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GENERAL VIEW.
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Should the Spirit gain the victory through virtue
and bravery, man ascends to Heaven after death in
order to fight in concert "with the Gods against the
Powers of Evil ; but if the body triumphs, and links
the spirit to itself by weakness and low desires, he
then sinks down after death to the Jotun-world in
the Abyss, and joins in with the, Evil Powers in the
combat against the Gods.
This struggle of the World-Life shall end in a
final battle, in which the contending powers mutu-
ally destroy each other, and the "World which the
Gods -created is involved in their destruction. But
it shall come forth again more glorious and purified.
An Eternal God, greater than all iiEsir, shall arise
as its ruler and the austere Judge of dBparted souls.
Before His power shall Evil depart forever.
The whole is a struggle between Light and Dark-
ness, Spirit and Matter, Virtue and Vice,—a strug-
gle which shall end in the triumph of Good over
Evil.