Ma'at was the ancient Egyptian Goddess who held the scales in which the heart of each dead person was weighed - against the feather she carried. Only those whose heart was as light as her feather (i.e., free from sin, I suppose) were judged fit for eternity. Whether that means the rest were simply thrown into oblivion or waited for some final judgement day or perhaps that the ancient Egyptians believed in reincarnation nobody seems certain I don't pretend any authority on the subject, but it does seem a reasonable inference.
The medieval church believed in Purgatory and Pardons, and some modern Christians think they can behave as they like and all they have to do is believe that 'Jesus saves' and he will. Dion Fortune remarked that "The only mercy in perfect justice is the right to try again" but she quite definitely believed in reincarnation. So what do you believe?
I think we must all find our own path back to the divine source and I offer my help to those in occult difficulty without any preconditions.Kahlil Gibran said, in The Prophet:
Say not "I have found the truth" -
Say rather "I have found a truth."
Say not "I have found the path of the Sprit" -
Say rather "I have found the Spirit on my Path."
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Having been brought up as an Anglican with an ex-Methodist mother and church organist father, through a Choir School and a Roman Catholic college, it took me a while to shake off my anti-reincarnation conditioning. A western mistrust of oriental systems was slowly permeated by Alexandra David-Neel, Elisabeth Haich and especially Dion Fortune. Despite being dreadful at maths, I finally began to glimpse elements of the "Cosmic Doctine" and fit these into my emerging feel for Qabalistic correspondences (thanks again to DF, who opened that door for me after many wanderings). Theosophist dogma still seems too neat and tidy to me, but I am now quite at home with the various aspects of recycling of the various ingredients that come together in an incarnation. Oh heck, that sounds rather high fallutin!
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