The ancient Egyptian contemplated the cosmic laws and used them as the model for life on Earth, so that life would become ‘as above, as below’. It is the phrase that appeared in the emerald tablets written by the god Thoth.

These are keys that speak to us on the spiritual level, not from the level of the mind. The material world is an image of another world that exists in another dimension. Lesser Egypt is the Egypt that exists on earth, in which we live our experience in the material world; Higher Egypt is another version of Egypt that exists in another ethereal/astral/mystical world. The Memphite confessions of Maat are the laws of balance and harmony, the laws that rescued the universe from chaos and darkness; and they still protect it from falling again into turmoil.

Just as King Djoser looked up to the stars of the sky, which do not disappear, as they represent his ancestors that he seeks to join, so too must we follow our stars in a way that allows the laws of Maat to come to life within our souls, revealing the essence of virtue that God deposited within man. ‘I have not made anyone cry – I have not defiled my body – I have not stolen – I have not killed – I have not threatened the peace.’