Let us now speak from the profound depth of all ages. Listen to me, humans and gods!
The Negative Confession from the Papyrus of Nu is for those human beings who have achieved radical and absolute death. After the definitive annihilation of the ego and the three traitors of Hiram Abiff, we can certainly give ourselves the luxury of entering the double hall of the Truth and Justice, dressed with the glorious bodies of Kam-ur. To intend to victoriously enter into the double hall of Maat without previously having passed through the supreme death would be useless… (We are not referring to the death of the physical body). Only the authentic defunct ones have the right to the Negative Confession. Indeed, only they can submit themselves to the terrible confession from the Papyrus of Nu of the Egyptian mysteries.
Let it be understood that the authentic defunct ones are those who have died in themselves within the forty-nine regions of their subconsciousness. Therefore, any true defunct one can present himself, dressed with his solar bodies, in the double hall of Maat, in order to perform his Negative Confession.
Negative Confession
“(Hail!) Homage to thee, O Great God, thou Lord of Double Maāti (Truth and Justice), I have come to thee, O my (powerful) Lord. I have brought myself hither that I may behold thy (radiant) beauties. I know thee, and I know thy (magic) name, and I know the name[s] of the two and forty (divine) gods who (surround and) exist with thee in this (vast) Hall of double Maāti (Truth and Justice), who live as warders of sinners and who feed upon their blood on the day when the (sinning) lives of men are taken into account in the presence of the god Un-nefer (Osiris).
“In truth (the two Goddesses) ‘Rekhti-merti-neb-Maāti’ (i.e., ‘twin-sisters with two eyes, ladies of double Maāti’) (Lord of the Order of the Universe) is thy name.
“In truth I have come to thee, and I have brought Maāt (i.e., right and truth) to thee, and I have destroyed (all) wickedness (from my heart), for thee.
“[I have not done evil to] mankind. I have not oppressed the members of my family, I have not wrought evil in the place of right and truth. I have had no knowledge of worthless men. I have not wrought evil.
“I have not made to be the first [consideration] of each day that excessive labor should be performed for me. [I have] not brought forward my name for [exaltation] to honors. I have not ill-treated servants. [I have not thought scorn of gods.] I have not defrauded the oppressed one of his property.
“I have not done that which is an abomination unto the gods. I have not caused harm to be done to the servant by his chief. I have not caused pain. I have made no man to suffer hunger. I have made no one to weep. I have done no murder. I have not given the order for murder to be done for me. I have not inflicted pain (sicknesses) upon mankind. I have not defrauded the temples of their oblations. I have not purloined the cakes of the gods. I have not carried off the cakes offered to the khus (sanctified spirits).
“I have not polluted myself [in the holy places of the god of my city] (by committed shameful actions within the sacrosanct precinct of the temples), nor (did I) diminished from the bushel. I have neither added to nor filched away land. I have not encroached upon the fields [of others].
“I have not added to the weights of the scales [to cheat the seller]. I have not misread the pointer of the scales [to cheat the buyer]. I have not carried away the milk from the mouths of children. I have not driven away the cattle which were upon their pastures.
“I have not snared the feathered fowl of the preserves of the gods. I have not caught fish [with bait made of] fish of their kind. I have not turned back the water at the time [when it should flow].
“I have not cut a cutting in a canal of running water. I have not extinguished a fire (or light) when it should burn.
“I have not violated the (rule) times [of offering] the chosen meat-offerings. I have not driven off the cattle from the property of (the temples of) the gods. I have not repulsed a God in his manifestations. I am pure. I am pure. I am pure. I am pure.
“My purity is the purity of that great Bennu (Phoenix) which is in the city of Suten-henen (Heracleopolis). For, behold, I am the nose of the (lord of respiration) god of the winds, who maketh all mankind (initiates) to live on the (solemn) day when the (Horus’s) Eye (Utchat) of Rā is full in Annu (Heliopolis) at the end of the second month of the season Pert (i.e., the season of growing) [in the presence of the divine lord of this earth].
“I have seen the Eye of Rā when it was full in Annu, therefore let not evil befall me in this land and in this Hall of double Maāti (truth and justice), because I, even I, know the name[s] of these gods who are therein [and who (about Maat), the followers of the great god] (the great divinity of truth and justice).”
Here ends the Negative Confession from the Papyrus of Nu. In our future 1970-1971 Christmas Message,1 perhaps we will continue with the Papyrus II (Nebsenti).
