Seshat was known as "Mistress of the House of Books" because of her cosmic role in documenting, distributing, publishing, and preserving history. But also, she is said to have been the guardian of the library of the gods, as well as the patron of all earthly libraries. In that capacity, she was called Chief of Librarians and collected wisdom texts, and made knowledge available to the world.
Since she was a divine figure, her work may have manifested in the physical realm but it was conducted in the mysterious world of the gods.
"She is the celestial librarian and is called the 'lady of books,'" writes Sir E A Wallis Budge in From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt. "She dwelt by the Tree of Heaven, and as a remembrance of the gods wrote down on the leaves of the tree the deeds and duration of life of every man and every god."
This describes a role that is attributed to a divine keeper of the Akashic Records. It is said to be the library that contains every particle of time and a karmic record of the deeds of humanity. Spiritual seekers crave to know its wisdom so they can figure out how their past life deeds are impacting their current lives. Sandra Anne Taylor, a modern-day expert, says the word comes from the Sanskrit akasa, which means sky or ethers."The Akashic Records are a vibrating storehouse of information and energy, an ever-present resonance that expands in our lives and the universe itself," she writes in The Akashic Records Made Easy. "They are in the smallest particle and the greatest field. Embodying all the mysteries of life - your life, my life, the entirety of life from before life began, as we know it - the records will go on long after the world that we know disappears."
Just as the world went on the world that Seshat was born into disappeared. But the records also have a special power in that they are said to not just reveal all of the past, but also, they can reveal the future.