Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. It is the Caishon period of Auvriile, so we will be covering a short series of topics regarding the Xyphoist Principle of Practice.

To recap, Xyphoist Practice is acting upon Xyphoist Philosophy and Xyphoist Prayer to enact tangible impacts to the goals of the Order. We actually Practice what we preach (without the preaching part, of course; that would be immoral except within Sacred Grounds). The very core of what we are supposed to do as Xyphoites is to put philosophy into action to help Maintain the Equilibrium. So this series will talk about a few actions we as Xyphoites should take in our daily lives—both as individuals and as a community—that will reflect on our philosophy and work towards those goals; this will be a period-long series. Let’s start.

This week’s Prayer w/ Practice Discussion (as we’ll call it) is on the topic of wealth, whether it is moral to accumulate it, and what wealth represents or what should be done with excesses of it. Now, without dragging in the greater arguments that are crippled by politics, the act of acquiring wealth itself is not immoral. In fact, in terms of what Xyphoist Philosophy calls of us to do, acquiring wealth can be a part of our overall goals.

To work from the back to the front, in our world, money and wealth are measurements of tangible power in one respect or another; people use money to project their power over their own lives or on others. We are a pragmatic bunch, and understand that in order to run our goals here on this planet, we are going to have to use many of the tools available to us to obtain those goals. However, the Self is always a pesky problem with obtaining any kind of tangible power; Hubris is always present in the Human buildup. It’s important to remember acquiring wealth cannot be of obsessive greed or selfishness, as both may fall into the sin of Worldly Obsession.

So, how would acquiring wealth NOT be greedy? When the intended goal is to use the vast majority of the excess to mitigate worldly suffering—the Ordinance’s goal. We cannot depend on the governments of our world to use the wealth they collect to do this goal, so we must take matters into our hands both as an Ordinance through our humanitarian wing and funneled through our individuals Houses of Worship and global communities but also on an individual level.

A single person or family that may have acquired great wealth can use much of the excess to help mitigate the suffering of others. It wouldn’t be uncommon for a wealthy Xyphoite to hear of a tragic situation of another—perhaps a story goes viral of a child who needs a life-saving surgery but cannot afford it and the family is asking for help—the wealthy Xyphoite will make a quiet, anonymous donation of excess height to either help or cover the costs without bankrupting themselves naturally. The key is that the donation is as quiet and anonymous as possible; we have NO interest in “promoting our brand” which is the sin of Proselytizing and Preaching unwantedly. We encourage all wealthy Xyphoites to do actions like these to mitigate suffering. That is the action of Practice with Prayer.

On a community level, the Ordinance’s entire goal, many of the current goals listed on our sister website, are to mitigate worldly suffering through the same means only magnified. We hope to collect donations and take part of the profits from the sale of the Xyphokron to begin work on the Sacred Hill Project. This can be done both by any secular organizations we either father ourselves or work in conjunction with, but also from the internal community of Xyphoites who are part of the Ordinance through established Houses of Worship. Benefit events will be organized to raise money for specific causes, local or abroad, in the goals of mitigating worldly suffering caused by Deceptuary’s infusing of corruption in our world. These actions are what Maintain the Equilibrium, and are crucial to be enacted along with our more religious Prayer and time spent thinking and discussing philosophy.

This series of posts are both a layout but also a call to action to those who believe in our Philosophy and would like to truly act upon it. This month-long series is ALL about ACTION. We ask that you, if within great wealth, ACT upon it and help the less fortunate who are going through suffering they didn’t bring upon themselves.

—ruX