"Enlightening the good and sending them to heaven is only a small mercy. Enlightening the ordinary people who are lost and sending them to heaven is a medium mercy. Using the teachings of the Seven Gods to enlighten the demons and send them to sainthood is a great mercy!"
"Turning demons into saints? Great mercy?" Matthew was shocked.
Saints went to heaven and demons went to hell.
This was the worldview that they had always taken for granted.
At most, the monks would admonish those who still believed in the Seven Gods but had gone astray, but they would never pull the demons from hell to heaven.
Just like Cersei and Stannis.
Cersei's sins were far worse than Erlu's, but she had believed in the Seven Gods for decades and had always been devout.
Even though all the monks, including Archbishop John who crowned Cersei (the archbishop of the southern diocese established by the Starry Cathedral), thought that Cersei would definitely go to hell after death, they still tolerated her rule.
But for Erlu, the devout monks could not bear to breathe the same air as him. It seemed that as long as Erlu got close to them, they would be pulled into the hell of the evil gods.
In the Western Church, demons were generally used to purify and destroy; in the Eastern Buddhism, demons were used to turn demons into saints.
In the Western Church, angels in heaven were born. There had always been fallen angels, but no fallen demons had ever become angels.
In the Eastern Buddhism, Buddhas were all enlightened through cultivation in the mortal world. There were very few fallen Buddhas. Falling into depravity was also a kind of experience. Their career was still attached to the Buddhist heaven, and there would always be a day when they would return. However, there were a lot of demons who "fell" and became Buddhas.
Removing the cassock, Spirited Mountain was full of demons.
Cough, cough, they used to be demons.
"How to turn demons into saints?" Matthew respectfully asked the Holy Mother.
The Holy Mother sighed and said, "Let me tell you a story first! That year, the beginning of the new era, all things were born. I was happy and went down to the mortal world. After playing for a long time, I was a little tired, so I landed in a bamboo forest and meditated in Silence.
Suddenly, a cry came from the sky. It was an eagle chasing a pigeon.
The pigeon was very spiritual. When it was desperate, it saw the green clouds in the bamboo forest, the divine music, and the fragrance that filled its nose. It guessed that a god had come here. "
Matthew listened with fascination, wishing that he could personally witness the scene of the Virgin Mary descending to the world.
"If I saw green multicolored light and divine sounds, I would also know that it was a strange place." He sighed.
The Holy Mother Danny nodded slightly and continued, "When I saw the white pigeon, I felt pity for it. I opened my sleeve and let it hide in it.
I said to the eagle that was chasing after us, please let go of this pigeon. Heaven is virtuous. "
Matthew frowned. Mother Mary was too much of a saint. Wasn't it natural for an eagle to eat a pigeon just like a noble eating a commoner?
The Holy Mother did not seem to see his expression, nor did she "hear" his thoughts. She continued, "The eagle told me that if I let the pigeon go, the pigeon would survive, but I would starve to death. What kind of virtue is that?"
Matthew was displeased. This eagle was so untactful. How dare he talk back to the Holy Mother when she had already invited him? Even if you starve to death, you'll still be able to earn something! At least you'll be able to go to heaven.
"I said to the eagle, I can't bear to let you starve. Why don't you cut off a piece of meat of the same weight from me in exchange for the pigeon's life?"
"Ah, no!" Matthew exclaimed unbearably, as if the Holy Mother was about to cut off a piece of meat in front of him.
The Holy Mother ignored him and continued, "The eagle found a scale and put the pigeon on one side of the scale. He asked me to put the meat on the other side."
"How dare you blaspheme the Holy Mother!" Old Matthew's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. He could not wait to pick up his sword and call for a holy war against the eagle.
"It's strange. The pigeon is small and not heavy, but I still couldn't balance the scale even after cutting off a lot of meat.
In the end, I jumped directly into the scale, and the left and right trays were finally balanced. I closed my eyes and said to the eagle, 'If I don't go to hell, who will? Eat me.' Then the eagle ate me. "
"That eagle is a demon. He should go to hell!" Archbishop Matthew almost fainted from anger.
He was just saying this out of anger, cursing Old Eagle. However, the Holy Mother nodded and sighed. "You're right, that Old Eagle is an evil god in the form of an eagle. He's quite famous in the East. You should have heard of him. "
Archbishop Matthew was stunned for a moment before he exclaimed, "Could it be the Harpy from Slave Bay?"
"Yes, I used to train in the Purple Bamboo Forest in the Andaros Mountains (the birthplace of the Andals and the Seven Gods). The Harpy ate my body, so I had no choice but to stay in the mountains for a hundred years to reform my divine body. During that time, I met little Hu Ge, "the Holy Mother said.
Matthew's body trembled as he said, "I see. So this is the origin of the Seven Gods that is not recorded in the Seven Stars Bible."
According to the Seven Stars Bible, the Seven Gods appeared in the Andaros Mountains in human form. The Heavenly Father plucked seven stars from the sky and placed them on the forehead of the first Andal King, Hu Ge, the King of the Hills, to form his crown. The maiden brought a young girl who was as slender as a willow and became Hu Ge's first wife. The Holy Mother made the young girl fertile, and she gave birth to forty-four excellent sons for Hu Ge, just as the old woman had predicted. The warriors gave the children strong arms, and the blacksmith made a set of armor for each of them.
The old monk was so excited that he felt like he had witnessed the birth of the Andal Kingdom and the Church of the Seven Gods.
"This kind of story should be recorded in the Seven Stars Bible!" he exclaimed.
Before today, all the monks of the Seven Gods only knew that the Seven Gods suddenly appeared and gave crowns and wives to the king of a small tribe in the Andaros Mountains, but they knew nothing about the cause and effect. It sounded like a made-up story.
Now, Matthew knew the truth.
He wanted to tell everyone that the story of the Seven Gods and Hu Ge, the King of the Hills, was not a made-up story. Everything had a cause and effect.
"Matthew, what enlightenment did you get from the story of 'cutting your own flesh and feeding it to the eagle?'" Danny the Virgin pulled Matthew back to reality.
"Enlightenment?" Matthew was stunned and carefully recalled the whole story. He wanted to say, Are you out of your mind, Virgin?
But Matthew must have had some experience since he became an archbishop. Connecting the dots, he understood that the Virgin was answering the question of "how to convert the demon into holiness."
"Only a fearless spirit of self-sacrifice can save the demon and convert the demon into holiness," he said awkwardly.
The Virgin did sacrifice herself, but it did not seem to work. She could not convert the harpy at all!
"You are not convinced." The Holy Mother saw through everything and sighed, "I did want to sacrifice myself to reform the Eagle Demon, but when I sacrificed myself, I only had pity for the Eagle Demon, and I didn't have the intention to reform the demon to achieve great results.
So, when the harpy ate my body but was still not enlightened, I had no hatred or unwillingness in my heart, only a deeper pity for her. "
Matthew's eyes widened, and he was deeply shocked.
Then, under the stunned gaze of Danny the Virgin, Matthew closed his eyes and fell into an epiphany. The surface of his soul rippled like water, and wisps of holy golden light came out from the depths of his soul.
This was the space of the faith of the seven gods, and Danny the Virgin used a telepathic thought to guide Matthew's soul here.
Now, Matthew's soul was undergoing a qualitative change that Danny did not understand.
Danny the Virgin hesitated.
There was no doubt that Matthew's soul was sublimating under the guidance of the Virgin.
But she had not finished her teaching yet. Should she continue?
The following story might allow Matthew to have a further epiphany, or it might break his current state.
Just as Danny the Virgin was hesitating, the golden light in Matthew's soul gradually faded.
Was the epiphany over?
Danny the Virgin immediately decided to continue the story of "the Virgin cutting her flesh and feeding it to the eagle!"
Whether Matthew's epiphany would be interrupted or not, she had to at least let her show off.
"What do you think?" Danny the Virgin asked.
Archbishop Matthew opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed in his eyes. He murmured, "Mercy comes out of pity, without the slightest utilitarianism. The satisfaction after doing good deeds and the expectation of the results after doing good deeds are utilitarian. That kind of mercy is not great mercy. "
"Very good. You have been enlightened by 30%." Danny the Virgin nodded with satisfaction. Then she asked gently, "Actually, the story of cutting her flesh and feeding it to the eagle is not over. There is a follow-up. Do you want to know?"
Matthew was shocked. He bowed piously and said, "Please teach me, Virgin."
"The white dove is also a demon. The reason why the harpy wanted to eat it was not because she wanted to eat the dove's flesh, but because the same kind of gods robbed each other of their divinity."
Danny the Virgin dropped a bomb, and Matthew was dizzy. He almost went from sublimation to depravity.
"Did you know before?" he asked bitterly.
"The Holy Father's eyes see the truth," the Virgin said faintly.
Matthew understood that the Virgin knew everything from the beginning. She knew that the white dove was a demon, and she also knew that the eagle was a demon.
The Holy Father's eyes could shine for thousands of miles and see through everything, but the Holy Father was the Virgin!
"If the demons kill each other, won't there be one less demon?" Matthew asked.
"One less demon, and a more powerful one will be born."
Matthew was silent.
"Do you know who the white dove is?" Danny the Virgin asked.
"Who is she?" Matthew asked.
"Where did the wife of Hu Ge, the King of the Hills, come from?" Danny the Virgin asked with a smile.
Matthew's soul trembled, and he said in disbelief, "There is a description in the Seven Stars Bible that the maiden (the maiden of the seven gods) brought a girl who was as slender as a willow. Her dark blue eyes were like deep pools.
This maiden became Hu Ge's first wife and gave birth to 44 excellent sons for him. "
"Could that maiden be …"
Danny the Virgin smiled and nodded. "That's right. She is the white dove. Great mercy is not only the cultivation of your own state of mind, but it will also bring more kindness and beauty to the world.
Cutting meat to feed the eagle did not convert the eagle demon, but the white dove was touched. She sincerely put down her butcher's knife and became a saint.
Therefore, the white dove was the first believer of the Church of the Seven Gods, and also the first saint.
After that, she followed me to learn the teachings of the seven gods, and gradually understood the fearless spirit of 'if I don't go to hell, who will?'
In order to help the humans in the chaotic world, the white dove voluntarily shed her demon body and started a second life as a human. After that, she married Hu Ge and spread my teachings to the Andals.
Even the first version of the Seven Stars Bible was compiled by the white dove. "
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