Muata Ashby Quotes

Strive to see with the inner eye, the heart. It sees the reality not subject to emotional or personal error; it sees the essence. Intuition then is the most important quality to develop.

There is no happiness for the soul in the external worlds since these are perishable, true happiness lies in that which is eternal, within us.

There are two roads which human beings can follow, one of wisdom and the other of ignorance. The path of the masses is generally the path of ignorance which leads them into negative situations, thoughts and deeds. These in turn lead to ill health and sorrow in life. The other road is based on wisdom and it leads to health, true happiness and enlightenment.

Suffering in search of truth gives true meaning to the truth.

O people of the earth, men and women born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home is not on the earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves unto death, having power to partake of immortality?

Never forget, the words are not the reality, only reality is reality; picture symbols are the idea, words are confusion.

The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

Those who live today will die tomorrow, those who die tomorrow will be born again; Those who live MAAT will not die.

By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.

Evil as well as good, both operate to advance the Great Plan.” “To have peace there must be strife; both are part of the structure of the world and requirements

Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft.

Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians.” - Plato

The Universe is Mental, held in the mind of The ALL. The ALL is SPIRIT

Seek to perform your duties to your highest ability, this way your actions will be blameless.

If you are mighty and powerful, then gain respect through knowledge and through your gentleness of speech. Don’t order things except as it is fitting. The one who provokes others gets into trouble. Don’t be haughty lest you be humbled. But also, don’t be mute lest you be chided.

Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.

Know thyself deathless and able to know all things, all arts, sciences, the way of every life. Become higher than the highest height and lower than the lowest depth. Amass in thyself all senses of animals, fire, water, dryness and moistness. Think of thyself in all places at the same time, earth, sea, sky, not yet born, in the womb, young, old, dead, and in the after death state.

The study of the wisdom teachings should be a continuous process in which the teachings become the predominant factor of life rather than the useless and oftentimes negative and illusory thoughts of those who are ignorant of spiritual truths.

True knowledge comes from the upward path which leads to the eternal Fire; error, defeat and death result from following the lower path of worldly attachment.

Be industrious, let thine eyes be open, lest you become a beggar, for the man that is idle cometh not to honor.

One does not run to reach success, One does not move to spoil it.

Do not assess a man who has nothing, And thus falsify your pen.

Man is separated into Soul and Body, and only when the two sides of his senses agree together, does utterance of its thought conceived by mind take place.

The impious Soul screams: I burn; I am ablaze; I know not what to cry or do; wretched me, I am devoured by all the ills that compass me about; alack, poor me, I neither see nor hear! This is the Soul’s chastisement of itself. For the Mind of the man imposes these on the Soul.

A healthy mind is a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind comes through wisdom, not only knowing the truth but experiencing it. From

Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.

Don’t make yourself a ferry on the river, And then strain to seek its fare; Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.

Men and women are to become God-like through a life of virtue and the cultivation of the spirit through scientific knowledge, practice and bodily discipline." -Ancient Egyptian Proverb

They who have received some portion of God’s gift, these, if judged by their deeds, have from death’s bond won their release; for they embrace in their own Mind, all things, things on the earth, things in the heaven, and things above the heaven - if there be aught. They who do not understand, because they possess the aid of reason only and not Mind, are ignorant wherefore they have come into being and whereby, like irrational creatures, their makeup is in their feelings and their impulses, they fail in all appreciation of things which really are worth contemplation. These center all their thought upon the pleasures of the body and its appetites.

This is by Sage Ani. “The wealth accrues to him who guards it; let your hand not scatter it to strangers, lest it turn to loss for you. If wealth is placed where there is interest, it comes back to you redoubled. Make a storehouse for your own wealth, your people will find it on your way. What is given small returns augmented, what is replaced brings abundance.

When society developed the materialistic view of life and discounted spiritual values, material values became part of the general culture. Thus, pursuing material wealth and the experience of sensual pleasures have become the most commonly practiced rituals in modern day society. This is reflected in business, government, the media and in the family way of life at all levels of society. These rituals are all performed toward perishable goals and thus can never satisfy the inner need of the soul. This movement constitutes a movement in ignorance which leads to further ignorance. While religious rituals are also in the realm of human activity, if performed with growing levels of understanding and devotion toward the Divine, they will lead to greater and greater peace and self-knowledge.

Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching. Practicing devotion to God has the effect of turning the mind towards the Divine and this leads to purity of feeling and thinking. Essentially, spiritual practice is a worship of the Divinity within oneself.

Spiritual preceptors and the gods and goddesses lead willing souls to understand and practice the disciplines that lead to spiritual enlightenment but they cannot do the disciplines for spiritual aspirants. Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching.

Therefore, Yoga culture and mysticism is the oldest known tradition of spiritual development and Indian mysticism is an extension of the Ancient Egyptian mysticism.

When the human being is in harmony with life, then it is possible to reflect and meditate upon the human condition and realize the limitations of worldly pursuits. When there is peace and harmony in life, a human being can practice any of the varied disciplines designated as Shetaut Neter to promote {his/her} evolution towards the ultimate goal of life, which Spiritual Enlightenment.

They created a vast civilization and culture earlier than any other society in known history and organized a nation that was based on the concepts of balance and order as well as spiritual enlightenment.

Yoga

What is The Great Awakening? Nehast means to “wake up,” to  Awaken to the higher existence.

Early Beginnings: The First Religion      Shetaut Neter is the Ancient Egyptian Religion and Philosophy. Ancient Egypt was the first and most ancient civilization to create a religious system that was complete with all three stages of religion,

The word which appeared as a pillar of flame out of the darkness is the Son of God, born of the mystery of the Mind.  The name of the Word is Reason.  Reason is the offspring of Thought

Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.

The term “Neterianism” is derived from the name “Shetaut Neter.” Shetaut Neter means the “Hidden Divinity.” It is the ancient philosophy and mythic spiritual culture that gave rise to the Ancient Egyptian civilization.

When a human being acts in ways that contradict the natural order of nature, negative qualities of the mind will develop within that person’s personality.

Before I began to practice meditation I would become angry very easily. I would sometimes start arguments with my family members and looking back on it, the reasons were because I could not get what I wanted. I expected them to act in certain ways and when they did not, I would become irritated. Now that I have practiced Yoga and Meditation for some time I have learned not to expect anything of others but to look at my own reasons for wanting the things I want. I realized that I was acting as a hypocrite and doing things because I wanted something from others. I have discovered that the things which I thought were so important are not more important than peace and harmony. The inner peace I have discovered is more important to me than trying to get others to act the way I want. I make an effort to work with others and I allow them space, but when things don’t go my way I can still remain at peace. I would not trade this peace for all the money in the world...

it becomes clearer that modern culture has derived its basis from Ancient Egypt, though the credit is not often given, nor the integrity of the practices maintained in the new religions. This is another important reason to study Ancient Egyptian Philosophy, to discover the principles which allowed their civilization to prosper over a period of thousands of years in order to bring our systems of government, religion and social structures to a harmony with ourselves, humanity and with nature.

This regularity and balance of nature inspired the population to adopt a culture of order and duty based on cosmic order: Maat. This idea extends to the understanding of Divine justice and reciprocity. So if work is performed on time and in cooperation with nature, there will be order, balance and peace as well as prosperity in life.

The tradition based on the old Jewish bible recounting about how the Jews were used for forced labor and the construction of the great monuments of Egypt such as the Great Pyramids is impossible since these were created in the predynastic age, thousands of years before Abraham, the supposed first Jew, ever existed. Although this biblical notion is very limited in scope, the significant impact of Ancient Egypt on Hebrew and Christian culture is evident even from the biblical scriptures.

The Sphinx and its contemporary architecture throughout Kamit give us the earliest history, the earliest recorded evidence of the practice of advanced religion anywhere in the world. The Sphinx has now been proven to be the earliest example of the practice of religion in human history, 10,000 BCE.

The practice of the Shedy disciplines leads to knowing oneself and the Divine. This is called being True of Speech