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  • Commentary 73: Spiritual Ends within Spirits

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We join here again to continue our general discussion involving the topic of Spiritual Ends and the concept of Death. This week, we move away from our focus on current events and move into a more scholarly explanation of how the divine attribute of Spiritual Ends manifest in the Realm of Xykopsysomi. Let us begin.

    As we know, in our greater realm of Xyphojinami—the Realm of Mortals—Spiritual Ends manifest as the process of Death; our corporeal vessel fails to hold onto the soul for various reasons determined by Nature, the Soul is let go, and baring any unfortunate suffering, will move onto the Afterlife. That is the Xyphoist definition of Death. The Philosophy dictates that Death must take place in order to keep spirituality moving in the Cosmic Cycle.

    This then would mean that the same would take place in Xykopsysomi, naturally. We know the process of Birth comprises of Spirits passing into Xyphojinami after being mortalized—having their spirit condensed into a soul and then having that soul be placed into a mortal vessel. But Birth is a process of Spiritual Beginnings, not Ends. So, what is the equivalent of Death in Xykopsysomi? The answer is the process known as Spiritual Perishing. It works in a similar manner. While it is true that spirits tend to exist for comparatively longer spans of time than mortals, spirits will eventually perish. The main factor that determines when a spirit will perish is the level of spiritual resonance a spirit possesses; that means that spirits with high or great levels of spirituality have extensively higher longevity. The best example of this are Shiupsyodon, great spirits with such spiritual power they often control whole pocket dimensions and have legions of lesser spirits as followers. These great spirits can exist for eons given their powerful status, and are often slain by other great spirits instead of perishing naturally by time.

    The process of perishing is more rudimentary than the process of Death seeing as no corporeal vessel is present in spirits. In much the same way that things in our world wither and fade, spiritual perishing works the same way. The longer a spirits exists, the more it shall shed its ethereal composition until eventually, the spirit ceases to maintain its own consciousness. Upon perishing, a spirit will then enter the stage where the determination of next Pathans occurs. Most spirits shall perish, be mortalized, and be Birthed as new souls in Xyphojinami. However, certain spirits will succumb to different fates. Dauharouki, for example, are simply cycled within the eternal darkness of Daurzarc; Neishirans similarly perish within Supreme Light, but are not recycled and simply form into new beings from that same light. Cario Lordes, however, suffer a different fate. As spirits that have either been corrupted or have failed to properly form as normal spirits, upon their end, they are ripped asunder and parts of their remaining spiritual resonance are exiled into Gheisialez.

    So, as we can see, Perishing and Death are parallels. Each are a type of Spiritual End, and both occur to keep spirituality flowing between the two major existential realms of the Spectrum.

    —crX

  • Commentary 72: The Death of Knowledge

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We rejoin here in this space to continue our discussion involving the topic of Spiritual Ends and our current point in the Cosmic Struggle. As it currently stands, we spoke of the Death of Empathy in the previous entry, and today we shall continue that general trend and talk about the Death of Knowledge in our current reality. Let us begin.

    To briefly explain, we speak of the Death of Knowledge in terms of how we, humanity as a whole, have suffered under the plague of ignorance brought upon by Deceptuary’s wickedness. Simply put, the Tale of the Old Flame’s ultimate lesson is the reality that we face currently as the Theigriet poisons our reality with his influence. We, as mortals, are given untold amounts of Realmly Knowledge, and are told that these Truths we hold can be tools to our benefit. Instead, through the Hubris of Humanity, we have taken the Old Flame and have set aflame the lands we live upon. We have burned our homes, we have torched our crops, we have immolated our loved ones, and we have reduced our hopes to ash.

    This, as expected, is part of Deceptuary’s depraved hopes; he desires a hopeless, helpless, and ignorant populous—one easily controlled and easy to garnish worship from. He hopes we fall into such a desperate and fearful despair that the only hope we could ever have is to worship whatever depraved form he wishes to morph into. It is for this reason that you see the rejection of questions and knowledge other than his words within the various theigrited philosophies that operate under his guise. The archaic edicts of the “tree of knowledge” and the taking of the “forbidden fruit” being acts of “sin,” or why questioning “the plan” or the one who supposedly proports it are blasphemy in the eyes of many theigrited philosophies.

    This is entirely the opposite within the Xyphoist Philosophy, and that is almost exactly the point of these Commentaries. We are here to have discussion and to expand upon Knowledge. My colleague Phox almost always spends their two Periods asking questions rather than doing official Commentary specifically to provoke fresh thoughts, to challenge even the Philosophy itself, to seek out new answers and see how they align with our reality, the Cosmic Struggle, and the Philosophy.

    We also always add that these teachings are held within this Sacred Ground, and that we shall never assert them as Truths that all must adhere to or believe in. As you have perhaps noticed, while we do have a very small social media presence online, we aren’t going around advertising ourselves. We did not advertise the release of the Xyphokron outside of this space even though it would’ve increased both the sales and the spread of the Philosophy. We post virtually to only our followers on social media and have no intention of pestering people.

    This is, obviously so among these circles, because of the Immoral Action of Proselyting.—it’s against our Philosophy to do so. And while that certainly makes it more difficult to fight the spread of willful ignorance, it is a part of the liberties that we all enjoy to not be bothered by preaching pulpits. The spreading of Truth is a desirable outcome, but what we fight against most is the spreading of falsehoods.

    This is where the Death of Knowledge falls into this discussion. As Rux has also mentioned, under Yrridthmas, we are allowed to verbally speak out against the spread of lies spread by Deceptuary’s influence. Part of our duties now in the Ordinance is not to preach our Philosophy, but to point out the faults and hypocrisy in Deceptuary’s various ramblings. As we speak, lies are being set up in our reality that we know aren’t true, and it is of the upmost importance that we hold true to the Truths we see and to dispel such lies.

    —crX, phX

  • Commentary 71: The Death of Empathy

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. The Ordinance acknowledges the End of the previous Xyphojinamic Xyphokonic Year and the start of the new year. And as it is now the First Period of Watching under Lord Vuetenexzyei, the Commentary posted will mostly centered around the topic of spiritual ends—although I may decide to take a more general approach depending on circumstances. We are under Yrridthmas, so I also intend to tie in current events into our discussions here. Today, we speak on the rapid decline in Empathy that is particularly present among humankind and how Deceptuary’s corrupted influences has provoked it. Let us Begin.

    It is first important to acknowledge that our very existence, and the existence of this Spiritual Spectrum in which we sit upon, are all products of the Initial Will of Love—that being the first Will of the Lords to create a Plane of Existence out of a Love for our existence. From the start, the Lords envisioned a reality where we exist in our free-flowing forms, and that this existence would spawn from the elongated shadow cast out of the divine Light the Lords stand within. This was, of course, soured by Deceptuary’s crippling fear of his existence being watered down or downright disappearing.

    As a result, as part of his overall schemes, Deceptuary aimed to pollute that very Initial Will in hopes of destroying Love and forcing an End to our existence. With that, he would hope—however futile that hope was—that he could overtake the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, devour their attributes, and become an abhorrent, bloated, and arrogant amalgamation of all the Lords and reform reality in his depraved image so that he would eternally be worshipped and remembered.

    As we tie this back to current affairs, we can trace the rapid decline in Human empathy today directly to Deceptuary’s constant meddling in the Spectrum; he has been actively polluting mortal humans in particular with his influence with the goal of inflicting enough fear within us to cloud our spiritual connections to the resonance of the Order. This pollution has then led to the rapid loss of the Initial Will of Love. Deceptuary possesses no such Will, and explicitly hopes that his followers act without such a power as well. For what he wishes to obtain, heinous and abhorrent actions must be taken, and those actions can only be enacted without Love or empathy in place.

    We see this every day in the prevalence of wars started by arrogant leaders that have led to the mass slaughtering of people. We see humans willingly deprive their fellow kin of rights, liberty, access to food, to healthcare, and to dignity in general. We’ve seen governments commit mass atrocities against their own people, or have committed evil acts against others by dehumanizing them and treating them like pawns in a greater scheme of theigrited evil. All of these are examples of Humans lacking Human empathy and willing to do unjust and often depraved acts of evil against fellow Humans.

    This is the provoked Death of Empathy that the Theigriet is responsible for. As he pollutes our world with his influence, the hearts of Humans succumb to an evil so foul that a father would turn against their own son if said son diverges from the vision of the father. We’d see a parent disown their own child over personal decisions. We’d see a person willing to commit acts of violence against their own community in the name of Deceptuary’s evil. It is because of this lack of empathy that these actions are able to be carried out.

    Naturally, that is one of the many purposes the Ordinance exists—to combat this evil and lack of empathy. As the familiar Xyphoist saying goes, theigrits will inevitably destroy upon themselves through their own Hubris, but it is up to us in the Ordinance to set up the ideal conditions to let them fall into their own abyss while also preserving existence in the assuredly abrasive aftermath. While he shall attempt to defile our worlds with hate and fear, it is assured his own Hubris will be his downfall, as is true of all theigrits who wish to follow in his footsteps. We, however, must do our part to create the bed for which the rest of us shall lie in as the sky begins to fall around those that chose to forsake their own Love for Deceptuary’s fear and hate.

    —crX