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BALANCE IN THE "WEIGHING OF THE HEART " PICTURE

A symbol of the summing up of the soul's experience of relative existence, at the end of the life cycle.

"All that was required of the deceased was that his heart should balance exactly the symbol of the law." - BUDGE, Egyptian Ideas, etc., p. 136.

When the personality (feather symbol) exactly corresponded with the individuality in the causal-body (heart), then the lower consciousness could rise and become one with the higher.

“They whose balances shall be heavy with good works shall be happy, but they whose balances shall be light are those who shall lose their souls, and shall remain in hell for ever." - Koran, Surah, 23, 104.

"If the dead was found to be righteous he received back his heart, the rest of the immortal parts of his soul were re-united in him, and he was again built up into the man who had walked the earth, but who now entered upon new and eternal life." - WIEDEMANN, Rel. of Anc. Egyptians, p. 249.

If the personality (dead) was perfected, then he became one with the individuality in the causal-body.

See Also

BRIDGE OF HEAVEN
CAUSAL-BODY
DEFUNCT
FEATHER
HEART
HELL
JUDGMENT HALL
PRAGÂPATI (relaxed)
SAU