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CHAPTER XXIV, 3-XXV, 4.
6. For the remaining (ketrûnd) sin it undergoes punishment at the bridge, and the evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds are atoned for; and with the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds of its own commendable and pleasing spirit it steps forward unto the supreme heaven (garôdmânô)', or to heaven (vahistô), or to the ever-stationary (hamistânagâno) of the righteous, there where there is a place for it in righteousness.
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CHAPTER XXV.
1. The twenty-fourth question is that which you ask thus: When he who is wicked shall die, where is the place the soul sits the first night, the second, and the third; and what does it say and do?
2. The reply is this, that those three nights the soul is upon earth, and notices about the thoughts, words, and deeds of its own body; it is doubtful about its own position, and experiences grievous fear of the account, great terror of the bridge, and perplexing fear on account of hell. 3. Thought is oppressive as an indicator of fear, and the soul, in a manner the spirit of the body, is a computer and acquirer of acquaintance by sight about the good works which it has not done, and the sin which it has committed.
4. And the first night it is hastening away from
1 See Chap. XX, 3.
2 There is another place for the ever-stationary of the wicked (see Chap. XXXIII, 2).
"Assuming that angrâidâr stands for angâridâr.
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