The true meaning and value of life

Antony and the Queen of Egypt were sitting in the sofa area of the palace chatting. The Queen was dressed in a long, comfortable, casual white dress, with a golden sash around her waist. Her hair was half coiffed and half draped behind her head, with a few strands of slightly curly hair hanging casually over her ears, and a simple, atmospheric gold serpentine crown set off her queenly style, and she wore similarly styled gold serpentine bracelets on her arms, simple and casual yet uniquely charming, and her fragrance lingered softly and lightly on the sofa area. Antony, dressed in a red robe, sat on a sofa not far from the Queen.

Antony caressed the Queen with his gaze and said, "Tell me some more interesting stories, Queen!"

Cleopatra VII winked at Antony with a mysterious look on her face and said, "Today, I want to tell you the story of my relationship with you! Can you guess the story I'm going to tell?"

"Is the Queen going to give me some kind of surprise?" Anthony said with an expectant look on his face.

"You're so clever! You've got it right! I'm pregnant with our child!" Cleopatra VII said with a smile, her face glowing with joy and love!

"Really? That's wonderful!" Antony walked up to Cleopatra VII and kissed the Queen excitedly, gently touching her belly, "My dear, this is such exciting news!"

"Perhaps we will have to have a marriage ceremony soon and you can join me in running Egypt and we can make it a paradise on earth! Let the Egyptian people live and work in peace!" Cleopatra VII said hopefully.

"If you conceive our child, I wish to let you have more! These days I have been thinking of a marriage with Octavian's sister, by which I could hold more political power in Rome! I want you not only to be Queen of Egypt, but I also want to give you more political power in Rome!" Antony spoke of his political ambitions.

"For me, politics, money and power are not the most important thing! If we can work together to manage Egypt well and let the Egyptian people live in peace and prosperity, I will be satisfied!" Cleopatra VII said seriously.

"But I can't completely give up my power in Rome, I've worked so hard for decades in Rome to get hold of the political power I have today!" Antony said reluctantly.

"Your political ambitions, your desires, coupled with the marriage with Octavian's sister, could ruin our peaceful life! Or even spark more wars!" Cleopatra VII reminded him.

"For my part, as a man, I wish to do my best to build the best life for the woman I love! I wish to consolidate a higher political power and to give you more territory to administer in order to fulfil your wish for heaven on earth!" Antony seemed determined!

"We can't have it all! If I had to choose between political rights and loyal love, I would rather choose loyal love! If you choose union, which means we cannot live together every day, you will not be able to remain faithful to me in mind and body!" Cleopatra VII wanted Antony to change his mind.

"I have made the decision that when I have consolidated my political power, I will marry you, live with you every day, enjoy life and give you my loyal love! My dear Queen, before I return to Rome, will you tell me the secrets of the Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx?" He asked the question that had long been a source of great curiosity.

Cleopatra VII thought for a moment and said, "The secrets associated with the pyramids and the Sphinx are secrets between Egyptian pharaohs! I can't tell you anything until you marry me!"

"Then please wait for me, I will return to you and marry you as soon as I have consolidated more of Rome's political power!" Antony promised as he hugged Cleopatra VII.

"You are like the people of Earth, for whom the meaning of life is based on the endless pursuit of material things, money and power! Greed, the worship of money and material things will usher in more wars! The greedy pursuit of material wealth prevents you from spiritual, moral and spiritual advancement! Material wealth is eternal, plentiful and unchanging among the universes! The true meaning of life lies in the pursuit of compassion, love, mutual respect and mutual spiritual, spiritual and moral upliftment, in the different reincarnations of the world, so that your souls can continue to rise in latitude and level, so that your moral and spiritual cultivation can become better and better, and this is what matters! If morality is the ladder to the beauty of heaven, then we can only have a more beautiful view if we keep climbing up the moral ladder, for only the higher we stand on the moral ladder can we see further and allow our mind, body and soul to enjoy a more beautiful view of life full of wisdom and meaning! But the earthling often forgets to climb the ladder of morality, and is too long obsessed with picking up the odd-shaped stones next to the ladder and fighting for those stones by all sorts of evil means! Earthlings have forgotten: only when the moral and spiritual nature of Earthlings is raised will they be able to have a fuller life, enjoy a more beautiful view of life, acquire more technological civilisation and material wealth on the basis of peaceful development!" Cleopatra VII seemed to be trying to awaken Antony's spirituality.

"I cannot understand what you are saying, why is it that moral spirituality is elevated in order to enjoy more material wealth and technological civilization?" Antony asked, puzzled.

"Let me make an analogy for a simple explanation! If you compare material wealth to a delicious cake and the new level of technology to the even distribution technique of cutting and dividing the cake. I compare the age of the earthling to the level of morality. Obviously, when the moral level of the earthlings is at the stage of 1 to 5, if you teach the earthlings the technique of cutting and dividing the cake and making everyone happy, there is no way they can master it! If you don't believe me, you could have children under the age of 5 cutting and dividing cakes! The result could be: the cake gets messed up and some children might start crying because they didn't get a share! Some children may start arguing or even fighting over the size of the cake! The moral level of many people on earth is now like that of a 1 to 5 year old! Some don't even know the true meaning of morality!

I have done morality tests on Earthlings of different ages and status many times in my different reincarnations: sometimes I look for opportunities to get Earthlings to help me! But most Earthlings like to watch and laugh at my difficulties and situations, and some even find ways to create more difficulties for me! They don't even reach out for help!

Sometimes I deliberately pass on a packet of gems to a group of people to share among themselves! I found out that the one who got the gems often kept the most of them, while the others who saw the gems got 1 piece and the ones who didn't didn't have a chance to share the gems! And then there are times when these earthlings get the gems and start to grab and fight! They go against their conscience to get more material benefits of the gems, they start cheating, lying, betraying! And even if the gems were taken from my hands, they wouldn't think of sharing them with me! Earthlings ignore those they can in order to maximise material gain! They have no regard for the feelings, the situation of others! Why? Because of the selfishness, greed and moral corruption of the earthlings! With deep greed, anger and demented desires, giving more material wealth and new levels of technology to the Earthlings would only lead to fighting and killing among the Earthlings! There is no way to benefit all Earthlings fairly and truly, especially those who are truly in need! Suppose: all Earthlings would think of others, then when I give a packet of gems to the Earthlings to divide among themselves, they would divide it equally among anyone, including me! More material wealth and high-tech levels are in the hands of the higher divine powers in the universe, and in order to ensure that every earthling can benefit from them fairly, more material wealth and new technological civilisations can only be given to the earthlings when the moral spirituality of all earthlings is raised and all earthlings are free from selfishness and greed and know how to think of others!"

"I seem to understand! I will think carefully about what you say! When I have thought it through, I will come back to you ..." Antony packed his bags and, after kissing Cleopatra VII fondly goodbye, left Egypt.

Looking at Antony's departing back, Cleopatra VII's heart was somewhat lost as she suddenly realised: the process of making Antony and the people of Earth moral and spiritual awakening complete is a tedious and slow one!

Nevertheless, Cleopatra VII would do her best to inject the warm light and love of heaven's noble and mysterious spirituality and morality into the hearts of every earthling. She believed that one day the earthlings would awaken and begin to pay attention to moral and spiritual advancement, and begin to respect, love and help each other and to share all the material and spiritual riches of the universe fairly!