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ed on it proportionately to the sin, and pot lawlessly, because there is a watcher, of the infliction of its punishment. And, ultimately, the compassionate creator, who is the forgiver of the creatures, does not leave any good creature captive in the hands of the enemy. But one day, he saves even those who are sioful, and those of the righteous through atonement for sin, by the hands of the purifier, and makes them proceed on the happy course
which is eternal " (SBE. vol. xxiy. pp. 136-138). In the thirty fifth chapter of the Dadistan-i-Dinik the important question is raised : “Does this world become quite without men, so that there is no bodily existence in it whatsoever, and then shall they produce the resurrection, or bow is it?” This is answered as below : “The reply is this, that this world, continuously from its
immaturity even up to its pure renovation has never been, and also will not be, without men ; and in the evil spirit, the worthless, no stirring desire of this arises. And near to the time of the renovation, the bodily existences desist from eating, and live without food : and the offspring who are born from them are those of an immortal, for they possess durable and blood-exhausted bodies. Such are they who are the bodily-existing men that are in the world when there are men, passed away, who arise again
and live again." In addition to these a great many authorities are quoted in the Fountain-Head of Religion by Ganga
* Some of the texts referred to read as follows:--
1. "To reject the old frame and to assume a new body is inevitable" (Hoshang, 14).
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