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The Vivification 1. An agitation was made by the death giving
demons for the help of their own spirit; and out of the corruption1 of
the demons and the pollution of the fiends he caused this defilement to
be made, and introduced himself into it. Afterwards out of the five Elements,'
the armor of the Lord Ohrmizd, he extracted (?) the good Soul4 and bound
(it) in the defilement. He made it like one blind and deaf, senseless5
and debauched, so that it did not know the first origin and source6 of
itself; it was he who made its defilement and bound the silent (?
Soul in prison. Demon, fiend, and every witch tormented that prisoner;
he immediately bound the Soul and mocked (it) in the defilement, he made
it hateful and wicked, hostile and malicious
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