Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We rejoin here in this space to continue our discussion involving the topic of Spiritual Ends and our current point in the Cosmic Struggle. As it currently stands, we spoke of the Death of Empathy in the previous entry, and today we shall continue that general trend and talk about the Death of Knowledge in our current reality. Let us begin.

To briefly explain, we speak of the Death of Knowledge in terms of how we, humanity as a whole, have suffered under the plague of ignorance brought upon by Deceptuary’s wickedness. Simply put, the Tale of the Old Flame’s ultimate lesson is the reality that we face currently as the Theigriet poisons our reality with his influence. We, as mortals, are given untold amounts of Realmly Knowledge, and are told that these Truths we hold can be tools to our benefit. Instead, through the Hubris of Humanity, we have taken the Old Flame and have set aflame the lands we live upon. We have burned our homes, we have torched our crops, we have immolated our loved ones, and we have reduced our hopes to ash.

This, as expected, is part of Deceptuary’s depraved hopes; he desires a hopeless, helpless, and ignorant populous—one easily controlled and easy to garnish worship from. He hopes we fall into such a desperate and fearful despair that the only hope we could ever have is to worship whatever depraved form he wishes to morph into. It is for this reason that you see the rejection of questions and knowledge other than his words within the various theigrited philosophies that operate under his guise. The archaic edicts of the “tree of knowledge” and the taking of the “forbidden fruit” being acts of “sin,” or why questioning “the plan” or the one who supposedly proports it are blasphemy in the eyes of many theigrited philosophies.

This is entirely the opposite within the Xyphoist Philosophy, and that is almost exactly the point of these Commentaries. We are here to have discussion and to expand upon Knowledge. My colleague Phox almost always spends their two Periods asking questions rather than doing official Commentary specifically to provoke fresh thoughts, to challenge even the Philosophy itself, to seek out new answers and see how they align with our reality, the Cosmic Struggle, and the Philosophy.

We also always add that these teachings are held within this Sacred Ground, and that we shall never assert them as Truths that all must adhere to or believe in. As you have perhaps noticed, while we do have a very small social media presence online, we aren’t going around advertising ourselves. We did not advertise the release of the Xyphokron outside of this space even though it would’ve increased both the sales and the spread of the Philosophy. We post virtually to only our followers on social media and have no intention of pestering people.

This is, obviously so among these circles, because of the Immoral Action of Proselyting.—it’s against our Philosophy to do so. And while that certainly makes it more difficult to fight the spread of willful ignorance, it is a part of the liberties that we all enjoy to not be bothered by preaching pulpits. The spreading of Truth is a desirable outcome, but what we fight against most is the spreading of falsehoods.

This is where the Death of Knowledge falls into this discussion. As Rux has also mentioned, under Yrridthmas, we are allowed to verbally speak out against the spread of lies spread by Deceptuary’s influence. Part of our duties now in the Ordinance is not to preach our Philosophy, but to point out the faults and hypocrisy in Deceptuary’s various ramblings. As we speak, lies are being set up in our reality that we know aren’t true, and it is of the upmost importance that we hold true to the Truths we see and to dispel such lies.

—crX, phX