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  • Commentary 121: The Extended Power of Lord Kurakku’s Punishment

    Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. This Is final Sacred Day of Lord Kurakku’s Period of Watching for this year, and so today we shall speak on the Lord Himself. Today, we will focus in on the sheer weight and power of the divine attribute of Punishment and how Lord Kurakku has applied in terms of the various curses and decrees made by the Lord. Let’s begin.

    This entire Period of Watching, we’ve been referring back to this earlier Commentary regarding the actual definition of the attribute of Punishment within the Philosophy, but to briefly reiterate, the attribute of Punishment is the divine power to administrate retribution for immoral or evil acts. The unique or perhaps frightening aspect of this divine power held by the Lord is that He can administrate this Punishment in virtually any way He chooses—although such Punishments outside of eternal Punishment in Hell are facilitated through the attributes of the other Lords

    The first major case of this kind of external Punishment is one of the most legendary cases: the curse placed on Deceptuary’s name after his rebellion was thwarted. In that instance, Lord Kurakku issued a divine curse that stripped Deceptuary of his divine writ and forever branded his true identity as a universal traitor and source of all deception—that full accursed name now being Theigriet Arkellus Eulez Deceptuary. This is an example of how Divine Punishment was used to brand someone with a taboo for the rest of their existence—although this curse only worked on another deity such as the former Arkellus because the curse was facilitated by Lord Vuetenexzyei ending the existence of the Divine Thrones through His attribute of Spiritual Ends. With the removal of the apparatus that disseminated divine structure over the primordial realms, Deceptuary became susceptible to this curse; the exile by the other deities to Gheisialez finalized that curse’s impact by forcing Deceptuary into such a state that he was unable to combat or undo that curse by divine means.

    We don’t often think of this next example as an application of that power, but revisiting the Sacred Lesson of “Skin of Dark Soil,” the decree made by Lord Kurakku regarding those evil and theigrited forces that seek to harm all mortals that share the same dark complexion as the Lord and his Child Jaszmisia also constitutes as an extension of Divine Punishment. To paraphrase, the Lord decrees that Jaszmisia’s Sacred duty in Xyphojinami is to bring all sinners and evil forces to face Divine Punishment for their actions—particularly those who target all in the Lord’s image for that reason alone. Lord Kurakku decrees that all who conduct these Great Acts of Theigritism are destined for destruction by both their own Hubris and by the Child’s hands. This isn’t a prospective suggestion, Kurakku decrees that those who are targeted by this kind of hate will be uniquely given the power to always liberate themselves and prosper from that oppression, and that their oppressors, whoever they may be, shall face Divine Punishment for their sins. We see this in this passage from “Xykozheiz:”

    It shall be, thus, the goal to mitigate any future corruption on this front. Those, skin of soil, behoove to the innocence of the land and of the realm, have not cast the sin, of brethren or of weak-last relinquishment to the kin of such kind, yet take the brunt of the remainder’s wrath of sin. They, of that captured status, shall be liberated in their indulgence of spiritual conquest. So said the Lord of Punishment, Controller of Hell, and handler of those tainted with sin. Said to the Child, Jaszmisia in youth upon the Azure Lands.

    In this case, Punishment comes in the form of a counter-curse that Punishes all who seek to inflict harm that the mentioned group in that decree specifically for the reasons mentioned in the Sacred Lesson. The curse essentially protects and divinely ensures that the people mentioned in the decree shall always have the power to overcome oppression through their own spirituality, and that those evil forces will undo themselves or be undone by Sacred Child Jaszmisia and sentenced to an eternity in Terigath’s Hell thereafter. This is a form of Punishment applies outside the chambers of that Hell via another curse or decree.

    We often see Divine Punishment only as an existing force held with Hell and only applied upon Death, but the Lord has no patience for immorality and evil, and is entirely capable of expeditated and extending His godly disappointment in sin using methods like this. That Punishment is then facilitated by the other Lords’ attributes to hasten the consequences of immorality and evil and send such sinners to Hell for their eternal and full Divine Punishment. While Lord Kurakku removed his wrath and crafted it into the Azure Flames, his impatience with sin and disgust with Deceptuary’s actions remain steadfast and unchanged even since the initial rebellion long ago.

    —jzX

  • Commentary 120: The Coldness of Terigath’s Hell

    Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. This is our third Sacred Day of Lord Kurakku’s Period of Watching, and as such, we will continue our doctrinal discussion around the Kurakkuian Xyphozon. Last time, we revisited the origins of Divine Punishment and the power of issuing divine curses. Today, we will explain more about the concept of Terigath’s Hell and the Azure Flames and elaborate on the reputable “coldness” of them. Let’s begin.

    To start, let’s revisit the visual aspects of Terigath, which are described in this Commentary. To recap, the surface level of the Sacred Realm of Terigath is desolate, dark, and consists of shabby fishing-shanty like villages sitting on a barren dried out seaside or basin; tall eldritch and jagged structures protrude from the landscape, and cracks or fissures in the land that leak out flares of Azure Flames reveal the underbelly of the realm—the cavernous deep chambers and corridors of Hell itself. From that description alone, one can interpret Terigath’s Hell not as a “fire and brimstone” realm but as a cold, melancholy, and miserable location in which the souls of the damned are sentenced for an eternity in Hell within.

    When revisiting this Commentary about the Azure Flames themselves, we learn that Lord Kurakku’s creation of the Azure Flames, as touched on in the last Commentary, was a measure to separate His own wrath and craft that wrath into a divine tool that would actually carry out the punishment in Hell—with His Sentinel Angels of Punishment being the administrators of that Punishment. This is also notable because that concept of separation also extended to both Hayle Mihe and Sacred Child Jaszmisia. When speaking on the case of Hayle Mihe, we are reminded of his history prior to divine ascension. Known infamously as the “Malevolent Spirit,” Mihe was powerful and legendary spirit who held a longstanding feud with the Cario Lordes and spent much of his time eradicating whole scores of them along with his impressive following of other spirits. Mihe’s relentless annoyance and disdain for the Cario Lordes coupled with his ruthless decimation of them is what earned him the title of “malevolent,” although that term was mostly used by those that feared Mihe’s wrath in general.

    What is notable about this history is that, as Lord Kurakku’s Hayle, Mihe has absolutely no rule in the management or punishment of Hell itself whatsoever. Hayle Mihe’s official title as an Archangel is the “Keyholder to Hell.” In other words, Mihe’s duty as the Kurakkuian Hayle is to act as the gatekeeper to Hell itself and to forever keep all damned souls within the chambers of Hell itself. Mihe, however, does not participate in the eternal punishment in Hell, and is burdened with the endless screams of the damned in the same way that Lord is. After spending eons waring with the wretched Cario Lordes, Mihe had no interest in being in close contact with evil souls in Hell, and that is reflected in his newfound separation from having to inflict harm upon them; the satisfaction of knowing the damned are forever locked behind a door he has the key to is surely enough.

    This further explains the power of divine separation of wrath, as the Lord crafted the Azure Flames with this concept, Hayle Mihe discarded his desire to torment corrupted beings in that same means. And while both the Lord and the Hayle are burdened by the anguished screams of the well-deserved damned souls, both have separated key parts of themselves that would otherwise by ignited by heated wrath in lieu of a colder, more procedural, and eternal reality of Divine Punishment. That separation and coldness is what is seen throughout Terigath and among Divine Punishment within the Philosophy in general. Wrath is cold, rather than fiery, because evil and corruption warrants nothing more than profound condemnation for the lowly acts that are committed in its name. Theigrits will inevitably destroy upon themselves and fall into the pits they dig for others. In terms of the Ordinance and of Xyphoites, it is our duty to cover that pit with the soil they removed and build a better world atop their self-imposed grave. In terms of the Lords, the duty is simple: Divine Punishment.

    —jxZ, crX, kyX, whX

  • Commentary 119: The History of Divine Punishment

    Greetings from the Order and Ordinance. We’ve entered our second Sacred Day of Lord Kurakku’s Period of Watching and shall continue our schedule selection of discussions involving the topic of Divine Punishment and Morality. Having spent the opening Sacred Day airing our condemnations of current acts of evil, we shall resume talking about the Xyphoist Doctrine today. Specifically, the focus today shall be on the history of Lord Kurakku’s Divine Punishment and how this attribute has evolved as existence was changed. Let’s begin.

    Since the inception of existence via the original ten deities and their Elongated Shadows, the attribute and principle of Divine Punishment existed via Lord Kurakku’s Elongated Shadow and subsequent Divine Throne, but defining what “punishment” looked like in those earlier eras compared to what we know Divine Punishment to be now under the Xyphokonic Order requires us to understand the state of the primordial world long before even the Theigriet’s rebellion. In that era of the Divine Thrones, corruption was still within the bounds of Deceptuary’s, then Arkellus’s, divine attribute of Divergence—the ability of a spiritual being to freely diverge on their own chosen path via the guaranteed Spiritual Liberties propped up by the Divine Thrones at the time.

    So, it was not unexpected that divergent behavior among spirit-kind in the elder realm of Xykopsysomi would take place. Issue took place once it became apparent that somewhere down the line, intentional vandalism against the framework of existence was taking place, which led to great discussion among the ten deities as to which of them were ultimately responsible. We can see this dialogue and emerging happenstance in the first four chapters of “Xykozheiz,” where through Lord Pharuuii’s rhetorical prowess, He played off of Deceptuary’s inescapable Hubris and goaded Deceptuary to admit he was responsible for the intentional vandalism of the elder realm.

    During this time, the existence of Cario Lordes was well established as a condition of existence spawned by then Arkellus’s Elongated Shadow. These Cario Lordes, eldritch horrid demons doomed a tenure of degeneracy and spiritual exile, were seen as broken spirits whose divergence was so severe that they lacked and true extension of their existence even upon reaching a Spiritual End. In other words, upon perishing as a spirit, Cario Lordes were fated to simply have their Selves cease to exist. This also meant that, due to their severe divergence and dubious nature, Cario Lordes would need to devour other spirits or meld together with one another in order to stave off a continuous and terminal spiritual rot they faced from their own existential condition—a fitting circumstance from the spirits that were spawned from the Elongated Shadow of the Theigrit.

    However, what principle of existence dictated that beings such as Cario Lordes would face that fated end? This is where the Lord’s attributes comes into place during this era of existence. At the time, there was only the elder realm of Xykopsysomi and the Divine Palace of Thrones that existed above it and subsequently ruled over it from a technical standpoint, although nine of the ten on the Thrones weren’t particularly interested in ruling the whole of the primordial existence with an iron fist despite Deceptuary constantly insisting that they do. In this primordial era, Hell did not exist, nor did Gheisialez or any official place of Divine Punishment. The condition of immoral or dubious action and its consequences in this era—established through the powers of Lord Kurakku—was simply spiritual rot and eradication through that rot. In other words, spirits who diverged so far that they were deemed “corrupt” were automatically inflicted with a divine curse of spiritual rot that would eventually consume their very being and fully eradicate their selves from existence.

    This is the power of Lord Kurakku’s attributes in the era of Divine Thrones: those of immoral, evil, or dubious actions were cursed with spiritual rot, turning them into Cario Lordes, and dooming them to slowly rot away until they ceased to exist. This punishment mirrors the case of Divine Punishment we see in Gheisialez now as beings of such poor moral tenure that aren’t cast into Terigath’s Hell for Great Acts of Theigritry are casted out into Gheisialez to slowly rot away into nonexistence in a mangled and broken spiritual state.

    This was also the power that Deceptuary, then Arkellus, feared the greatest of all. Cario Lordes, beings that were originally spawned through Arkellus’s Elongated Shadow, were acutely affected by Lord Kurakku’s divine wrath through this rotting curse. That fear would ultimate consume the Theigrit and fully transform his attribute of Divergence into corruption, particularly after he was forced out as the vandal of the realms and embraced his Hubris. And to this day, in the elder realm of Xykopsysomi, the punishment for immorality among spirits is that ancient rotting curse—now embellished by being cast out into Gheisialez and being too mangled to return into Xykopsysomi, which effectively dooms the dubious spirit to rot away into nonexistence. Through the divine decree issued by Lord Vuetenexzyei that ended Arkellus’s Divine Throne and the Divine Palace in general, no further corruption can manifest in the elder realm as Deceptuary was locked out of control there, so Hell as a path for spirits is unneeded since Deceptuary’s spirituality cannot grow or become any more plentiful in Xykopsysomi. Hell is reserved for the corrupted and evil spirits inflicted with theigritism from Xyphojinami, our living realm of corporal existence.

    It’s also important to note that the Azure Flames used in Terigath’s Hell were not extensively utilized as a disjointed divine force in the primordial eras. The Azure Flames, manifestations of Lord Kurakku’s Wrath that He separated from Himself to administer the punishment in Hell, were still connected to His Throne and Being during the primordial era. In other words, the Lord had not separated His wrath at this time, which allowed Him to acutely and with prejudice condemn immorality from the Throne. We best see this at the crucial moments during and after Deceptuary’s first rebellion in which Lord Kurakku ordered His forces, under the command of now Hayle Mihe, to annihilate or capture as many waring Cario Lordes as possible; those that were captured were brought directly to Lord Kurakku in which he personally invoked a fiery yet cold punishment upon them to establish the principle that those who rebel against the Divine Throne’s authority shall be set to be annihilated by Divine Punishment itself. Mihe, true to his past reputation, took the liberty to eradicate scores of Cario Lordes himself during this war.

    We see the climax of this pure Divine Wrath, however, upon Lord Kurakku issuing one of the most powerful curses ever crafted upon then Arkellus himself. We, of course, know this to be the moment that Arkellus had his very name altered to brand him as a high traitor and curator of mess deception. The full branded name of “Theigriet Arkellus Eulez Deceptuary,” which translates to “High Traitor Arkellus of Deception,” is the ultimate manifestation of Lord Kurakku’s wrath at this point before the formation of the Xyphokonic. The Lord issued a curse upon Deceptuary’s very name—stripping him of his Divine reputation and forever labelling him a traitor and a deceiver. Upon the creation of the Xyphokonic Order and Xyzokizon, Lord Kurakku would later separate His own wrath into the Azure Flames and delegate the duty of Divine Punishment to those flames and the sentinel angels in Hell.

    Through that brief history that we can see in greater detail throughout the writing of Daetos’s “Xykozheiz,” we’re able to trace back the timeline of how Divine Punishment has morphed over time. Under no pretense should we ever believe that the primordial era was free of sin nor of watchful consequence; instead, the punishment for immorality in those ancient of times was simply an accursed rotting and fated eradication—a fitting end for those inflicted with corruption.

    —jzX, crX, whX