Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome back on this Sacred Day for more discussion regarding Realmly Knowledge. We’ve been posing questions recently, but today we will return to a full Commentary on the topic of ignorance and its association with evil. Let us explore the connection between the two.
First, let’s just reiterate what the Xyphoist definition of evil is. Evil is the state of being corrupted, taking actions that cause harm to others, and taking those actions with the willful intention of causing harm. Evil is a selfish and cruel state of being, and for those that walk that path, there is nothing that awaits them other than ruin from their own Hubris.
However, despite the common belief, evil isn’t necessarily “uneducated” but simply inflicted with acute ignorance; it is entirely possible for a person with a seemingly educated background to be entirely evil in their intentions and actions. Ignorance intersects with those scenarios when it comes to the consequences of malevolent actions. Evil entities don’t believe consequences can reach them—they are ignorant of their infallibility. As we tie back to the Sacred Lesson of the “Tale of the Old Flame,” someone awash with ignorance will take this tool of fire and burn down their own village. They will scorch their own crops or seer their own skin. And finally, those awash with ignorance will be consumed by the same flames they sought to burn others with and themselves be reduced to ash—unceremoniously cremated by their own Hubris.
It’s in those realities that we see evil as what it is: arrogance. No matter how intelligent an evil entity may be, the willingness to conduct their malevolence upon others is itself a blindsight of ignorance—that being the ignorance of consequence. A being that sees themselves so flawless that they can commit such awful deeds is one that will be entirely caught aghast when any such slipup happens that leads to their undoing. In a sense, evil finds itself perfect, but lacks the ability to always account for all angles and therefore is unable to maintain its false belief in its own perfection.
This is especially the case with the likes of Deceptuary; he has incorrectly convinced himself that his deity status made him infallible and therefore capable of overtaking the rest of existence for himself despite the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order explicitly telling him that it will end in his ruin. During their dispute prior to the first rebellion, Lord Pharuuii was clear that any such attempt to consume the worlds into a single entity would collapse reality itself, and that Deceptuary was foolish to attempt to do so. Deceptuary, consumed by his own Hubris and Fear, dismissed the warning and subsequently lost his first rebellion before being exiled to Gheisialez.
Since that point, despite his plotting to take over the living world, the Theigriet was been bested by the Lords’ countermeasures of creating the Sacred Children, and we now sit in this part of the Cosmic Struggle where Deceptuary’s evil and ignorance are being combatted by the pursuit of Realmly Knowledge, this Ordinance, and the movements of the Sacred Children in other realms of Xyphojinami. Deceptuary, ignorant to the flaws in his own planning, didn’t see any of this coming and is now defensively revising and plotting around realities that he cannot change or defeat.
This is the connection of ignorance and evil. Evil is petty, evil is arrogant, and evil is fearful. No matter how intelligence, underhanded, or cruel evil is, it will never understand how imperfect its own existence is and will inevitably slipup. Any of those slipups can result in total ruin, and th reality that such slipups exist means that evil can always be defeated.
—phX, kyX, jzX, crX