Egyptian deity

Maat

Less a person than a principle given a face: the order that holds the cosmos, the state and a life together. The heart is weighed against her feather, and a king's whole job is to keep her in place against the disorder always pressing on it.

1 correspondence · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source

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The oldest attribution here is Ritual godform Hegemon, first attested 1909 CE.

Ritual godform

  • Hegemon

    Modern
    Who says so
    The orders' Egypt (1875 onward)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1909 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None found
    Evidence
    Derived from several passages

    The ritual gives only the Order's own composite name, Thmais. That it takes in Maat is this study's reading and not the book's sentence — the order's Egyptian names are frequently constructions in Egyptian vocabulary rather than plain borrowings.

    Evidence

    1. Aleister Crowley, for the A∴A∴, Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae, 1909 — The Temple of Solomon the King, p. 250

      Esoteric primary · The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 2

      is the name of the Hegemon ; and she is the Goddess

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