he burning stream of liquid ore.[238:3]
After this, they enjoy endless felicity in the society of the
blessed, and the pernicious empire of Ahriman (the devil), is
fairly exterminated.[238:4] Even this lying spirit will be
under the necessity to avail himself of this fiery ordeal, and
made to rejoice in its expurgating and cleansing efficacy.
Nay, hell itself is purged of its mephitic impurities, and
washed clean in the flames of a universal regeneration.[238:5]

"The earth is now the habitation of bliss, all nature glows in
light; and the equitable and benignant laws of Ormuzd reign
supremely through the illimitable universe.[238:6] Finally,
after the resurrection, mankind will recognize each other
again; wants, cares, and passions will cease;[238:7] and
everything in the paradisian and all-embracing empire of
light, shall rebound to the praise of the benificent
God."[238:8]

The disciples of _Bacchus_ expected his _second advent_. They hoped he
would assume at some future day the government of the universe, and that
he would restore to man his primary felicity.[238:9]

The _Esthonian_ from the time of the German invasion lived a life of
bondage under a foreign yoke, and the iron of his slavery entered into
his soul. He told how the ancient hero Kalewipoeg sits in the realms of
shadows, waiting until his country is in its extremity of distress, when
he will _return to earth_ to avenge the injuries of the Esths, and
elevate the poor crushed people into a mighty power.[238:10]

The suffering _Celt_ has his Brian Boroihme, or Arthur, _who will come
again_, the first to inaugurate a Fenian millennium, the second to
regenerate Wales. Olger Dansk waits till the time arrives when he is to
start from sleep to the assistance of the _Dane_ against the hated
Prussian. The Messiah is to come and restore the kingdom of the _Jews_.
Charlemagne was the Messiah of mediaeval Teutondom. He it was who founded
the great German empire, and shed over it the blaze of Christian truth,
and now he sleeps in the Kyffhauserberg, waiting till German heresy has
reached its climax and Germany is wasted through internal conflicts, to
rush to earth once more, and revive the great empire and restore the
Catholic faith.[239:1]

The ancient _Scandinavians_ believed that in the "latter days" great
calamities would befall mankind. The earth would tremble, and the stars
fall fr