Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We join here again to continue our general discussion involving the topic of Spiritual Ends and the concept of Death. This week, we move away from our focus on current events and move into a more scholarly explanation of how the divine attribute of Spiritual Ends manifest in the Realm of Xykopsysomi. Let us begin.

As we know, in our greater realm of Xyphojinami—the Realm of Mortals—Spiritual Ends manifest as the process of Death; our corporeal vessel fails to hold onto the soul for various reasons determined by Nature, the Soul is let go, and baring any unfortunate suffering, will move onto the Afterlife. That is the Xyphoist definition of Death. The Philosophy dictates that Death must take place in order to keep spirituality moving in the Cosmic Cycle.

This then would mean that the same would take place in Xykopsysomi, naturally. We know the process of Birth comprises of Spirits passing into Xyphojinami after being mortalized—having their spirit condensed into a soul and then having that soul be placed into a mortal vessel. But Birth is a process of Spiritual Beginnings, not Ends. So, what is the equivalent of Death in Xykopsysomi? The answer is the process known as Spiritual Perishing. It works in a similar manner. While it is true that spirits tend to exist for comparatively longer spans of time than mortals, spirits will eventually perish. The main factor that determines when a spirit will perish is the level of spiritual resonance a spirit possesses; that means that spirits with high or great levels of spirituality have extensively higher longevity. The best example of this are Shiupsyodon, great spirits with such spiritual power they often control whole pocket dimensions and have legions of lesser spirits as followers. These great spirits can exist for eons given their powerful status, and are often slain by other great spirits instead of perishing naturally by time.

The process of perishing is more rudimentary than the process of Death seeing as no corporeal vessel is present in spirits. In much the same way that things in our world wither and fade, spiritual perishing works the same way. The longer a spirits exists, the more it shall shed its ethereal composition until eventually, the spirit ceases to maintain its own consciousness. Upon perishing, a spirit will then enter the stage where the determination of next Pathans occurs. Most spirits shall perish, be mortalized, and be Birthed as new souls in Xyphojinami. However, certain spirits will succumb to different fates. Dauharouki, for example, are simply cycled within the eternal darkness of Daurzarc; Neishirans similarly perish within Supreme Light, but are not recycled and simply form into new beings from that same light. Cario Lordes, however, suffer a different fate. As spirits that have either been corrupted or have failed to properly form as normal spirits, upon their end, they are ripped asunder and parts of their remaining spiritual resonance are exiled into Gheisialez.

So, as we can see, Perishing and Death are parallels. Each are a type of Spiritual End, and both occur to keep spirituality flowing between the two major existential realms of the Spectrum.

—crX