How does Master Shengyuan understand the Three-Headed, Six-Armed Third Prince, and is this the same as fiction and films?

Three heads and six arms can be understood as a deity having more strength and more ways to help. I have discussed different interpretations of this form. We cannot take only one and decide exactly what each arm must represent.

Sheng Zhen Men already worshipped the Marshal of the Central Altar. Later, while handling religious matters, I perceived the Third Prince with three heads and six arms and felt this martial form closely connected with our work of confronting negative forces and helping people. Dao Xuan, beside me, saw my movements without knowing which deity was involved. That observation and my own perception were different parts of the experience.

Only after later seeing a statue with which I felt a connection, and going through bodily sensations and divination over a period, did I decide to invite it for worship. I regard these events as my connection with the deity. They do not mean everyone's arm pain signals a deity asking them to buy a statue. Novels and films also depict three heads and six arms. We can enjoy their stories without treating every plot detail as a basis for spiritual practice.