No 369 of Living Life Series 1
God creates us and we come to this world. But we are not born equal and can never be so. This does not mean that God is not fair.
God is the Jade Emperor sent by the first of the Three Pure Ones to the apparent universe of Heaven and the realms under Heaven.
The Three Pure Ones reside in the universe beyond the apparent universe and arise spontaneously from the prime of primordial energy.
Primordial energy gives rise to the universes and the yin and yang energy that Chinese sages refer to.
This is the Tao concept of origin of the universes which differ from the Indian story of Lord Sakra which is the close equivalent of the Jade Emperor.
The Brahma world, the formless realms in Buddhism is the equivalent of universe beyond the apparent universe.
In the apparent universe, beings take on form and this can be astral from or physical form eg of the latter is the human body of flesh and blood.
Coming to God, he has form and was sent down by the first of the Three Pure Ones to oversee and further create the apparent universe.
Buddhas and Boddhisatvas (saints) are holy ones who are beings in all realms be it in the apparent universe or in the universe beyond the apparent universe. They are the holy ones or priests in the various realms who cultivate themselves and attain thea apex of spiritual purity and they are on their own but act as advisers to the governing lords of the various realms.
The lords of the various realms are the government of the realms and are themselves caused, created and originated. But they too can cause, create and condition events and beings in their respective realms.
In the human realm, men are caused, created and conditioned but men can create cause and condition events, beings and entities as well.
In the heaven of the apparent universe, the lords can create their own sectors of heaven and can cause, create and condition beings and realms to be under their purview or that are already under their purview.
Thus each religion too through their prophets or saints can create sectors of heaven for their followers to go to after death but being in heaven is not the end all but the beginning of spriritual development.
There is rebirth and one comes from previous life to be born in present life and at end of the present life will go on to next life be it in heaven or any other realm. The beings and lord in heavenly realms too are subject to rebirth but at less propensity or hardly if some consider that be so.
Only the poverty of human imagination would make men narrow down the concept of life as pivoting between one earth, one heaven and one hell but even this though simplistic is not wrong but may be worthy of belief so long as such belief helps in bringing more to take on and ascend the spiritual path to be with God, the Pure Ones and the Buddhas.
No one would say that there is only one country in the world but it is alright to say that there is one world body called the United Nations. Likewise there cannot be only three realms of earth, heaven and hell.
Concepts and reality may not match. Concepts are the creation of the human mind. There is the created and the creator. The creator is created and the created is also a creator.
There is relativity of creation and the created. The egg is the creator of the chicken and the chicken is the creator of the egg. Even a young child knows that but many are blissfully simple minded when they say the egg is from the chicken (hen) and not the chicken from the egg. The creator precedes creation and creation precedes the creator. There is completeness of the cycle of creation. This is just like saying calm follow storm and storm precedes calm.
