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Manichaean Death
AnNadim on the Three Kinds of Death

1 When death comes to the Righteous, the First Man sends him a Bright God in the form of the Sage, the Guide, and three Gods1 (come) with him carrying the Flask and the Fillet and the Crown and the Garland (all of) the Light; and with them comes the Maiden, the Image. of the soul of that Righteous One. Then the demon of Greed appears to him, together with Lust a and the (other) demons, and when the Righteous sees them he appeals to the deity who is in the Sage's a form, and to the three Gods, for help. Then they draw near to him, and when the demons see them they turn away in flight. They then take that Righteous One and clothe him in the Crown and Garland and Robe, and they give him the Flask in his hand. They go up with him in the Column of Glory to the spheres of 'the Moon, and to the First Man, and to the Radiant One, Mother of the Living, to his first possession in the Gardens of the Light. Then his flesh remains lying there, while the Sun and the Moors. and the Bright Gods draw the Power out of it namely the Water and the Fire and the Air. So he is raised to the Sun and becomes God, while the dregs of his -flesh are thrown Out to a hell which is wholly darkness.
2. Now as for the man striving for and well disposed to the Religion and Innocence, who guards both these and the Righteous Ones,1 well, when his death takes place, these Gods whom I have mentioned are present, and the demons are (also) there. Then he calls for help and relies on what he used to do for Innocence and guarding the Religion and the Righteous Ones; so they save him from the demons'. But (as) in the world the likeness of the man who in his dream sees phantoms and does not cease5 plunging into mud and mire, so too he does not cease in that way, until his Light and his Spirit are freed, and after the long time of his wandering about he soars up into the Assembly of the Righteous Ones and puts on their Robe.
3. As for the wicked man, over whom Greed and 'Lust have prevailed, well, when his death draws near the demons are present with him; then they seize him, harass him and make him see horrors. Then these 'Gods come and that Robe with them so the wicked  man fancies they have come to save him; but they are there only to revile him, and to remind him of his  deeds, and to compel the realization that he has lost the help of the Righteous Ones. Then he does not cease to roam about miserably in the world until the  time of the End, when he is thrown into hell.
4. Mani said: Well, these three paths in which human souls are grouped: one of them (leads) to the 'Gardens, and they are the Righteous ; and the second to the world and the phantoms, and they are the guardians of the Righteous and the third to hell, and that is the (road) of the wicked man. (335 : 10 29)
 


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