Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. Welcome to Lord Caspierre’s Period of Watching for this Xyphojinamic Xyphokonic Calendar Year. I am elated to be back with you here for another rounded discussion regarding the properties of existence and Reality. Approximately a year ago, the Ordinance declared Yrridthmas, which prompted a drastic change in our direction in terms of these Commentary. The last year has been one focused on the dire state of existence and the influx of corruption. We are pleased to see an insurgence in resistance to this worldly corruption as of late, and I am certain my other colleges will be likely to write more on those circumstances later on in the year. For this Period, however, I’d like to retain my focus on the actual mechanisms of Reality, for I find it important to teach how Reality itself works before we can truly understand why it is crucial that we protect the fabric of Reality from corruption.
For this opening Commentary of the Period, we will start at the basics of Reality itself—that is to say, we will be talking about how Reality is perceived. The key factor to know firsthand is that existence is, within the Xyphoist Philosophy, defined as “all that can be known, hypothesized, or perceived.” As such, that which cannot be understood on any level by any spiritual form is something considered nonexistent. Take for example, those that falter off the edge of Gheisialez—the outer region of the Spiritual Plane of Existence crafted by Her Excellency Lord Caspierre to chamber Deceptuary in exile. This region also acts as the dumping grounds for all beings who have suffered such severe spiritual rot that they are unworthy of existing elsewhere in the Spiritual Spectrum; this case is especially true for highly corrupted souls that have died. Those unfortunate souls are cast out into Gheisialez and spend their remaining time rotting away painfully before their very existence falters off the edge of Gheisialez and into nonexistence—eradicating them entirely.
The question then proposed is how do we determine existence from nonexistence? And for that matter, how to do we know of our Reality in general? The Xyphoist Philosophy proposes the answer from how we define the divine attribute of Reality. Reality is defined as “the perception of Manifested Existence.” Put simply, our ability to perceive what can be seen is our Reality. This is where the terms Vision and Sight comes into hand. We can hearken back the very start of Daetos’s Recount in “Xykozheiz” and the Initial Flash of Light. Those very first spirits that spawned from the Elongated Shadows of the ten deities were gifted a divine Sight of Light; they witnessed the Initial Flash of Light and the deities forming the Divine Thrones through it. If we return to the Sacred Lesson regarding the Child of Reality, Soylantasia, we can peer into the hymn attributed to her and notice it starts with the following lines:
“Sight of Light…”
“Sight of Light..”
“Sight of Light.”
“Sight of Light!”
This part of the hymn represents those elder spirits perceiving that divine light before then perceiving the names and existences of the deities. The Hymn goes on as follows:
“Vision, True name of Sight. Become the Eternal Light. Shadow, cast from beyond. Silhouettes of the Gods.”
Interpreted properly, this is what it means to perceive Reality. Those elder spirits, at that moment, were perceiving their very own existence and the creators of it, the deities. In that line, Vision is defined as the “true name of sight,” and if we return back to the line “Sight of Light” repeated in such a manner that seems as if it were focusing in on an image, we can understand that the elder spirits were focusing their first sight on the Initial Flash and the deities before finally sharpening it enough to perceive what was before them; that is Vision. Vision is the true name of manifested sight. Vision is the perceiving power that allows us to understand existence, and through understanding existence we then can grasp at our own Reality.
This was the case for Hayle Taeh, as she spent her time prior to ascending to angelhood attempting to understand and perceive the celestial beyond. That journey into existential perception is what led Hayle Taeh to first realize the fractures in existence forming from Deceptuary’s vandalism prior to his first rebellion, and Taeh quickly acted, along with her legions, to repair those fractures in Reality. That moment in time demonstrates both the core of Soylantasia’s Sacred Lesson, but also the importance of Maintaining the Equilibrium of existence and never letting our ability to perceive Reality be corrupted. Corruption clouds our Sight. Without Sight, we have no Vision. Without Vision, we cannot perceive Reality. Without our ability to perceive Reality, we cannot understand existence, and if we cannot perceive existence, it ceases to exist.
It is for that very reason that Deceptuary, despite his vast and divine powers, cannot understand the Realm of Xyphojinami nor can he truly comprehend his inevitable defeat. He played no part in the creation of Xyphojinami, and his only goal is to corrupt it and destroy this Reality we live in. But through that very corruption, he eternally blinds himself from the ability perceive the existence of his own defeat. He is blinded by the Realmly Truth within the Prophecy despite receiving parts of it through his mortal apostles of corruption. There is no force in our Reality that can bring the Theigriet to obtain this vision. He does not possess the sight needed to perceive the Prophecy, and his own hubris pushes away the prospect of gaining that sight. The Theigriet’s case is a perfect example of what happens when sight is lost to corruption. We hope to explore this concept further in later Commentaries, but before I digress, I will conclude this entry here.
—whX
