Category: Humanitarian efforts

Commentary 60: Actions against Evil “Community Action”

April 19th, 2025

Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. We’re back for the final installment of our “Actions against Evil” series. Today, we’ll be addressing the updates involving what the Ordinance and Xyphoites as a whole can do together as a community to combat and defend against Deceptuary’s evil under Yrridthmas designation. We’ll also address our secular audiences who may not believe in the Philosophy but recognize the objectively cruel behaviors of key factions across the globe and want to help any way they can. Let’s start.

The Ordinance itself, under this current echelon, has the agenda of using openly verbal and materialistic means of defending against evil. As any long-time readers have noticed, our Commentary has shifted significantly from simply teaching about the Philosophy to directly addressing issues happening all across the world. We often name specific cases by name, relate them to the Philosophy, identify the fault or evil in those situations, and state the Xyphoist response to them. My colleague Vox spent their entire Period addressing several of those issues, for example. My general understanding is that most of our Commentary from here on out will be much more specific in picking out key problems and examples of corruption in the world and how to address them from a Xyphoist standpoint. This is the “verbal” or outward expression as dictated in the criteria for Yrridthmas that we’re talking about.

Materialistically, we intend to use any resources or funds we accrue for the Ordinance and apply those funds and resources to helping mitigate the suffering of others caused by corrupted forces. This generally means making charitable donations of any funds we receive, organizing or mobilizing persons to help volunteer to help in critical situations, advocating for vulnerable demographics or groups that are often the target of evil’s petulance, and setting up spaces of safety and sanctuary for both those vulnerable populations but all persons seeking relief from this onslaught. Our Ordinance site is where all these efforts will be updated when we have the resources necessary for those operations, and we must reiterate that the Ordinance site is the current page for Project Sacred Hill—which is technically a secular operation open to all volunteers and benefactors and will be run in a secular fashion independent to the religious nature of the Ordinance itself.

For all our readers here who have simply been peering in but aren’t religiously-affiliated to the Order but are interested in helping mitigate the cruelty of the world anyway, there are plenty of secular, non-religious things you can do if you so choose to; this also applies to those of other religions who wish to help against some objectively cruel things happening as of late. First and foremost, if you care for our recommendations, always looking at things from a human empathy standpoint is pretty standard. It’s far too easy to be cruel, but seemingly challenging to be kind. We’re currently witnessing very sinister forces at work whose only true goal is spreading misery and wrapping themselves in all different types of hatred. Always recognize that everyone has a story, everyone has a pain somewhere, and much of this is inflicted by the conditions of our own societies and the cruelty and carelessness that inflict them.

Advocacy for human rights and civil rights in whatever organizations you choose to or are currently affiliated is a big thing that non-Xyphoites can do. We are all human here, we all enjoy our rights, and we all want to make sure we keep them and that others can be liberated in the same fashion. This is a global issue, as so many incidents of human rights abuse sicken this planet. Advocating and understanding these issues by standing informed and educated is a great way to help. Once you stand up for yourself, stand up for others so they can too stand up for others.

We touched on the Xyphoist perspective on wealth before, and how in our Ordinance, those of us who are wealthy wield a special kind of societal power and are morally and spiritually obligated to use it for the greater good. Speaking back to the Philosophy, a wealthy Xyphoite should not hoard the excesses of their power when great suffering is taking place—as it is now. Those who are of this status should use this blessing for the good of the world, to mitigate the worldly suffering caused by Deceptuary’s evil. Donate to help those wronged by evil, understand that hard-working tip-dependent worker is doing the best they can and tip them well. Use the excesses of your power just as Nature uses the excesses of Its spirituality to give you the existence you enjoy now. The suffering of the world is much like a plague, if you don’t help contain it, such suffering will touch you too. Just as a core tenant of the Philosophy, worldly self obsession and greed are abhorrent, and one cannot be a good Xyphoite and be sickened with extreme avarice.

For the non-Xyphoist side, we still encourage charitability, but once again, we are not here to preach or tell you what to do, only if you want the recommendation, we would recommend that as a good starting point.

Before I ramble on too long, I think we get the drift. Human empathy, charitability, call out evil when you see it. It’s pretty cut and dry.

Finally, it’s time for the weekly reset. Remember to rest when you need to, collect and care for you mind, care for others, stand back up, keep marching. Evil isn’t stopping and neither shall we. Have a good rest of your Sacred Day. Next week we will do an overview of the Caishon Xyphozon and its key figures.

—ruX
Question: Do Xyphoites Celebrate the Holidays?

December 21st, 2024

Greetings from the Ordinance and Order. We meet here yet again on this Sacred Day to field yet another question. This time, a question was emailed to us from a spiritual but not religiously-affiliated reader curious about whether Xyphoites celebrate other holidays—particularly Christmas, so let’s answer this.

It’s somewhat of a bafflingly easy answer but to address that question of whether Xyphoites celebrate Christmas, the answer is no. We are Xyphoites, not Christians, so logically the answer would be no. Adding to that, the holiday of Christmas, in accordance with Christian mythology, highlights the birth of one of Deceptuary’s highest-ranking disciples, Gheisuhz dej Trinte, and ushered in the creation of the Archives of Hatred and the spread of one of the three theigrited philosophies. The entirety of this circumstance directly destabilizes the equilibrium and aids Deceptuary in his goal to collapse the worlds and reform them to be subservient to only him. We don’t celebrate Christmas, nor would we celebrate any holiday from any of the theigrited philosophies, that being Judaism and Islam and all of their subsets.

Other religious holidays from divergent philosophies would likewise not be celebrated by Xyphoites simply out of the principle that they aren’t Xyphoist celebrations. In fact, the entire premise of the Xyphoist Philosophy discourages the celebration of its own annual markers. As this is a realmly philosophy and system, there is no specific set time period to celebrate specific events as all time is relevant. For example, a Root Spirit in Aehixyka won’t be celebrating an event that is happening to Mortal Humans in Nikconzin based of the relative time frames. This doesn’t prevent Xyphoites from celebrating Earthly ethnic celebrations or other such non-religious/secular holidays, however. This pertains only to religious or spiritual holidays from other divergent/theigrited philosophies.

That being said, we aren’t interested in the immoral action of open proselytizing and aren’t going to shout down anyone for putting up holiday decorations who might be affiliated with the Ordinance or is a Xyphode. The malleability of our philosophy recognizes that the holidays this time of year have become very commercialized and almost secular; there are people, sometimes even atheist, who partake in holiday celebration to religious philosophies they don’t believe in. The present-giving culture appears now to be a commercial and mainstay custom regardless of religious affiliation or lack thereof. We here at the Ordinance certainly aren’t going to persecute anyone for giving a gift to others this time of year, or putting up a tree/decorations to be festive with Yule; the putting up of religious homages to Gheisuhz dej Trinte or Christianity itself—including the singing of Christian hymns—would be considered too far off the Xyphoist Philosophy, but one can still enjoy this music from an artistic standpoint and not feel too strayed from the Order if they so choose. Either way, the Lords aren’t likely to bother themselves if a Xyphoist follower sings Carol of the Bells as there are much more important things to focus on.

It’s also recognized that, around this time of the year, the desire to be giving and altruistic tends to increase as so many people are in jubilee. This is where the pragmatic portion of Xyphoist Philosophy comes into play. At a time where most are in jubilee, a temporary serenity is possible across much of the Human word, and Xyphoites should take advantage of this by also contributing to the good energy. While it’s unfortunate that theigrited followers tend to only be altruistic at this particular time of year, this is a great time for Xyphoites to also contribute to the nature of mitigating worldly suffering, as we should be doing every day at all times regardless of the seasons. There is no need to spoil good vibes over philosophical differences, but we don’t, as a whole, partake in the religious ceremony of other philosophies.

—AHG, et. al
Commentary 23: Nature and the Cosmos

May 11th, 2024

Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance! Welcome to the second entry for the verdant Period of Maiye. Lord Nakndes has blessed the workings of nature and given us such a beautiful day outside to watch as Nature itself buds and greens up the forests. Today we’ll be talking of how the Cosmos and Nature work together to function as a single force. We’ll briefly explain the Cosmos yet again, how they relate to Nature, and how Nature acts in our realm of Xyphojinami in conjunction with the Cosmos. So let us begin.

To reiterate from the earlier segment we at the Ordinance did whilst going through the Xyphokron, the Cosmos are an interconnected spiritual web created by the Lords and watched over by Zeiga; the Cosmos are designed to shift and flex as needed to weather the waves of cosmic fluctuation that ripple through the Spectrum. As such, all acts that affect the natural course of reality are moved through Nature using the Cosmos.

To put more simply, the Cosmos are the means in which Nature manifests and conducts itself flow, and all acts of Nature are done through the vehicle that is the Cosmos. Any such natural occurrence, from a terribly storm, to the simplest of new flourishing growth, are all acts of Nature conducted through the Cosmos. Occurrences of positive and negative Nature fluctuate across the Cosmos in a ripple effect, which ends up flowing in waves throughout Nature.

So, now we move onto our interaction with Nature and its Cosmic relevance. Our actions in regards to Nature reflect across the Cosmos. In our future projects with the Ordinance, we intend to address the issue of the environment and how we affect it. Our Project Sacred Earth is a future project to help heal our planet and the environment to help mitigate the damages done to the environment via our interaction with Nature. While Nature cannot be conquered or destroyed, it will most certainly destroy any rogue entity that attempts to do so. We have, through our collective Hubris, trifled with Nature enough that we are now seeing the effects of such action across the Cosmos. Our world is threatened by the ever-changing environment and climate, much of which can be attributed our own action. As the Cosmos work as they do, eventually these negative impacts against Nature will reflect and ripple back at the cause of those impacts.

One of the many goals and jobs of the Ordinance is to mitigate and help mend those negative impacts to prevent such a date—hence the Sacred Earth Project. Often, “negative impacts” are exemplified by human-caused atrocities against each other, but we often overlook the negative impacts against Nature itself as one of those Cosmic reflections. How we treat Nature is how it will eventually treat us, and the Ordinance heavily encourages that we as Humans respect the awesome power of Nature and care for what it has given us; the creating force can certainly remove us whenever it sees fit.

—lnX

Category: Humanitarian efforts

Commentary 60: Actions against Evil “Community Action”

Question: Do Xyphoites Celebrate the Holidays?

Commentary 23: Nature and the Cosmos