Greetings, fellow followers and all interested readers, back to the Order and Ordinance. We join here again to continue our various musings and loose discussions regarding the various angles and stages of Lord Nakndes’s Nature. We’ve been marveling at Nature’s beauty and hidden aspects and even looked at its outward warnings. Today, we will move past the thorn and, much like the intuitive Niinkisia, onto pricking it to understand the true power of Nature’s rule; this is quite fitting on such a beautiful but stormy Sacred Day. We shall talk about the wrath of Nature, both in its natural cycles, but also upon those that hold such Hubris that they seek to conquer or best Nature. Let us begin, shall we?

Nkes, the great Hayle of Lord Nakndes, warns us well enough throughout Niinkisia’s Sacred Lesson about the true role and raw power that Nature hides behind its verdant and meditative beauty. We shall walk the path of Niinkisia together in this one, and purposely prick the thorn of the cherished flower so that we may truly understand the wrath of Nature.  The thorn gives us clear warning, and is intentional in its design, yet we act in our audacity and decide to touch it anyway. Immediate pain, a wince, and blood drawn are the results. Our teacher lightly chides and mocks us for our action, inquiring cheekily if we did so to test the premise. As it turns out, we did, just as Niinkisia had. Nature has, within its spirit, the power to punish the arrogant and the unknowledgeable, as all these Sacred Lessons work in tandem as all the Xyphozons work as a single body of organs.

We look at human examples, the poisoning of our water systems result in the ecological deaths of needed vegetation or organism chains. Our climate becoming destabilized from our lack of care of this green and providing Earth in exchange for malpractice of growth. The bleaching of our coral reefs, the draining of the Aral Sea, the building of massive world-changing dams that eventually break to the sheer flow of Mother Nature’s tears. We witness the lifeblood of water leave the rivers in the Mojave or the Nile, we see the sands of the Sahara consume the edges into the Savannas, the extreme heat that dries the life in the equilateral deserts, the calamitous floods of the mountains in western Asia, and the ravenous storms that rock the Caribbean and Americas. The plagues spawned that tear human populations into shreds, and the chilling arctic winds that leave their homes and bring stasis to regions they otherwise would not be. In the same light, we see the homes of those cold winds warm and vegetate at the expense of the beasts that need those chills to survive.  This is the wrath of Nature, and its sheer power from the trifling of its Cosmos inflict an immeasurable punishment of mass effect upon that entity that grows passed its own ego. Whether it be human or not, Nature will correct that which seeks to overrun the Creating Force.

In milder and more Natura cycles, the Force of Nature has  forces that seek its own renewal, and these forces may be seen as destructive to us mortals.  The storms bring ruin to our habitats and to our lives, but they replenish the waters we drink and feed the plants we eat. The wildfires burn indiscriminately across our establishments, but they renew the soils and open the cones and reform the new stage for a new generation of Natural belongings. The high winds spread pollen and rebirth Nature’s verdancy, the diseases cull the numbers that grow beyond their own means. The web of life balances itself through Natural Force; and Nature is the rule-maker of all of these processes.

So, to purposely prick the thorn, as Niinkisia has done, is to understand the difference between Natural Force and Nature’s Retribution. Lord Nakndes’s beloved Child pricks his finger to seek insight on what Hubris looks and feels like, and he uses that insight to know when to act upon his divine role to usher in Nature’s corrections and to protect that which seeks the thorn. We can follow in his example, and it is the duty of the Ordinance and its followers to do so. We shall work to protect these resources, to save these pollinators, to shield these reefs, and to preserve this verdant gift we all sit on and are subject to. We shall do this not for our own self-preservation, but for the equilibrium of all. The suffering of the innocent caused by the Hubris of the arrogant will set fractures in the Spectrum that the Cosmos will right through Nature’s Wrath. We can avoid these consequences by preventing the pricking of the thorn in the first place—as we can not only infer its power but have now pricked ourselves to decipher its wrath without any doubt. That is one of many goals of the Ordinance, and it is the lesson of “Natural Rebirth” that Hayle Nkes teaches; she is less merciful than the rule-making Lord, after all. Lord Nakndes creates the Nature and establishes its rules, but it is Nkes that appropriates its thorns and teaches of its ultimate power, and it is the Child Niinkisia that demonstrates how we are to act in accordance with Nature’s gifts.

So on this Sacred Day, we should go beyond observing the power of the storm and the strike of its lightning and understand that Nature shall always rebirth itself, but it shall eradicate that which flows against its creating power. With every awe-striking strike of lighting, we must acknowledge that even a single strike can reduce us to lifeless carbon, and that we know that we are pieces of a greater cosmic web that we must all work to preserve and respect. With that said, have a insightful and introspective rest of your Sacred Day.

—lnX