You might be justified in asking what use does a God have for armour when they are made of a substance that can’t possibly be harmed by anything other than their own sin, and is in fact harder and more resistant to damage than the stuff their armour is made of?

That reminds me of a joke, “why did the Kamikaze wear helmets” – “for shits and giggles”.

Of course a God doesn’t need armour, or clothes, or jewellery. Someone who is more magnificent than any jewel doesn’t need improvement to their looks. Someone who’s more deadly than any weapon and harder than any armour doesn’t need neither firepower nor protection. And certainly, someone whose true appearance is closer to that of a black hole than a human doesn’t need clothes to cover anything sensitive. It’s just a symbolism that translates reality to something human brain would be able to process. It’s a way to show connections and relationships.

I know, being a “strong independent woman” is popular among satanists and in various hellish planes, among souls that look like greyish wisps of filthy astral smoke that’s barely holding itself together, because every part of them also wants to be a “strong independent woman” rather than be a part of such a soul. Such a soul would put up a display of satanist defiance and hold a speech about how it’s better to die alone than to live the life of a jewel on a God, but that’s kind of why such non-souls look the way they do, end up the way they do, and why there are no “strong independent women” in heaven. Independence is not something that’s considered desirable among highly developed, enlightened souls; connection is. And among connections, the most praised are those that allow you to constantly feel the presence of someone greater than yourself, because that actually “rubs off” on you, it allows you to get better and deeper ideas than you would on your own, and much quicker than you would on your own. It allows your questions to be answered immediately rather than waste a zillion years trying to figure out something neither you nor your peers understand, but your superiors find it trivial. It’s like being connected to the Internet rather than being on your own and unable to look things up; in fact, it’s like having a huge omniscient, incredibly holy being constantly present in the corner of your mind, as a source of great happiness, knowledge, experience and virtue that guides you into becoming more of yourself. Also, more often than not those jewels on a God are souls created by that God in some way, that have independence of the God’s core, and existence as their own beings, but they also don’t want to be separated from their creator, whom they see as the ultimate goal and purpose of existence. I know this might be hard to understand to “strong independent women” whose existence has no purpose, nor do they understand what that would even be, because they never felt anything they want to belong to, but that doesn’t really matter, because all “strong independent women” eventually come to a bad ending and they are not my intended audience; they will be destroyed in a pralaya, their remainders will be mopped up and purified by some God, and their constituent spiritual particles will finally find purpose and belonging, free from the darkness of “independence” and “power”.

Belonging to a God to the point where an astral representation of that God shows you as part of their appearance, as a jewel or a piece of clothes on their person, as armour or a weapon, is very prestigious and sought after. If you remember what I said about crystallisation of soul-substance and what it requires, you’ll understand that each of those crystals is in fact an enlightened Buddha in its own right. Those are all holy souls who attained the first level of perfection and eternal life. Of course sin can kill anyone, but they would really have to go out of their way to defy their very nature in order to commit it. It’s possible, especially when they incarnate in this world and are prone to deceptions of Satan and all the worldly illusions, but even a terribly failed incarnation usually involves nothing more than a jewel’s separation from the physical person whose soul it used to be, because that person made decisions that are so contrary to the soul’s choices and nature, that the connection was permanently broken, and the soul returns to its God, possibly with some karmic issues resulting from evil choices that took place while it was still connected to the sinful physical person, that the God needs to resolve – and yes, that’s one advantage of belonging to someone that powerful; they can actually help you survive such mistakes and failures by taking the burden or punishment onto themselves.

You will note that I speak of enlightenment and becoming an eternal soul-crystal as the first level of enlightenment, but what then is the next level? It’s quite obvious, really; it’s becoming a person of God. However, the leap required is immense, and the sacrifices and feats required to advance to this status are incredibly risky. For most, belonging to a God and slowly absorbing wisdom from their presence is the preferred option. This doesn’t mean stagnation; when a major God incarnates, their jewels usually follow them, forming companion-incarnations of their own, and major Gods often also accompany each other, fulfilling major roles in each other’s lives, since they don’t really care for being surrounded by clouds of astral vapour pretending to be a human person equal to them or even superior. Such group incarnations are a messy thing and provide abundant chances for failure, but if those are overcome and avoided, this means karmic growth, an increase of spiritual magnitude compared to before incarnation. Also, suffering that is endured without protest also means growth in spiritual mass, and if an incarnate jewel manifests Divine aspects and qualities during life (basically, if they do things that a God would do in their place), they can elevate their status from that of a jewel to that of a companion-deity, a God-person in their own right. However, since incarnation here is risky, degradation in spiritual status is also possible, and I would say it’s actually far more likely. It’s not an easy thing to do, however – you need to really manifest lack of virtue, kindness and respect towards your spiritual superiors for a long time in order for you to lose enough karmic mass to be degraded from the position of a companion God to the position of a jewel, or even worse, to lose the position of a jewel and turn into karmic gas that may or may not hold on together at all. In most cases, incarnation would be aborted prematurely rather than risk such an outcome, but what happens more often is failure to “enlighten” karma inherited from past incarnations that got merged with a higher being in some way. This would add incredible complexity to something that’s already very complicated, but if a worshipper or a yogi surrenders their karma to their God, God needs to do something about that stuff, for instance use the outstanding debts and issues as well as permissions to incarnate here that were obtained along with the debts, in order to create a tulku/avatar. Such a karmic compound can learn lessons by doing the right things, or by fucking things up very badly, and outcomes are neither simple nor binary. It’s a huge mess, and most religions don’t account for such things in their preference for philosophically clean, if simplistic understanding of how Divine affairs are to be handled. In any case, as someone whose job it is to mop up after other people’s fuckups, let’s just say I’ve seen evidence of all sorts of failure, and more than I care to remember. In any case, arrogance and a desire to be a “strong independent woman” seems to come up more often than not as a cause for failure, so that’s something to be mindful of. On the other hand, a desire for deep connection, service and calm endurance of evil, self-sacrifice and acceptance of suffering seems to come up as a cause of enlightenment and spiritual greatness more often than not. Just something to think about.