Chapter 85

1. You see how near it has come to the end of the world; the lifetime of humankind has come to a fraction, their days have decreased, their years have become fewer, for the Life and the Light that were in the world in the first generations were more than that of today.

2. Those who are born today in these last generations are small and stunted in lifetime, and they are also born, each one in a single womb, scarcely two or less or more, while they are also ugly in their appearance, small in their size, and weak in their limbs.

3. Their ideas and thoughts are filled with wickedness; in old age they spend their life with sufferings, also death comes to them swiftly.

4. When the eternal Light is brought up to the celestial beings, then shall the zenith and the nadir of heaven become united; at that time Splendour* will take hold of the uppermost part of the heavens, which matches the lowest part, and it will become loosened from the bond and order.
*(Pahragbed)

5. Then the divine being Mithra will come from the Chariot of the Sun to the region which has been united, and a great shout will go out; then shall a great sign manifest itself in the Moon and the Zodiac* and the Stars, and all the peoples of the earth will begin to receive this news.
*(the entire planetary system)

6. And after this, will come the God of the Realm of Wisdom, he who is First Knowledge, and just because of the sorrow upon sorrow and the distress upon distress he will send down Wisdom and Knowledge.

7. Then will appear the Kingdom of the God of Wisdom; the Celestial Beings who are in all the regions of the heavens and the earths – the Supporter, the Light-Adamas, the Glorious King, the King of Honour and the Custody of Splendour – and who are revilers of the demons, will bestow a blessing on that Realm of Wisdom, and the righteous will become Rulers in the Kingdom.

8. They shall themselves see him, the Image of the Light, all rejoicing and being glad over him. Desire shall depart far from them with also the other kinds of temptation.

9. When they wish they shall clothe themselves with their body and gain victory over it, and they shall find the way from it to the Kingdom of Life made smooth.

10. They will pay homage and receive him with joy; but the man who is a worker of greed, along with the evil-doers and those who corrupt humankind will be filled with remorse.