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  • Commentary 99: The Innate Personality Flaw, Corruption, and the wanton harm of Evil

    Greetings, yet again, from the Order and Ordinance. Welcome all. We’re back on our Sacred Day to continue our psychological analysis of the Innate Personality Flaw and how, through our Philosophy, the condition opens up the floodgates to corruption and its consequences. So far, we’ve explained what the condition itself is and how it exists and how this condition has facilitated the infiltration of Deceptuary’s corruption. Today, we move further down the pit and shall cover how this condition coupled with corruption creates cases of wanton and intentional harm without our realms.

    For this portion of this discussion, we now bring in two other terms associated with the greater conversation on corruption: tainted status and evil. Using the definitions derived from the Xyphokron, let’s just briefly give the definition of both. The state of being tainted simply means that one is knowingly corrupted—as in, a person is inflicted with corruption and is aware they are inflicted with it. Someone who is in this state may commit immoral acts knowingly but won’t necessarily believe what they’re doing is considered immoral or harmful despite it still being harmful to themselves or others. Evil, on the other hand, goes a step further and combines the state of being corrupted, being tainted, and then adds the final variable of intentionally creating harm. People who are evil commit immoral and heinous acts on purpose with the intended goal of causing or spreading suffering to others.

    Using our rough sketch from the previous Commentary, we can quickly see how the Innate Personality Flaw plays into the cases of wanton suffering. We identified both fear and hubris as key factors of the Innate Personality Flaw, and both of those factors run directly into the desire to commit acts of intentional suffering. Looking back, we can identify three main Immoral Acts that would directly lead into committing evil actions: The Immoral Acts of Belligerent Force, Self-Righteous Punishment, and Worldly Self-Obsession.

    Right away, directly causing violent, sexual, or coercive harm against someone to meet an end is an immediate act of evil. There isn’t much room to interpret inflicting violence against someone to meet a self-serving goal as anything short of evil. Those that are tainted will often rely on such tactics in the pursuit of whatever goals they hope to achieve regardless if they feel any concern for the harm they cause. Those seeking to commit evil use this case as their primary tool to and will often create suffering whether it meets a goal or not. There are cases of senseless or maniacal violence that seem to serve no other purpose but to inflict mindless pain upon others, and those acts are clear examples of evil.

    In more diabolical cases, corrupted beings will rely on this violence to carefully and meticulously inflict pain and suffering others while also seeking goals that line up or give way for that violence to take place. Cases of war, enslavement or genocides, creating caste or political systems designed to oppress various groups, and the propping of whole societies hellbent on committing abhorrent and often clandestine acts of are cases of planned evil. In all of these cases, the Hubris fact of the Innate Personality Flaw plays a huge role in propelling those evil acts.

    Following along with those cases of planned evil, the Immoral Act of Self-Righteous Punishment goes hand-in-hand with planned evil, using that sin to punish all dissenters or “undesirables” that seek to get in the way of a greater evil scheme. Finally, nearly all cases of this planned evil relates to cases of World Self-Obsession—that is, the individual(s) that head or plan these evil systems are driven by a sense of moral superiority or narcissistic behavior.

    An underlining aspect of those planned evil systems is the fear factor. At the root of Hubris is still fear—mirroring Deceptuary’s pathetic fears. While the acts of evil are fueled by Hubris brought by the Innate Personality Flaw, those that create these systems are inflicted with a fear of some sort—usually fear of power loss, relevance, or Death.

    Sound familiar? That’s EXACTLY what drives Deceptuary’s whole scheme. He is fearful and consumed with by his own powers; he fears irrelevance and lack of power. Deceptuary’s powers are cannibalistic, and anyone inflicted by his influence slowing eat away at themselves and all that are sucked into their vortex of horrors. We see this case in its purest form regarding the Cario Lordes who, as ethereal spirits with no physical vessels like mortals, slowly rot away from the infliction of corruption and must cannibalize or meld together in the pits of Cariyov as a desperate attempt to stave off their inevitable spiritual rot and self-annihilation. In our physical realm, our mortal vessels internalize that circumstance as the corruption rots away at the soul and causes the Self to commit immoral and abhorrent actions as a reflection of the soul rot that is taking place inside the vessel.

    The Innate Personality Flaw that inflicts Humanity—the condition of being susceptible to corruption due to our lower levels of spiritual resonance—fuels acts of evil through that medium. Deceptuary is uniquely aware of this human condition and has targeted our world specifically for it. To his misfortune, his lack of understanding of Xyphojinami and his unwillingness to listen to the warnings of his other deity brethren that we worship as the Lords of the Xyphokonic Order have lead him to blindly and brazenly infiltrate a world he has no true grasp of in the only way he can: trying to break it.

    In the same way he garnished support for his first rebellion against the divine thrones, Deceptuary preyed on the depraved, desperate, and vulnerable to form an army against the Lords, and he’s running that strategy again with our mortal realms. However, despite being aware of the Prophecy, the Sacred Children, and being told of his futile efforts, Deceptuary himself is inflicted with the same hubris and fear that comes with the Innate Personality Flaw that we often suffer from, and his new scheme will end the same way as his initial rebellion: loss. As the old edict goes, theigrits will inevitably destroy upon themselves through their own hubris and fear. We, as followers of the Order, are tasked with setting up the conditions to let evil fail, protect the innocents in the aftermath, and bury evil in the graves they dug for all of us.

    We’ll end for now. In the final Sacred Day Post of Lord Saifaosé’s Period of Watching, we’ll put this outline to the paint and fill in the spaces by giving examples of evil and how the Innate Personality Flaw has facilitated those specific cases. Until then, let us enjoy the rest of our Sacred Day!

    —voX, jzX, crX

  • Commentary 98: How the Innate Personality Flaw facilitates Corruption

    Greetings and welcome back to the Order and Ordinance. We’re back again on this Sacred Day to continue our dive into the inner workings of the Innate Personality Flaw that heavily inflicts Humanity and how such a condition leads to corruption. That will be the focus of today’s Commentary. Last time, we properly defined what the Innate Personality Flaw is and how it comes to be; today, we’re going to show how corruption comes about as a result of such a condition existing.

    For this explanation, there’s no better brush to begin painting this toxic picture of corruption than through the fundamentals of Xyphoist Morality; we have at our disposal the 7 Immoral Acts laid out by the Nine Lords themselves to use as guidelines for this explanation. I’ll be going through each of those 7 Immoral Acts and explain how the Innate Personality Flaw that brings about openings for corruption to infiltrate leads to potentially committing one or more of those acts.

    First, I want to simply reiterate that, as a basis, the Innate  Personality Flaw that inflicts Humanity leads predominately to such conditions as Hubris and Fear; those two conditions will be the principal causes for corruption taking hold and for people inflicted with said corruption to then commit immoral acts. With that in mind, let’s go through each Immoral Act and illustrate the cause and effect properties of the Innate Personality Flaw.

    Immoral Act of Obtaining Immortality

    We start with the act of trying to obtain immorality or a state of suspended spirituality. The very act itself aims to create a cosmic stasis that doesn’t allow free spirituality to flow between the various realms of the Spiritual Spectrum—directly putting existing in peril as that Cosmic Flow is necessary to keep reality stable.

    Someone who tries to become immortal is driven by both Hubris and Fear—namely of Death. They may also be bathed in hedonistic or compulsive behavioral patterns and simply cannot fathom a reality where their seeking of endless pleasures would come to an end. Here, we see how the Innate Personality flaw creates the conditions for this Immoral Act. A person, inflicted with corruption, may feel “small” or “inadequate” on the grander scale, may not take Lord Kyaien’s gift of Life to its true meaning, and therefore fears the end of their own existence. Naturally, this may also compound with another Immoral Act—that being World Self-Obsession—as those who are corrupted often commit multiple sins in tandem.

    Unwanted Proselyting and Preaching

    This sin is heavily dependent on that condition of Hubris and practically a built-in part of most of the Theigrited Philosophies themselves as they are derived from the Theigrit himself. The mentality behind this particular Immoral Act is arrogance and the refusal to respect the differences of other philosophies. Those that seek to preach their own philosophy and especially seek to convert others to them—especially if that conversion is forced—actively disregard the Spiritual Liberty of others.

    In our Philosophy, as we mentioned Time and Time again, the Lords have guaranteed that all beings have Spiritual Liberty to believe in whatever they wish with no punishment for not being a follower of the Order. Those that seek to preach, proselytize, or convert others actively spit in the face of that universal liberty, and such a mentality comes from incredible heights of arrogance and pride—in other words Hubris. The Innate Personality flaw coupled with the medium of corruption can lead people to believe that their beliefs are not only higher than others, but that all must submit to those beliefs, and that force can be used to achieve that.

    Using belligerent force to meet an End or Goal

    Next, we move to the use of violence or coercion and exploitation. Using physical violence, sexual abuse, exploitative or mentally abusive coercion once again usurps Spiritual Liberty and actively causes harm to others. In this case, we step into the category of Evil, which is defined under Xyphoist Philosophy as being corrupted, tainted, and willfully causing harm. Using that formula alone shows that in order to do such evil acts, one would have to be corrupted and knowingly so first.

    Here we can see both Hubris and Fear playing together as conditions of the Innate Personality Flaw in action. The arrogance to usurp the liberty of another through such violent or belligerent acts is also a desperate act of fear. Someone who uses such actions is so fearful of not obtaining their self-serving goals that they resort to the lowest and most destructive of behaviors to achieve those outcomes.

    Punishing Others Self-Righteously

    We move to the Immoral Act of punishing others for not following a particular moral code or set of beliefs. To add Xyphoist context for those unfamiliar, in the Philosophy ONLY shall the Lords administer Divine Punishment through their explicit divine mechanisms. As such, no one else can punish another for disobeying a moral code of any origin and not face that Divine Punishment as well. Once again, we see evil may play a role in this if the punishment is belligerent, and we can once again attribute that to usurping Spiritual Liberties.

    We can directly link this sin to Fear and Hubris in tandem. One would have to believe themselves on the level or in the stead of a God to think themselves capable to punish others in the name of divine intervention. They also would fear any disobedience on both a systemic and personal level to feel the need to anoint themselves the punisher of others for philosophical or religious reasons. Once again, we see the Innate Personality Flaw at work along with possible inferiority and superiority complexes at play psychologically.

    Habitual Intoxication

    Next, we come to the Immoral Act of habitual intoxication of the body and mind—namely boiling down to addictions so compulsive they not only cause harm to the individual inflicted with them but to those around them as well. We see this lesson within “Xykozheiz” with the tale of Benavuer Talakaizin—one of Deceptuary’s human apostles of corruption who aided in the creation of one of Deceptuary’s mortal vessels. That vessel, the Goblet of Intoxication, was created after Talakaizin was inflicted with severe levels of corruption from abusing alcohol stolen from the neighboring village cathedral. In his intoxicated state, Talakaizin forced his own beloved lover into the church, murdered her, and used that abhorrent act to create the Goblet as a vessel under Deceptuary’s possession.

    This tale gives us a glimpse at the destructive powers of addiction; the habitual intoxication lead to horrendous outcomes for everyone around Talakaizin. This is paralleled in our modern timeline, as we have ample examples of how addition has put strain and tragedy in the personal lives of billions of people across this planet. Perhaps losing a loved one to addiction, or a fatal car crash in which an intoxicated driver crashes into and kills a family in another vehicle or even anyone in the driver’s vehicle too.

    The corruption of intoxication spreads harm in a myriad of ways, and for this particular Immoral Act, Fear is root cause. Habitual intoxication is predominately used to escape from reality—particularly situations that are harsh or hard to cope with. Addictions are limited to simply substances such as alcohol or drugs, but can extend to other behavioral escapes such as digital addictions, physical exertions such as overworking or overexercising, and so many other cases of trying to escape from reality. If done to such a level where it becomes harmful, those acts are corrupted by way of Fear—the fear of raw reality with no buffers in place.

    Worldly Self Obsession

    The next Immoral Act can be boiled down to excessive narcissism. The Act of extreme self-obsession and narcissism often leads to dangerous levels of selfish behavior and an acute lack of concern or care for the lives or conditions of others. People inflicted with this corruption are often willing to sacrifice others for their own personal gain. We can see things such a greed or envy also fall into this sin, as greed is driven from obsessive and selfish behaviors, and envy is driven from the lack of having what others may have and willingness to act harmfully to undermine or to even take those from others as a result.

    One would think that Hubris is the key aspect of this sin, but it’s actually Fear. Those that are self-obsessed—much like the Theigriet—fear sharing existence with others or being seen as “irrelevant. Those narcissistic behaviors are a direct reaction to a fear of lack of prominence within existence. And so while the resulting behaviors may come off as conceited, arrogant, prideful, or haughty, the root is actually an acute fear of irrelevance. The Innate Personality Flaw’s circumstance within Humanity being the lowest in spiritual power among mortals plays a major role in this particular Immoral Act.

    Humanity, over time, has suffered a severe inferiority complex in regards to the greater celestial beyond. We often feel insignificant on a cosmic, and that has lead to the desire to place humanity on a pedestal beyond that upgrades our tangible existence to godlike levels to compensate. The fear of insignificance is the root cause, and those outside of this Order are perhaps the most likely to fall to this Immoral Act. Part of being a Xyphoite means accepting that Humanity is what we are. The Philosophy actively tells us, as followers of the Order, to discard that Self Obsession for the Greater Will and the Order.

    Dividing the Xyphozons or trying to become a sole God

    Finally, we reach the Immoral Act of trying to divide the organs of the Order itself and subsequently trying to create some form of “ultimate singular god” status. This is Deceptuary ultimate goal. To cope with his fear of irrelevance, Deceptuary declared during his argument with the Nine Lords of the Order that he intends to engulf them and become an ultimate god. Lord Pharuuii explicitly warned Deceptuary that such a goal would destroy existence and would also destroy Deceptuary himself. Deceptuary handwaved the warning, blinded hy his own Hubris, and carried on with his first rebellion anyway; he was handed his first major defeat as a result.

    It goes without saying that trying to disembowel an organ system—particularly one that is holding all of existence together and is the creator of said existence—is catastrophic by default. Much like believing one can live without a liver or kidneys or a heart, the Order is a unified body and all organs of it function to maintain existence itself.

    Those that seek this type of corruption are heavily inflicted with Hubris above all else, and are often linked directly to Deceptuary himself, as he has a direct interest in the destruction of the Order by any means possible. Likewise, emissaries of this corruption are so steeped in Hubris that a universal god that strips Spiritual Liberty away in exchange for ultimate power is something they are willing to accept at their own detriment. In that case, Fear of the unknown versus an attachment to a singular but authoritative being plays directly into the Innate Personality Flaw.

    Conclusion

    By going through each of the 7 Immoral Actions, we can how the Innate Personality Flaw opens the floodgates for corruption to cause people to commit these Immoral Acts. Moving forward, we can use this rough sketch to continue painting our painting on how corruption is facilitated by the Innate Personality Flaw. However, that next step in this painting shall wait until we rejoin here again. As such, have a great rest of your Sacred Day!

    —voX, jzX

  • Commentary 97: Explaining the Innate Personality Flaw

    Greetings, Welcome all, back to the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. It is my pleasure to rejoin you as the Commentary lead for Lord Saifaosé’s lone Period of Watching for the year. For this Period, I have four official Sacred Day Posts at my disposal, and I intend to use them painting somewhat of a picture on what we’ll call the “spiritual psychology of evil.” As Yrridthmas and the immense rush of corruption have taken front stage, I found it crucial to better flesh out how and why Deceptuary’s evil is being conducted in our current place in the Cosmic Struggle. We’ll eventually end this on pointing out current examples of evil current going on in our world, but we must first build the final stage for that by explaining each level of the metaphorical poisoned painting first.

    Today, we’ll start with better explaining what exactly the “Innate Personality Flaw” is within Xyphoist understanding and how such a circumstance even came about in the first place. To more directly define this concept, the Innate Personality Flaw is a spiritual condition that acutely inflicts Humanity—although it isn’t entire exclusively to Humankind. The spiritual condition itself essentially leads predominately humans to fall to Hubris and corruption by way of our naturally lower spiritual resonance. Along with our lower resonance, Deceptuary has specifically targeted humankind in his nefarious scheme to infiltrate and poison Xyphojinami—seeing the vulnerability of our souls as a means of reaching that goal.

    However, it becomes quite easy to simply pin the blame on the Theigriet in every and all case when there are systematic aspects at work that naturally facilitate the case of the Innate Personality Flaw. Part of the point of these Commentaries is not only to teach of the Philosophy and create a free record of this information and insight for any interested reader to read, but also to ask important questions that both challenge this very Philosophy of ours and to understand the full metaphysics and resistibility of our Order itself. Therefore it’s crucial to mention that, through the guarantees of the Lords themselves, the Innate Personality Flaw is cosmically allowed to take place to keep our assured Spiritual Liberties in place. As mentioned in many of our past Commentaries and of course in the Xyphokron itself, Spiritual Liberty is one of the key tenets of the Xyphoist Philosophy, and so the various attributes of several of the Lords facilitates that guaranteed liberty.

    Specifically, we point to Lord Kyaien, Giver of our gift of Life and Free Will. As it is Her “parting gift” to mortalized spirits who are moving into Xyphojinami to become mortal beings with souls, there is no expectation from Lord Kyaien Herself as to how we are to live our lives. She creates Life, gifts that Life Free Will, and sets the Life free in Xyphojinami. Naturally, the attributes of the other Lords act upon that life we enjoy, and because of that, the liberty we enjoy also runs parallel to those other attributes. We, mortal beings living Life, are still ruled by the conditions of Lord Nakndes’s Natural Flow, and so any overzealousness that challenges the creating force of our own vessels shall be met with the consequences of our own Hubris.

    If you’re picking up on where we’re heading towards, if you take this Free Will of ours, pair it with Natural Force, and then add Deceptuary’s defiled attributes of corruption—formally Divergency—and Fear, and then finally throw that up against humankind who has a weaker resistance to such forces, you get…the Innate Personality Flaw. It’s somewhat of a spiritual formula that creates this condition, but one that is a combination of several divine or deity-level forces interacting with each other on our plane of existence.

    It’s for this reason that such things as Lord Vuetenexzyei’s Eternal Death and Lord Kurakku’s Wrathful Punishment exist, to essentially bleed out that corruption in Xyphojinami and capture those loose appendages of Deceptuary in Hell forever. In terms of the remaining Lords and their attributes, we can fight off and aid in that chambering of corruption by seeking Lord Pharuuii’s Realmly Truths and bringing Mercy and being empathetic through Lord Carnyie’s Purity. We do that by recognizing when our Reality is being broken through understanding Lord Caspierre’s Manifestation of it, and take action and cast our Spirits through the movement of Lord Caishor’s Elemental Force. Finally, we must always remember that all of this must be done in a Timely matter and done with Love in mind and as the final result—as the Initial Will of our Existence is and shall always be the Lords’ Love for existence itself.

    It’s very fitting that we spent the last two periods going over the nine Sacred Lessons to help us paint a picture of what it truly means to be a complete Xyphoite, and how we use this full image of ourselves to identify the Innate Personality Flaw of humanity and how we can work to overcome it and fight off corruption and finally chamber it in Xyzokizon’s core so that our existence shall no longer be under cosmic threat.

    We’ll use this Commentary as somewhat of a blueprint to help map out where we move to from here. Understanding exactly what the Innate Personality Flaw is will help us in our next step of explaining corruption itself. However, we’ll leave that next step for the next Sacred Day Post. Until then, have a great rest of your Sacred Day!

    —voX