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darmad on Taromat who is Naunghas, Horvadad and Ameredad op Tairey and Zairich, true-speaking on what is evil-speaking, Srosh on Aeshm. Then two fiends remain at large, Aharman and Az ; Auharmazd comes to the world, himself the Zota and Srosh and Raspi, and holds the Kusti io his hand ; defeated by the Busti formula the resources of the evil spirit and Az act most impotently, and by the passage through which he rushed into the sky be runs back to gloom and darkness. Gochibar burns the serpent in the melted metal, and the stench and pollution which were in hell are burned in the metal, and it (hell) becomes quite pure. He (Aubar. mazd) sets the vault into which the evil spirit fled, in that metal; be brings the land of bell back for the enlargement of the world ; the renovation arises in the univerge by his will, and the world is immortal for ever and everlasting...... This earth becomes an iceless, slopeless plain ; even the mountain whose summit is the support of the Chinvar bridge, they keep down, and it will not exist."
Such is the beautiful allegorical narrative of the events that are sure to take place in the experience of every one to be redeemed. The drama is repeated each time that an impure soul attains to the purity of its true self. Then are all tendencies and traits and notions and ideas levelled to the ground and thrown into the melting pot of vairdgya wliere all that is other-than-theself is completely burnt and destroyed by the fire of tapas. The hole of desire through which ihe evil spirit rushes on the creatures of Ormazd is now closed for ever, and is covered over with the vault of desirelessness,
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