1. Now all the Emanations – Joshu, who is in the Small Ship which is the Moon, and the Mother of Life, and the Twelve Pilots, and the Maiden of the Light, and the Third Messenger who is in the Large Ship which is the Sun, and the Living Spirit, and the Wall of the Great Fire, and the Wall of the Wind and the Air and the Water and of the inner Living Fire – wait near the Small Luminary* until the Fire consumes the whole universe.
*(Moon)

2. Now at the end of time, as soon as all the Nature of Light has been separated from matter entirely when the Elder* has shown forth his Image, when the Statue has come, then the Supporter on seeing his face lets the earth slip.
*(Third Messenger)

3. So the height begins to collapse upon the depth, and fire blazes up, and thus the age-long fire ignites the earth, the outer fire falls and consumes both itself and all the rest of the matter which remains intact.

4. Then will Jehovih begin the process of handing it over to the fire and make of it a single lump, the tangle which the Sun and Moon could not unravel, and with it also the souls who have sinned much and been guilty of much unbelief, who seem like dregs in the midst of the lump when the fire has melted all.

5. But the holy angels were not grieved because of every soul which went down with the darkness could not be separated.

6. Then again, the Father of Greatness lets the lump slip after the New Aeon, so that all the souls of the sinners are forever bound.

7. In it has been collected all the Light that was mixed and mingled in created things, and these things catch fire.

8. Now this fire outside the universe is matter itself, altogether unmixed with the Divine Power, and the burning does not cease until what was in it of the Light disappears – and the duration of that burning is fourteen hundred and sixty-eight years.*
*(not literal human years)

9. Now when this affair is ended and the Beast, the spirit of darkness, sees the freeing of the Light and the Ascent of the Angels, the Hosts and Guardians, it is humbled.

10. It watches the battle; then the Hosts press on it all around, and it flees to the grave already promised it.

11. The architect and builder of that grave is the one named the Great Builder, who in the days of his trouble became fashioner of the grave of the darkness.

12. So he imprisons the Beast in it, thereupon he closes up that grave with a stone that is the size of the earth, the macrocosm whence the Builder cut whole stones for the grave of the darkness.

13. And the Light at last finds rest from the darkness and its wickedness.

14. Now after this will be a restoration of all things.

15. The Light shall go to the Light, the Fragrance shall go to the Fragrance, the image of the Living Man shall go to the Living Land from which it came.

16. The Light shall return to its place, the darkness shall fall and not rise again.

17. At this time instruction is given and conversion is achieved; the True and the false are each returned to its Root; the Light is returned to the Great Light, while the darkness is returned to the massed darkness.

18. So all the race of souls will be saved, and what was once perished will be restored to its own flock.