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  • Commentary 75: The Evil of Ignorance

    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

  • Question: Are the Sacred Children Gods?

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We are once again joined here to enlighten ourselves and put our psyches to good use seeking out Realmly Knowledge. Today we explore the idea of godhood and the status of the Sacred Children in this. As the incarnations of the Nine Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, are the Sacred Children gods themselves? What is the Xyphoist answer to this? Let us go through this.

    When talking about godhood from a Xyphoist perspective, it’s important to understand that there is already a more detailed classification of spiritual beings that exists within the Philosophy. In this classification system, we have deities, angels, spirits, and mortals. From there, we run into subcategories of angels, spirits and mortals, but not deities. When it comes to the divine, the Philosophy only states that ten deities exist and that their combined spirituality is equal to that of the all of the rest of existence; the Philosophy goes on to state that those ten deities cast Elongated Shadows from the Initial Flash of Light to create the rest of existence. We refer to these beings, as a group, as deities.

    When it comes to terms such as “gods” or “lords,” the meaning or understanding of the term from a Xyphoist perspective changes. Noticeably, we refer to the nine deities that formed the Xyphokonic Order as “Lords,” but when we talk about their respective Divine Attributes and what parts of existence they rule over, we tend to call them “Gods.” From our perspective, attaching “lord” to someone simply means they are the ruler of something, such as a Xyphozon. God is usually used to denote a powerful being in which something spawns from or has great control over. In this regard, both the term “lord” and “god” aren’t specifically tied to divinity under the Xyphoist Philosophy, only “deity” is.

    So, to return to the original question, do we consider the Sacred Children Gods? The answer is as Xyphoist as you’d expect: you can if you want to. The Children are the incarnations of the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order, and through Consenting Spirituality, have shared divine heritage with another Lord. That means that none of the Sacred Children are purely descended or are direct incarnations, but that they are unquestionably divine in nature. They are the only mortals to host Sacred Spirituality, and they hold the power to destroy Deceptuary’s mortal vessels because of it.

    So, one could certainly call them gods if they wanted. From the Xyphoist perspective, it’s not common to refer to the Sacred Children as “gods” per say; we recognize them are divine mortals from the Lords, and we revere and celebrate them often times more than the Lords themselves, but we don’t usually refer to them as gods nor do we call them Lords. The Children are not the Lords of the Order, they are the children of the Lords in currently exist in mortal form. And because of this mortality, the Sacred Children can technically die, are fallible to many of the innate flaws of mortal status, all while still holding Sacred Spirituality.

    So, to conclude, in general we don’t consider the Sacred Children as “gods” exactly, nor would we refer to them as the “Lords” ever, but we do consider them divine beings who are descended from the actual Lords. One is certainly free to call them gods, but it would simply be a personal view of the term itself. The common Xyphoist perspective is to revere and adore the Sacred Children as Sacred Incarnates of the Lords, but not the Lords themselves. They also don’t specifically rule over us as divine leaders either, so there is no reason to refer to Children as Lords. However, like always, interpretation is free and welcome, as is the nature of the Philosophy in most cases.

    —phX

  • Question: What does “Xyphoism” mean or stand for anyway?

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We rejoin here to continue the expanding of the mind through Xyphoist Philosophy. As mentioned before, this Period is dedicated to asking questions and seeking answers regarding both existence and the Philosophy itself. As we’re under the watch of Lord Pharuuii currently, it would be natural for us to focus on Realmly Knowledge and the usage thereof. Today we answer a question about the Philosophy itself: What is Xyphoism anyway? We’ll go through why the Philosophy is named as it is, what it stands for, and from there you can draw further conclusions on your own about other parts of the Philosophy. Let us explore.

    “Xyphoism” is the name of the very Philosophy we Arch-Hayles Grandurate teach here in this Sacred ground, but it is not readily clear what that term even means as the wording isn’t rooted in any specific human language that we know of. This is a Realmly Philosophy—one that, in our perspective, goes far beyond any human language. Instead, it expands to the very origins of our known existence where the Philosophy dictates that the 10 deities emerged from a magnificent and ancient Light and cast their Elongated Shadow to create our existing realms.

    From that understanding, the name “Xyphoism” comes from the root term of “Xypho” or its plural of “Xyphos.” In this Philosophy, “Xypho” is broken down in two parts: “Xy” and “pho.” You will notice many of the terms found throughout the Philosophy use the base “Xy” in them. For example: Xyphokonic, Xykopsysomi, Xyphojinami, Xyphozon, Xyzokizon, etc. In the Philosophy, the word “Xy” simply means “spirit” or “spirituality.” When you add in “pho,” which is often written or said in conjunction with “fao” (a word associated directly with Lord Saifaosé’s namesake and therefore with Her central attribute of Love), you can piece together what the rudimentary meaning of “Xypho” is: Spiritual Love. Once the suffix of “ism,” which implies a distinctive doctrine or system of practice, your final product is “Doctrine of Spiritual Love” or more commonly “Love of Spirit.”

    In essence, that is the meaning of Xyphoism, a Love of Spirituality, and this phrase is a common understanding among Xyphoites as to what the meaning of “Xypho” is. More specifically, when the Philosophy says It is a “Love of Spirituality,” it is both referring to how we, the followers, should see the Philosophy itself, but more specifically this phrase is referring to the Nine Lords of the Xyphokonic Order and their Greater Will itself. The Greater Will of the Order is the equalization of the Spectrum to maintain existence, and this is the case because the Will of the Lords is the same as the Initial Will.

    For those who have followed along well, we all know that the “Initial Will” in Xyphoist Philosophy is Love; Love is the only Attachment to originate directly from within our Hearts, and is the most devastating to break. Love is the Initial Will of the Lords—they created this existence that we belong to because they Love existence and its ability to flourish before them. The Lords, in the Philosophy, cast out their Elongated Shadow to give an existence and purpose to a once void and disheveled wasteland of nothingness prior to their emerging from the Divine Light of the Initial Flash.  

    So, to briefly recap, when hearing the name of this Philosophy and religious moment, you can now know what the root of Its meaning is. Xyphoism is a Philosophy adhering to the Initial Will of Love that the Nine Lords of the Order have for maintaining existence. In the end, all of the major tenants of the Philosophy, the Cosmic Struggle the Order works to equalize, and truly every part of the Philosophy itself are all aimed at adhering to that single meaning: “Love for Spiritual existence.”

    —AHG, et al