Custodian of Earth's Heavens

Fiction?

The man looked around him and wondered about it all. He wondered sometimes why he remembered countless lifetimes and others didn't. He thought maybe the reason for this was most people just couldn't handle the truth and preferred to live in a type of fantasy and that the old adage "Truth Kills" had come to roost in these people.

Long ago in this lifetime and many many others the man had chosen to become enlightened. He remembered being a soldier many times in other lifetimes and didn't like the result after dying when he was reborn to his enemies and then had to grow up and fight his friends of the previous lifetime. This was just too nuts to endure. But then that was karma, inexorable. However, this inexorable quality is applied to those who die fighting in a war. "How this all is applied on an individual level with all sorts of different karmic signatures is way beyond me to unravel at present" the man thought.

So, the man remembered choosing after these lifetimes, enlightenment as a vocation both personal, spiritual and sometimes religious. In other words he had learned through great suffering to choose enlightenment many lifetimes now so he was getting pretty good at it. He had also learned that even though one cannot take physical wealth from lifetime to lifetime, one CAN take gifts like knowing the future and gifts like telepathy, good physical health and good mental health from lifetime to lifetime. One can also take generated good luck from treating all beings with kindness from one life to the next, and gifts like being a good communicator or being nice looking or being an artist, musician, writer, builder, architect, etc.

Recently, about 30 years previous the man had asked God to entrust him with wealth. God had done this but the man had learned just like asking a Genie one had to be quite specific even with God when asking for something. So the man had learned to become wiser and wiser and more compassionate in all his actions to be able to ask God for the right things in the right way to benefit not only himself but all beings in time and space. So 15 years before the man had asked God, "Dear God, Please make me a custodian of wealth. I believe I am ready for this."

note: being a custodian of wealth is different than actually being wealthy. One who is very far down a path to enlightenment knows right away that actually being wealthy is always more trouble than it is worth. So, being a custodian of wealth is to act on God's behalf with both enlightenment and self discipline and understanding all the pitfalls of wealth. Just like poverty, Wealth has many many pitfalls and they tend to be two sides of the same coin. When one is wealthy one has too much power and when one is poor one often feels powerless. However, to an enlightened man or woman both are an illusion. endnote.

In the end both the poor man and the rich have an equal amount of power if they understand their states from a point of wisdom and compassion towards themselves and all other beings. The poor man has difficulty being compassionate to himself and the rich man has difficulty in being compassionate to others. Often rich men become poor ones by giving all their money away to the poor and becoming poor themselves. Often poor men become thieves but instead of becoming rich they go to jail. Both paths lead nowhere. If one is fortunate to become rich one should find ways to help better the lives of those around them without becoming poor. If one is born poor one should realize that wealth is health, physical and mental and emotional and spiritual. All other wealth is both temporary and relatively meaningless in the full scheme of the universe.

So the man wondered how to move forward knowing that God was watching to see if he was maturing and growing wiser and more compassionate than before. The man felt pressure to succeed but also knew that many lives were riding on his decisions.

God came to the man and said, "This wealth is mine. It is not yours. I trained you to be custodian of it. Be not afraid. I will show you what to do to make it grow long term and to help the beings I want you to help with it!" The man felt faint from God's power and wisdom and compassion and knew that it was so.

The man looked around once again and realized that God was training him to be not only a custodian of material wealth but of spiritual wealth as well. The man realized that God had moved the man into a position of responsibility that would last centuries and possibly even millennia. The man was overwhelmed. God had overwhelmed this man many times in many lifetimes. The man thought, "I guess I have to die to self again and become someone new who can actually do what God wants." note: dying to self is not a physical death but only a psychological death and possibly a spiritual rebirth. Some people liken this to being born again. However, God has asked the man to do this at least 20 or 30 times so far in his present lifetime, to become someone better than he was before.

He had written about a custodian of Earth's Heavens in the future of Earth. However, now the man knew this was all coming about step by step and day by day and even moment by moment and the man was overwhelmed by God!