In the comic bookLucifer, the Basanos was a living Tarot deck created by the seraph Melos to duplicate the divining power of Destiny's book. They are incredibly powerful due to the fact that they control probability, making whatever outcome they desire not only likely but inevitable.
After escaping from Melos, the Basanos took possesion of Jill Presto, a caberet worker. Lucifer Morningstar sought them out for a tarot read, which they granted.
When Lucifer created his new universe, the Basanos moved to take control of it so that they could breed (which could not be done in this cosmos). Though intitially sucessful by forming an alliance of Lucifer's enemies, their ability to control randomness was severely limited by Lucifer's creation. Lucifer finally offered to them an ultimatum: destroy themselves or risk letting the egg they laid in Jill Presto die. The Basanos accepted and extinguished themselves.
A thousand years later, when the rich man is brought back to life in the second resurrection, he sees Lazarus now in a favored position--in the Kingdom with Abraham.
Verse 23 says the rich man was in "torment." The word is from the Greek basanos.
It has the meaning of test, inquisition and trial.
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