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THE RENOVATION

and the white Hom juice, through a draught of which all beings become immortal forever and everlasting.[1] Every one is given an immortal body and becomes as innocent in nature as cattle.[2] The entire good creation is henceforth immortal.[3] Any one who was a full grown man when he had died is given the appearance of a man of forty years of age; and those who died at an early age are given the stature of a youth of fifteen years.[4] Husbands and wives united with their children live together, even as they lived and acted in this world, but there is no begetting of children.[5] Their existence in paradise is accompanied by the full enjoyment of their reward for ever and ever.[6] Those that had not given clothes as a righteous gift in the world and were now consequently without clothes themselves are provided with garments by the angels.[7] They are hungerless and thirstless, undecaying and undying, undistressed and ever-beneficial.[8] Neither a blow, nor a knife, nor a sword, nor a club, nor a stone, nor an arrow hurts the body, for it is now perfected and is immune from pain of any sort.[9] Bodily ailments have vanished.[10] The portals of eternal bliss are now flung open to the whole humanity.[11]

The last decisive battle between the forces of good and evil. Then will follow the last and decisive battle of the eternal war between the rival armies of Ormazd and Ahriman. Every one of the good spirits will combat with his adversary, and in every case the success will be on the side of the good. Ormazd assails Ahriman, Vohuman seizes on Akoman, Artavahisht on Indar, Shatravar on Sovar, Spandarmad on Taromat or Naonghas, Khurdad and Amardad on Tairev and Zairich, Truth on Falsehood and Srosh on Eshm.[12] Druj will perish.[13] Hell itself is burnt out. Ormazd comes down to the world and acts as the

  1. ↑ Bd. 19. 13; 30. 25; Dd. 37. 119.
  2. ↑ Dk., vol. 1, p. 50; vol. 6, p. 421.
  3. ↑ Dk., vol. 4, p. 204; vol. 7, p. 472.
  4. ↑ Jsp. p. 120.
  5. ↑ Jsp. p. 120. Bd. 30. 26.
  6. ↑ Bd. 30. 27.
  7. ↑ Bd. 30. 28; cf. 2 Corinthians 5. 2–4; Revelation 3. 4, 5; 6. 11; 7. 9; 19. 8.
  8. ↑ Dd. 37. 119.
  9. ↑ Dd. 37. 122–125.
  10. ↑ Dk., vol. 4, p. 234.
  11. ↑ Dk., vol. 5, p. 332.
  12. ↑ Bd. 30. 29.
  13. ↑ Dk., vol. 6, p. 421.
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