" One of the most important chapters in the Book of the Dead, chapter 125, is devoted to the judgment of the soul in the great hall called “Of the Two Maats”67 The deceased’s heart is suspended on one pan of the scales; on the other is a feather or an eye, symbols of maat. During the operation, the deceased recites a prayer, imploring his heart not to bear witness against him. Then he must utter a declaration of innocence, erroneously termed the “negative confession”: "

― Mircea Eliade , A History of Religious Ideas 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries