Maat

God of: Truth, order and the right working of things
Recognised by: A woman with an ostrich feather on her head; often just the feather
Chief cult centre: Thebes

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.

Egyptian sources What Egyptians wrote, on walls, coffins and papyri. What that means

In the correspondence web

In the Golden Dawn's Neophyte hall the Hegemon takes the form the ritual calls Thmais. joined up by this study The ritual gives that name and not Maat's. The Temple of Solomon the King, p. 250

Maat in later esoteric traditions

The Golden Dawn built its Neophyte initiation within Maat's Hall of Two Truths, the judgement hall of Book of the Dead 17 and 125 — and the candidate crosses it as the dead cross it. Maat is also an officer: the Hegemon takes her god-form, seated between the pillars with the candidate in charge. It is the most thoroughgoing use any modern order made of an Egyptian text, and a considered one: the Egyptian scene weighs a life already lived and the Golden Dawn's weighs a candidate entering one. The transposition is deliberate, and the order was explicit about making it.

Modern occult and initiatory traditions This records how later traditions understood and worked with the deity; the Egyptian-language account appears above.

Maat on Wikipedia The section's method