Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We start our first Commentary of this Zeptimasuer Period on the topic of Divine Punishment—the Kurakkuian attribute of judgement for immoral acts and theigritism. We will go over how Punishment is defined, what the different consequences for immorality and theigritism bring, and the origins of Punishment as an attribute to begin with. Let’s begin.

Punishment, in Xyphoist Philosophy, is defined as retribution administered on a divine level for immoral acts committed. This, in short, means that Divine Punishment (as the name suggests) is solely the power of the divine beings of the Xyphokonic Order—specifically Lord Kurakku. For this very reason, the Immoral Act of Self-Righteous Punishment exists, whereas anyone outside of the Lords themselves attempting to punish others based of morality shall themselves be punished in return for overstepping this authority on the issue.

Punishment for sinful actions is determined based off two major categories: Immoral Actions and Theigritism. Going thorough, immoral actions themselves constitute grounds for both Divine Punishment and Cosmic Retribution with both often going hand-in-hand. When talking about immorality, we first should talk about the status of being corrupted, tainted and evil. Mentioned in an earlier Commentary, corruption is the force spawned from Deceptuary that causes all acts of destabilization and immorality. A bastardized form of the original Divergency, corruption prompts beings to become unbalanced themselves and commit immoral acts; therefore, the status of being corrupted is to be inflicted with Deceptuary’s meddlesome force.

Those who are corrupted and committing sins are considered tainted, and the intentional application of all these statuses together is the state of being evil. Regardless, the willful decision to commits acts of such nature without reflecting and accepting the consequences will result in Punishment. Putting aside the added variable of theigritism for a moment, committing immoral actions, especially pathologically, will result in either Cosmic Retribution of the waves and, upon the end of a form of spiritual existence, being cast immediately into the outer region of Gheisialez to rot away painfully until the sinner ceases to exist. This is the general Punishment for immoral actions not attached to theigritism.

Great Acts of Theigritism, immoral actions attached directly to that of the Theigriet, warrant a more tailored Punishment. Those theigrits who have committed these actions are themselves infused with the evil of Deceptuary himself—having given the sovereignty of their spirits to Deceptuary and allowing his Will to overtake them—shall be sent to a section of Terigath known simply as Hell. These theigrits, being infused with theigrited corruption, must be sent to Hell, where the dark blue and cold flames of Terigath’s Hell will slowly purge the theigrited energy from the spirit itself. This process, however, is not swift nor painless. Deceptuary’s corruption attaches itself to the Self of beings in a parasitic relationship, and as such, the Azure Flames were created by Lord Kurakku specifically to purge the Self from the Spirit and take the corruption with it. Originally created to lock away corruption before and during Deceptuary’s first rebellion, Lord Kurakku’s Azure Flames now serve to chamber all theigritism within the tombs of Hell.

Deceptuary’s evil attaches itself to the Self of a being, and it is that Self that is actually imprisoned in Hell. The Self, the embodiment of the person previously, along with the theigrited energy fused to it, will forever be kept in Terigath’s Hell in its own chamber. For the rest of eternity, the corrupted Self will be burned by the Azure Flames and face every imaginable suffering and torture in this eternal sentence—never knowing the pleasure of growing tired or having relief again. The remaining spirituality now purged of Self and corruption is then scattered back into the spectrum as all spiritualities are eventually.

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