42 Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Therefore, practicing 10 Commandments could be the answer to life, universe, everything.
The number 42 echoes as a cosmic joke and hidden truth across cultures and dimensions. Popularized by Douglas Adams as “the answer to life, the universe, and everything,” it finds deeper esoteric roots: on page 42 of the NKJV Bible (Thomas Nelson Comfort Print), humanity encounters the Ten Commandments – divine codes for coherent living. In Ancient Egypt, the 42 Ideals of Ma’at guided the soul’s alignment with truth, harmony, and justice, arguably the source of 10 Commandments. Astronomically, the Hand of God nebula (PSR B1509-58) extends its ghostly fingers 42 trillion miles across space, as if the universe itself waves this number in blessing. Mystically, the 42-letter or word Name of God in Kabbalah encodes creation’s fundamental vibration. Thus, 42 reveals itself as both playful paradox and sacred cipher – an eternal reminder that behind every question lies a unifying frequency of divine order, humor, and loving coherence.
42 Ma'at Ideals
The following are the 42 Ideals of Ma’at as the 42 Negative Confessions translated by E. A. Wallis Budge:
1. I have not committed sin.
2. I have not committed robbery with violence.
3. I have not stolen.
4. I have not slain men or women.
5. I have not stolen food.
6. I have not swindled offerings.
7. I have not stolen from God/Goddess.
8. I have not told lies.
9. I have not carried away food.
10. I have not cursed.
11. I have not closed my ears to truth.
12. I have not committed adultery.
13. I have not made anyone cry.
14. I have not felt sorrow without reason.
15. I have not assaulted anyone.
16. I am not deceitful.
17. I have not stolen anyone’s land.
18. I have not been an eavesdropper.
19. I have not falsely accused anyone.
20. I have not been angry without reason.
21. I have not seduced anyone’s wife.
22. I have not polluted myself.
23. I have not terrorized anyone.
24. I have not disobeyed the Law.
25. I have not been exclusively angry.
26. I have not cursed God/Goddess.
27. I have not behaved with violence.
28. I have not caused disruption of peace.
29. I have not acted hastily or without thought.
30. I have not overstepped my boundaries of concern.
31. I have not exaggerated my words when speaking.
32. I have not worked evil.
33. I have not used evil thoughts, words or deeds.
34. I have not polluted the water.
35. I have not spoken angrily or arrogantly.
36. I have not cursed anyone in thought, word or deeds.
37. I have not placed myself on a pedestal.
38. I have not stolen what belongs to God/Goddess.
39. I have not stolen from or disrespected the deceased.
40. I have not taken food from a child.
41. I have not acted with insolence.
42. I have not destroyed property belonging to God/Goddess
