Rome Wasn’t built in a day

John 18:36
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom…
my Kingdom is not of this world.”

The scope of one person’s life in the world at any given time can be diminished by the magnitude and enormity of the world around them and the ones beyond them. So we must look at the disproportional value that has been given to certain religions and the accompanying Heavens, Hells and other afterlife kingdoms associated with them.

With all of the religions, gods and goddesses of the world we must consider the number of their followers who have lived in this life with the sure hope that they would see their gods’ kingdoms in the afterlife. The devout and the faithful have nothing if monotheism tells them that millennia of devotion to the gods meant nothing so I state here that the afterlife is not so black and white as heaven and hell.

3,600 years ago, there was a person who lived in the country, this country lied within a nation, the nation which belongs to a kingdom, a kingdom which is one of many kingdoms on a continent, one of many continents on the world, which is one of many worlds in the solar system, one of many solar systems in the galaxy, one of innumerable galaxies.

The people of the world live on the world sharing these kingdoms just as the gods, all gods, share a realm beyond our comprehension. There is an all-encompassing domain; not a monopoly on faith despite what some would love to have you believe. It is the afterlife, it is Hades, and it is the gateway to all the otherworlds. And what are the otherworlds? I am so glad you asked. I will answer a question of religion only as a human can, without facts, but with faith. Somewhere between dreams and reality lies a place of supernatural possibilities that humans have always dreamed of, yet are never able to travel to despite the plethora of detailed accounts of the landscapes and architecture of these divine and infernal realms.

Imagine a place balanced by inverse powers, containing the things that are both united and divided in a harmonious blend of opposition. Much like Earth, but more fantastical. All Heavens and Hells are but small part of the afterlife, small lands within the kingdom of the “dead”. Call it by any other name, Hades is the whole of spiritual existence, the afterlife. As we exist in our physical realm; the Elohim, the Council of the Gods, exist in theirs. Empyrean, Asgard, The Elysian Fields, Nifheleim, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

As a loosely generalized principle it could be said that “pagans”, Gentiles, Hellenes or infidels are all remnants of Babel, the legendary unified kingdom of humanity who spoke one language and who were once a unified people that were forcefully scattered by yhwh.

We have become the One World Religion of yhwh, Jesus and Allah. However…however he, yhwh and his followers who are the sons of Abraham, still attempt to scatter the people of the Earth in this very real world we live in. And yet the gods’ faithful are finding their way back towards the unity and peace that we were deprived by a scared Canaanite god. So we find ourselves in quite the predicament; that the inhabitants of the many kingdoms are among those souls of the faithful dead throughout history of all faithful and all religions. Not the select few.

Diana, Kali, Hathor, Odin, it really doesn’t matter; the many deities of the ancient and modern world all hold precedence in the histories of humanity. Were all of these human lives for naught in the face of one single god? Where have all of their kingdoms gone? So many afterlives, where do all of these human souls go that never knew this One True God? Hell? No, this is not too much for me to grasp, but the reverse, is indeed much too little. There is a place all gods share as we share our world I believe.

It is where all gods and goddesses who have always ruled over their followers along with all other deities. And so we must work our way back from the end to the beginning, from destruction to creation, from the grave to conception, from right to left.