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  • Commentary 67: Free Will and the Capacity for Evil

    “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 10th 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

  • Commentary 66: A Lord of Rules, a Teacher of Troubles, and a Child of Wonder

    Breathe,

    Nature’s Sacred Tree.

    We shall heed your dynasty.

    Allow us to breath.

    Bear new fruit, stem adorned in thorns.

    (Praise the Lord, Praise Her work, Old Sacred Tree)

    Ancient roots, soil of true seeds.

    Let them lay and roost.

    Her Fruit, Divine Child…nurtured so sweet.

    Prick the thorn, but be warned of what Nkes shall teach.

    Creating root, Destroying root, Reincarnated in sleep.

    Nature stirs and relieves.

    Rebirth thy roots, regain youth and verdant green.

    Praise the Child, Her Reincarnated Root.

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    Greetings, once again, from the Order and Ordinance. Welcome, and thank you for joining us on the last of Lord Nakndes’s Sacred Days. As mentioned before, we shall use this final entry for this Period to go over the Nakndsian Xyphozon and its three key figures—That being the Lord, the Hayle, and the Sacred Child, of course.

    You have noticed we also started this entry with a Hymn. This is the Hymn of the Sacred Child of Nature, Niinkisia; it is aptly entitled “Niinkisia, Child of Nature,” and through its lyrics you can decipher a tale of the Lord’s Nature, symbolized as a tree bearing fruit with a stem covered in thorns. The Fruit, which symbolizes both the Child and us as spiritual beings, shall head the warning of Hayle Nkes that the Lord’s power shall not be conquered. It will reward us with rebirth and verdancy so long as we shall not test it, and we shall be met with destructive rot if we do. With that explanation out of the way, let’s begin the overview.  

    We start with the Lord of Nature and Reincarnation, Lord Nakndes. Lord Nakndes is described in Daetos’s Recount as being adorned in verdant greenery, full of life and sincerity—with vines and flowers entangling Her body. A wonder to behold, the Lord is the linchpin and creator of Nature, and as such, is the “creating force” for the medium we flow from as mentioned in previous Commentary. She is the root of all Nature and the force behind the rules in which our vessels. We have stated previously that Nature’s main power is to act as a medium or force for other attributes to enact their powers in a Cosmic Flow; this ensures that the flow of spirituality is continuous and that the attributes work in tandem with the Cosmos its flexing across the Spectrum. Because of the rebirth of excess spirituality through the attribute of Nature, the Lord allows us to navigate this Cosmic Flow at her behest.

    There is, of course, a being that serves the Lord and ensures that this medium remains unchallenged, and that is the powerful Hayle Nkes. Once a powerful Shiupsyodon known as the “Master of Maelstroms,” Nkes had a knack for stirring up spiritual forces and causing havoc with her immense power. This act would eventually be used to stir spirituality in a constant flow to avoid utter collapse from Deceptuary’s initial vandalism and stagnation of the realms. Nkes and her legions took it upon themselves to try and save existence through these swift actions, and Nkes was late rewarded with Sacred Spirituality and anointed as Lord Nakndes’s Hayle for this quick thinking. It was here, in this capacity, that Nkes was given the honor of mentoring the Child of Nature, and in her Sacred Lesson, “Natural Rebirth,” she would go on to teach Niinkisia of the power of Nature and why it should never be conquered as doing so would lead to eradication of the one who attempts to.

    Moving to the Child, Sacred Child Niinkisia, Child of Nature, is the fruit of Lord Nakndes with the consenting spirituality of Lord Carnyie. This spiritual combination of Nature and Purity created a Child of whimsy, wonder, pure intentions, and unwavering empathy. From a younger age, Niinkisia is described as whimsical yet dull-eyed Child. However, behind such a lofty and floaty shell holds a Child of incredible perception and care. A Child of wonder, Niinkisia would roam the Gardens of Evernleth with Nkes and question the force of Nature. He hold a flower adorned in thorns and ask of its purpose.  Nkes carefully warned Niinkisia that the flower was not a mechanism of his wonder, and that Niinkisia should tread carefully as the thorns shall prick his delicate hands. Niinkisia would go on to ask what would happen if he or someone else would challenge these thorns; Nkes curtly replied that they would be eradicated by Nature’s power. Niinkisia, much more perceptive than his dulled eyes would let on, immediately deduced that one day, beings of evil would attempt to challenge nature, which Nkes then confirmed would be the case before stating that it was Niinkisia’s purpose in Life to help prevent that outcome. To the shock of Nkes, Niinkisia then immediately pricked his finger against the flower’s thorns and stated that he wanted to feel what the pain of Nature’s power, as that would be the way he shall know when it is time to act on his Sacred role and intervene. Through this pain, Niinkisia wanted to understand why the beauty of Nature is protected by Nature’s wrath—why the flower is shielded by the thorns.

    Through this overview, you can see all the parts of the Lord’s Nature in play. The Lord Herself is the Creating Force, Nkes acts as the Trifling Force, and the Child—as the Lord’s Incarnate—is the Reincarnating Force. Through the Sacred Lesson, we see the Child learn of the Rotting Force through the pricking of the finger on the flower’s thorn. The verdancy of nature, the beauty of it, shall never be conquered by Hubris, and so shall we at the Ordinance fight on behalf of this Greater Will for that cause.

    Thank you, readers, for joining me on this Period-long discussion of Nature. It’s been a pleasure to pen this series, and I shall lead the Commentary again next year on the Lord’s Period of Watching. As I sign off, I shall wish you all a beauty and wondrous Sacred Day!

    —lnX

  • Commentary 65: Nature, the Rotting Force

    Greetings once again from the Order and Ordinance! We return with our Periodic series about Nature as we go through the variety of incarnations of its powers. As you  have probably noticed by now, we’ve been covering Nature by its “forces” or forms—starting with Nature as the creating force, moving its trifling force, onward to its reincarnating force, and now finally we are met with the logical conclusion of Nature as the rotting force. So, let us investigate this aspect of Nature.

    As we know by now, all things shall enjoy their eventual end, as is the Nature of Spiritual Ends guaranteed by Lord Vuetenexzyei. In the case of Nature, those ends are facilitated by the laws in which Nature creates for us. We explained the creating aspect, a Spiritual Beginning, so with a beginning there shall be an end. After all of creation, the trifling aspects of it, the reincarnation of excess spirituality, there shall then be the logical end.

    While discussing the trifling force of Nature, we mentioned how Natural Force determines how something dies or what would be considered deadly within Nature. When it comes to Death in our environment, Nature is once again used as the general medium to conduct that attribute. In the case of the mortal, that medium is the vessel. We, as mortals and more specifically Humans, have corporeal vessels—our bodies. We are born as infants, we grow into adults, eventually there is a point where our bodies begin to age to the point where our cells will no longer replace themselves at the rate that cells shall die out, and that signals the start of the decay of the vessel. Assuming a Human lives a long life and dies simply of Natural causes, the laws of Nature determine that the vessel can no longer sustain itself and Death of the vessel occurs. The vessel loses grip of the soul, and the soul is taken to the Afterlife by the Reaping Angels of Death. That is the course of Death through the medium of Nature as understood in Xyphoist Philosophy. It is natural for the vessel to eventually decay and let go of the soul—in fact, it is necessary to keep the spiritual and cosmic cycle going.

    But what about cases where the vessels fails by unnatural means? Say, a car crash or other sudden accident or perhaps even suicide or murder. These are cases where the actions of oneself or that of someone else caused the Death of a mortal. But is it still a “natural death” in those cases? Although the Death is still foreseen by the Lord of Death and by extension, Hayle Kizu, the Foreseer of Death, it is not considered a Natural Death in Xyphoist Philosophy and often one where corruption or simply dubious divergence has claimed a life. In the cases of accidental Death, it can be a case of Cosmic flex simply dishing out an unfortunate but random Death. Murder, however, is always considered an unnatural Death. There are some exceptions where the killing was in self-defense, in which case that would be a Death of Cosmic Retribution. But in cases of cold-blooded or malevolent murder, that is both unnatural and an Immoral Act—namely Belligerent Force. Suicide is a case of corrupted Death, in which the Psyche is poorly-cared for and struck with illness, prompted one to take their own life. This isn’t itself a sin, but does highlight the importance of managing one’s mental faculties. There are exceptions of Dignified Death, in which one chooses Death as a means to die on their own terms and with dignity, such as assisted suicide for terminal illnesses. This is not considered either natural or unnatural and simply a case of Mercy, which follows more along with kyX’s area of expertise.

    Regardless, in all of these cases, Nature has set up the conditions to set the eternal reality of Death in motion. To put things more simply: Nature allows our vessels to die so that our souls, sans any unjust wrathful torture, shall move onto the Afterlife and not become demented in the process. As we’ve seen in this series, through all the various incarnations of Nature, we recognize Nature by its fundamental root: the medium in which existence forms on. The conductor or the chef, and the one who gets to stir the Cosmos.

    With that said, we will conclude our series on Nature here for the Period. It has been a joy to go through Nature on this level. In our final installment for the Period, we will hold true to the tradition and have an overview of the Nakndsian Xyphozon and its key figures. Until then, have a great rest of your Sacred Day!

    —lnX, crX