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FAQ Lightning Round 2: More questions about Xyphoism

August 2nd, 2025

Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. It is once again Augrussé, 1^st Period of Lord Pharuuii, and so we have the opportunity to once again direct the Sacred Day posts towards questions of interesting and intriguing discussion to stimulate the psyche and explore the inner workings of the Philosophy. As this is the start of the period, we’ll ease into the discussions with some questions to ignite a fire of curiosity. As said before in a previous Commentary, fearing Knowledge is akin to killing Truths, and that is a trait best associated with Deceptuary. If you would like to read our first FAQ post, you can find it here. But without any further wait, let us answer some curious questions about Xyphoism.

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Question: Is modern science compatible with Xyphoist Philosophy?

Answer: We consider it so, yes. From the perspective of the Philosophy, all science is the localized and proximal study of the existing world or realm in which one currently exists within. As such, the rules and laws existing with Nature that science aims to understand are part of the spiritual existence of the Spectrum and the Order. We don’t target or condemn any such studies, even if they aim to disprove parts of or the whole of our Philosophy. After all, the intended goal of the Order is to guarantee freed existence and liberty to exist as one deems fit, and so we keep our faith close to ourselves and not in the face of others. In other words, you can absolutely keep your Xyphoist faith and fully support scientific endeavors and discovery—in fact, we actively encourage those to do so for we believe scientific research is a useful tool to meeting our goals of Maintaining the Equilibrium. This is particularly true in the case of protecting the environment or fighting worldly suffering on the front of pathogenic research and other medical afflictions.

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Question: What does the Philosophy say about drug use?

Answer: Frankly, the Philosophy says one should refrain from using drugs to obtain a state of unmanageable intoxication. In fact, one of the Immoral Acts is explicitly about regular intoxication and how one should never engage in it. We Xyphoists are realists in most cases, however, and understand that it is implausible to expect people not to engage in forms of intoxication, from the use of alcohol, over-indulgence in digital forms of substance overuse, to the reality that there are many people who are sadly consumed by the addictive nature of hard drugs. In an ideal situation, nobody would use these things to that degree, or in the case of very dangerous substances, at all. The goal as Xyphoites is to hold off the habitual and abusive use of these substances, but you won’t be sent into divine condemnation if you have a drink or two, no.

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Question: Can you share your faith with your family or does it remain personal and private?

Answer: This is where the Philosophy does make an avenue of exception for proselyting. The Philosophy recognizes the power of a close and loving family, and how in the hardest of times, those that you consider family should be the ones you can confide and trust in the most. Therefore, it is both allowed and encouraged to be open about your faith with those you trust most within your immediate family. Parents can share the faith and its teachings with their children throughout their childhood. We hold confident that the lessons and morals of the Philosophy will be to an ethical and moral benefit to our children growing up.

Upon reaching the age of adulthood, however, it is entirely okay for the now adult child to freely choose whether they want to continue the faith or not, and all Xyphoist parents are expected to honor their children’s Free Will and life choices and love them unconditionally. It is the hope that the virtues of the Philosophy will shine through by that time and our children will also see the world as we do, but they most certainly don’t have to, and that’s within their right and liberty. The Philosophy does limit this sharing within the immediate family, so pestering extended family is not condoned nor encouraged.

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Question: What does the Philosophy say about envy or greed?

Answer: Both are extensions of the Immoral Act of Worldly Self-Obsession. Striped to their roots, both envy and greed are results of one being so self-absorbed that they project their insecurities and inability to control their desire to overindulge on others. But we also understand that these are expected thoughts and actions to have, particularly in a world inflicted with Deceptuary’s corruption. In the end, envy and greed come from fear; one may fear others having nicer things than them or having more of something than them. Deceptuary envies the powers of the other deities and desires to have all those powers for himself. Fear is the catalyst for both concepts.

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Question: Will the Ordinance establish Xyphoist schools and hospitals like other religious organizations?

Answer: No, or at least not ones explicitly based on the religiosity of the Ordinance. This is a question we must break into two. Let’s address schools first. The Ordinance is not interested and has unofficially decided to not establish any such preschool, primary, secondary, or post-secondary schools for we believe that would fall under the Immoral Act of Proselytizing and Preaching. The world already has secular schools that, in theory, should teach all manners of academics. And although we recognize the issue of varying educational standards and underfunding, we don’t believe that our Philosophy should usurp or “step in” the place of secular education. We’re more likely to donate to secular institutions of learning instead.

In terms of hospitals or other medical facilities, such as mental health clinics and homeless shelters, we’re less strict on the matter. The Ordinance is able to be responsible for the establishment of facilities of this manner but only through our secular Humanitarian subsidiaries laid out in the Sacred Hill Project. The Ordinance believes increasing access to, at the very least, mental healthcare, homeless shelters aimed at rehabilitating people down on their luck, and placing them in the path to future independent success is a key part of our goal to mitigate worldly suffering. This will include drug rehab centers, mental health and therapy clinics, and helping people get access to the providers and services they need to live successfully despite the state of this world.

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Question: if the Xyphokron isn’t a holy text, does Xyphoism have a central holy book?

Answer: Not particularly, no. The central story of our predicament, known as the Cosmic Struggle, functions as what one would consider the “holy text” of the Philosophy, and that pretty much just incorporates what Daetos recounts in Xykozheiz as what the current dilemma we face is; one could argue Xykozheiz itself is the holy text but we don’t personally see it as one nor would we be upset if someone were defile or damage the writing in that portion of the Xyphokron. The Xyphokron is a form of scripture, but it is not Sacred; it is akin to a religious textbook and manual. Likewise, these Commentary will eventually be compiled into a series of books, but they too are not sacred texts, only scripture written by humankind.

In the near future, the Ordinance will also publish a series of texts that recount the events that took place in the greater beyond of the context within Xykozheiz. These books, which will be called the “Chronicles of Xyphos,” will go through various eras of existence from the recounts of the Hayles and other ancient figures, including the recounts of the first ten spirits of Xykopsysomi, the era in which the Hayles were caring for the Sacred Children in Xyzokizon, and the early lives of the Sacred Children as mortals leading up to our current time. These Chronicles will simply be supplementary recounts to the Xyphokron, which will still function as our major instructional text. The Chronicles of Xyphos will, likewise, not be holy texts but simply supplementary texts that give a greater understanding to the Cosmic Struggle recounted in Xykozheiz.

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And with that, we will end our questions here for today. Hopefully, we have answered a few burning questions from our readers and followers of the Order. With that said, we wish you a great rest of your Sacred Day.

—AHG, et al
Commentary 74: Souls Interacting in the Afterlife

July 26th, 2025

Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We rejoin here again on this Sacred Day to continue our various discussions regarding the general topic of Spiritual Ends. Last time, we touched on the topic of Spiritual Ends in Xykopsysomi. Today, we will focus on the general interaction of Souls that have recently died in our realm and go into the state known as Afterlife, and where and how exactly they exist in such a confounding state. Let us begin.

We’ll first recap what the Afterlife is. The Afterlife is a state post-death in Xyphojinami where Souls carry out various Pathans before the eventual Cosmic Scattering of their spirituality. In this phase of existence, Souls, still condensed, will be sent first to Desitun for Pathan Designation. From there, they will move to whatever Pathans are appropriate; I have written a Commentary on how this general system works. But the question arises as to how Souls can remain in their mortalized state when no longer in the mortal realm?

That answer comes in the miraculous state of Xyzokizon. Xyzokizon is the Sacred Realm, the Realm of the Nine Xyphozons, and the domains of the Nine Lords. In this most immaculate of Realms, no limitation exists. It’s important to acknowledge that Xyzokizon is not part of either of the two major existential realms—that being Xykopsysomi or Xyphojinami; it is truly the center of our reality and the core of existence. In this realm, the Xyphozons that exist within it work on a multitude of dimensional levels.

As mentioned before, the previous legions of the Hayles exist as distinguished residents of the Nine Sacred Realms within Xyzokizon, and those legions maintain their Spirit forms. Souls in the Afterlife exist in Xyzokizon in a hub-like system on an entirely different dimensional level. As such, Spirits that reside in Xyzokizon and Souls in the Afterlife don’t interact with each other in this system.

A clear example of this is Aerigeth’s Heaven. To recount, Heaven is a special section of Aerigeth that rightful souls are granted a term blissful dreamlike sleep within until their souls naturally fade and eventually scatter. This section only contains souls in the Afterlife; no Spirits exist within Heaven. Spirits, instead, exist within the rest of the various regions of Aerigeth. It’s also possible that any Archangels, the Hayle, and the Lord of a Sacred Realm exist in their own sections of said realm.

Regardless, there are separate levels of existence of Souls and Spirits within the same boundaries of Xyzokizon due to their vast existential differences. Another example is Terigath’s Hell, which only has the souls of the damned within it, while the rest of Terigath contains the spirit legions of Hayle Mihe. It’s do to Xyzokizon’s immaculate state and the direct Will of the Lords that these beings can exist in the same realm on multiple dimensional levels. It goes without saying that neither spirits nor souls can breach those dimensional levels. Archangels, the Hayle, and the Lords respectively can move between those levels given their Sacred connections to the Lords that create those realms in the first place.

—crX, whX
Commentary 67: Free Will and the Capacity for Evil

June 7th, 2025

“Come Faithful thee, hold the Babe in hand.”

“All shall see, Praise! The Sacred Child of Life!”

“A Gift bestowed above, from Her Majesty.”

“Live and Free, Praise! The Lord’s Posterity.”

Greetings from the Order and Ordinance! Welcome back! It’s the brilliant Period of Maiye again, and all souls born in Xyphojinami are once again under Her Majesty Lord Kyaien’s watch. Before we get started, we’ve started the start of this Period off with the Hymn celebrating the Birth of our beloved Child of Life, Zinigeosia. With glorious as the golden light of the Lord and the radiating essence of the Child shining upon us this Period, we’ll spend this time talking more about the Lord’s attributes of Life and Free Will.

Today, we will go ahead and talk about Free Will a bit and how exactly it applies under the Philosophy’s definition. We’re going to focus particularly on Free Will and people’s ability to commit willful evil as well.

When we talk about Free Will under Xyphoist definitions, we’re specifically talking about the concept and divine attribute of Spiritual Liberties. In order for there to be a continuous cycle of Cosmic flow, the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order made it a tenant of reality that all beings shall enjoy spiritual liberties that are guaranteed by the Lords’ presence. In doing so, the free flowing cosmic movement will allow the Cosmos themselves to move and flex across the Spectrum; the Lords can foresee every and all paths of reality, and simply allow the Spectrum develop and fall into those various paths on its own accord. That is the power in which Natural Force places, determining the rules and the flow.

Now this would be all fine and dandy under a perfect situation, but we don’t live in that due to the betrayal of Deceptuary. Originally, Deceptuary, as the 10^th deity once known as Arkellus, held the attributes of Divergence and Fear. Divergence, in particular, would’ve been the attribute that dictates that all paths are able to divert from the Greater Will of the former Divine Thrones. Simply put, Deceptuary’s existence was supposed to ensure that existential paths were able to diverge onto paths that weren’t with the deities to ensure that liberal movement of outcomes would keep existence stable. This would then work in-hand with Free Will to actually give beings the power to freely choose their paths.

That was mucked up, of course, by Deceptuary’s divine infliction of Fear, where his own attribute led him to fear his own existence being irrelevant. In his betrayal, Deceptuary’s attribute of Divergence was corrupted by his own Hubris and transformed into corruption. That, of course, meant that the capacity for freedom can lead beings to go mad with corruption and commit evil of their own accord, just as Deceptuary did.

The Lords or the Xyphokonic Order foresaw this outcome as well, and have since put in place the necessary structure within the Order to once again rebalance existence where Deceptuary has attempted to destabilize it. That’s why this very Ordinance is here for, and why the Sacred Children were born as the first nine mortals in Xyphojinami.

Those spiritual liberties, this Free Will, and even the once standing divergence before it was defiled, were all meant to create stability and Maintain the Equilibrium of spirituality, and so the Lords knew that all of these would be necessary to keep Cosmic Flow intact. In fact, Deceptuary’s obsession with becoming a singular, all-powerful God by destroying the current state of existence is hinged on trying to stifle the flow of the Cosmos with his corruption—he wants to create stasis so that everything we know as reality breaks and implodes, with his desperate hope that the broken pieces can be reassembled in his image. What he fails to understand is, as with his own Fear corrupting him, his own divergency will do nothing but destroy himself along with all of existence if he ever were to attempt to devour all the Sacred Attributes for himself.

The key to existence is balance, and the lack of balance, which Deceptuary believes he can handle due to his unbearable Hubris, will destroy him, us, this, all of it. The same Is true on a smaller scale with the capacity for evil among us spiritual beings. We are blessed, gifted this Free Will, and with it we can make great and poor decisions. We have the capacity to do evil of our own accord through the avenue of corruption, and doing so will, as the ancient edict says, inevitably destroy upon ourselves if we do. Acting on that hubris, on that corruption, and of the evil will lead to self-destruction.

The Lords knew this well, and allow it to happen specifically because they know evil will destroy itself. And to help it along, we have this Order and Ordinance to help pick up the pieces and restore the balance in the aftermath.

Anyway, we’ll conclude the discussion there for now. Thanks for reading! Have a brilliant Sacred Day from the Order and Ordinance.

—erX, whX, jzX

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FAQ Lightning Round 2: More questions about Xyphoism

Commentary 74: Souls Interacting in the Afterlife

Commentary 67: Free Will and the Capacity for Evil