Conversations sparked by precious stones: there are many jewelled planets in the universe

Apart from perfume and drinking wine, Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, had another passion: collecting all kinds of colourful jewels! She collected jewels such as emerald crown sets, diamond necklaces, ruby rings, sapphire earrings, pearl sets, turquoise bracelets, peridot gold chains and much more! The Queen wears different jewellery every day, and she likes to decide what to wear depending on her outfit!

Antony, seeing all the exquisite and beautiful jewellery the Queen had, could not help but ask: "My dear Queen, is there a particular reason why you like to collect and wear jewellery?"

Cleopatra VII took a heart-shaped emerald necklace out of her jewellery box and put it on, then said, "The reason I like to collect all kinds of jewellery, apart from the colourful stones that fascinate me, stems from my experience of living in the Phoenix Sky, the Purple Palace and the whole universe!"

Antony asked curiously, "Could it be that you enjoyed collecting jewels before you were reincarnated?"

Cleopatra VII said, "That's for sure, every soul, every being retains her habits and hobbies to a greater or lesser extent when she reincarnates! When I was in heaven, because of my heavenly mission to control the longitude and latitude of the universe, I liked to fly to different planets to see them, and on the way to collect all kinds of precious stones to put in my Phoenix Heaven or Purple Palace, beautiful stones to decorate my heaven and palace, and also to reward beings who have made special contributions to my heaven! Once on Earth, I especially enjoy collecting these colourful gems, for they gather the aura and essence of the universe, and when I wear them, I seem to feel that I have not left my Purple Palace! The gems give me a sense of security of being in a cosmic home!"

"There are gems in planets across the universe? That sounds like something incredible!" Antony seemed interested in the story the Queen was telling.

"You've merely forgotten everything! What I'm talking about, you could have observed it yourself with your celestial eyes before you were reincarnated! For example, there is a planet in the Andromeda constellation 21 light years from us in the universe that I call Andromeda Heaven, and there are many beautiful sapphires and rubies on that. There are even planets in the universe that have an entire core of diamonds ... The universe is full of similar planets with all kinds of gemstones! Because the universe is so big, there are countless galaxies beyond the Milky Way that are similar to the Milky Way!" Queen Cleopatra VII said with a natural expression.

"I can't remember at all, if there are so many precious gemstone planets in the universe, why don't the gods bestow more gemstone wealth on us earthlings through their divine power?" Anthony asked the question.

"The universe is so big! Every planet needs to maintain a balance! For example: technological civilisation, material wealth and spiritual civilisation, moral energy conservation! Now, looking at our Egypt and Rome alone, the morality of the present earthlings is no longer as good as that of the original earthlings! The moral quality of our Pharaohs has also deteriorated from generation to generation! In the beginning, the Pharaohs had only the people in their hearts, no selfishness, the original Pharaohs existed to administer justice and peace. With such a moral background, if the gods gave the people of Earth more jewels and wealth, it would only lead to more wars on Earth! Only when the moral level of mankind is raised can technology and civilisation be raised in a safe and peaceful state, thus giving the earthlings the possibility to go to more planets in the universe to extract precious stones and material wealth! If the people of Earth have serious greed and desire, and are constantly fighting, killing, robbing and at war, then if the people of Earth are given the ability and technology to go out into the universe to mine gems from other planets, it will only destroy the peace between the universes and even cause a Star War! A star war would seriously disrupt the balance of energy in the universe! The universe is very big and the peaceful development of the universe is extraordinarily important! It requires every being on every planet to respect cause and effect, to improve their moral qualities, and thus to contribute to maintaining peace between universes!" Cleopatra VII, playing with her jewel in her hand, replied to Antony as Princess Violet.

"How big is the universe?" Antony pursued.

"That's not an easy question to answer, let me make an analogy! If a frog sits at the bottom of a well and looks into the sky, the sky it sees is only as big as the mouth of the well! But the frog thinks it is seeing the whole universe! But we humans, who are standing outside the well, know that the frog's view of the sky is only a small part of the universe! If we humans are compared to that little frog, then the starry sky that we see with our naked eyes is only as big as the mouth of the well, and the boundless universe beyond the mouth of the well can only be observed by special instruments. They can also see! Some people with heavenly eyesight can not only see the presence of celestial beings, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, but they can see through walls! But those who have the Celestial Eye must live by the noble moral principle: do no evil, practice all good, otherwise they may lose their Celestial Eye power at any time! ..." Queen Cleopatra VII replied.

"My dear Queen, I love to hear your stories, will you tell me a little about your life in heaven?" The Queen's words sparked Antony's curiosity.

"I am like the Goddess of Mercy and the many other gods, we are eternal and indestructible spirits in the universe, or we could be called eternal gods! In particular, the Bodhisattva of Guanyin holds the Seal of Life and Death in her hand, controlling the life, death and reincarnation status of all beings in the six paths. Once the Seal in her hand is stamped on your moral spirituality, the Book of Judgement of Life and Death, your fate of life and death will be rewritten like a script! Send to heaven or to hell, it is just a matter of moments! Earthlings' morals, practices, deeds and starts determine where they will end up! Therefore, when the moral and spiritual nature of the people of Earth falls away and tends to destroy or go to hell as demons or devils, the righteous forces of the universe, that is, the Eternal Good God, will reincarnate as ordinary people of Earth to save them, to awaken their spiritual nature, to remind them not to do evil and to practise all good! So that the people of Earth may renounce evil and promote good, thus raising their moral quality and avoiding the horrible situation of being sent to hell for punishment and eventual destruction due to the infiltration of their spiritual nature by demons! Throughout the ages, the planets of the universe have developed in a cycle of formation, dwelling, destruction and emptiness, with some planets being formed and others being destroyed! The destruction of many planets in the universe is actually due to the disappearance of the planet's civilisation, its moral decay and eventual spiritual destruction, so that burning, killing, looting, plundering and wars are incessant, seriously affecting the peace of the universe! So the higher divine powers had to destroy those planets and rebuild their civilization and morality in order to maintain justice and morality among the universe, and to maintain peace and tranquility in the universe! Also, the spiritual nature of every being is eternal and unchanging! The soul exists in the universe and is constantly reincarnated on the various planets in the universe. If, during the infinite number of reincarnations, one practices the code of practice of all evils and all good deeds for a long time, one will cultivate into an eternal good god whose soul is eternal and immortal. In the universe, there are always two forces, good and evil! The Eternal Good God is responsible for guarding the justice and morality of the universe. When we, the Eternal Good Gods, see that the evil forces on a certain planet have seriously threatened the morality and justice between the universes and have seriously violated the existence of the laws of cause and effect, we will be reborn on that planet to help repel the evil forces!"

"How do planets get rebuilt?" Anthony said in confusion.

"I have a memory of this part, and I have heard the Buddha and Bodhisattvas say it before during my practice: each planet world has four stages of becoming, living and dying, which together are also called a great kalpa, and each stage is divided into twenty smaller kalps. Each stage is divided into twenty small kalpas. Starting from the average human life span of 84,000 years, the number of years decreases by one year every hundred years to ten years, and then increases by one year every hundred years to 84,000 years, which is a small kalpa. In the stage of the world's dwelling, the last kalpa of the dwelling kalpa begins with the frequent occurrence of war, pestilence, famine and other minor triple disasters. Then comes the stage of the world's downfall, when the sentient world is gradually destroyed and, of course, human beings disappear during the first nineteen kalpas of the downfall. In the last kalpa, the great triple disasters occur in turn, with fires burning from hell all the way to the first meditation heaven, floods flooding from hell to the second meditation heaven, and wind disasters destroying the material world from hell all the way to the third meditation heaven. Then there is the empty calamity of the twenty lesser calamities, when there is nothing at all.

When this world is formed again, it is the process of planetary re-creation! This also takes twenty lesser kalpas, the formation kalpas, the first of which first forms the material world, and thereafter the sentient world, including human beings, gradually forms." The Queen thought for a moment and then said, "The Buddha also said, "The initial lifespan of a human being is 84,000 years, and every hundred years, the human lifespan is reduced by one year, and the height of the body is reduced by one inch, until the human lifespan is ten years, which is the reduction kalpa. Then from the tenth year of the human life span, every hundred years the number of years increases by one year and the height of the body increases by one inch, increasing to eighty-four thousand years, which is the increase. One increase and one decrease, this is called one kalpa. One thousand kalpas is called one kalpa. Twenty lesser kalpas are one middle kalpas, and four middle kalpas are one great kalpas. Within the four middle kalpas there are twenty kalpas of "becoming", twenty kalpas of "dwelling", twenty kalpas of "destruction", and twenty kalpas of "emptiness".

　　The world has become, lived, destroyed and empty, and there must be a time when it is bad. For example, thousands of years ago there was a country on earth, but now the land has sunk and the country has disappeared; or an earthquake in a certain place has shaken away a whole country, or a whole village, or a whole region, that is bad."

"So this is how the planets between the universes keep cycling through the stages of becoming, dwelling, bad and empty? How does it sound that planets are as alive as people?" Antony said.

Cleopatra VII replied in her beautiful, melodious voice: "The planets are indeed alive like human beings! Therefore we must love the Earth and every planet in the universe as we love our bodies ..."