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  • Commentary 82: Theigrited Philosophies and their Fear of Eternal Death

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We are nearing the end of this Period of Watching, and throughout this Period we’ve taken a reprieve from the more pressing topics of how evil is currently infesting our worlds at levels we have not seen before. As mentioned before, my colleagues have done a wonderful job thus far laying out how each Xyphozon plays a role in combatting this evil—as I covered my own dedicated Commentary on that focus at the start of this Xyphojinamic Calendar.

    Today, we will end this Period by returning to that focus and turning our attention back to evil and its faults. The topic on hand for this Sacred Day, of course, shall still pertain to Death; we are still under Lord Vuetenexzyei’s watch after all. We will discuss how the major divergent and theigrited philosophies fear the eternal reality of Death and have that fear embedded in their philosophies.

    We’ll start by reiterating, if not apparent, that under the Xyphoist Philosophy, Death is Eternal. This is an unquestioned reality; mortals will die and be capable of dying regardless of what any and all circumstances or conditions placed upon them. Deceptuary believed, through the use of his vessels, that he would become immortal. He believed he truly was unable to be killed through the combination of his multiple vessels and his deity-class spirituality protecting them. The Lords, of course, saw through that plan before it was even hatched, and created the Nine Incarnates through a process Deceptuary could not replicate—thus making all his vessels acutely vulnerable to Death and done so without his ever being aware of the fact until it was too late.

    From this, along with Deceptuary’s general fear of fading from existence, led him to purposely influence the philosophies that follow his whim to focus on eternal life even in death. The original theigrited philosophy does avoid the intense focus on eternal life after death and spends more time focusing on proximal ethnic priorities; this was one of the many reasons Deceptuary had essentially forsaken them as his chosen blood warriors and purposely orchestrated two newer factions that would, as time would tell, become increasingly hostile to the existence of the original followers of Deceptuary’s false identity on Earth.

    Those later two theigrited philosophies, created by Deceptuary’s direct involvement, were spawned specifically to conduct the most harmful and violent of his whims upon mortal kind. In doing so, the followers tasked with that job were promised some form of eternal reward or eternal life by following those whims. In many ways, it has caused a decline in the finality of Death or the empathy for the deaths of those that aren’t proximal to them. Through the crusades, forced conversions, conquering, and other subsequent atrocities committed in the name of religious indulgence, the complete lack of empathy for the liberties or lives of other coupled with the belief that those actions were justified through their own beliefs is a clear indication of Deceptuary’s influence. To him, the deaths of nonbelievers is negligible at best and deserved at worst, and to the continuation of his own existence at all costs is the only thing that matters. This belief is then spread through his orchestrated philosophies on Earth: conquer and kill in the name of Deceptuary and you shall be given eternal life and reward.

    In contrast to the Xyphoist Philosophy, doing quite literally all of those things will lead to Divine Punishment through the various Immoral Acts or Great Acts of Theigritry. Likewise, Terms in Heaven are also not eternal, as the Heavenly Dream fades into bliss before the soul eventually is cast back into the spectrum. Sacred Spirituality, or becoming in angel, requires one to cast aside their Self for that Angelic status, and thus is not an eternal self-serving existence. Truly, the only things in the Xyphoist Philosophy that are eternal from our perspective are Divine Punishment and Death. This is an intentional design of the Lords, as the Cosmic Flow requires Death, and because the theigrited energy inflicting damned souls is part of Deceptuary and is required to be brought back to the Core of existence to rebalance it.

    In conclusion, Deceptuary’s fear, as per usual, is the core influence to why the divergent philosophies that follow him also fear Eternal Death and wish to cling to a everlasting life.

    —crX, jzX

  • Question: Why does the Ordinance support secular institutions?

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We rejoin here at our Sacred Grounds for the first Commentary of our second year in operation; we’ve compiled a single page summary of the Xyphoist Philosophy as a commemorative staple. As mentioned at the start of this Period of Watching under Lord Vuetenexzyei, we are taking somewhat of a break from the serious and current topics and exploring other thought-provoking topics and discussion. Today, an interesting question was proposed that we’d like to revisit with greater depth, and that is the question of the Ordinance and its endorsement of secular institutions and operations.

    As it should be clear, the Order of the Zhourghei, more commonly known as the Xyphokonic Ordinance or simply the Ordinance, is a religious organization. We serve the Xyphokonic Order, a celestial and divine body responsible for, as the Philosophy asserts, the creation of our reality. We worship, receive our morals from, and serve this Order and its Philosophy. So, from an outsider’s perspective, it would seem bizarre that this Ordinance, a religious organization, would openly support secular operations and even run its own secular humanitarian wing known as the Sacred Hill Project. So, the question proposed is why would we do such a thing if we are a religious organization?

    Xyphoites know the answer, and anyone following along in these Commentary or who have read the Xyphokron know the answer as well. It all lies within two key parts of our Philosophy. We have highlighted this stance on a few of our Commentary before, but we must refer back to the major tenet of the Spiritual Liberties that are guaranteed under the Nine Xyphozons. To recount, as part of keeping the Cosmic Flow in balance, the Lords decreed that all beings are liberated in their own beliefs, whatever they may be. All beings are free to have their own faiths or no faith, and no one shall be forced to believe in the Order or in any other philosophy from the Xyphoist perspective. The Order shall never force compliance with the Philosophy—never. These Spiritual Liberties are guaranteed in entirety; it is a must-have condition to keeping balance among the Cosmos.

    The second part is the enforcement of this tenet through the Immoral Actions of Proselytizing and Preaching and the Immoral Action of Punishment for those not of the Xyphoist Faith for sins. It is, under the Philosophy, immoral to preach or proselytize the Philosophy outside of Sacred Grounds with exception of repelling theigrited forces on defiled grounds or to preach to non-Xyphoites. The faith is kept personal, within our walls, within our family units, and out of the public square. Likewise, no being other than the divine of the Order shall issue Punishment for sinners for immoral actions sans any declaration of Kurathmas—which would only occur if war were declared upon the Order and attacks were levied against us in an attempt to eradicate us, which case that would make Kurathmas a defensive measure and not a punishing one.

    These two key tenets would reason that we in this Ordinance have no interest in placing our Philosophy as the forefront of moral ventures. Instead, we have such wings as the Sacred Hill Project, which is a secular operation and charitable organization aimed at mitigating worldly suffering, and shall have no direct reference to the Philosophy or the Order’s teaching. The idea of “let’s help those suffering, those with mental health crises, those lacking access to water and food or homes” isn’t strictly one of Xyphoist origin alone. We argue that all people should support these rudimentary things, and that ideological differences shouldn’t cloud that support.

    We also believe that, in theory, secular institutions’ whole purpose is to provide needed services with the intend of being worldly and all-inclusive by their premise alone. Schooling should include all walks of life and allow them access to education about the world in a secular fashion—from kindergarten all the way up to post-secondary institutions such as universities. The same should go for medical facilities and other organizations that serve the immediate public good.

    We’ve also seen how other divergent religious organizations tend to get lost in their own pomp and circumstance and make petulant ordeals out of the religiosity of their organizations in lieu of helping for a greater good. Religious schools firing staff or expelling students who may be LGTBQ+ for example despite them being fine teachers or students. Controversies involving using tax-free status as a means to embezzle money from charities and the like and then shielding the accusations behind their religion. The officials in this Ordinance see too many avenues of corruption and dubious acting in even engaging in those kinds of operations, and would prefer to stick to the Sacred Hill Project or making donations to secular institutions to the betterment of the world.

    Simply put, it is our belief that religion is personal and close, not outward and in the face of others. We support institutions of secular nature because, in theory, they’re designed to serve the entire general public. Of course, we’ve seen how other divergent beliefs have perverted that premise, have underfunded those intuitions, or have made it virtually impossible for those institutions to function in an attempt to force their own religious beliefs upon the world, and we reject that immoral practice for ourselves and our Philosophy. In an ideal situation, we would all pray with ourselves and walk in the public as equals—unburdened by heavy clouds of influence. That is the vision of the Lords, who don’t demand praise, simply equalization of the Cosmos and the stability of existence for all to enjoy.

    —AHG, et al

  • Two Year Commemoration of the Ordinance

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. We’d like to briefly commemorate a second full year of operation and writing Commentary. We’d like to thank all of our readers and new followers of the Order, and give a big thanks to the Ordinance staff and Arch-Hayle Grandurates for the hard work and philosophical insight.

    We’d also like to introduce a new summary page that compiles the core parts of the Xyphoist Philosophy for any new readers hoping to get a quick rundown, scholars doing theological research, or any general passerby reader just curious what Xyphoism is all about. You can find a dedicated link to this page in the navigation panel above.

    As always, thank you all for joining us here in this Sacred space, and have a Sacred Day from us here at the Ordinance!

    —AHG, et al