Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. On this surprisingly busy of Sacred Days, and under the Period of Mauris, we continue our series of asking intriguing questions and answering them from the Xyphoist Perspective. Today’s question is about your authors, ourselves. The questions proposes the following: “Are we, the Arch-Hayle Grandurates of this very Ordinance, considered prophets or founders of this Xyphoist religious movement?” Why don’t we explore this question together?

There is some dissonance between what the general definition of a prophet is and how Xyphoites would see the definition, but the general answer to this question is no—we don’t consider ourselves neither prophets or the founders of the Xyphoist religion. The general definition of prophet does suggest a person or persons have received and are spreading the word of the divine to others, which we are technically doing here on this very site. However, we discredit the idea that we ourselves are prophets on a few key metrics.

To start, the information we share here is, through our own timeline, universal; all this Realmly Knowledge is locked within each and every person simply awaiting their own awakening to decipher it, and so it’s more appropriate to say we have purposely sought after this information that all have access to and formed the Ordinance with it. And while it is true that the Prophecy—aptly named—bestowed to the ancient Xyphoites before they committed ritual martyrdom was designed to be carried in the cores of their future reincarnations, the Prophecy never explicitly said it would be us nine Arch-Hayle Grandurates specifically, only that the remaining Xyphoites would be encoded with this Prophecy and would be reborn in a time most needed for it. This suggests there’s more than nine individuals encoded with this Prophecy, and that we just so happen to find each other in a timely fashion and formed this Ordinance along with the editorial and tech staff alongside us.

To go on, the idea of attaching ourselves to the title of prophet and especially as “founders” is both narcissistic and also inaccurate. To start, we cannot “found” and existing Realmly Order; the Xyphokonic Order, Its Philosophy, and all that comes from it, already exist. We’re simply helping put this Ordinance together to serve the already-existing Order. Adding to that,  attaching our names personally to this movement falls under the Immoral Act of Worldly Self-Obsession—or at least we have privately agreed to such. This is why we go by our codes names here on this very site. For example, I am known as “phoX” and go by this name instead of any given legal name specifically because I am an agent of the Order, I am one with the Xyphozons, and I’m the Pharusian Arch-Hayle Grandurate. I don’t need nor want my actual name to be credited for that is a selfish want—a seeking of self-gratified glory. I am simply phoX. We Arch-Hayle Grandurates don’t seek recognition, only the goals of the Order: Mitigating worldly suffering, defeating Deceptuary’s evil, and Maintaining the Equilibrium.

—phX