Month of Nuit

Full Moon

Virtue
Teaching: Negative Confession

    In ancient Egypt virtue was following and listening to Ma’at.  Aligning Oneself with the Ma’at consciousness.  The method of this was to follow One’s own true will.  For if in perfect Love and perfect Trust one directed their Will under Love then, One would be following the Will of Ma’at.  
The Egyptians had a ritual that was called the Negative Confession. It was an act of confessing the negatives that one has consciously chosen not to commit by being one with Ma’at. In so doing affirming their own Divinity by listing the lessons they had learned.  Instead of dwelling on the “Sins” of an individual, the Negative confession emphasizes the “Sins” not commited.  Proving a nearness to perfection through the admonition of the absence of diverting from the Ma’at consciousness.
    In the Negative Confession each line began with a call to a Matron or Patron Neteru from the different Nomes.  Thus through reciting the length of the Confessions One honored each Neteru from Upper to Lower Egypt.  Such as:
    “O’ smoother of ways (Nuit) who comes form the head waters, I have not put stumbling blocks in front of others.”
    This Lunation is a good time to cleanse Oneself through the development of an awareness of and amplification of the good that One does or is and the admonition of what one is not or does not.
 
 
 

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