"O nobly-born, on this day the Knowledge-Holding Deities, from the paradise realms come to receive you. Simultaneously, the pathway to the brute world, produced by the obscuring passion, stupidity, also comes to receive you. From the centre of the Circle, supreme Knowledge-Holding Deities, holding a crescent knife and a skull filled with blood, dancing and making the mudrā of fascination, their right hand held aloft, will come to shine.
In the Outer Circle, innumerable bands of dākinīs, bedecked with bone-ornaments, drums and thigh-bone trumpets, skull-timbrels, banners of gigantic human-like hides, fumes of human-fat incense, and innumerable musical instruments, filling with music the whole world-systems and causing them to vibrate, to quake and tremble with sounds so mighty as to daze one's brain, and dancing various measures, will come to receive you.
O nobly-born, five-coloured radiances, purified propensities, vibrating and dazzling will issue from the hearts of the five chief Knowledge-Holding Deities and strike against your heart, so bright that your eye cannot bear to look upon them. At the same time, a dull blue light from the brute world will come to shine along with the Radiances of Wisdom. You will feel afraid of the radiance of the five colours; and wishing to flee from it, you will feel attracted towards the dull light from the brute-world. Be not afraid of that brilliant radiance of five colours, nor terrified; but know the Wisdom to be your own. Within those radiances, the natural sound of the Truth will reverberate like a thousand thunders. The sound will come with a rolling reverberation, amidst which will be heard, 'Slay! Slay!' Fear not. Flee not. Be not terrified. Know them to be of the intellectual faculties of your own inner light." Here ends the part of the Great Thödol concerned with the setting-face-to-face of the Peaceful Deities