In the book "A Christian Pilgrim in India" the author (not the main character) claims that the different world religions are not different descriptions of the same higher reality, but that the religions have created the universes they inhabit. I partially disagree with this, as you can see from my earlier entries (which, of course, I wrote right before reading that.)
Rather I would say that higher worlds are different and imperfect emanations of an even higher reality. As I said poetically, even the heavens have heavens. These worlds being imperfect follows naturally from us being able to settle them so easily. So we discover something higher and we settle it. Each of the religions has settled a different higher world, which existed only as potential until humans colonized it and "hollowed it out" from the primordial ether of potentiality. Of course the different cultures that settled these worlds made their mark on them.
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