Here's something to throw everything and nothing...
Just ideas for reinterpreting what has been the same as something a little different.
Disclaimer: NO DIRECT RELATION TO ANY KNOWN LITERATURE. This is but my own view.
No theology (which is a human/sentient race's "interpretation").
Excerpts the writings of an unknown Sage/Researcher/Philosopher:
"There are only "Realities", often called Worlds. A Reality is a domain in which there are Laws. Laws are a set of rules that CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED within a Reality, as Contradiction would imply the Destruction of that Reality."
"There are only Laws within a single Reality. What is traditional called "Chaos" may or may not be "anti-Laws" in actual. One one level, it could simply be that the observer cannot comprehend the Laws and just use the word "Chaos" to reflect that incomprehension. True "Chaos" never occurs in a single Reality. It can only occur when Laws of another Reality beyond reach in and temporarily or permanently destablilizes the Laws within. True "Chaos" are the mark of Destruction of an old Reality and Creation of New one in its place. It is the beginning and end of a Reality's life cycle, if it can seen as such."
"If a Reality is created or creates something comprehensible and communicatable as a sentient consciousness, it is called a "god". If it doesn't (or simply that some race cannot comprehend/communicate with it), it is called "nature". What is seen by one party as a conscious "god" may be seen by another party as non-conscious "nature". Of course, there are those who are self-contradictory enough to accept both... "
"A "god" can be seen as a sentient consciousness that has influence over some or all of the Laws of a domain/Reality. A homogenous domain is one where there is only one uniform set of Laws have equal influence. A heterogenous domain is one where there is one set of Laws, but the influence varies in a continuous manner. Where there is a discontinuity in the influence or Laws, that's where the domain/Reality's boundary is defined. Different Realities refers to two domains where there is not a single point of continuity between them. Quite often, there are more than one gods whose influences over certain laws do not contradict and their domains forms a single Reality, in which they became known as the principle deities. Death of a "god" is simply the loss of control over the Laws by the consciousness. Birth of a new "god" is where a new consciousness arises to command influence over the Laws..."
"Realities have known and unknown influences with other Realities, even if their Laws are different. Some influences are so slight that it seems that there is no relationship. Others are so strong that one can be seen as a Shadow/Mirror of the other. With a "base" Reality taken as a reference point, a "Plane" is a term used by us mortals to envision how the Realities influences each other, by first imagining our own Reality as a flat piece of paper, and related Realities as other flat pieces of paper overlaid on our Reality, and the points of overlapping are where the co-influence is the strongest. This, a "Plane" is only meaningful when taking our Reality as the "base" Reality..."
"Among the less-informed, Planes are often given names that are but localized impressions. For example, what is commonly known as the "Fire Plane", a ridiculously misinformed choice for a name, can actually refers to any one of a large number of realities, whose Laws results in massive conversion of matter to energy when interacting with our Reality. And though the interaction makes those Realities seem similar to us, they may in fact, be unrelated. The very same planes, when interacting with a Reality other than us, could result in totally different effects that would never put the word "Fire" to mind. Thus, those planes are only "Fire Plane" to us and us alone. Another example is the "Plane of Light" or "Positive Energy Plane", which could be just one of the many other Realities with a higher energy potential, and thus when connected to our Reality, the positive inflow of energy becomes our "light". But seen from that plane itself, our Reality could be seen as a dark portal sucking in the energy of their Reality and our world could have been called by them as the "Plane of Darkness" instead."
"What it really boils down finally, is the recognition that perhaps all things are in fact, Relative. And the what we'd always been refering to as Planes are not absolute entities by themselves, but are just what we observe, when the Laws of other Realities act and interact with the Laws of ours."
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