Mani's Šābuhragān

(285) And in that conflagration they will burn, just as wax in fire. And Az and Lust, Ahramen and the demons, demons of wrath . . . dark and . . .
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[one thousand] four hundred and sixty-eight years they will be tormented and writhe and suffer distress. And the power and energy of that Splendour of the gods which has remained in the cosmos of earths and heavens and struck down and exhausted by Az and the demons, will go out from it (the cosmos) in that conflagration, be purified, go up to the sun and moon, and become a god in the form of Ohrmezdbay. Together with the sun and moon, they will go up to Paradise. Ohrmezdbay from the northern region, and the Light World-god Rošnšahryazd: The Light-World god. from the east, and the New-World-creating god from the south, and Mihryazd from the western region, their stations, together with their own people and helpers, will stand on that structure of the New Paradise, around that conflagration, and will look into the conflagration. And those religious ones who are in Paradise will sit on thrones of light.

G v / H r * On the souls / of the evil-doers *

Then, in the presence of the gods, they will come and stand around that conflagration. And the evil-doers in the conflagration will be tormented and writhe and suffer, and that conflagration does not harm those religious, just as now too this fire, (namely) sun and moon, does not harm people. And when those evil-doers are tormented and writhe in that conflagration, then they will look up and recognize the religious and will say to them beseechingly, ‘May your good fortune befall us. Give us a life-line into our hands to pull us up, and save us from this burning. We did not think...