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  • 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

  • Commentary 96: Sacred Lesson Series — “Love’s Untimely Quarrel”

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome to the final installment of our Sacred Lesson Series. In the last Commentary, we went over Sacred Child Soylantasia’s lesson. Today, we round out with the ninth and final of the Sacred Children, that being Ahnvouyosia, Child of Love, and their lesson called “Love’s Untimely Quarrel.”  Naturally, I’ll include a hymn near the end to accompany this lesson, so let’s begin.

    To understand the crux of this lesson and how it is presented to both Ahnvouyosia and us, we must first understand the nature of the being who gave it. Hayle Yoih, once a legendary great spirit known as the “Raconteur Fairy of Legends,” had a fantastic spiritual gift of shaping the hearts of others through the power of crafting tales and legends. In fact, the reason Yoih was chosen as Lord Saifaosé’s highest Archangel was specifically because Yoih crafted a tale of the Divine Thrones during Deceptuary’s first rebellion against them; said tale ended up swaying the hearts of most of spirit-kind against Deceptuary’s rebellion, weakening his own forces.

    This key detail about Yoih’s tale-telling prowess is crucial for understanding how this Sacred Lesson teaches its core takeaway. Unlike the other lessons, which are recounts, conversations, and lectures from the Hayles to their assigned Sacred Child, Yoih teaches Ahnvouyosia in the most fitting way possible for them—through storytelling. The entire lesson is taught through a tale involving two lovers and their struggle with Love and Time. My colleague Vox actually offered their own “retelling” of that very Sacred Lesson and tale here in this early Commentary. We, however, will be using the quotations from “Xykozheiz” to give a direct reference to the source. I encourage you to both read the full tale in the Xyphokron, read through this Commentary, and then also read that earlier Commentary by Vox to truly understand this lesson on multiple levels.

    I’ll start by giving the premise of the tale: Two lovers, a Rose and a Shadow, are met with new feelings for each other that they both are slowly discovering. As they discover their newfound Love for each other, each of them is hesitant to fully act upon those feelings—as Time wastes away. Through that hesitancy, other forces that seek to divide and spoil their Love work their way in, eventually resulting in the Deaths of their combined Loves and of themselves on a spiritual level. One of the Loves, the Shadow, is sickened and corrupted, and remains as an animate corpse from the devastation of the heartbreak. However, through the discovery of a new but unobtainable Love, the rotting Shadow learns that, through the ultimate sacrifice of the previous lost Love, the Shadow can offer a charm of protection to the new Love, named Michaelis, in exchange for the burial of the Shadow’s corpse and ending of Life. For this entry, I will post the full transcript of the tale uninterrupted; afterwards we shall go over and speak about the core of the lesson itself. Enjoy the read:

    A budding feeling. They were blissfully unaware of the other. Shadow and Rose. Rose, riddle with thorns of loneliness, and Shadow, plagued with suffering. The Rose longed to belong and played coy. Teasing Shadow, though Shadow was not aware yet.

    Struck in the night, Shadow had realized and obsessed. Had this been true all along? Shall we dance? Never asking forthright, but with sly and uncertain movements.

    The Rose cast a Shadow.

    An entangle of unsure feelings, as Time began to wear. Eroded was the chance for the root to wrap around their hearts.

    Rose would begin its Timely wither into intoxication. Surrounded by the corruption that would break the Core. The Rose was drowned.

    Shadow rushing, in panic, wondered how to save the Rose. How would Rose be tall yet again.

    Time wore away, the Shadow grew longer.

    Shadow tore apart, confused as how to protect Rose. Rose descended into corruption further, and Shadow watched in horror.

    Serpents, sirens, and an air of sly destruction struck. Pulled under, the precious Rose, in a sea of dark and apathetic nightmare. Rose wilts, rots, and withers.

    Shadow had squandered Time and lost.

    Madness, oh the Madness. Shadow cast long as the day was and disappeared in the darkness.

    Obsession. Madness.

    Shadow reached into the sea, not from the basis of Love, but from Madness. Dipping into corruption as the Heart become broken and corrupt.

    Devil Swamp, spawned searching and incoherent rambling of the crumbling Heart.

    Grasp, please grasp. Oh, take the hand, where are you? Cerulean sparkle, where are you?

    Shadow, a rich brown of sight, was now dark cores of inevitable evil.

    The spark had died, as the Remembrance had become ill.

    Humbling, hobbling. Heart of dark despair. Shadow had lost Rose.

    Time had expired. The Shadow engulfed in full oblivion.

    Remembrance, sick in its final stages. Shadow, full in madness. In state of complete lunacy.

    Remembrance killed. The memory of Shadow and Rose burned in the flames of Mercy.

    She, Lord of Love and Time, please take these lovers and silence them in peace. I burn them.

    They burned, though the husks remaining continue to animate. No Heart was left.

    Time had moved on, and the Untimely Love had been put to rest.

    Sleep, weary child, and learn.

    Seek anew, a reason to protect. Michaelis, Seeking for Protection. Yet you not fail as with Remembrance. The Shadow and Rose are gone.

    Now, fated Corrupted Invalid. You defy the past, you defy the creator, and you shall succeed in protecting where Remembrance had not. The Mercy of Death will not be brought to you but from you to yourself.

    Sacrifice.

    You will stay in the back, as Shadow, but be an unknowing protector. Love purifies and allows your precious prince to Live on. Perhaps upon Death, a charm in your own Remembrance can usher Lifelong protection.

    Oh, Michaelis, you shall be protected. Even the Invalid have dreams. Perhaps the chamber does not await you, but you shall determine once the Time comes. The choice and power are yours. Use your Time well.

    Love’s Timely Protection.

    This tale captures the struggle of the Shadow to act upon Love in a Timely manner and allowed the beloved Rose to wither in a sea of despair and corruption. That corruption and heartbreak spreads to the Shadow itself as the madness of the inner pain became the corrupted Rose’s shadow. The rotted Shadow, which is referred to as the “Corrupted Invalid,” miraculously finds a new object of desire in a princely person named “Michaelis.” However, as the Shadow is now broken and rotted, the only act the Shadow can take to give Love to Michaelis is through self-sacrifice. Staying hidden in the darkness, the Shadow allows itself to expire as an offering for a charm of Love to protect Michaelis from harm—Love’s Timely Protection.

    The takeaway from this lesson is essentially that Love and Time are always connected, and that squandering or corrupting one will result in the backlash from the other. In this case, the failure to act upon Love in a timely matter soured the lives of both the Rose and the Shadow. Inversely, the Shadow only came to Love yet again through Time and the sacrifice of it. By expiring the remainder of their Time, the Shadow gave their Heart as a charm to protect the new beloved Michaelis. Only Time can heal the broken Heart, and it often comes by expiring said Time to do it; the two attributes, both aptly under Lord Saifaosé, are interconnected and shall not be separated.

    With that lesson understood, we can move to the hymn attributed to this particular Xyphozon. While many of the hymns attached to the Sacred Children are heavily reliant on the context of their lessons, this hymn is a full-hearted celebration of Love itself and acts as a key reminder that the Initial Will of the Lords—the Greater Will—is and shall always be Love. The Lords of the Xyphokonic Order Love existence, and They want us to also partake in it. The Lords could just have easily acted aloof and let Deceptuary ruin all that there is to be, but have actively set up a plan to rebalance our existence and recapture Deceptuary’s deity-level spirituality for the sole purpose of maintaining our existence. The Initial Will and the core meaning of “Xyphoism” is and shall always be “Doctrine of Spiritual Love.” Here is the hymn itself:

    Belong,

    Hold, hand in hand.

    Beloved,

    Cheer, the joy of Love.

    Peace be given to you,

    -And you shall share our Heart.

    Initial in its warmth,

    The Lords give us our start.

    Beloved,

    Take care of Timely Love.

    Oh!~

    The Lords!

         (Sweet Child)

    Dress the world above.

    In clothes of rouge,

    Stitched with Divine Love.

    Bejewel the soul, remove the cold,

    With Love!~

    Waste no Time,

    Hold your Child.

    Pave a future path to walk.

    Engrave thy name,

    In opals of Love.

    We shine with vibrancy.

    Oh!~

    My Lords!

         (Sweet Child)

    Adorned in gold.

    In clothes of stars,

    Stitched with Divine Love.

    Bejewel the soul, remove the cold,

    With Love!~

    This hymn functions both as a dedication to the Child of Love but also an anthem to the Initial Will of Love from the Lords themselves, and it sung with by the full choir—from adult singers to the voices of youth as well—with their fullest of hearts in tow. A heavily melodic song, this hymn is meant to fill the room with warmth, joy, and of course, love. And although it isn’t required for such ceremonies, having this hymn be song during a celebratory ceremony for a Love Contract within a House of Worship is always encouraged and often done so. In all ways, the hymn is meant to invoke the fullest power of the heart, of emotion, and of Love.

    That will conclude this Commentary and the series on Sacred Lessons. Thank you for joining me and my colleagues on this 2-period long series; it’s been a joy to go over these lessons and introduce some liturgical essence into our spiritual gatherings here in this space. I hope to compile all the hymns into a single page with proper notation and instructions in the future so that we all can sing along and envelop ourselves in the Divine Love of the Lords. Until then, may you have a blessed Sacred Day!

    —kyX, voX

  • Commentary 95: Sacred Lesson Series — “Fabric of Reality”

    Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome back! We rejoin here for second-to-last installment of the Sacred Lesson Series. In the last entry, we went over Usakisia’s lesson of “Elemental Force” and introduced the Ijoe Chant. Today, we will over the next Sacred Child’s relatively brief lesson in comparison to the others. Today, we will talk about Soylantasia, Child of Reality, and her lesson entitled “Fabric of Reality.” This will be accompanied by a hymn dedicated to her exploration of the celestial beyond and the knowledge of Reality itself. Let us begin.

    The lesson of “Fabric of Reality,” is quite straightforward compared to some more abstract or heavier lessons we’ve gone through. As is true to the nature of both Her Excellency, Lord Caspierre and, by extension, Hayle Taeh the original “celestial seeker,” the Caspierrian Xyphozon is one based in scholarly perception, creativity, adaptiveness, and synthesizing of Realmly Knowledge to better act on management of Reality itself. This lesson follows through with that mindset and essentially explains what Reality is and how we use it in conjunction with Manifestation to perceive all that exists. Hayle Taeh gives a single lecture on these principles which we can witness in this excerpt of “Xykozheiz:”

    Existence is perceived through the attribute of Manifestation. We can see, touch, and be fully within Reality, an Existence, through this attribute. Corporealism and Etherealism are existent through this attribute. Our boundaries, difference forms, stages of existence, all take place through the ability to perceive Reality.

    Realmly Structure hinges on the Existence of Manifestation. What keeps All Things as one yet separate is this force. The Cosmos, too, rely on Realmly Structure to conduct Its role.

    Taeh explains that all things within existence that we perceive are done so through the manifestation of Reality itself. Whether it be the ethereal existence of Xykopsysomi or the corporeal existence of Xyphojinami, what forms the tangible existence of both is the manifestation of Reality itself. The divine attribute of Lord Caspierre creates the structure and properties of existence to be written, so to speak.

    Taeh continues with the lecture by adding that there are forces—namely Deceptuary’s corruption—that seek to disrupt and destroy those realmly structures and cause the collapse of the current reality; she goes on to say that those corrupted beings who lack the full ability to envision and understand Reality through manifestation will seek its destruction. This harkens back to Deceptuary and his inability to see the full picture of both the defunct Divine Thrones but also the existence of the Order and the properties that apply to Xyphojinami. During the era of the Divine Thrones, Deceptuary failed to understand the need for the 10 thrones and believed he would become irrelevant among the other deities and rebelled in hopes of toppling those thrones and becoming the sole god of existence.

    We can see Deceptuary repeating that error as an exiled deity in Gheisialez—a prison crafted by Lord Caspierre specifically to cater to Deceptuary’s fears and gravest of mistakes. From here, Deceptuary actively tries to soil and ruin Xyphojinami through his influences despite not understanding the realm himself. Deceptuary was cast into exile and barred from influencing the elder realm of Xykopsysomi; his previous Divine Throne was ended by Lord Vuetenexzyei as well. This meant he was both locked from manipulating the elder realm but also was not involved in the creation of Xyphojinami, Realm of Mortals.  Through this circumstance, Deceptuary and all who follow him under his influences lack the ability to perceive full Reality and seek to destroy that which they do not understand. Taeh edits this understanding down to two short lines here:

    There are forces that threaten to break down those barriers of Realmly Structure, plunging all into chaos. The removal of the bones will collapse all of Reality for the goal of total oblivion.

    Only in the eyes of those lacking the ability to perceive the full sense of Reality through Manifestation, would they seek such a despairing state.

    Taeh then moves the focus of her carefully curated lecture to how Manifestation affects people on a more personal level. She explains that through the Manifestation of Reality—the structure and properties that create existence itself—we are able to perceive that existence before us and of us. We can perceive our own existence and our own realms and worlds through this Manifestation. Taeh then warns that we can also fall into existential collapse via corruption if we don’t manage ourselves. Taeh belabors the point that Reality’s structure depends on our ability to manifest the power to perceive it as all of existence depends on the ability to know of and to perceive said existence. Corruption aims to destroy that perception, and it is the job of the new “celestial seeker,” that being Soylantasia herself, to watch for those fissures in Reality and to mend and reform those properties. We, too, can watch for such breaks in our own perceptions and keep true to the Realmly Truths we understand and care for. Doing so will prevent Deceptuary, the “deceiver,” from spoiling our perceptions and our reality. We see this final part synthesized in Taeh’s finishing recount:

    In localized case, the Self is dependent on Manifestation to perceive its own existence. The Self is structured much the same. A personal Reality. Without care, and with malevolent intent, the Realmly Structure of the Self will collapse in same fashion. Devastation is assured.

    It is then that, which understanding of our own Reality, as Beings of Existence, Spirits, Mortals, Nature, that we manage these Realmly Structures and perceive ourselves and that around is, All Things, with care and consideration. Without this attribute, we perceive and see nothing, experience nothing, and are nothing. Reality Collapses and there is nothing.

    And that is the entire lesson, much shorter but perhaps a bit more conceptual than others. The lesson is simple: Existence relies on our ability to Manifest and perceive Reality, Deceptuary seeks to break that perception and plunge us into oblivion, and it is the job of both the Child of Reality but all who follow the Order to prevent those breaks in Reality itself through seeking and utilizing all the other Sacred Lessons and the Realmly Truths they offer to defeat Deceptuary’s attempts to break reality.

    With the lesson understood, we can now move to the hymn attributed to it. This hymn, named after the Child of Reality aptly, tell somewhat of a story along with an almost scientific call to understanding. The hymn gives homage to Lord Caspierre and Taeh without invoking either of their names directly, and essentially prompts Soylantasia, the scholarly and adaptive Child, to seek the celestial beyond and understand the Fabric of Reality so that she shall know when to act upon mending it and reforming lost properties destroyed by corruption. Let’s take a look at the hymn, shall we?

    Ah~

    Sight of Light…

    Sight of Light..

    Sight of Light.

    Sight of Light!

    Vision,

    True name of Sight.

    Become the eternal light.

    Shadow, cast from beyond.

    Silhouettes of the Gods.

    Cast from the abyss.

    New realms of divinity.

    Celestial seekers sleep in bliss.

    Manifest true Reality.

    (Abstract, Deconstruct, Reform, and Adorn)

    Excellency, passed through cosmic blood.

    Handle the threads of Reality’s sewn weave.

    Cradle the truth of Existence.

    -And bring peace through tranquility.

    You shall now embark.

    Hold the Light and the Dark.

    You shall now manifest.

    Child of Reality, seek beyond.

    Take the stars, transformed into threads.

    Woven through the Cosmos.

    Webs of otherworldly dreams shall ensnare.

    Envision, extraordinary Reality.

    Young celestial seeker.

    So told from your guide, privy to the elder dream.

    And let the Celestial Mother bestow Her excellence.

    This hymn is very spiritual and almost mind-altering in its breadth of musicality and airiness. Meant to be sung entirely by a choir of adult women, the hymn shall follow a unique shifting in time signatures and choral flow, and idealistically would be accompanied by instruments such as chimes, bells, and glass harmonicas. The hymn is meant to invoke feelings of cosmic wonder and curiosity—a subtle and technical awakening of the mind to look up at the stars and to seek celestial revelations. As followed in the footsteps of the original Celestial Seeker Taeh, we are invited through this ethereal choir to also look at the celestial beyond and appreciate the excellency of Reality manifest.

    We shall conclude here for today. In our final installment, we shall go over the 9th and final of the Sacred Children and their lesson—that being Sacred Child Ahnvouyosia, Child of Love. Until then, have a blessed Sacred Day!

    —kyX, whX