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Greetings from the Xyphokonic Ordinance and Order. We have entered Lord Vuetenexzyei’s 2nd Xyphojinamic Period, and as such we’ll continue on discussion about Death, mortality, and the like. Today we’ll talk about the use of the Xyphokonic Sigil—the emblem of the Order as the X with a curved horizontal slash through it—in regards to Death. We’ll also talk about the Prayer of Death and its concurrent use. Let’s Begin.
The Sigil, or the “Xigil,” is the universal Xyphokonic sign used to summon Sanghjei—specifically of the Seal variety. As such, the Xigil is naturally used by all Zeigadii Xyphoites for their given area of descending spirituality/Xyphozon. Vuetenexian Xyphoites will use this Xigil for cases of Ceremonial Death in order to officiate a Death spirituality. In doing so, the Xyphoite will summon their spiritual resonance to cast a Death Seal on the Remembrance, discarded vessel, or place of Death. This action does many things: officiates the Death itself, commemorates and honors the Death, secures the passage of the passed Soul to their next Pathan, and prevents it from being infected by corrupt residual energy. It is not uncommon to see Xyphoites quietly and discretely trace a Xigil on their own person or on another surface very soon after being in the presence of the dead or after hearing of a Death. In the case of the Death Seal, the Xigil is traced followed by tracing a full circle around the Xigil, adding 4 smaller Xigils without any middle shall in vertical and horizontal positions, before “waving” the Xigil from the surface and sending it towards the inflicted Death. As just mentioned, this action is expected to be very discrete and intimate, and not to made obvious that one is casting a Seal.
“The Nine Lords of the Xyphokonic Order: Carnyie, Pharuuii, Vuetenexzyei, Caspierre, Caishor, Kyaien, Saifaosé, Nakndes, Kurakku, bring peace and Purity to the said pass of Life. Gently raise them into your palace of divine, Grace them with your Love, and bless them with your presence. Reincarnation accepted in the form of their Wisdom. The Nine Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, to the pure and tainted, from Zeigadii Xyphoite _____________. I belong to you; my soul is in your hands.”
Above is the Sacred Prayer of Death, issued upon the Death of a mortal who has not been damned by evil or great theigritry. This is issued specifically to commemorate and protect the passing soul to its next Pathan during Ceremonial Death. As with all Sacred Prayers, it begins with a direct address to the Lords; in this case, so long as they are all introduced as the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, there is no need to add the honorific of “Lord” before each name in order for the Prayer to be official. Next, the Prayer asks the Lords to accept this passing soul into their hands and bless them with the Greater Will and Initial Love of the Lords. Following, the Prayer mentioned the possibility of Reincarnation based on the need for passing new Wisdom. Finally, the Prayer ends with mentioning the pure and tainted alike followed by giving the full name of the Xyphoite who uttered the Prayer, and mentioning that said Xyphoite belongs to and is devoted to the Order.
This prayer is always used for Ceremonial Deaths in some fashion or another, and will be issued by an official of the Ordinance when commemorating an official ceremony of Death. Naturally, a Xigil tracing will also be part of the Ceremony.
—crX, kyX, ruX
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Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Odinance. Welcome back, today we’re exploring an interesting question proposed to us recently about the general opinions or perspective Xyphoites may have towards other religions. We include in this discussion theigrited philosophies as well as other divergence philosophies unrelated to Deceptuary. As this is more a question proposed and a more informal discussion working on the basis of nuance and varied perspective, this isn’t necessarily an official Commentary more than it is an intriguing discussion. Let’s explore this question.
Right from the start, we can give a very Xyphoist answer to this question by saying “no, not really” to the question of whether Xyphoites or the Ordinance and Order have a specific or unified opinion on other religions. Much like so many other topics, Xyphoites tend to keep our faith to ourselves as not to proselytize, and often see most issues with the perspective that our Free Will and spiritual liberties lead us to “mind our own business” and refrain from partaking in others’ ordeals. These core concepts often inform the larger perspective on the existence of other religions, which are allowed to exist and practice free from persecution from the Order and Ordinance or any other religion.
This Free Will allows all beings to form their own personal opinions on other philosophies, but to remain consistent with Xyphoist Philosophy, we as Xyphoites will mostly keep those opinions personal and intimate to ourselves and very close peers, or at least not associate our Xyphoist connections to those opinions and remark on other religions independent of our own faith. Naturally, any opinion on other religions inconsistent with the core concepts of Xyphoist Philosophy or flat out be violations of Xyphoist Philosophy will not be condoned or ordained by the Order or Ordinance; we have these spiritual liberties and immoral acts for a reason.
Speaking more directly on various religions, Xyphoites, being consistent with our philosophy, will view all religions outside of Xyphoism as “divergent.” However, it’s important to understand how divergency is defined under Xyphoist Philosophy. While it may seem the term is used negatively, that is far from the case. In fact, had Deceptuary not betrayed the other deities on the Divine Throne, one of his attributes would’ve remained Divergency and, as such, is built into reality itself and acts through our Spectrum now via a tag-team a cooperation of the Kyaius and Nakndsian Xyphozons as Deceptuary is clearly not acting in divine fashion any longer. Divergency isn’t negative, it is part of the Lords’ Will to let all of creation act upon our own Wills and guaranteed by the spiritual liberties we have; without this divergency, facilitated by Natural Flow and Free Will, stagnation would take place.
With most divergent philosophies, no such obvious or direct opinion is levied. Philosophies stemming from Deceptuary—aptly identified as theigrited philosophies—may draw a stronger opinion from some Xyphoites. Simply put, Xyphoites may generally consider theigrited Philosophies as agents of Deceptuary’s corruption and plan to destabilize the Spectrum. We, as Xyphoites, are more likely to be critical of those particular philosophies, for much of their core ideals are antithetical to Maintaining the Equilibrium and may rely on our definition of immorality to function. Speaking on example, the condemnation of homosexuality found in nearly every theigrited philosophy is entirely antithetical to Xyphoist Philosophy and is a harmful and destabilizing concept that would certainly draw criticism among Xyphoist circles. This is one of many examples that may solicit stronger opinions in regards to theigrited philosophies from Xyphoites.
Outside of that, there will certainly be common disagreements with various concepts found in all spiritual philosophies that could bring out contrasting opinions, but such disagreements are menial and unlikely to cause any major disruption between Xyphoites and other non-Xyphoites. As mentioned before, we keep our discussion to ourselves and within our own Sacred Grounds as a core tenant of our philosophy, so you won’t be seeing a Xyphoite getting into a public or open debate with a non-Xyphoite over various concepts of morality or theism; this is also true of our interactions with those who are agnostic or atheist. There is no interest in getting into debates over who is right or not as we fundamentally believe everyone is free to believe or not believe in whatever they choose, and that trying to figure out who is truly “right” defeats the chance of all of us to do good for each other as beings of existence. Arguments don’t help end worldly suffering, but working to help others, whoever they may be, does.
So to conclude this discussion, it’s fair to say Xyphoites, by large, won’t be worrying about what others believe in, and certainly won’t be telling others they are right or wrong whenever possible. There may be times where we will condemn the actions of other divergent believes for using their believes to hurt others, but even then, we mostly wish to refrain from jumping into messy arguments and debates when organizing to help others from corruption is more pragmatic. We’re interested in being good Xyphoites and helping mitigate worldly suffering more than we are about “being right” or “going after” those that we disagree with; the latter is almost certainly to be immoral as proselytizing and entirely against our own philosophy.
—AHG et. al
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