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  • Questions and Answers: Zhourghei Temples & Houses of Worship

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome back to our space. Today, we continue asking and answer questions revolving Xyphoism from reader submissions and our own selection of brainstorming questions and clarifications. For today’s topic, we’re fielding questions regarding the actual Houses of Worship we intend to eventually have constructed. We’ll cover some questions regarding what exactly a Xyphoist House of Worship is and how regular operations go. Let’s begin.

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    Question: Where do you intend to build these future Nine Zhourghei Temples?

    Answer: Ideally, across the Earth in multiple continents and regions where we feel our presence will be safely tolerated. We’ve all but assured to find space in North America where the Ordinance was founded to build at least 1 of the temples—with a potential for 2 temples to be based in this region along with a physical administrative headquarters here as well. Other likely locations include space in South America—likely in Brazil. Europe where space permits, with the UK as a potential location if permitted. We would like locations in Asia and Africa but do have concerns of acceptance of such temples being build—both based on local laws permitting religious institutional development but also safety from various threats; finally, Australia is a strategic location we’d like to base in as well.

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    Question: Why aren’t you prioritizing the physical expansion of these Temples?

    Answer: Getting the access to the Philosophy for new followers to find is more important that building ornate Temples to honor the Lords. As we’ve mentioned before, the Lords demand no praise for They are divine and beyond that need, and so our building of these nine temples is entirely a symbolic, religious, and commemorative measure rather than a crucial one. The last step of the Prophecy is the building of the temples, and that shall only happen once we have a system in place to help mitigate worldly suffering through the Sacred Hill Project and building smaller Houses of Worship to act as our Sacred Grounds and Sanctuaries to pray and organize humanitarian efforts from.

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    Question: What will a Zhourghei Temple have in it?

    Answer: The layout of each temple is actually mentioned in the Xyphokron, but to briefly reiterate, each Zhourghei will have the following rooms or facilities:

    • Courtance Hall: A Prayer Room on the lowest level of the temple reserved for the Grandurate officials of the Zhourghei—especially the Arch-Hayle Grandurate of that temple—in which unending prayer and other spiritual meditation shall take place.
    • Hall of Principle: Essentially a grand library in which all literature or scripture shall be stored. All records regarding the Philosophy or the Ordinance, including art, musical scores, and other religious artifacts or scriptures shall be stored here and able to be read within the confines of the Hall. The offices of the Prinstedt Grandurate are within this hall, and open door lessons and lectures from various officials can take place here, and all lectures or lessons are entirely open to all attendees in the temple as they are conducted right in the middle of the Hall with no requirement to sign up. This Hall will also hold any scholarly articles or submissions of personal commentary or notes from anyone who wishes to have that submitted; this will include procuring copies of any future research papers or books published by exterior sources such as universities and other theologians of other religions—whether they are positive or critical. The goal of the Hall of Principle is to hold all information regarding or mentioning the Xyphoist Philosophy—internal or otherwise—to encourage all followers to challenge the Philosophy against all information as we believe that Philosophy shall always shine through with confidence.
    • Great Prayer Hall: Self-explanatory. This is the central rotunda section in which the actual Prayer and religious ceremony takes place. This is where the Choir performs, where the pipe organ is placed, where nine statues of the Lords are placed in a circular fashion around the circumference of the Hall, and where any murals or stain glass art of other figures shall be placed. In the Zhourghei case, this Prayer Hall is significantly larger than what would be found in a typical House of Worship.
    • Residing Hall: A section reserved for the housing of the Zhourghei staff. The 33 Oaundercievals and the 3 Grandurates shall have apartments in this section.
    • Ceremonial Hall: A large section that essentially functions as a community center, having space to set up tables for dining, a kitchen, a stage if needed, and other facilities common in most community centers. Group events, receptions, and other more casual ceremonies can be held here, and the Ceremonial Hall is open for reservation for any Zeigadii Xyphoite.
    • Resting Hall: An underground section that holds all chambers to hold the remains of the deceased. As mentioned in this earlier commentary, this is essentially a giant underground mausoleum for members of the Ordinance.
    • Cleansing House: A more defunct facility mentioned in the Prophecy but a very of its time idea. Essentially, the Zhourghei was to contain a bathhouse for followers to clean up and remove corruption from their vessels prior to entering the Prayer Hall to conduct prayer. Nowadays, people are expected to show up already cleaned up if possible as such amenities are widely available at home. We may replace this with a more modernized spa, sauna, and hot spring meant to cleanse the body and mind, but deliberations on that can wait as they are mostly superfluous and a luxury upon luxuries—not being of great priority.
    • Outer House of Spiritual Neutrality: A facility often unique to but not exclusive to the Zhourghei temples. On the grounds of the Zhourghei but not connected to the temple itself is a smaller temple or building that is used to house any non-Xyphoist refugees being persecuted by theigrited adversaries in the event of mass war events. This facility acts as shelter that will cater to all refugees who are not Xyphoites, and all manner of peaceful prayer and accommodations are made for those granted sanctuary in these facilities—included theigrits who are peaceable and seeking sanctuary from imminent threat. The Ordinance reserves the power, however, to expel any refugees who break the peace or become threats to the Zhourghei grounds at any point. Likewise, the changing of various Echelons of Actions can warrant whether the Zhourghei will accept any new refugees or expel any as well.
    • Central Courtyard: Self-Explanatory, a large courtyard lush with greenery, wildflowers and other plants native to the region to help promote pollinators populations. This will often be a very bee-friendly zone and manmade beehives will often be housed in the garden portions of this area.

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    Question: What do other Houses of Worship have in them?

    Answer: Other Houses of Worship, called Lower Houses of Worship or simply “Houses” for short, have many of the same facilities but on a smaller scale. Each House of Worship, assuming funding and location demands, will have a Prayer Hall, Ceremonial Hall, Resting Hall, and other facilities as funding permits.

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    Question: If the Arch-Hayle Grandurates and other Grandurate-level officials run the Zhourghei Temples, who runs the Lower Houses?

    Answer: All Houses are run by a council of nine officials that mirror the nine Arch-Hayle Grandurates, aptly called a Lower House Council. Each of those nine officials will represent one of the nine Xyphozons, and each council member will have administrative duties that reflect which Xyphozon they are representing. I shall list out those positions:

    • Council of Courtance (Community): Represented by a Kyaius Xyphoite, this official is charged with overseeing membership status and communications for the House
    • Council of Principle: Represented by a Pharusian Xyphoite, this official is charged with overseeing House recordkeeping and scripture upkeep.
    • Council of Prayer: Represented by a Carneiyean Xyphoite, this official is charged with conducting the regular prayer events, such as Sacred Day Prayers and organizing the House Choir; they may or may not also be the conductor for the Choir itself—although that position is often separate.
    • Council of Ceremony: Represented by a Saifaosian Xyphoite, this official is charged with organizing most ceremonies and receptions, and managing the Ceremonial Hall. Love Contract Ceremonies and the following receptions are explicitly under the wing of this official. Death Ceremonies are the only ceremony that this official does not organize.
    • Council of Administration: Represented by a Caspierrian Xyphoite, this official is charged with running the administrative offices and reception of the House.
    • Council of Labor: Represented by a Caishon Xyphoite, this official is charged with dispatching any various employees or contractors of the House to maintain the facilities proper or organize any business contracts of the House.
    • Council of Neutralism: Represented by a Nakndsian Xyphoite, this official is charged with maintaining any Neutral Halls or any interfaith interactions with other religious organizations. This position often works closely with the secular Sacred Hill Project efforts.
    • Council of Defense: Represented by a Kurakkuian Xyphoite, this official is charged with security at the House and adjacent Sacred Lands.
    • Council of Mortality: Represented by a Vuetenexian Xyphoite, this official is charged with organizing specifically Ceremonies of Death, the primary official conducting said ceremonies, and the overseer of the Resting Hall of House of Worship.

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    Question: What are the Echelons of Action?

    Answer: A set of strict guidelines established for what level of action the Ordinance shall take in regards to handling the Cosmic Struggle. The Philosophy’s tenets demand that we prevent ourselves from committing certain actions pertaining to Preaching and Proselytizing, and so we base out public interactions based on four levels of action based on the current state of the Cosmic Struggle and how corrupted we deem the world to be; these echelons also act as a defense or threat level against the Ordinance itself against any adversarial entities that seek to physically or institutionally harm the Order and Ordinance. The 4 echelons are as follows:

    • Hadradthmas: Lowest level, full external suppression of open condemnation of other divergent or theigrited philosophies except cases of sacred defilement. Essentially, the public won’t even notice any Xyphoist presence, and we shall pray in our spaces peaceably.
    • Endotithmas: second level, can verbally criticize theigrited philosophies and other outrageous harms to the world, but no materialistic action shall be taken.
    • Yrridthmas (We are here now): second highest level, audibly and actively levy criticism on theigrited philosophies and other pressing matters of the world, offering sharp Commentary on current events. Alongside that open Commentary, material action and organization shall be taken in the form of organizing humanitarian efforts to mitigate ongoing worldly suffering.
    • Kurathmas: highest level, all restrictions lifted, used only as a final and last resort in events of active war declared against the Order and Ordinance, whether institutionally or physically.

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    Question: What does a Sacred Day Prayer look like in a House of Worship?

    Answer: I’ve been told that my colleague kyX would like to an in-depth Commentary on this very topic later on in the year, so I won’t spoil their efforts and jump too far ahead of their work, but I can offer a brief summary of the basic format. Sacred Day Prayers held at a House are all-day group or individual prayer events in which the Prayer Hall is entirely open to all who wish to attend.

    Musical or group prayer typically brings at 9am, but there is no rush for anyone to be there exactly at that time; this is simply when the doors open for specifically Sacred Day Prayer. The Choir will often be present and practicing hymns from 9am until 12pm in the Hall. At Noon, the House Choir will begin the highlight of the Day’s events, in which they will slowly ascending the circular staircase of the rotund Prayer Hall conducting group vocal harmonization as they walk. At the top, a selection of hymns relevant to the Period of Watching be sung, followed by a descent down the steps and more prayers and harmonization. The choir may sing other hymns after this point but are often dismissed after the high noon ceremony is conducted. During this time, all are welcome to sing and pray along with the Choir or conduct individual prayer.

    The Prayer Hall does not have a specific arrangement of rows or seats unless a specific ceremony is being conducted, and so the entire floor of the Prayer Hall is mostly open for people roam or sit in wherever they please and pray. Some people bring rugs or mats to sit on, others shall sit near the statues of the Lords or alongside the edges of the room, others will roam and pray. There is quite a bit of liberty to how one chooses to pray—so long as what they pray for regards mitigating the suffering of the world.

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    Question: Are there any common laws, rules, or etiquette one should expect within a House of Worship?

    Answer: Yes, while I won’t list out every single rule or expectation, I can rattle off a few key things that come to mind. Attire is important, and the Ordinance provides members religious garbs, typically religious robes or formal suits based on which Xyphozon one is born under. We are likely to do a full Commentary on that later on in the year.

    Other rules include the access of the House grounds to persons under the age of 18 without proper supervision or other circumstances—in which case that is mostly forbidden. We don’t allow minors to roam the premises unless properly supervised by a designated adult of their family or family-designated guardian/adult. The Ordinance does not conduct any such youth groups, and this reason is more realist than not.

    While we trust all members of the Ordinance and can expel any that we deem unfit to be there, the reality is that trust in humanity, with its Innate Personality Flaws, dictate that one must always keep watch for the safety of children, the only true innocents of this world, at all costs. By observing the unsightly happenings of other religious organizations and the abhorrent crimes against children that have often happened under them, we seek to entirely eliminate any possibility of those hideous circumstances ever happening on our Sacred Grounds.

    It’s for this very reason that all practice and rehearsal of the House Choir—which does include children as part of it—are always conducted in either the very open Prayer Hall itself or perhaps the Ceremonial Hall or other open rooms if the Prayer Hall is not available, and individual lessons are done during the mass rehearsals in open spaces. Under no circumstances shall minors be allowed alone, unsupervised, or kept away in unseen spaces of the House, nor shall any youth groups or other organized happenings involving solely minors shall take place.

    Other rules include things like maintaining proper hygiene prior to entering the House, always hold respectful demeanor and conduct, other etiquette of the like.

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    Question: Can we donate to the Ordinance or Sacred Hill Project?

    Answer: Eventually, yes. Due to our legal status being somewhat in the air as we moved operations out of the US, our financial status is not currently established until we find a more permanent base of operations to file for non-profit status and conduct our various efforts. As of now, donations are on pause until those financial systems and legal status are in place. We talk about how some of those finances, funding, and budgets shall be divided out in this Commentary, and would like to expand that into a proper public page or spreadsheet of our operational finances so that the public can review how the Ordinance and Sacred Hill Project operation for transparency purposes.

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    And with that, we conclude another round of hefty questions and clarifications. We hope these answers satisfy and inspire future followers to join us in this Ordinance as we prayer for future plans and continue our Prayer. For now, have a blessed rest of your Sacred Day.

    —phX

  • FAQ Lightning Round 3: More questions about Xyphoism

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome back to our Sacred space. As expected, we’re continuing our inspiration and divination by asking and answering questions about the Xyphoist Philosophy and providing some helpful clarifications as well. As a reminder before we begin, if you have a question you’d like answered, you can submit them here. We may answer them in a future Commentary or Question post, and we’re always happy to field questions about the Philosophy to those who seek such information. Let’s begin.

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    Question: What exactly is a Zhourghei?

    Answer: This is somewhat of a dual answer. The term “Zhourghei” comes from the full name of this very Ordinance—The Ordinance of the Zhourghei. Calling this organization the Xyphokonic Ordinance or simply the Ordinance are perfectly fine shorthand terms as well. You can learn more about the specifics of the Zhourghei system in this summary.

    In terms of using the term “Zhourghei” in its stand-alone form, that usage refers to the prospective nine great temples that shall one day be erected for each Xyphozon; the name of a  temple(s) is a Zhourghei.

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    Question: Is there a form of salvation or enlightenment that Xyphoites should seek or are expected to obtain before the end of their lives?

    Answer: Not specifically, no. We highly encourage all people, regardless of faith, to seek good tenure in life and help mitigate worldly suffering in their own ways. There is a status known as Sacred Spiritualism which is a path the most devote Xyphoites can take through their life. Doing so requires being completely devotional to the Lords and the Order, willingly discarding the Self upon Death, and having signed the Contract of Zeiga and being a Zeigadii Xyphoite; the Contract of Zeiga is a Sacred Love Contract that essentially ties one’s entire being to the recognition of the Lords via Zeiga’s devotional watch of the Cosmos.

    In pursuing the path of Sacred Spiritualism, upon Death, those that have devoted their lives to this path shall be sent to Parrinze in the Sacred Realm of Xyzokizon and be transformed into Angels that have fully discarded their selves and are one with the Lords—specifically the Xyphozon and Lord of the last life’s Descending Spirituality. So, if a Xyphoite who successfully pursued this path was born under one of Lord Pharuuii’s Periods of Watching, they will ascend to Angelic status as a Mage Angel and serve as part of Lord Pharuuii’s Xyphozon. This is essentially a form of enlightenment but not a requirement for anyone to take; it is entirely up to each individual.

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    Question: Is it true that non-followers of the Philosophy can be granted Terms in Aerigeth’s Heaven?

    Answer: Yes, as this Commentary explains, the criteria for a Term of Heaven is holding good tenure in your previous life and not having committed grave immoral acts or Great Acts of Theigritism. As such, anyone of good tenure, regardless of faith, are allowed Terms in Heaven.

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    Question: Can people of other faiths convert to Xyphoism?

    Answer: Sure, if they choose to. However, it is important that they must make that decision of their own Free Will; they cannot be converted or proselytized as we’ve talked about many times before. All converts must fully leave their previous faith and associations and provide proper documentation of exiting any churches or other religious organizations before joining the Ordinance.

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    Question: Can people leave the Xyphoist Faith and Ordinance? Are there any repercussions for leaving?

    Answer: Anyone can choose to leave the faith at any point in their lives; there is no requirement to hold on to the faith if one chooses other paths in life—which is the point of Free Will and Spiritual Liberties in the first place. It Is important to note that anyone who wishes to make an official exit from the Ordinance should make a formal request to proper Ordinance officials and sign proper documentation for administrative purposes. This step is expected for a proper exit and cancelling membership of any Houses of Worship; this is entirely administrative so that we have record that someone is no longer a member of the Ordinance and will not receive any further correspondence from the organization proper. There is no repercussion nor penalty for leaving the Ordinance, but access to the grounds of Houses of Worship on a membership basis will be revoked.

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    Question:  Is there a form of ex-communication from the Ordinance for wrongdoing?

    Answer: Yes. Members who commit grave sins under the Philosophy or any acts of illegality or criminality can have their membership to the Ordinance immediately revoked. Regularly committing any of the 7 Immoral Acts can be grounds for a review of membership status and possible revocation. Any Great Acts of Theigritism constitute grounds for immediate revocation. Cases of felony and in many cases misdemeanor acts, whether formalized with a conviction or otherwise, are grounds for a membership review and revocation. Any acts of illegality that happen on Sacred Grounds or using the name of the Order and Ordinance are grounds for immediate removal and complete cooperation with local authorities in any criminal investigations, cases pending. There are leniency in cases of illegal drug addiction and abuse, as we will still cooperate with local authorities but will advocate for and, in the future, hope to provide rehabilitation, intervention, and mental care to those who need it.

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    Question: Is there any form of repentance for sin in the Xyphoist Philosophy?

    Answer: It highly depends. This Commentary regarding Xyphoist Purity explains cases where forgiveness is present within the Philosophy, but all willful and wanton acts of evil are never forgiven—particularly Great Acts of Theigritism. For lesser acts, taking accountability for errors, amoral acts, and other sins is the expected action to take rather than simply asking for divine forgiveness for making poor moral judgements. As, mentioned in this post, all Xyphoist Prayer is meant for mitigating the suffering of all, not for asking for forgiveness for bad judgements. Integrity and self-accountability are the expected ways to handle such circumstances in accordance with the Philosophy.

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    Question:  What are Descending and Consenting Spiritualities?

    Answer: Simply put, the Divine Spirituality of the Lord whose period you were born under and the accessory Divine Spirituality of another Lord; the two combined create your individual Self’s spirituality. While the Descending Spirituality is quite obvious and determined by the Period in which one is born under, the Consenting Spirituality is often discovered throughout life through various passions and personality traits; there is a bit more fluidity in terms of how one discovers their Consenting Spirituality, but the Descending Spirituality is always quite obvious to determine.

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    Question: Is it okay to question your faith as a Xyphoite?

    Answer: Yes, that is entirely the point of seeking Realmly Knowledge in the first place. We spend our Life seeking Realmly Truths locked deep within our own spirits that has been encoded by Hayle Zhii. It’s expected to hold doubts and uncertainties about existence, and the Xyphoist answer to this is to always seek inspiration and divination—to always as questions, seek knowledge, and test those findings to the core of the Philosophy. We hold confidence that the Philosophy will always provide the answers to any inquiry, and as such, do not worry about doubt or inward skepticism as our devotion and confidence in the Lords and Their Doctrine is absolute and shall be proven through the lessons and Realmly Knowledge they encourage us to seek out for ourselves.

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    And that shall conclude this round of questions. We hope these answers prove satisfactory and encourage you to continue your own journey towards divination and truth-seeking during this Period of Watching. As always, have a splendid rest of your Sacred Day from the Order and Ordinance.

    —phX, kyX, jzX

  • Questions & Answers: The Arch-Hayle Grandurates

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. The start of Lord Pharuuii’s 1st Period of Watching, Augrussé, is upon us yet again. Thus, with the mandate to seek inspiration from the Lord’s Realmly Knowledge, we’re breaking out the questions accumulated over the last few months and answering some questions submitted to us from email and other sources.

    Today’s selection of questions, as the title makes quite clear, are about the very authors and staff of these Commentary and question posts, and the officials who run this very Ordinance—yours truly, we Arch-Hayle Grandurates. We’ve selected a few reoccurring questions and brainstormed a few others that might solicit curiosity for this series of questions, so let us begin.

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    Question: Who are the Arch-Hayle Grandurates outside of this role? Do you have occupations other than this one?

    Answer: While we won’t divulge our exact identities and legal names, both for security reasons and for philosophical ones, we AHGs do, in fact, exist outside of this space you’ve come to know our Commentary from. All nine of us have professional and personal lives, and we dabble in various fields. Some of us work in higher education, others work independently or in the market, at least one of us works in the area of psychology, and others work in various other occupations.

    While we give this role as AHGs high priority and treat it both as a job but also a moral and religious duty, the reality is that we, too, require jobs to fund our own living expenses, families, and other parts of our lives. In the planned event that this Ordinance expands globally and the Sacred Hill Project is crafted into a foundation, it is very likely we will still keep our non-Ordinance occupations to some degree if possible. This role as an AHG is not about money, power, or prominence; we are tied to and devoted to the Lords and believe in the mission that the Order has set forth more than any other aspect of our lives.

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    Question: Why do you use pennames and conceal your identities?

    Answer: As mentioned before in a previous entry, it serves a procedural and philosophical purpose. In order to prevent forming a cult of personality around named figureheads, to cast away Self and ego, we refuse to tie our personal Selfs to the grander scale of the Ordinance’s duties and mission. This Commentary explains part of that issue and why we seek to avoid it.

    Often, in other religious organizations, you see quite a bit of pomp and circumstance given to the high officials of those organizations. You see grandiose anointments and living accompaniments for positions like the Pope, or lavish salaries and high praise given to presidents of other various denominations. In many cases, you will see leaders of whole nations be de facto heads of theocratic systems and live in luxury while others may live in squalor under their rule. Many groups await some spiritual arrival of a new messiah every so often and will prop this individual upon a pedestal to be paraded around like a god. Finally, in the most depraved of cases, you may see cults that rally around single and often authoritative or abusive figureheads that lead the group into miserable obligations or conditions. We AHGs explicitly seek to reject and avoid all those circumstances by not allowing the ego of the Self to overcome the Ordinance’s purpose and sully the Order’s message.

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    Question: What does the average day of an AHG look like?

    Answer: A typical work session for an AHG is, surprisingly, independent for much of each week. We have our given religious duties written in the Xyphokron, but in terms of our administrative work, it various. As the About Us page notes, we all have areas of the Philosophy that we have specialized in, and much of that reflects what other roles we play in the Ordinance. For example, this very post is—and for that matter, nearly all the Q&A posts on the website, are compiled and penned by myself, “Phox” or phX. But each post is reviewed by each of the nine AHGs and some edits are made in that process before being published. Likewise, I, “Phox”, am more or less assigned to actually manage the edits and archiving of the website, as well as the general web mastering for how the website should be organized. I have experience in building websites and editing, and so I volunteered to help edit.

    Others such as ruX tend to work on goal-planning for the Ordinance. Much of the cultural organization is done by erX, nearly all theological practices, hymns and contextual scriptural analysis are penned or composed by kyX, ceremonial duties, customs, and procedures tend to fall into crX’s hands, voX and jzX are privy to handling posts that deal with current events or relate to active circumstances and how the Ordinance responds or commentates on them, and much of the technical or graphical arts are handled by whX, and lnX is the primary official working on our environmental goals with the Sacred Hill Project. We all have various side roles that we play in the organization.

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    Question: How do you guys work on publishing Commentary each week?

    Answer: In terms of how the penning of official Commentary works, at set intervals within the Xyphojinamic Calendar Year, we meet to plan out and discuss what we will be focusing on for our various Period(s) assignments and layout what topics or Commentary focuses we will be covering. From there, we all begin toiling away writing our rough drafts for each Commentary. Once those are written, we shall seek out other collaborating AHGs for each post to review them, add in their areas of expertise or knowledge, and proof our own writing. Once the posts have all their contributors added in to the mix, the posts are sent to another AHG, typically crX or kyX, to analyze the posts to make sure they are consistent with the doctrine of the Philosophy and accurately quote or reference the Xyphokron.

    Once done, all the posts are sent to single editor AHG to homogenize the posts into official Ordinance voice and style guide; typically, I, Phox, am that editor that puts everything into a single lane while still leaving individual voices in the writing to shine through. I mostly focus on making sure each post is without errors, formatted neatly, and meets our internal style guide standards on how we write certain phrases or terms.

    Once the final edits and proofing are done, each post is then put up to be reviewed by the whole group and discussed both on its merit and purpose but also on the message of the post. We often lob our own questions towards those posts, test them for holes, and scrutinize them as a group. Upon the post(s) facing the firing squad and passing, we put them in waiting for their various Period and date of posting. Now, all of this doesn’t happen in a single day or even a week, this process goes on over several months on a revolving schedule; we often break them down into four quarters and handle each quarter’s workload as such.

    It goes without saying that at least three of we AHGs must pen more posts than the rest due to there being three Lords who have two Periods of Watching each in our Xyphojinamic Calendar. AHGs crX, kyX, and myself phX each must oversee two Periods of Watching, and so our workload is a bit heftier. However, we offset that in various ways.

    For my case, instead of penning longform Commentaries that dive deep into the Philosophy, I like to field questions instead, which are a bit easier to post in rapid succession—particularly since I am handling a bulk of editorial and web management as well.

    Our colleague kyX has been blessed by having both their Periods of Watching back-to-back, and often pens conjoined series posts on a single topic that tend to analyze scriptural or theological aspects of each Xyphozon per Sacred Day post, and that convenient circumstance makes managing their workload easier.

    Finally, crX is probably the most fortunate of us three, as the Periods they manage are significantly separated and allow for time to pen each post with incredible care and focus. Since both crX and kyX tend to focus on producing a high volume of Commentary on the scriptural understanding of the Philosophy, it makes them perfect to be the go-to AHGs to review each official Commentary post for doctrinal consistency.

    Overall, the process is highly dependent on both individual reliability and group integrity and collaboration. We schedule out the whole process, and have others to help cover any gaps we may not be able to fill among the nine of us.

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    Question: What does the Xyphokron say about the role of an AHG?

    Answer: The recount of Daetos and the Xyphokron state that the main role of an Arch-Hayle Grandurate is to conduct unending Prayer on behalf of all of mortal existence in a special room called the Courtance Hall—a smaller Praying Chamber located at the lowest level of a Zhourghei Temple. Essentially, the ancient role and expectation was that, upon the construction of nine great temples for each Xyphozon, that the AHGs would spend much of their time taking upon the burden of praying for all of mortality against Deceptuary’s corruption in that particular room, which is set to be equip with an alter to the Lords and a comfortable place to sit or kneel and pray in for several hours at a time.

    The expectation wasn’t that an AHG was expected to never leave this room, but to devote several hours a day praying, writing, and discussing the state of the world with the other Granduate Officials—that being the Prinstedt and Deitonian Grandurates. In modern times, the role of AHG is morphed into a leadership and administrative role while still upholding the ancient expectations of lengthy periods of praying and contemplating on behalf of mortal existence.

    We, in our personal time, often take breaks away from the secular life to sit alone by ourselves and pray and think to ourselves about the various issues that face humanity. This is, for a lot of us, how we decide what we write in our Commentaries. Many of us spend time focusing on an issue that we believe should be approached from a Xyphoist perspective and then pray and think about it ad nauseum until we can comprehensively pen several posts that revolving around that focus.

    As mentioned in this entry, all Xyphoist Prayer must be focused on mitigating worldly suffering; however, in the case of the Arch-Hayle Grandurates, we are expected to take that a step further and bathe our very beings in those topics and produce Commentary and analysis of them once our lengthy prayers and meditations have completed.

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    Question: Do you assert that you are the ancient Xyphoites in the Prophecy that would return as Daetos Idols in the future?

    Answer: We believe we are some of them, yes. The Prophecy merely says that those remaining ancient Xyphoites committed ritual suicide to preserve the Prophecy in their souls and be reincarnated as Daetos Idols in a time where their Realmly Truths would be needed most. The Prophecy never explicitly states how many shall be reincarnated, and we take that to mean there are numerous others who are waiting to be awoken by this knowledge. We just so happen to be nine people who came together and agreed to kick things off.

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    Question: Why do you reject the title of being prophets or the founders of Xyphoism?

    Answer: We reject those titles because we don’t believe we founded anything. The Philosophy, if following the timeline of Daetos’s recount, far predates our discovery of the Realmly Knowledge we are now dedicated to teaching here. We are not founders of a Philosophy that we assert has always existed; we simply are teaching this Knowledge locked in every being. We also reject the title of prophet for the same reason; the Prophecy is encoded in all reincarnated Xyphoites, of which we believe there are numerous others, and so to say that we solely are prophets is arrogant, inflates the ego and Self, and commits the Immoral Act of Worldly Self-Obsession. We are simply nine of many, and need no high status or title other than AHG. We write about this in this earlier entry.

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    Question:  How did you experience your faith and find each? Were you raised under different religions beforehand?

    Answer: Each of us had our own personal visions of the Lords and of spiritual existence throughout our lives, and upon slowly meeting each other on online forums focusing on religion, spirituality, and philosophy, discovered we all had very similar sets of experience and circumstances that aligned. Some of us had various revelations as young as the age of 5, while the experience came later in life for others. One thing, however, that remained consistent is that we all envisioned multiple pillars of power or structure that seemed to be key to all of existence, and through our shared conversation and meditation, envisioned images of the nine Lords and Their Order while also receiving the hidden inner revelation of the Prophecy and of Deceptuary’s wickedness. The planning for the Ordinance started from there, and we removed our presence from those forums and moved to building this very website.

    In terms of our various upbringings, many of us were raised in moderately religious households but ultimately felt those messages were insincere or an improper understanding of existence throughout that upbringing. Others were raised agnostically and never had any other affiliation to any religious influence until finding the Xyphoist Philosophy compelling.

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    Question: Are you all in the same country together?

    Answer: No, we are not all based in the same country. Many of us are in the United States and Canada, but others exist in Europe and Asia. This expansive range does make collaborating on work a bit tedious at times, but ultimately through the power of the digital space, we all work and run the Ordinance and pen Commentary in a regulated manner, although our posting times tend to vary because of this, as it is the responsibility of each AHG to actually log in and hit the post button for their posts on their given Period(s) as well as make the adjacent social media posts for that Period.

    And that will round up this selection of questions regarding we Arch-Hayle Grandurates. We hope that satisfied the questions submitted by a few of our readers, and implore you to seek other forms of revelation or curiosity as we explore and reach out for Realmly Truths this period. As always, have a wonderful rest of your Sacred Day from the Order and Ordinance.

    —AHG, et al