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Manichaean Vivification
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
2. But Ohrmizd the Lord pitied it and all Souls, and into the bodies of men caused it to descend on earth; he washed it (free) of the wicked Greed and made it a being endowed with sight, and showed it clearly everything that was and will be; he quickly made plain to it that Ohrmizd did not make the defilement of the body, nor did he himself cause the Soul to be bound.
3. He brought about the wise Soul's resurrection, which is a good mercy; it believed in the Gnosis of Ohrmizd, the good Lord. All and every advice and command, and the Seal of Love, he made it most zealously embrace; its defilement of death was, removed, and it became eternally free and was led up to Paradise,4 to that Realm of the Glorious Ones (5 9: Jackson).


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