By Maulana Karenga
A range and retranslation of the oldest sacred textual content on the planet, with serious commentaries at the richness of the African non secular success and legacy in historical Egypt. during this choice we learn the earliest written checklist of the dawning of humanity's dependent cognizance pertaining to spirituality and ethics. the following we discover, for the 1st time in human heritage, the suggestions of Maat (truth, justice, rightness), people within the picture of God, human dignity, judgment after demise, unfastened will, immortality of the soul, human equality, and social justice.
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Likewise, Kheti, tells his son Merikare that "righteousness is fitting for a rulen" and that he should "do that which is right that 39 y o u m a y l i v e l o n g o n e a r t h " , F o n " m o r e a c c e p t a b l ei s t h e bneadof Eherighteousthan the ox of those who do evil". cleanly bhen, maat, uhe quintessen[ial monal and spiriuual c o n c e p t o f a n c i e n t E g y p t i a n s a c r e d l i t e r - a t u r e ,f o n m s L h e cone focus of the Instructions even though some rather secular situations and solutions ane posed.
Stand in awe of Him, DeclaneHim to your-son and daughter,to the gneat and the small. Declare Him tb g e n e n a t i o na f t e n g e n e r a t i o n w h o a n e n o t y e t b o n n , DeclaneHim to the fish in the deep and to the binds in the sky. Declare Him to the ignonantand to Lhe wise. Stand in awe of Him. You, O' Amen Ra, are Lond of those who have no voice. You come at the call of the humble and needy. When I cry out to you in my distness, y-oucome quickly to my rescue, you come to give strength to one who is weak and to save me fnom my enslavement.
Evenycity is under the shadow of Amen Ra, so that His heart can move in that which He has loved. people s i n g E o R a u n d e n e v e n y r - o o f ,a n d e v e n y f o u n d a t i o n sLands fir-m under His love. eady in the gnave. ayersof those who call on Him, and comes in a moment from afar to those who cny out to Him, 22 He lengthens the span of life and shortens it and gives beyond what is allotted by fate to those whom He chenishes, Amen Ra is magic, words of power, over water when His name is said above the deep.