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  • Commentary 18: Prayer with Practice Discussion “Wealth Accumulation”

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. It is the Caishon period of Auvriile, so we will be covering a short series of topics regarding the Xyphoist Principle of Practice.

    To recap, Xyphoist Practice is acting upon Xyphoist Philosophy and Xyphoist Prayer to enact tangible impacts to the goals of the Order. We actually Practice what we preach (without the preaching part, of course; that would be immoral except within Sacred Grounds). The very core of what we are supposed to do as Xyphoites is to put philosophy into action to help Maintain the Equilibrium. So this series will talk about a few actions we as Xyphoites should take in our daily lives—both as individuals and as a community—that will reflect on our philosophy and work towards those goals; this will be a period-long series. Let’s start.

    This week’s Prayer w/ Practice Discussion (as we’ll call it) is on the topic of wealth, whether it is moral to accumulate it, and what wealth represents or what should be done with excesses of it. Now, without dragging in the greater arguments that are crippled by politics, the act of acquiring wealth itself is not immoral. In fact, in terms of what Xyphoist Philosophy calls of us to do, acquiring wealth can be a part of our overall goals.

    To work from the back to the front, in our world, money and wealth are measurements of tangible power in one respect or another; people use money to project their power over their own lives or on others. We are a pragmatic bunch, and understand that in order to run our goals here on this planet, we are going to have to use many of the tools available to us to obtain those goals. However, the Self is always a pesky problem with obtaining any kind of tangible power; Hubris is always present in the Human buildup. It’s important to remember acquiring wealth cannot be of obsessive greed or selfishness, as both may fall into the sin of Worldly Obsession.

    So, how would acquiring wealth NOT be greedy? When the intended goal is to use the vast majority of the excess to mitigate worldly suffering—the Ordinance’s goal. We cannot depend on the governments of our world to use the wealth they collect to do this goal, so we must take matters into our hands both as an Ordinance through our humanitarian wing and funneled through our individuals Houses of Worship and global communities but also on an individual level.

    A single person or family that may have acquired great wealth can use much of the excess to help mitigate the suffering of others. It wouldn’t be uncommon for a wealthy Xyphoite to hear of a tragic situation of another—perhaps a story goes viral of a child who needs a life-saving surgery but cannot afford it and the family is asking for help—the wealthy Xyphoite will make a quiet, anonymous donation of excess height to either help or cover the costs without bankrupting themselves naturally. The key is that the donation is as quiet and anonymous as possible; we have NO interest in “promoting our brand” which is the sin of Proselytizing and Preaching unwantedly. We encourage all wealthy Xyphoites to do actions like these to mitigate suffering. That is the action of Practice with Prayer.

    On a community level, the Ordinance’s entire goal, many of the current goals listed on our sister website, are to mitigate worldly suffering through the same means only magnified. We hope to collect donations and take part of the profits from the sale of the Xyphokron to begin work on the Sacred Hill Project. This can be done both by any secular organizations we either father ourselves or work in conjunction with, but also from the internal community of Xyphoites who are part of the Ordinance through established Houses of Worship. Benefit events will be organized to raise money for specific causes, local or abroad, in the goals of mitigating worldly suffering caused by Deceptuary’s infusing of corruption in our world. These actions are what Maintain the Equilibrium, and are crucial to be enacted along with our more religious Prayer and time spent thinking and discussing philosophy.

    This series of posts are both a layout but also a call to action to those who believe in our Philosophy and would like to truly act upon it. This month-long series is ALL about ACTION. We ask that you, if within great wealth, ACT upon it and help the less fortunate who are going through suffering they didn’t bring upon themselves.

    —ruX

  • Commentary 17: The Dangers of Misused Knowledge

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome to the last entry for the Period of Mauris, where we have focused on Commentary centering around Knowledge, scripture, and general philosophy. We will round out this period with discussing the dangers and negatives of misusing Knowledge in various ways and how to avoid doing so. Let us begin.

    The most common way of misusing Knowledge is failing to understand Knowledge to begin with. We, as mortal humans, will acquire Knowledge during our time alive. However, simply receiving Knowledge doesn’t necessarily mean one understands such information. Humans, in particular, are prone to misunderstanding Realmly Truths due, in part, to our affinity for falling to corruption. A person may receive new Knowledge, but due a lack of critical thinking, patience, arrogance, or simply sheer ignorance, the lesson provided with such Knowledge will be partially or entirely misunderstood. Naturally, an ignorant interpretation of a Realmly Truth will result in an ignorant action based from such Knowledge.

    Critical and Comprehensive thinking helps alleviate such circumstances. Once new Knowledge is received, examining such new information from all angles, thinking of why such Knowledge was bestowed or learned, and how should Knowledge would can be used to Maintain the Equilibrium.

    Knowledge obtained or sought from Hubris-ridden goals will often be tainted or be subject to misuse. A person seeking Knowledge to fulfil a corrupted goal, seeking Knowledge from a spiteful or obsessive desire, or seeking knowledge to stave off a fear that has consumed them, will often use such knowledge negatively. In all of these cases, Hubris blinds the pursuit of Knowledge and blocks people from thinking critically or rationally about such Knowledge in lieu of desperately seeking the information itself.

    Naturally, this is avoided by questioning all pursuits of Knowledge by looking within—asking oneself why they are seeking this information in the first place. Are you trying to solve a problem in your life, seeking answers to a confusing and troubled situation, or are you seeking this information to conduct future actions out of spite, anger, fear, or desperation; the latter case would need self-reflection and a readjustment of goals, less they fall to Hubris-ridden pursuits.

    Finally, there are those cases where one would very much seek Realmly Truths with the clear intention of causing harm. In these cases, there is no ambiguity as to the reason for and future use of such Knowledge. People who intend to conduct nefarious actions will long-since cast away their concerns for others or the Equilibrium, seek out Knowledge, and use any Knowledge received to intentionally cause harm to others. The actions that follow will almost certainly be immoral in nature, and will be covered under the Divine Punishment if carried out, but the pursuit itself is corrupted as well.

    These circumstances are avoided by preventing oneself from falling into corruption to begin with. In this case, Hubris isn’t necessarily a cause more so than corruption is. The management of our Self—of our Spiritual Psyche and our Core—to prevent such paths of destruction is key to preventing the willful abuse of Knowledge for nefarious means.

    —phX, jzX

  • Commentary 16: Human Corruption, Innate Flaw, and Motivation of Fear.

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. This week, we will dive into the philosophy behind the innate flaws of Humanity, corruption, and how it all relates to the motivation of fear. No need to waste any further time, let us begin.

    The mortal form, cast in the shell of human flesh, is an existence—a haphazard yet necessary creation—based in and around the idea of imperfection. The idea of perfection is, in itself, something so unfound to the eyes of mortality that it is chased and obsessed with. The Human itself, obsessing with a status above itself, with an idea that those outside the gate would not bother to entertain, casts all that is sacred to obtain this idea of perfection. All those of the divine, who see this concept as something unneeded and divisive, then would bestow upon that of humanity the attribute of imperfection. A knowledge about that in which we see foretells of the pursuit in which such a idea would obtained. The idea would spell the end of flow, of equilibrium, of balance, and of evolution. The idea would lead to the destruction of the idea of existence and what purpose it does fit. Yet, the human wants and wishes for perfection in such an imperfect form.

    The innate flaw, the corrupt nature brought upon from the dark and light from beyond our grasp, was a key in the cog. Humans, mortals of imperfect status, labelled as such for the needed reason, would then always let on to this flawed status—to this mistake made countless times. The Human will make the choice least suitable to maintain the equilibrium before once gaining the sight, and seeing without vision will they, the Humans, understand the power of the mistake.

    The sense of Self, the purpose of existence, the motivation of fear, and the replication of the innate flaw and mistake are all tied to the same root, and the root is sprouted from the existence of mortal Humans. A faulty seed, begetting corruption, immorality, tainted energy, and theigritism. A vessel that absorbs such evils and radiates those evils as acts of natural course. The Human is flawed, the Human shall make mistakes as course of nature, the Human will deny those mistakes or its status as imperfect, and the Human will grasp desperately at the idea of perfection to escape its fate.

    What do those that cast away sense of Self and gain sight at the world’s horrors see? Why were we able to see this? The nature of Truth, the lies we shroud ourselves in to seek a false peace. The Human will go down the path of chaos to obtain a bleak stagnation of perfectionism. The Human will be powered by their motivation of fears but will be reluctant to accept the fears and partner with those fears. The Human will desert their fellow mortal forms, they will take with no recourse, and they will be doomed to destroy themselves all to pursue perfection. A fear of irrelevance—one failure attributed to theigritism and immorality—an evil carried in the code and the binding of Humanity.

    All tied to Self, existence, and the purpose for those two. The Human is innate, the Human is vulnerable, the Human possesses the Will to reject but not the knowledge of why or how. Most obviously, the Human will live in a state of denial—the result to said rejection. The Human will reject the status of imperfection and of its own nature to create a prison of perfection. The Human will convince itself that all outside the prison is otherworldly—that it is not of Human nature and is created by a dark force to test them. The Human may fail to see the corruption of their own prison, and the Human will collapse in utter shock when the nature reveals itself. In a world created by the prison, the Human will see fire and believe it was a tool created to warm and see the same fire used to destroy and claim it is inhuman; the prison is corrupted. The Human will live in temporary peace whilst comforting themselves with worldly pleasure and then deny the pleasure to those unlike them before being appalled by the nature of the less fortunate; the prison is corrupt. The Human will hurt and cheer and be hurt and howl; the prison is corrupt.

    The creation is innate, the flaw is absolute, the rally of perfection is expected, but the Truth of the nature is horrific to those who coddle sense of Self—to those who have not lost it through the Human Truth or through discarding by chance. The corruption lays waste to the prison as the gates crumble and release the truth. Then, in the moment of freedom, will Humanity’s innate flaw become tangible.

    —phX, kyX, jzX