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“The rḫ or sage of Kemet, like sages in other parts of Africa and the world, express a commanding confidence in the power and efficacy of knowledge, learning and teaching. Their confidence was grounded in certain assumptions both about the orderliness of the world and the possibility of human nature. They associate righteousness with wisdom and foolishness and ignorance with evil. They also master and build on the accumulated insights of past generations, upholding the value of tradition and the insightfulness of the ancestors. Finally, they teach values of self-mastery and the Seven Cardinal Virtues of truth or truthfulness, justice, propriety, harmony, balance, reciprocity and order.”
-Maulana Karenga, Maat: The Moral Ideal of Ancient Egypt
