Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. With the official publishing of the Xyphokron, and of course, the writing of the Commentary on Xyphoist Philosophy, we are living through the rebuilding of scripture in real time—scripture based on Commentary of eras passed and realms separated. The writing in this scripture originally passed down orally and kept locked away in Realmly Truth awaiting its door to be unlocked through lesson. In time, on our planet and perspective, a collection of commentary will be assembled into one—more books from the philosophers of our time in the high levels of the Ordinances.

When compared to the scripture of other divergent philosophies, the foundation of establishment is in similar fashion of humankind making observations and demanding divine conclusions from their own words. In that light, the foundation of this Commentary is the same. However, per the nature of Xyphoist Philosophy, key differences begin to show between other forms of thought unrelated to the Order and the Order’s Commentary. Simply put, those of the Order and Ordinances recognize that these words written within the scripture, authored by those not of divinity and by the followers of the Ordinances and Order, are not Sacred, coveted, or necessarily cherished in regard to being considered part of the Sacred Land simply by themselves.

This commentary, specifically, is written by other humans making observations of the world and realm around us using Xyphoist understanding of it—picking apart and analyzing various circumstances and rooting out the reasons, if any, for them. Perhaps an incident of clear or clandestine meddling from Deceptuary, perhaps something is of Natural Development, a revelation about life through other pursuits; the options are endless. However, the constant truth that these revelations captured in written form from the followers of the Ordinance are important, intriguing, but not Sacred.

This includes the Xyphokron itself to an extent. The Xyphokron—consisting of one part written on the recount of the ongoing war between the Nine Lords of the Xyphokonic Order and Deceptuary by Daetos, and the remaining parts written as manuals and books elaborating of the initial recount of Daetos while be bolstered by advanced Realmly Knowledge from the Arch Hayles Grandurate—is a scripture that gives the root Truths and Knowledge of the Xyphokonic Order and its Philosophy. The delivery of this information had not come from revelation as the newfound Grandurates are Daetos Idols encoded with the Prophecy from long ago at the height of Deceptuary’s infiltration of Earth. In those despairing times, the remaining Xyphoites, already not holding obsessive worldly possession of symbol per the nature of the Philosophy, were given the Prophecy from the Hayles. Following, they were instructed to destroy any remaining symbols of Xyphoist origin as not to let it fall into the hands of Deceptuary’s forces and then corrupted, tainted, and maligned. The remaining Xyphoites then committed ritual suicide to ensure their reincarnation as Daetos Idols at the most crucial time of Deceptuary’s infiltration and aid in his inevitable defeat.

By acknowledging that timeline, the foundations of Xyphoist Philosophy were already well-established long before the infiltration of Deceptuary’s corruption and the ritual suicide of the Prophecy recipients. In every sense, the Sacred Message of Xyphoist Philosophy is encoded in all devote followers—all Zeigadii Xyphoites—belonging to the Order. Any written scripture or texts are simply that Sacred Message put into physical form—a means of encoding Realmly Truth in a form readily accepted but also freely ignored if wanton. In that sense, the Xyphokron is immaterial—existing as a Realmly Truth unbothered by the need for physical form—but properly kept for those who wish to discover this Realmly Knowledge on their own accord.

In other divergent beliefs, the action of destroying or damaging a holy text with malevolent intent would be an act of war, and offense to the believers, and an insult to whatever contrived divinity they picked for themselves. Xyphoists would look at this concept with a queer eye as a worldly obsession and possession of texts written by humankind claiming to be the knowledge of divinity. Regardless of the claims of divine origin, no one entity other than the divine themselves would or could rightfully claim such absurd power. Some divergent beliefs attempt to rectify this error by claiming the words came from beings of divinity spawned on Earth’s soil, yet this falls to fundamental error in itself: there is no definitive proof to such a claim of divinity nor has there been any such consequence for disregard to such claims that have fallen outside the reach or reign of humankind itself. In this reflection, a Xyphoist recognizes and accepts that, much alike the divergent beliefs, that a Xyphoist can claim words from beyond our human reach but not yet enforce those claims and subject them upon all of creation.

The liberties guaranteed by the Lords’ Will are the source of this conflict. The Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, in their creation of Naturalism, fully intended for natural divergence to take place. And in order for Natural Development and Free Will to function as attributes, the Lords gave the liberty of the Spirit and Soul to act in that freedom of belief and action. Xyphoist Philosophy does not attempt to subject said Philosophy on all, and none are expected or to be forced to follow it with the threat of divine or human-centered punishment. Combining that Philosophy with the lack of concern for holding symbol or scripture as Sacred, would mean that Xyphoists are not to think of the Xyphokron or any other scripture as holy or of a nature where destruction of a physical copy would mean an act of sin or of war in itself. The Xyphokron is an explanation of what is already known and existent; burning a copy of it is not an offense on its own.

That is one of many key differences between Xyphoist Philosophy and other divergent beliefs. Symbols and scriptures can never be truly “desecrated.” A person of opposition can burn a Xyphokron, malign and mock the imagery of the Lords, and other such petulant acts—very much in line with the petulance of the failed deity that most likely precedes it—and it would garnish nothing more than a disinterested scoff from the Xyphoists or the Ordinance, and practically ignored by the Order entirely. The stark difference in the perspective of worldly possession of symbol and texts marks the Xyphoist Philosophy as a stand-alone entity. There is no offense to these petulant acts, only silly disregard.

The attacking of the Sacred Lands, however, is a much different case. Sacred Lands, defined as any such designated area under the control of the Order for which Xyphoists can take Sanctuary and partake in Xyphoist practice, can be attacked in certain ways that would warrant a great offense and bring about a need for defense. These attacks fall in the line of spiritual, institutional, or physical acts against the Order and Ordinance. In short recount, spiritual war directly with the Order and Ordinance is already in effect between the Lords and Deceptuary, and any lower extension to that would also qualify. Institutional attacks, or using the power of an institutional or governmental entity for which Xyphoists existence under to undermine or outright deny or attack the rights thereof also qualifies. A government passing a law stating Xyphoists may not freely exist within their reign, that any practice shall to be prohibited, and the use of the institution of government to outright oppress Xyphoists is an affront to the Order and Ordinance is an attack on Sacred Lands. And finally, outright physical attack of any part of the Sacred Land is an immediate and clear affront. The destruction of Houses, the violence or killing of Xyphoists, and all other forms of aggressive oppression and purging are all cases of direct affronts to the Order and Ordinance where the philosophy of martial pacifism would take its place.

—phX, kyX, crX, jzX