The Scales of Judgment are a great bronze balance at the center of the flooded pit of the Temple of Thoth, where the heart is literally weighed against the feather of Maat.
| Type | Artifact |
| Date | Night of 21–22 December 1928 |
| Spanish entry | La Balanza del Juicio |
Description
They rest on a pillar carved as jackal-headed Anubis. One pan holds a stone heart; the other has stood empty for three thousand years, awaiting the feather of Maat. The Ammit surround it as testing mechanisms. Only the rite, not force, opens the place.
History
Teddy Bennet, without glasses, placed his fountain pen, from his first article, in the empty pan, saying “He mentido solo una vez, pero creo en Dios” (“I have lied only once, but I believe in God”). The pen balanced the stone heart. A harmonic tone sounded, the Ammit froze into bronze, and the scales became an elevator carrying the living up to the coronation and the War Chariot of Thoth.