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with birds, and burnicg fires, and seeds of all kinds of trees,-all these in pairs without any blemish or token of the evil spirit. This vara is now hidden under ground, but will be opened in Husbetar's millennium, when men and animals will issue from it and arrange the world again and there will be a time of fulness and prosperity (The Teachings of Zoroaster, by S. A. Kapadia, p. 30; ERE. vol, i, 207).
The idea is that the best attributes of the spirit are now lying hidden behind the impurities of matter, without performing their functions, but when the righteous Redeemer shall arise who shall dispel the impurities from his soul, these most excellent attributes which are only hidden now shall become manifest and the purity of Spirit as an Omniscient God, Full and Perfect in His own Self shall be attained.
The last stage of the “Renovation of the world” is thus described in the Bundanish (chap. xxx) :“ Afterwards the fire and balo melt the metals of Shatvairo,
in the hills and mountains, and it remains on this earth like a river. Then all men will pars into that melted metal and become pure....... Sophyans, with his agsistants performs a Yazishn ceremony in preparing the dead, and they slaughter the ox Hadhayos in that Yazishn : from the fat of that ox and the white Hom they prepare Hush, and give it to all men, and all men become immortal for ever and everlasting ......80 they act now in the world, but there is no begetting of children....... Afterwards, Auhar Mazd seizen on the evil spirit, Vobuman on Akoman, Ashavahisht on Andar, Shatvairo on Savar, Spen
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