Weighing the heart against a feather
Posted: November 8, 2017 Filed under: how to live Leave a comment
find the image of having your heart weighed against a feather after you die very powerful.
How do you do on the 42 Negative Confessions?:
The following are translations by E. A. Wallis Budge.
42 Negative Confessions (Papyrus of Ani)
From the Papyrus of Ani.
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I have not committed sin.
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I have not committed robbery with violence.
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I have not stolen.
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I have not slain men and women.
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I have not stolen grain.
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I have not purloined offerings.
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I have not stolen the property of the gods.
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I have not uttered lies.
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I have not carried away food.
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I have not uttered curses.
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I have not committed adultery.
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I have made none to weep.
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I have not eaten the heart [i.e., I have not grieved uselessly, or felt remorse].
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I have not attacked any man.
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I am not a man of deceit.
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I have not stolen cultivated land.
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I have not been an eavesdropper.
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I have slandered [no man].
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I have not been angry without just cause.
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I have not debauched the wife of any man.
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I have not debauched the wife of [any] man. (repeats the previous affirmation but addressed to a different god).
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I have not polluted myself.
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I have terrorized none.
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I have not transgressed [the Law].
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I have not been wroth.
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I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.
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I have not blasphemed.
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I am not a man of violence.
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I am not a stirrer up of strife (or a disturber of the peace).
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I have not acted (or judged) with undue haste.
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I have not pried into matters.
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I have not multiplied my words in speaking.
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I have wronged none, I have done no evil.
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I have not worked witchcraft against the King (or blasphemed against the King).
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I have never stopped [the flow of] water.
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I have never raised my voice (spoken arrogantly, or in anger).
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I have not cursed (or blasphemed) God.
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I have not acted with evil rage.
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I have not stolen the bread of the gods.
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I have not carried away the khenfu cakes from the spirits of the dead.
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I have not snatched away the bread of the child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city.
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I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.
Definite no from me on 31. I’m always prying into matters! Something for me to work on.
I wonder how E. A. Wallis Budge himself would do on this quiz: