Welcome all back to the Order and Ordinance! We’re back on this second Sacred Day under Lord Kyaien’s Golden Light. Last time we introduced the concept of Joy in conjunction with Her Majesty’s attributes. We celebrated the sheer power of Joy in Life, and I mentioned we could use that Commentary to help shine light on how Joy can be used to combat evil, corruption, and suffering. We’re going to start with the power of the joyous connections and bonds we form throughout life and how they can be used to fight against evil.  Let’s start!

We’ll begin with once again returning to the triad of key beings of the Kyaius Xyphozon and of the Xyphozons in general. As explained before in these Commentaries, the beaming relationship among Lord Kyaien, Hayle Giheo, and Sacred Child Zinigeosia is the perfect example to bring up. We’ve remarked before that Lord Kyaien absolutely adores Her Child, and passes on that glorious love on to Zinigeosia.

Likewise, backtracking to Hayle Giheo’s legacy, she was once an ancient spirit who was known for mothering all newly-formed spirits in a much more primordial age of the Divine Thrones, and was so legendary that she was named by others as the “Motherly Spirit.” So, it goes without saying that Giheo already had an incredible nurturing and loving power within her that was only amplified upon full ascension to angelhood. These three beings demonstrate an unbreakable and Sacred bond that directly comes from that Greater Will of Love that the Order is built on.

Moving out from there, we can just take a general look at the entire Order and the nine Xyphozons in general. This is a undivided and eternal union of divinity and love. These Xyphozons act as organs of a single divine body, and despite their vast coverage of attributes, all coordinate and connect to each other. The Sacred Children grew up among these nine Xyphozons together; they would cross into each other’s realms and interact and play and learn and grow together. The Hayles, many of whom knew each other prior to the creation of the Order, also cross those boundaries to coordinate and discuss and share with each other at their Lords’ behest.

Among these nine Xyphozons, as you can see, the bond is unbreakable. And I highlight this because we, as mortals, can mirror these bonds ourselves to fight off corruption and evil. There’s nothing would strike fear in Deceptuary’s decrepit spirit more than the sight of a unified Order and other adjacent forces against his pitiful evil. Speaking of just the Order and Ordinance itself, our prayer is uniform and also still vibrantly diverse. We have many customs and traditions and themes and music, but they all point to a single light and to a single Love. Building a strong and powerful community based around not only our shared ideals and Philosophy but around our collective Compassionate and Devotional Love is the direct antidote to Deceptuary’s evil and malevolence.

But mortals don’t have to stop there. In general, building communities based on Love and unbreakable bonds forms an ironclad defense against corruption. We can see bonds form to hold communities together against oppression—especially oppression that directly comes from Deceptuary’s dubious orchestration. This can be along ethnic lines, social lines, or even spiritual and religious lines, such as the Ordinance itself. Either way, the point is that building strong community bonds and working together allows people to better organize and fight against corruption.

We can zoom in a bit more and talk about the family unit. Much like the divine and Sacred heritages of the Lords and their Children, our families too should be built on unbreakable and loving bonds. When it comes to parenting, the Xyphoist Philosophy’s Doctrine of Love dictates that the parents shall love their children unconditionally, and raise them with that very set of virtues.

We, as Xyphoites and as parents, shall love our children and teach them to love others who choose to love this world and themselves. We shall respect our children’s Free Will and protect their Spiritual Liberties until they can grow old enough to do that themselves and for their children too. We shall remember the empathy of another Sacred Child, Hubrakiuosia, and always have empathy and sympathy for our Children and teach them to hold those same compassionate virtues. Forming bonds based on Love and its various forms creates a powerful charm that Deceptuary will fail to defeat or break.

At this point, it should be clear that Deceptuary lacks Love, and he lacks Joy. The Joy we receive from our bonds is something he does not understand or possess as all of his apostles and most devote followers seek his power out of fear, hubris, greed, envy, hatred, and insanity. There is no loyalty among corrupt forces; they only seek out malignant opportunism. Love is a foreign concept to evil and is replaced with malevolence and fear.

So if you’re ever confused how some people can be so cruel or steeped so deeply in their corruption, just know that without Love and Joy, to elevate them, they will sink into a pit of misery and irrational hatred.

Anyway, we’ll wrap up here for today and continue our discussion on the power of joy against evil in the next Commentary. Before we conclude, I will offer a Golden blessing and charm for you all. I pray for all that are lost in the dark, for the Golden Light will always shine so long as you seek the Will to see it and reject that hollow darkness of evil and corruption. Have a blessed rest of your Sacred Day!

—erX, voX,