Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.
“The HATI is always spoken of in Egyptian texts as associated with the AB or Heart. Just as we, in our conversation, often confuse and combine our instinct and will.” [via]
Consider also:
- “We see then that the unborn child is prepared for its emergence into life by the parents who contribute the principle called by the Egyptian the HATI or ‘whole heart.'”
- “That is, the Seat of the Inherited instincts racial and individual; including such functions as digestion, hearing, seeing, smelling, and so on. In one word the HATI is the heredity.”
- “it appears extremely probable that the whole Egyptian population was allowed a certain participation in the Mysteries; for the tests of a candidate before Initiation were of such a nature that none but human beings developed to a considerable degree of perfection could hope to stand them.”
- “The first principles of Egyptian Magic were based on an elaborate system of correspondences depending on the formula that, the evolution of what is material follows the type and symbol of the emanation of the spiritual; that spirit and matter are opposite faces of the self-same mystery.”
- “The Egyptian Adepts regarded the conceptions of the mind, the aspirations of the soul, the words of the mouth and the functions of the body, as possessing analogies from which a complete system of rules of life and death could be constructed.”