Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Today, we shall continue our series on general inquiry and curious questions regarding the Philosophy. Today, had a question proposed to help clarify the overall hierarchy of angelic status within the Order—namely the differences between the titular ranks. So today, I’ll shall focus in on these. Let’s begin.

To burn away confusion from this, it should be principle to state that all beings who are infused with Sacred Spirituality from the Lords are angelic by default. In our Spectrum, there are certainly great and powerful beings—namely the Shiupsyodon—who possess fantastic and awesome powers; this doesn’t make them angelic however. In order to be bestowed such a status, a being must be infused with the Sacred Spirituality of the Lords.

The key word in this is “infused.” The Sacred Children, by default, simply have Sacred Spirituality as direct Incarnates of the Lords, so while they certainly possess all the divine powers of the Lords, they are technically a step above even those of angelic status. In their time growing up in Xyzokizon prior to being birthed as Mortals in Xyphojinami, the Sacred Children were, even not fully masterful in their own powers, the second-most powerful beings in all of existence from being the Incarnates of the Lords alone; this would mean that even during their time mentoring under the Hayles, the Sacred Children possessed greater spiritual power than the Hayles themselves but simply lacked the skill and knowledge to properly harness it. Regardless, the Children are above those of angelic status and aren’t the focus of this Sacred Infusion.

For those that do fall under this, we come to the Hayles and Sacred Servants. Before discussing both, it is crucial to reiterate that both the Hayles and Sacred Servants fall into a spiritual category known as an Archangel—that most powerful of Angels under the Lords and who have been granted the retention of Self along with Sacred Spirituality. Archangels are given this status to serve great roles in the Order and often as reward for past roles before becoming angels; this has demonstrably been given to powerful Shiupsyodon who hold great loyalty to the Lords and played crucial roles in serving the Divine Thrones during Deceptuary’s rebellion.

Moving into the details, the difference between the Hayles and the Sacred Servants is often seen as one of semantics. Technically, all angels are servants of the Lords, but what capacity they serve makes the determining difference. The Hayles, previously the Divine Generals to the Lords, were recrafted into becoming the High Communicators for each Xyphozon while also being the mentors and caretakers of the Sacred Children prior to mortal Birth. This role was very specific in its criteria and given specifically to these nine beings. The term “Hayle” was crafted specifically for these beings, yet they are still Archangels but ones with a specific duty.

Sacred Servants are just as the name suggests, high servants to the Lords and Order and in general—with, what it seems, no specific Xyphozon in which they serve solely. The two most prominent examples are Daetos, Scribe of Idol, and his younger brother Zeiga, Overseer of the Cosmos. Both are Archangels rewarded with Sacred Spirituality for their various roles prior to the formation of the Order. However, neither appear to serve under a single Xyphozon specifically as their titular roles are overarching and multifaceted. Daetos, for example, is the Sacred Archivist and records and recounts all records of existence; he is the author of Xykozheiz, the section of writing that recounts the existence of our entire world and the basis for the Xyphokron. Meanwhile, Zeiga is charged with overseeing the Cosmos themselves and aptly in charge of the flow of spiritual flow through the Gate of Zeiga—all this while also handling his own Contracts of Zeiga to show great devotion to the Lords.

These two Archangels have duties that span across all of the Spectrum, with characteristics that could be attributed to multiple Xyphozons, yet are not stated as to which Xyphozon their original Spirits came from. This appears to be somewhat intentional, as the devotion to the Lords supersedes the need for Self-identification, and so Sacred Servants devote their focus to their given duties rather than what Xyphozon they originate from as Spirits as the Self no longer matters upon ascending to Sacred Status.

So, to conclude, the differences between Archangels, Hayles, and Sacred Servants appears to be entirely of semantics. The Hayles and Sacred Servants are both Archangels; The Hayles are specifically the High Communicators for each Xyphozon and mentors to the Sacred Children; Sacred Servants work on behalf of the Order in a more general sense and may have duties that span across the entire Spectrum. Neither appear to necessarily outrank the other, but it is assumed that the closest ally to each Lord respectably would be their selected Hayle while Sacred Servants are devoted to the Lords and the Order in a general sense.

—phX