther)

Religion & Philosophies 

• Islam (created/adapted by Arab settlers/nomads)
• o Middle East (except Israel), Indonesia
• o Holy Book: Quran (Koran) 660ad
• o Three beliefs: monotheistic, Five Pillars (faith, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca), Sharia (Islamic laws)
• o Spread through trade and conquest
• o Impact: unites most of Middle East, Islamic fundamentalism in Iran (1979), Crusades (Jihad), creation of Pakistan after the partitioning of India in 1947

Judaism(made up/copied/created by semites in response to Kmt and surrounding areas)

• o Israel, created in 1948
• o Holy Book: Torah/Talmud
• o Three beliefs: monotheistic, God gave Hebrews the land of Canaan (Israel), 10 Commandments
• o Spread throughout world as a result of Diaspora
• o Impact:Zionism (Jewish nationalism), conflict in the Middle Ages, Holocaust, Russian pogroms, creation of Israel as a Jewish homeland on Arab controlled land; middle east problems caused.   

Religion & Philosophies 

• Hinduism (made up/adapted by Indians)
• o India
• o Sacred text: Vedas & Upanishads
• o Basic beliefs:several gods, caste system, reincarnation, karma, dharma, sacred cow, Ganges River is sacred
• o Impact: caste system remains strong in rural areas but is weakening in cities, many Hindus are vegetarians (Sepoy Mutiny), partitioning of India in 1947

Religions & Philosophies 

• Buddhism (created of by African Kmt migrants/indigenous Indians)
• o Southeast Asia, China (spread from India - an example of cultural diffusion)
• o Basic beliefs: reincarnation, nirvana, Four Nobel Truths
• § life is full of suffering
• § suffering is caused by a desire for things
• § suffering can be eliminated by eliminating desire
• § following the Eightfold Path will help overcome desire (right thinking and action)

Religions & Philosophies 

• Confucianism (created/adapted by Asians): China
• o Basic beliefs: Five Basic Human Relationships, education should be the road to advancement, filial piety (respect for family), Mandate of Heaven (rule must benefit people or may be lost - unlike divine right)

Impact: provides social order and encourages education

Judaism believes there is one God who cannot be made up of parts. Islam embraces an immaterial, invisible God.  Christians hold fast to the trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. To the roman whites who wrote their bible at the Nicaean Conference, God gives a revelation of Himself through the flesh, Jesus Christ, God Incarnate. All three religions acknowledge that Moses was a prophet of God. Yahweh (God) had called Abraham to father a chosen people of destiny. In Exodus, God used the Prophet Moses to affirm His power, goodness, and concern for history. The Ten Commandments established the moral foundations for human behavior.

For traditional Jews, the commandments (mitzvoth) and Jewish law (halacha) are still binding. Judaism places the emphasis of serving God upon the Torah. According to the Jews, the Torah received its form in the Talmud and the Midrashim, the official, main devotional expositions of the Old Testament books.

According to the Arabs, the Qur'an is the last, and therefore, the final and best word from God. In Christianity, the Bible (Old and New Testaments) is the only book that reveals the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the consequences of sin, and the origin and destiny of all things.  

The tables below sum up the essentials of each religion.  Black folk have these religions, names, beliefs, holidays, habits---everything because of the period of enslavement that the Arabs, Jews, and Europeans imposed on the Black race, along with holocaust/genocide, mass murder, rape, pillage, theft, kidnapping, branding, castration, etc.

Comparison of Origins and History

Comparison of Religious Beliefs

Kmt Maat

• 1. As the temple rite begins "herbak" (the Kmtian on the street) does not feel that it is only for the priest class or that they get more than he/she does. He/she knows that he/she is part of a great chain of being, an organic state where he/she is linked to all others in the country from the lowest worker to the Great Leader her/himself. As the Great Leader acts she/he influences the whole state, as she/he practices the ancient rites all are affected. There is no an artificial division between morality, politics, the divine and the secular, the Kmtian experience is one harmonic, one unity which encompasses all aspects.
• 2. This unity was the foundation for the Kmtian Harmonic spirituality, it sustained Kmt for thousands of years, indeed, Kmtian art did not change fundamentally for some 4236 years until the advent of Akhenaton and then returned to its "Old style" until its fall. The great unity of Kmt was its sustaining vision, its essence was not only found in the state or political structure or in the priesthood, but was within every aspect of its expression, from art to architecture, from music to medicine. Like a hologram, even a single artifact can reveal the language of the greater form.

•3.     Kmt's initiation gave the initiates a degree of education one would acquire after lifetimes of lessons.   Maat

• 4. The Kmtian cosmology is founded on the understanding that all existence was either orderly or chaotic. Order was called Maat while chaos was called isfet. The word Maat in Kmtic language translates to mean, Truth, Justice, Righteousness, Balance and Order. It's opposite being "Isfet", which means, lacking in justice; out of balance, disorder, etc.
• 5. Maat encompassed the physical world, political conditions, and ethical conduct. In the physical world Maat meant that the sun rose and set in a regular pattern. Maat also meant that the Nile flooded Kmt on a regular schedule and provided fertility to agricultural fields. In politics, Maat meant that the true king sat on the throne and ensured order within Kmt. In Kmtian thought, Maat depended on correct personal conduct. In fact correct personal conduct ensured loyalty to the king, which, in turn, supported an orderly physical world. For individuals, Maat also meant telling the truth, and dealing fairly with others in addition to obedience to authority. Ultimately an individual who supported Maat through his actions could enter the afterlife as a reward.
• 6. The controlled order of ancient Kmt was personified by the goddess Maat. The ancient Kmtians believed the the world was in careful balance between the forces of chaos, calledisfet, and order. or Maat. The word Maatis often translated as "truth." Maat is usually depicted as a woman wearing a single ostrich plume on her head. This feather is the same one that was placed on a scale opposite the heart during the judgment of the dead. The heart of the deceased had to equal the feather in order for the deceased to enter the afterlife. Small, seated images of this goddess were often shown being offered to the gods by the ruling king, showing that the king was upholding the order of the world.
• 7. Maat's symbol is a feather. It is with the weight of this feather that the heart of the deceased is compared to during the Judgment of the Dead. Should the heart be weighed down with sin, the magic of the heart scarab placed over it to prevent the heart from bearing witness against its owner be of no avail, and the protestations of innocence not be believed, then the dead person's heart will be devoured by the demon Ammit and he will not have part in the eternal life. Maat's counterpart is Isfet, which denotes all that is wrong and chaotic.
• 8. The beginnings of indigenous African systems of thought date from Per aa-ic times with the production of the African Kmt Memphite (Wa-Set) Philosophy (4,236bc), which was the earliest systematic moral code establishing right and wrong, and good and bad. In ancient African morality, ethics, and virtue, major emphasis was placed on an individual's conduct in life, treating it as the basis on which one will be judged in the next life. These principles organized social space and gave order to the social lives of Africans who settled along the 4,144-mile Nile River.
• 9. The roots of this uniquely African will to justice via science were, therefore, initiated in this period. The independent indigenous literary production, the philosophical tradition, the moral basis for this great African civilization stretches over 3500 years. Its content was dualistic, holistically integrating matter and spirit, science and morality, theology and cosmology. Pyramids (the largest buildings in the world that have stood for over 6000 years in Africa's Kmt) were not built by empty religious mysticism, but by scientifically skilled indigenous African architects, engineers and master urban planners---who at the same time adhered to advanced religious and moral codes of social conduct. Science and morality, therefore, were one unified and complementary cross-paralleled reality. One did not negate the other.
• 10. The "divine speech," MDW NTR,of Djehuti (Kmt's personification of science), was intimately bonded with "divine righteous behavior," MAATI, or Maat (Kmt's personification of truth, justice, and righteousness). This was truly a unity of opposites. The unique facet of the ethical portions of the systems presented is their introduction of a comprehensive system of thought for scientific thought and moral practical guidance and action invented at least 2000 years before Greek Civilization:
• 11. Pyramid Texts: 3300-2400bc, a corpus of 2217 formulae or paragraphs in modern editions; these formulae are enshrined on the inside walls 0 of the chambers of the queen/king chamber, 5th dynasty;
• 12. Teachings of Imhotep, advisor to king Djeoser; 3rd dynasty, around 2800bc;
• 13. Teachings of Hordjedef, second son of Khafu; 4th dynasty, circa. 2700bc.
• 14. Teachings of Kagemni, vizier of Snefrou; 4th dynasty, circa. 2650bc.
• 15. The Teachings of Ptahotep, vizier under the reign of Isis; 5th dynasty, c. 2600bc.
• 16. The ShabaKA Inscription (Memphite Theology), transmitted by the stele of ShabaKA, these are essays on philosophical theoretical reflection of Ptah's priests in his Memphis sanctuary;
• 17. Admonitions of a KMTian Sage (Prophesies), circa 2300bc Dialogues of a Desperate Person and His/Her Ba, circa 2280bc.
• 18. The Teachings for King MeriKAre, Attributed to king Kheti II; 10th dynasty, circa. 2250bc.
• 19. Songs of the Harpists, circa. 2200bc.
• 20. Teachings of the Asar, circa. 2050bc.
• 21. The Teachings of Amenewhat to his Son Sesostris, circa. 2000bc.
• 22. Strength of Skilled Trades, circa., 1900bc
• 23. Teachings of the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, circa., 1850bc; Rhine Papyrus
• 24. The Sarcophagus Text circa., 1650bc;
• 25. Book of Coming Forth by Day and By Night, circa. 1590bc;
• 26. The Great Hymn to Aton, circa., l400bc;
• 27. The Wisdom of Ani, circa l300bc.
• 28. The Teachings of Amenempoe, circa. 1l00bc.
• 29. Later, this indigenous African moral "thought matter" was plagiarized and claimed by Hebrews during their 400-year sojourn in ancient African Kmt. Moses, their first and chief lawmaker---taking the ancient African Kmt's 42 Confessions of Innocence and making 10 Commandments--- was, according to the Old Testament, thoroughly instructed in the wisdom of ancient Kmt. He was a KMTic priest. He lived the larger part of his early life in Kmt. He was thoroughly educated in KMTic schools and temples.
• 30. Even KMTic religious theology expressed a certain systematic logic. Ancient African Kmt viewed heaven as the seat of the Neters, that is to say, the "creative causes," the unmoved movers, the supreme will, the vital forces, or agents of continuous creation and the principles of functions, which through reflection into the earthly world maintained its existence. This is fluid duality personified. Temples were conceived of as the cosmic seats of the Neters, each a sacred place of dwelling for a significant moral or scientific principle to which each of them was dualistically dedicated.
• 31. The sanctuary of a KMTic temple, with its huge doors, vividly painted walls, massive pillars, chambers, corridors, and various sacred monuments surrounding it, was the secret part of the temple; its walls were covered with the most important texts, and it was separated from the "open temple" by the transitional hall. Clearly if Kmt's intellectual and moral system had been applied to build the proper military system, African civilization would today be leading the world in the arts and the sciences.For historical and cultural reasons it was not. Material force must be met with superior material force as to ensure self-preservation. Kmt was sorely deficient in this area.
• 32. In sum, the temple inscriptions are explicit on this point: science and morality are inseparable; therefore any subsequent research methodology must have Maati (moral correctness) and Djehuti (scientific precision) as its plan, driving force, and its goal. African scientists today must independently resurrect this ancient method of judging reality and fortify it with a material will that centers on self-preservation and self-development.

Salvation of Humanity

• 33. In the beginning there was Nwn, the body of primeval water; from Nwn came Atum on its own; from his spittle came the first couple, Shu (dryness) and Tefnut (humidity); they gave birth to Geb (earth) and Nwt (sky), who then bore Asr, Ast, [seth] and [nephthys]-the first set of nine divinities made up the Group of Nine (Ennead) of Heliopolitan mythology
• 34. [Ra, king of gods and goddesses, also represents the cycle of the sun, which is the basis of all life's existence-Ra simultaneously ‘is' and ‘is becoming'; this myth seems to speak to a few different things (I could be wrong about them all). One is that humans have the potential to exploit the natural environment (its contents are extensions of Ra-the sun) and when they actually do this, nature deals heavy blows to the population. The natural disasters are explained, in this story, as response of Ra through Skmt to purge the earth of those damaging nature. If this makes sense and if it contains an element of truth, verification needs to be made by studying the period in which it was written). Another possible interpretation is that Ra symbolized the pharaoh.
• 35. This text indicates that Kemites believed in free will, the power and goodness of Ra

Maxims of the Prime Minister PtahHotep (Exerpts)

• 36. Wisdom literature comprised a series of moral treatises proffering declarations on ethics, psychology, politics and social issues. Generally, wisdom literature contained the moral code of Kmt antiquity
• 37. Ptah-hotep was the equivalent of a Prime Minister in the 5^th dynasty.
• 38. Kmt maxims should be so sequences, intellectually, as to lead necessarily to knowledge, culture, moral rectitude, good conduct and the setting of a good example; its aim is moral, ethical, methodical, and artistic
• 39. The language is the result of deep reflections; the maxims and wise sayings are concepts; they offer practical advice and above all focus on essential, ethical concerns; they offer advice about personal conduct, and recommend a judicious balance, respect for others, self control, the careful monitoring of one's thoughts and emotions
• 40. The maxims advocate simplicity and humility; the spiritual value of these maxims lies in their advocacy of general culture as a requisite for the happy life
• 41. The highest value is placed on a constant quest for truth and justice; MAAT is a concept of central importance, implying order, universal balance, cosmic regulation, justice, truth, truth-in-justice, rectitude and moral uprightness
• 42. Balanced order brings peace, condemns crime and evil. Whomever breaks the law is punished as a matter of course
• 43. People in authority are advised to govern with mercy and in peace; subordinates owe respect to superiors; authoritarian conduct is decried as unacceptable
• 44. The social order secretes benevolence and loving kindness, without stifling personal initiative and work; MAAT castigates slander, lying, defamation, boastfulness, and flattery; all persons deserve respect
• 45. order is a categorical imperative-‘stick to the truth; do no exaggerate; in the final analysis, justice (MAAT) prevails'
• 46. Only the wishes of the netcher become reality; the wishes of humans do not always come true [humans negotiate their external environment, and depending on the forces involved, nature prevails]
• 47. To understand MAAT, must examine it on 3 levels-(1) universal level, MAAt expresses harmony of the elements as clearly established, each in its right place; this is the concept of the whole; (2) political level, MAAT works against injustice; in the name of MAAt, the pharaoh subjugates rebels and dominates foreign lands; and (3) individual level, MAAT embraces specific rules for living in concert with moral principles; whomever lives according to these rules and principles achieves universal order in his/her own life and lives in harmony with the ordered Whole
• 48. MAAT indicates transcendence

Maxims of Kagemni Exerpts

• 49. The Instructions of Ancient Kmt were precisely such lessons in virtue, dispensed by a master to a student, by a wise expert to someone younger,
• 50. The Wisdom Literature was a corpus of texts used for philosophical education
• 51. Virtue can be taught; the discipline for teaching it embraces both science and conscience, knowledge and consciousness, a consciousness inseparable from the responsibility of governing the polity
• 52. Kagemni is instructed in discretion, good manners, and moderation; self-mastery and self-control; appropriate conduct; sobriety
• 53. text discusses time, that there is a proper time for everything
• 54. Kmt wisdom advocates modesty, sobriety and moderation, also castigates boastfulness
• 55. prudence is recommended
• 56. Morality was practical; it began by recognizing responsibility, then moved on to offer the training required to fulfill it. Its goal was the strict duty of living in tune with MAAT, the combination of Justice and Truth, the supreme moral law
• 57. The teacher sought to focus the student's attention by using proverbs and maxims, confident that this radical educational theory would work in practice
• 58. Kmt morality was civil and secular, profoundly focused on the life of the community
• 59. MAAT, a transcendental law, also taught human beings, in practical terms, how to live as dutiful members of their communities, how eto assume future political and administrative responsibilities, how in short, to have as social beings.
• 60. The Kmt scribes who set down these moral injunctions in their books felt that they were accomplishing a duty, that of handing them down to future generations; This was the origin of the law of obligation as an essential objective of morality. It was from this type of fundamental obligation that the various ‘teachings' were derived together with their moral corollaries-prudence, modesty, sobriety, self-mastery, moderation, courage, disciplined striving for self-improvement, and thoughtful patience; the aim was virtuous fulfillment (well-being)
• 61. Because the teachings were written down, they facilitated the transition from the idea of positive goals (to be achieved, practiced, lived) to that of laws (to be known, learned, read, contemplated, respected)
• 62. Per aa-ic morality was based on written documents-it stated that moral precepts derived from a moral law rigorously focused on duty; the moral system constituted a scholarly discipline
• 63. the moral philosophy of per aa-ic Kmt had its ideal of the good
• 64. the prime minister in the per aa-ic administrative establishment, summons his children to teach them virtue; thus love facilities the dissemination of moral and spiritual propaganda

MAAT Kmt Code of Cardinal Virtues

• 65. The purpose of this type of text was to help the deceased person on the voyage to the other world
• 66. The driving ethos of Kmt was a powerful aspiration to virtue and wisdom
• 67. Kemites were convinced there was a higher order, living and eternal. They conceived of this deified cosmic order as a combination of justice and truth, and called it MAAT.
• 68. The process of living the inner life, deepening and perfecting it, became synonymous with the exercise of intelligence. Whoever aspired to live forever te life of gods, in the company of the blessed, had to make a conscious effort to live according to a set of ‘rules' designed for the purpose of dominating death, transcending morality and affirming life.
• 69. The straight path to eternal life was morality
• 70. Funeral rites, embalmment, offerings to the deceased, rituals, etc., was created to help the dead to attain eternity, to merge self and cosmic order
• 71. only under conditions of absolute purity could the deceased take on the name of Asr, ruler of the kingdom of the blessed
• 72. To join the company of the blessed, the deceased had to first acknowledge and assert their original kinship with the deities; to do this they invoked the power and beauty of words, declaring their innocence in the hall of the MAAT deities
• 73. Kmt recognized morality as law. Rules of behavior and moral conduct were codified, so that the words attributed to the deceased constituted discourses on applied morality, by whose criteria individuals evaluated their own deeds, freely accomplished while they lived on earth among mortals
• 74. This public confession was a performance through which the deceased asserted that they too possessed the knowledge of the gods; they aspired to have the gods treat them as initiates; they insisted their status as pure beings. As a pure being, the individual deceased deserved to escape condemnation on the scales of justice
• 75. MAAT is justice, a way of intelligent, conscious living, a concept at once ethical and speculative a logos
• 76. MAAT was the one way to true happiness, peace, beauty, and intelligible life
• 77. What is true knowledge but that which leads to wisdom
• 78. they deified ethical principles
• 79. The veneration of the dead affects, regulates and codified various aspects of individual and collective behavior; it requires observance of virtue at all times, respect for one's word, respect for other people's property and the common wealth, honor and dignity in relations with others and the exaltation of work; this ideal, this way of life constitutes the golden rule for life on earth
• 80. All living beings are enjoined to take care (in behavior and conduct) not to soil the environment with any kind of impurity
• 81. it is forbidden to commit adultery, to trammel on others' rights, to lie knowingly for the purpose of covering up truth or harming others, to be cruel to the weak, to steal, to refuse drink or food to strangers
• 82. It is an ethical system that does not tolerate adultery, fornication, lying and the use of coercion to mistreat the weak
• 83. MAAT enjoins bodily and spiritual purity, scrupulous respect for social norms, the practice of charity and generosity; another command of MAAT is that the poor should be protected
• 84. There is a court of the ancestors, which adjudicates between the just and the impious
• 85. The justified deceased who enters the hall for the 2 MAAT sisters (place fo truth) can attain eternal beatitude among the blessed
• 86. MAAT, as transcendental justice, is also cosmic order, the universal balance fo nature and the entire cosmos.
• 87. It is the energy that animates both the visible and invisible world

On Death

• 88. The Ba ("soul") explains that a man in control of his life ought to think of his departure from this earth in all tranquility, and not worry unduly about the time of death, or the funeral ceremonies following his demise, since these are matters of little importance
• 89. Life on earth is no more than a transition; life is a cycle
• 90. Person's argument: One must not die forgotten; Those who seem to have attained eternity are those with sufficient resources to arrange their own mummification, tomb burial, ritual ceremonies, and the erection of a stele to keep their names alive; The ability to make such funeral arrangement should be available to everyone
• 91. Ba: worrying about the ceremonial details of one's funeral serves no purpose, since the pomp is useless; everyone dies and will not return
• 92. In the end, humans possess nothing more than their lives on earth
• 93. What is sad is not that a person who has had a life is now at the end, but rather the fate of those innocent ones who never had a chance to experience life
• 94. The transition from the Old to Middle Kingdom was a violent time of chaos, famine and economic depression; thinkers wrote about the surrounding misery, misfortune, the vanity of existence, while worrying about survival; simultaneously, there was tremendous emphasis on ethical values
• 95. When the power of the dynasties were imposed throughout Kmt, the pharaoh symbolized a god, owner and manager of the universe of all things earthly and divine; the pyramid, which came to symbolize the celestial realm in the afterlife, was reserved for the pharaoh; the deified royal person was incorporated into the solar system
• 96. Everyone else went to the West
• 97. The problem of life after death was discussed and answers proposed
• 98. During political and social disintegration, answers tended toward spiritual independence and liberation
• 99. The philosophy of mortality that emerged was designed to satisfy the spiritual needs of the poor; during political instability, death looked like an inopportune event; the response encouraged each person to enjoy each passing day to the full.
• 100. The argument is that death offers liberation and deliverance. The theme is the collapse of the Old Kingdom, opening the floodgates to riots, revolutions, and desperate times.
• 101. Such philosophical discussions lead to a deepening of human consciousness
• 102. The ba of KMTic philosophy is present as the spirit, the soul, or the double of a person, which comes out of the body at the moment of death.
• 103. There exists the idea that the spirit might spend time wandering lost under certain conditions;
• 104. A person's soul must stand before the council of ancestors for judgment; the deceased must achieve a state of purity before reaching the council of ancestors; she/he declares her/his innocence on various matters (balancing of the heart)
• 105. In this state of purity, admitted into the abode of the blessed dead, the deceased becomes no less than one among he powerful dead;
• 106. the complex trajectory finally ends with the sun; the purpose is to transform the deceased into a solar being

Human Destiny: Stars in the afterlife

• 107. the deceased king, to enter the world beyond, had to undergo ceremonial cleansing rituals performed with water specially prepared for purification
• 108. the goal of these purification rituals was resurrection
• 109. the king, once purified, is resuscitated, metamorphosed into a star; in this new identity he must rise into the heavens to assume a stellar immortality by becoming a spirit of light
• 110. key to understanding this mythology is the philosophical assumption that humanity necessarily reflects the universe, and that the life of the universe is directly connected to the Sun

CEREMONIES AND DAILY PRACTICES

MAAT

Daily Practice

Daily Practice Sessions

Order of Meditation/Reflection Sessions

Morning

Daily Routines

Evening

Confessions of Innocence

Proverbs for Sitting Meditation

Commitment to One Great Cause [Pledge & Histories]

Recitation of Guiding Principles

Verses Honoring the Effort That Goes Into Forging Who We Are

I understand that I stand upon the shoulders of many who have come before me, whose blood, flesh, and vitality run through my veins and nourish me. Their expectations, experiences, and wisdom have been transmitted through many generations of ancestors. I am a continuation of this ancestral lineage.  Given a focus on the same goals, skills, and values, we will continue to pass on, through conscious training, our best hopes across geography an history as surely as if a single person were by some miracle able to live, think, and act in various incarnations over millennia.

The Five Awarenesses

• § We are aware that all generations of our ancestors and all future generations are present in us
• § We are aware of the expectations that our ancestors, our children, and their children have of us
• § We are aware that what we do now, in this point and time, is what our children will do in the future
• § We are aware that snitching, crawling, sitting, bending, selling our souls never is acceptable.
• § We are aware that blaming others for our conditions will never help us...

Silent Meal Practice [appreciate what went in to preparing food-with each bite of food, we can taste the meaning and value of our life]

• § Looking at your Empty Plate or Bowl
• § Serving Food
• § Sitting Down
• § Looking at the Plate of Food before Eating
• § Contemplating the Food
• § The Five Contemplations
• § Beginning to Eat
• § When the Plate/Bowl is Empty
• § Drinking
• § Washing the Dishes
• § Group Observations of Guiding Principles [verses & practices]
• § Entering the Meditation Room
• § Sitting Down
• § Following the Breath
• § Cleaning the Room

Kmt Life Practices

• § Greeting Someone
• § Meetings
• § Ceremonies
• § Opening Practices
• § KMT Ceremonies
• § Birth
• § Naming
• § Rites of Passage
• § Rebirth
• § Marriage
• § Anniversary
• § Renewal of Vows
• § Support for the Sick
• § Life Transition
• § Cremation
• § Releasing of the Ashes
• § New Year
• § Independence