Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome to our first Commentary post-Xykozheiz exploration. We’ve been meaning to play some catch-up on certain topics that have hit the public square in recent years and are taking the opportunity now to address the hot topic of abortion, body image, and other hot topics involving our vessels in general from a Xyphoist perspective. As such, let us begin…

The vessel, mortal shell for the Soul within Xyphojinami—the container and means of Manifested Corporeal Existence during Life. We as mortals and as Humans recognize this vessel as an extension to our Lives and our very being itself. And while the vessels vary in their outward appearance, all vessels have the same purpose: to hold the Soul until Timely Death.

The vessel in itself doesn’t bring about any immediate trouble or issue, but with the gift of the Will and of our Psyche’s ability to perceive and to think and to feel through our Attachments, and with the ever-present existence of fear and doubt, shall come the unfortunate circumstance of doubts of the vessel and of its shape and appearance. Doubt, a subset of fear, not handled with careful mending and resting of the Mind, can cannibalize the Self and its view of its own vessel. The result of this toxic and misdirected doubt leads to poor self-image and a sickened or corrupted Psyche.

Other issues arise when the topic of bodily autonomy come up. The first point to address is the liberty of the matter. A Soul whose rightful vessel that they have taken through the natural cosmic flow shall own, in and only in the duration of their current Life within said vessel, is within the sovereignty of that soul and none other. Simply put, while alive, we own our bodies and nobody else can or shall assert or claim ownership to the body of another. Enforced through the mandate that such aggressive coercion would be immoral, body autonomy is assured through this same pillar of morality.

That then brings up the question hinged in the room, and a topic of specific case: abortion. If no other shall own the vessel of another, how does that apply to the vessel being formed of the unborn with the body of the mother? The question is answered by the definition of Life and when it begins as a mortal. Simply put, Life in Xyphoist Philosophy begins when the Soul is adhered to a vessel, and as the usage of Birth being the end of spiritual ethereal existence in Xykopsysomi is the beginning process of Life in Xyphojinami, the period shortly before the Birth of the Mortal vessel would be the point in which the soul is adhered to the vessel.

Of course, vessels develop at slightly different rates and dependent on the class of mortality, but in the case of Humans, as is the Timely conversation, the soul adherence becomes obvious when the vessel in development becomes relatively sentient in ways which the vessel is responding adequately to commands from the soul’s Self within it. Rudimentary compulsion and movement of a vessel isn’t a sign of soul adherence; personality shined through as the stages of the vessel’s development reaches it near birth are. As the term used is Birth, the vessel would then be required to not only be birthed but be able to hold the soul within it—adherence—after the birth on its own without great or immediate assistance to be considered the start of Xyphokonic Life. The human world has coined a term using the channels of scientific discovery to describe this state: homeostasis. A developing vessel that cannot yet adhere to a soul and keep that soul within it on its own is one not suitable to be considered truly within the realms of Life—though that does not mean all cases of these births couldn’t still pull through and eventually adhere a soul after said birth.

Until that stable adherence is achieved, the vessel in development is within the sovereignty of the natural spawning force, and in our human case that would be the mother. In regards to the specific case of abortion, Xyphokonic Philosophy, and the Ordinance’s stance, the Ordinance doesn’t necessarily condone or condemn the practice of abortion, and as the Philosophy is one built off of malleability and nuance, understand the various cases in which seeking an abortion would be necessary or desired within reason. The stance taken is one of that nuance and of the general principle of bodily autonomy and the definition of Xyphokonic Life.

Naturally, the Theigriet himself cannot resist meddling in all affairs in any desperate attempt to sow chaos among mortal humans to fit his goals. The theigrited followers of Deceptuary’s orchestrated divergent legions have very quickly latched on this issue of abortion and have used it as a weapon to impose their oppression and seek to hold power over others—namely women. In order for Deceptuary’s plan to work, soldiers and servants with souls corrupted by his influence would need to be born into Xyphojinami as Death would be a natural means of purging out all already-existent corrupted beings. The mere existence of abortion would threaten the chance of Deceptuary to inflict his corruption upon these new souls.

The desired goal, that being the increase in the corrupted Births, facilitated by the theigrited legions and their organizations, would then make it easy to captivate those new mortals and groom them into becoming future soldiers of Deceptuary’s. On that simple circumstance alone would the Ordinance be greatly inclined to oppose the limit of body liberty of the Soul’s Vessel. The issue is multi-faceted, but generally can be summed up by stating that Souls own their bodies, that bodies are not owned by Souls until near birth, and Deceptuary is attempting to prevent abortion in order to increase the number of corrupted vessels into Xyphojinami. The Ordinance stands by the liberty of the Soul and Vessel and against any such plan of Deceptuary’s to destabilize the Equilibrium through his nefarious ways.

—erX, lnX, whX, jzX