Pathway To Eternity 2 Reincarnation

A realm of lights, lights of beautiful colours. One of the cosmic realms on the cosmic plane. There were four planes in the universe; the nether plane; the mortal plane; the heavenly plane and the cosmic plane.

These planes were the work of creation, created during the time of universal existence. But cosmic realms were created by the universe in locations of importance regarding the order and harmony of the universe.

The Acheron realm, the realm of reincarnation, was the first stop for departed souls. The realm where the fates of the souls were determined in regards to their reincarnation. The forms the souls would take in their next lives, it might be animals, humans, halflings, demiG.o.ds(asuras), daemons, deities or celestials. Their destination, whether it would be the nether plane, the mortal plane or the heavenly plane.

All of these were determined on the Acheron cosmic realm. On this realm was located the Acheron palacium.

The Acheron palacium .

A grand landmark of s.p.a.ce. A place where, in the light of Radia, souls experienced reincarnation. Souls of mortals and immortals alike. The gates of the palacium were incredibly ma.s.sive. They were made of cloudstone. At the entrance of the gates were the 'malecs', stone-living giants created by the universe from the primordial cloudstones.

There were wide and ma.s.sive walls of cloudstones leading from the gates to the center of the palacium. The top of the palacium was covered in cosmic arrays. The floors, the pillars, the sculptures and carvings were made of rare lucent moonstones. The gleaming stones reflected the lights of the realm to produce a serenely beautiful landscape of flowing lights. At the center of the palacium were the three wheels of incarnation.

The wheel of time. The wheel of fate. The wheel of destiny.

These wheels were being spun by the 'Cordae', the three divinities. The primordial cosmic divines a.s.signed by creation to preside over the palacium. It was their task to preside over the souls, preserving the laws of creation. Maintaining the order and harmony of the universe involving incarnation.

They welcomed the arrival of souls, directed their pathways toward the mirror of deeds at the center of the palacium and toward the light of Radia. This, they had been doing from primordial creation and continued to do.

Divine Arta, lady of time. She was in charge of the wheel of time, It determined the time period for the reincarnation of the departed souls. At the center of the wheel was a mirror, the divine myriads mirror that showed the past deeds of souls.

Divine Asha, lady of fate. She spun the wheel of fate to decide the inevitable mighty hands of creation on the lives of incarnated and reincarnated souls. At the center of the wheel was a large orb of pulsating fibres of yin yang lights. The fibres of lights that threaded the fates of incarnated souls.

Divine Amra, lady of destiny. She controlled the wheel of destiny according to the laws of creation. The forms and destination of souls based on karmic merits. At the center of the wheel was a large golden bell. The bell of finality, the sound of which confirmed the certainty of a soul's destiny.

Reincarnation.

The wheel of existence. There was birth, there was death, there was issuing forth, there was entering in. The cycle of life, death, and rebirth, without beginning or end. The samsara's cycle of existence. Existence without limitation, continuity without a starting-point. The s.p.a.cetime law of existence.

Reincarnation began when departed souls entered the light of Radia. Light of Radia, one of the laws of creation, part of the essence core of creation. The very essence of life, of the universe, sp.a.w.ned from the infinitude energy.

All living ent.i.ties were in subjectivity to reincarnation except the cosmic divines. Attaining the stage of a cosmic divine, the only true way or path of breaking free of reincarnation. The complete oneness with existence. Complete emptiness of a soul and totally becoming one with creation.

And on this particular day.

"The order and harmony of the universe, laws of creation, all are bounded."

"Yes, though, we are not under incarnation, we are still part of the universe, still under the laws of creation."

"We don't have souls. We don't die. We only have cosciousness that exists all over the universe. We can only go into limbo."

"Limbo of a billion years. And, another billion years to return to former state of existence."

"Whereas, it takes a mortal a hundred years to reincarnate and immortal, a million years."

"It's like death, but we do keep our consciousness and awareness of what's happening in the universe. But powerless."

"For two billion years! The balance of creation is truly beyond wonderful."

"But we have a very good odd of avoiding limbo. DON'T OBSCURE."

"Yes, not to obscure"

The three divinities conversed as they carried out their tasks. They wore the same signature robes, jade white robes crafted from rare primordial stones, Khepri bark spider silk and other materials. The robes were majestic, a sight to behold. The three divinity were powerful divines and their powers were legendary. When they combined their powers to form the Divine Cosmic Wheel, they became a universal force of nature. They had fought in all the great wars alongside the other primordials.

They were carrying out their works when they felt Karmic connections. They looked at the souls waiting for reincarnation and discovered that the connection was coming from two newly arrived souls. The rainbow halo sorrounding the two souls was radiating brightly.

"Oh, Celestial merits. Surely, the universe rejoice at your rebirths. You have my welcome." lady Asha spreaded her arms, grinning widely and easily.

"How beautiful for souls with good merits after the sadness of death. How beautiful." Lady Amra smiled bitterly, her glance s.h.i.+fting between the two souls.

"Yes, not the same with karmic sins. True, the universe reincarnate them, only for the balance of natural laws. Good and bad. Order and chaos. But, not the same. Can never be the same." Lady Arta slowly nodded with a furrowed brow.

Then, she turned to her sisters. "The more the heavenly souls, the stronger the pillars of the universe."

"Mhm."

"True."

The divine cordae continued their work as they remotely watched the two souls until it was their turn to stand before the mirror. The other two divine cordae directed their gazes towards the mirror, and watched with great interest as lady of time, divine Asha, spun the wheel of time, of their past lives, which started to appear in streaks on the myriads mirror.

The divine myriads mirror.

A primordial treasure of creation. It stored all the deeds of souls before their death. But, it only revealed the deeds of a soul, only the scenes where the soul accrued good karmic virtues or bad karmic virtues, when the soul stood before it. Souls with good deeds and Karmic virtues were bounded to be reincarnated in the light of Radia as mortals, demiG.o.ds(asuras), deities or celestials. Souls with bad deeds and karmic sins were bounded for reincarnation as animals, halflings, fiends or daemons. Merits accrued meant they were bounded by the laws of karma.

"Hmm, reincarnation is a big effect of the laws of karma."

"And laws of karma are a part of the laws of universe."

"Yes, they are."

The Cordae were staring at Myriads Mirror. The past karmic deeds of the human souls in front of them, mother and child were being replayed on the mirror.

[The mother was a mortal, her name was Eloise Yin. She had been born on one of the mortal worlds, Earth, a world of six continents, ruled by a human emperor. She came from the Red eagle clan, living in the fountain-spring village on the Aksan continent. Her clan was the smallest in the village. Her family lived on the outskirts of the village. Her parents were mortals, they had given birth to her after they had pa.s.sed their prime. They had to wait for a long time before they had her.

She had been their miracle.....

She had worked on the pig farm in the morning and the chicken farm in the evening. It was on one of such evenings that she had been attacked by reavers, creatures of the nether region. A rare portal had opened on her farm. A portal that connected to the nether region. It was simply an unfortunate situation. War had been raging on between the reavers and fiend factions in the nether region when the portal had been opened. An unstable portal that was opened randomly. It was really unjust, the odds were unfair.

But fought she did. Holding a short sword, her son tied to her back, she had fought like a berserker. She had fought tooth and nail, but she had knewn it was a loosing battle. She had prayed to the G.o.ds she knew and didn't knew. It was at this moment that the crystal had been triggered, the karmic merits that was stored in the crystal had been transfered to the mother and child.]

"Awww, they were mortals before, and mother and child for what it takes."

"They were fated to have the crystal, and more so, to activate it. It was really good fate"

"A celestial's merits a.s.sured a reincarnation in the mortal worlds as a demiG.o.d, an Asura, half deity, or in the heavenly realms as a full deity or even as a celestial. It is really rare for a celestial to pa.s.s on full accrued merits."

"Can we see their past lives? I'm a bit curious. Arta?" Lady Asha tilted her head slightly, eyes crinkling.

"Yes, Arta. These mortal souls really piqued my interest too."

"Uh, it piqued your interest? So what? You two know that i will need the Cosmic Pith Fetter seal to do that. And, i have none. Besides, if i have, i won't use it to see their past lives. Too precius for that. If any of you have one, you will see their lives."

"I have one, it was meant for something different, but, we can use it." Amra flicked her hand and a seal appeared in her hand. A cosmic treasure, crafted from cosmic essence crystal, obsidian crystal from the void, yin yang spirit leaves and a ray of Radia's light.

She gave the seal to Arta.

Arta performed the seal formation hand's movement and it activated.

They s.h.i.+fted their attention back to the mirror and watched it keenly.

[At the age of nine, she had lost her mother. Her mother's death was sudden, no sign of sickness. It was a ma.s.sive blow to the family, but on they had gone. One year later, at the age of ten, her had father suffered total paralysis. He had been bed-ridden. As the only member of her family that could work, she had to work extremely hard on their farm. Daily, she had collected and sold chicken eggs from the their farm to cater for herself and her father. She had done this for the following six years. In one of those six years, while she had been working on her family farm, she had found a sapphire crystal. Her very own treasure, first of a kind for her. She had used a string to craft a necklace of sapphire blue crystal.

Happiness out of madness.

Five years later, her father had died. She had been twenty years of age, she had decided to get married for her family line to continue. At that time, only two members remained of her clan. Eloise and her niece, Scarlett. Scarlett had died the following year.

The last of her clan. She had married at the age of twenty. Her husband, a good man, had a pig farm. They had been tending the two farms. Their hardwork had started to be fruitful. Then, the husband had died, when she was five months pregnant.

She had given birth to a son and called him Haider. It had been difficult for her raising him alone, but she had been extremely happy. The second person of her clan, aside herself, alive. And he was her son, her family line would continue. Happiness in a world of sadness. She had been working hard on one of the farms when they were attacked leading to her death and that of her son.]

They contemplated as they focused on the two souls.

"Laws of karma are laws of creation. Fate and reincarnation are effects of laws of karma."

"All are bounded by them, until a soul attains total emptiness, complete oneness with creation, can the soul be free."

"Even we, the divines are bounded by the souls' karmic merits."

"In accord with the laws of karma and their karmic merits. You could reincarnate them in the same world, Amra."

"Yes, i could. It is the least i can do. And a reincarnation in a mortal world as an Asura for the mother, would be more safer and more fortuitous."

"Should i make them be together as mother and son?"

"We think you should, but you will have to delay the reincarnation of the son until the mother is of age, Arta."

"That, i will do with a joyful heart, Asha."

"What about the son?"

"Amra, I think you can reincarnate him as a mortal but with his half of the merits. What do you think Asha?."

"Yes, with the blessings of the universe because of the merits, he will be able to gain enlightenement more easier, temper his heart earlier and gain more insight from the view of a mortal."

"Indeed, his path will be more beneficial to him." Lady Amra stretched out her hands and turned the wheel of destiny.

"To their karmic merits, I, Divine Amra, will give each of them a moment of destiny in their next lives. You will be born in the world of Lorra with the blessings of heavens."

"To their karmic merits, I Divine Arta, will give each one of them a moment of time in their next lives." Lady Arta spun the wheel of time.

"To their karmic merits, I, Divine Asha, will also give each one of them a moment of fate in their next lives." The wheel of fate started spinning.

All the three wheels for the souls of the mother and son.

"You will be born an Asura. After you become full Asura, your destiny will be in your own hands."

"You will be preserved from all, for a period of time until when you become a full Asura."

"Your fate will be in the hands of the universe, but with the cosmic blessings."

They s.h.i.+fted their views and focused on the soul of the son.

"After a period of time, you will be reincarnated into the world of Lorra as a mortal but with a boon in your destiny."

"Your soul has been bounded to your mother, you will be together with her."

"On the account of the merits on you, you will be born with the blessings of the universe on your fate."

When they were through, they ushered the soul of the mother into the light of Radia. The divine myriads mirror flashed brightly. The Orb released fibre lights that encircled the souls. And the golden bell of destiny sounded.

They started humming to themselves.

"Luminous cosmic-breezes, touching you soft,

Like as fingers when skillfully, Wakening harp-strings.

Pure retained, Like unopened blossoms,

Flowering ever, Joyful their souls."

It had already began.