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THE RENOVATION

Zota, sacrificial priest, together with Srosh as his Raspi, and holds the sacred thread-girdle in his hands. The holy formulas confound the Evil Spirit, who, now impotent, rushes back to darkness by the same passage through which he had come out at the beginning of creation.[1]

Demon and fiend, deceit and falsehood, strife and anger, hatred and ill-temper, pain and disease, want and greediness, shame and fear, all perish.[2] Evil of every kind disappears, and good of every kind is perfected.[3] Ormazd at last becomes completely predominant,[4] and his Kingdom of Righteousness is built upon the earth.

Humanity attunes its will to the will of Ormazd. All men now become of one will[5] and remain of one accord in the faith of Ormazd,[6] giving voice in song to the Glory of their Lord.[7] On no account will their will be in conflict with the divine will, but will ever coincide with it.[8] They now live in the blessed company of Ormazd,[9] and work to exalt his glory.

  1. ↑ Bd. 30. 30.
  2. ↑ Dd. 37. 120, 121.
  3. ↑ Dd. 37. 122.
  4. ↑ Dd. 7. 3.
  5. ↑ Dd. 37. 127.
  6. ↑ Dk., SBE, vol. 47, bk. 7. 11. 6, p. 117.
  7. ↑ Bd. 30. 23.
  8. ↑ Dk., vol. 5, p. 332.
  9. ↑ Dk., vol. 8, p. 436.
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