Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We are nearing the end of this Period of Watching, and throughout this Period we’ve taken a reprieve from the more pressing topics of how evil is currently infesting our worlds at levels we have not seen before. As mentioned before, my colleagues have done a wonderful job thus far laying out how each Xyphozon plays a role in combatting this evil—as I covered my own dedicated Commentary on that focus at the start of this Xyphojinamic Calendar.

Today, we will end this Period by returning to that focus and turning our attention back to evil and its faults. The topic on hand for this Sacred Day, of course, shall still pertain to Death; we are still under Lord Vuetenexzyei’s watch after all. We will discuss how the major divergent and theigrited philosophies fear the eternal reality of Death and have that fear embedded in their philosophies.

We’ll start by reiterating, if not apparent, that under the Xyphoist Philosophy, Death is Eternal. This is an unquestioned reality; mortals will die and be capable of dying regardless of what any and all circumstances or conditions placed upon them. Deceptuary believed, through the use of his vessels, that he would become immortal. He believed he truly was unable to be killed through the combination of his multiple vessels and his deity-class spirituality protecting them. The Lords, of course, saw through that plan before it was even hatched, and created the Nine Incarnates through a process Deceptuary could not replicate—thus making all his vessels acutely vulnerable to Death and done so without his ever being aware of the fact until it was too late.

From this, along with Deceptuary’s general fear of fading from existence, led him to purposely influence the philosophies that follow his whim to focus on eternal life even in death. The original theigrited philosophy does avoid the intense focus on eternal life after death and spends more time focusing on proximal ethnic priorities; this was one of the many reasons Deceptuary had essentially forsaken them as his chosen blood warriors and purposely orchestrated two newer factions that would, as time would tell, become increasingly hostile to the existence of the original followers of Deceptuary’s false identity on Earth.

Those later two theigrited philosophies, created by Deceptuary’s direct involvement, were spawned specifically to conduct the most harmful and violent of his whims upon mortal kind. In doing so, the followers tasked with that job were promised some form of eternal reward or eternal life by following those whims. In many ways, it has caused a decline in the finality of Death or the empathy for the deaths of those that aren’t proximal to them. Through the crusades, forced conversions, conquering, and other subsequent atrocities committed in the name of religious indulgence, the complete lack of empathy for the liberties or lives of other coupled with the belief that those actions were justified through their own beliefs is a clear indication of Deceptuary’s influence. To him, the deaths of nonbelievers is negligible at best and deserved at worst, and to the continuation of his own existence at all costs is the only thing that matters. This belief is then spread through his orchestrated philosophies on Earth: conquer and kill in the name of Deceptuary and you shall be given eternal life and reward.

In contrast to the Xyphoist Philosophy, doing quite literally all of those things will lead to Divine Punishment through the various Immoral Acts or Great Acts of Theigritry. Likewise, Terms in Heaven are also not eternal, as the Heavenly Dream fades into bliss before the soul eventually is cast back into the spectrum. Sacred Spirituality, or becoming in angel, requires one to cast aside their Self for that Angelic status, and thus is not an eternal self-serving existence. Truly, the only things in the Xyphoist Philosophy that are eternal from our perspective are Divine Punishment and Death. This is an intentional design of the Lords, as the Cosmic Flow requires Death, and because the theigrited energy inflicting damned souls is part of Deceptuary and is required to be brought back to the Core of existence to rebalance it.

In conclusion, Deceptuary’s fear, as per usual, is the core influence to why the divergent philosophies that follow him also fear Eternal Death and wish to cling to a everlasting life.

—crX, jzX