• Welcome all back to the Order and Ordinance! We’re back on this second Sacred Day under Lord Kyaien’s Golden Light. Last time we introduced the concept of Joy in conjunction with Her Majesty’s attributes. We celebrated the sheer power of Joy in Life, and I mentioned we could use that Commentary to help shine light on how Joy can be used to combat evil, corruption, and suffering. We’re going to start with the power of the joyous connections and bonds we form throughout life and how they can be used to fight against evil.  Let’s start!

    We’ll begin with once again returning to the triad of key beings of the Kyaius Xyphozon and of the Xyphozons in general. As explained before in these Commentaries, the beaming relationship among Lord Kyaien, Hayle Giheo, and Sacred Child Zinigeosia is the perfect example to bring up. We’ve remarked before that Lord Kyaien absolutely adores Her Child, and passes on that glorious love on to Zinigeosia.

    Likewise, backtracking to Hayle Giheo’s legacy, she was once an ancient spirit who was known for mothering all newly-formed spirits in a much more primordial age of the Divine Thrones, and was so legendary that she was named by others as the “Motherly Spirit.” So, it goes without saying that Giheo already had an incredible nurturing and loving power within her that was only amplified upon full ascension to angelhood. These three beings demonstrate an unbreakable and Sacred bond that directly comes from that Greater Will of Love that the Order is built on.

    Moving out from there, we can just take a general look at the entire Order and the nine Xyphozons in general. This is a undivided and eternal union of divinity and love. These Xyphozons act as organs of a single divine body, and despite their vast coverage of attributes, all coordinate and connect to each other. The Sacred Children grew up among these nine Xyphozons together; they would cross into each other’s realms and interact and play and learn and grow together. The Hayles, many of whom knew each other prior to the creation of the Order, also cross those boundaries to coordinate and discuss and share with each other at their Lords’ behest.

    Among these nine Xyphozons, as you can see, the bond is unbreakable. And I highlight this because we, as mortals, can mirror these bonds ourselves to fight off corruption and evil. There’s nothing would strike fear in Deceptuary’s decrepit spirit more than the sight of a unified Order and other adjacent forces against his pitiful evil. Speaking of just the Order and Ordinance itself, our prayer is uniform and also still vibrantly diverse. We have many customs and traditions and themes and music, but they all point to a single light and to a single Love. Building a strong and powerful community based around not only our shared ideals and Philosophy but around our collective Compassionate and Devotional Love is the direct antidote to Deceptuary’s evil and malevolence.

    But mortals don’t have to stop there. In general, building communities based on Love and unbreakable bonds forms an ironclad defense against corruption. We can see bonds form to hold communities together against oppression—especially oppression that directly comes from Deceptuary’s dubious orchestration. This can be along ethnic lines, social lines, or even spiritual and religious lines, such as the Ordinance itself. Either way, the point is that building strong community bonds and working together allows people to better organize and fight against corruption.

    We can zoom in a bit more and talk about the family unit. Much like the divine and Sacred heritages of the Lords and their Children, our families too should be built on unbreakable and loving bonds. When it comes to parenting, the Xyphoist Philosophy’s Doctrine of Love dictates that the parents shall love their children unconditionally, and raise them with that very set of virtues.

    We, as Xyphoites and as parents, shall love our children and teach them to love others who choose to love this world and themselves. We shall respect our children’s Free Will and protect their Spiritual Liberties until they can grow old enough to do that themselves and for their children too. We shall remember the empathy of another Sacred Child, Hubrakiuosia, and always have empathy and sympathy for our Children and teach them to hold those same compassionate virtues. Forming bonds based on Love and its various forms creates a powerful charm that Deceptuary will fail to defeat or break.

    At this point, it should be clear that Deceptuary lacks Love, and he lacks Joy. The Joy we receive from our bonds is something he does not understand or possess as all of his apostles and most devote followers seek his power out of fear, hubris, greed, envy, hatred, and insanity. There is no loyalty among corrupt forces; they only seek out malignant opportunism. Love is a foreign concept to evil and is replaced with malevolence and fear.

    So if you’re ever confused how some people can be so cruel or steeped so deeply in their corruption, just know that without Love and Joy, to elevate them, they will sink into a pit of misery and irrational hatred.

    Anyway, we’ll wrap up here for today and continue our discussion on the power of joy against evil in the next Commentary. Before we conclude, I will offer a Golden blessing and charm for you all. I pray for all that are lost in the dark, for the Golden Light will always shine so long as you seek the Will to see it and reject that hollow darkness of evil and corruption. Have a blessed rest of your Sacred Day!

    —erX, voX,

  • “Come Faithful thee, hold the Babe in hand.”

    “All shall see, Praise! The Sacred Child of Life!”

    “A Gift bestowed above, from Her Majesty.”

    “Live and Free, Praise! The Lord’s Posterity.”

    Hello! Greetings again from the Order and Ordinance! Welcome back to the glorious Period of Watching under Her Majesty, Lord Kyaien.  As we round down to the final Period for this Xyphojinamic Calendar, we’re going to spend this entire Period highlighting the power of the Joy of Life and how joy can be used to defeat Deceptuary’s evil and to breath life full of meaning. I hope throughout this Jumé, that we can lay out a plan and party for the glorious light of joy. We’ll spend the later Commentaries worrying about how we can use joy to defeat evil and hatred, but for now let’s briefly go over HOW the power of joy works in conjunction with the attributes of Life and Free Will. Let’s get started!

    Let’s start with the invocation of our cherished Sacred Child’s hymn in the start of this Commentary. The wondrous anthem of Zinigeosia, the precious and beloved babe of Her Majesty and the symbol of pure glorious joy and light. The anthem and the infectious cheeriness of Zinigeosia could make even the most despondent and hopeless of souls take a second look at their perspective of Life.

    Upon his creation in Xyzokizon, spirit-kind was in jubilee, Her Majesty beaming with glowing pride, and Hayle Giheo given the honor to first hold the Golden Child in the radiance of the Lord’s Light. Having taken place in the time after the fall of the Divine Thrones and just after the creation of the first three Sacred Children, spirits at the time were reeling from a rebellion of one of the 10 deities and the destruction left from it needing rebuilding, and so to feel a beaming fresh energy of Golden Light shine across the realms from the creation of Zinigeosia—with the angels singing the anthem of the Golden Child—was a shining sun of new hope across all of existence.

    Zinigeosia’s birth as a mortal Shianiki in Xyphojinami likewise brought a light of creation and hope to an infantile and developing new world, and with him came the power of Life and Free Will that would be gifted to all mortals that followed the nine Sacred Children.

    This joy is not isolated either; the power of the Lord’s creation is both a Heavenly Life Force and a Shared Living Will. The anthem invites us to hold the Golden Child and praise both him and the Life he represents. The order invites all to see this glorious Gift of Life and the Free Will that comes with it. And so, as we highlight the raw and initial power of Life’s joy, we can see that it is a bright light that shines out suffering and creates paths for us to follow.

    We can probably already ascertain how this powerful radiance will be used to outshine whatever despair that Deceptuary wishes to spread. In a world with such a powerful force like Joy, the forces that seek to usurp it will always fizzle out. There is no power more exhausting to despair and corruption than the inability to penetrate and disrupt the Joy of Life; and that reflects Deceptuary’s direct frustration with going up against the Greater Will of the Lords: Love. 

    The celebration will never be ruined by the souring corruption of evil so long as joy is the key focus and not on the vampiric suction of it by forces of despair. The Golden Light of the Lord of Life will always shine on those that seek to spread joy, and that power cannot be used to harm. Golden Light is the most divine and ultimate of Charms, and that golden power embedded in both the Child and entrusted with Hayle Giheo will always be used to protect the joy that Life brings.

    So we’ll keep this opening entry on the elegant and glorious Golden power of Joy and use it as a sun that will shine down on the rest of the Commentaries on how we can use this power to fight off corruption and evil’s malignant intentions. Until then, I wish and pray for you and shall offer you a Golden blessing on this Sacred Day! May you seek joy and praise the light of Life.

    —erX

  • Greetings, once more, from the Order and Ordinance. We have made it to the final Sacred Day within Lord Nakndes’s Period of Watching for this calendar year, and we have spent this time going over the various angles that Nature provides. We mused about Nature’s whimsy, we admired its beauty, took notice of its warnings, and experienced its wrath. Today, we shall wrap it up with the natural conclusion: the clean and fresh slate after the storm has passed and rebirthing power of Nature. Let us begin.

    The storm has ravaged the lands, it has brought both its ruin and its floods, and while the infrastructure we built atop it may meet an expected wear and tear, the lands are rejuvenated from the rains. The old brush and wilted trees on their final days have been torn down to make space for their prosperity newly sprouted. The rivers of the desert are replenished and the cacti bloom. The blizzard roars and freezes over the lands, but the snow that it drops shall give home to the furred creatures that require the cold. If spring is on the schedule, the snows shall melt and feed the lands as well.

    The old shall lay to rest and the new shall sprout and bloom, as Nature is the rule-maker and shall keep the cycle in flow. It is for this very reason that the attributes of Nature and Reincarnation are in the Lord’s ownership. In all aspects of life, from birth, life, and death, we see this cycle repeat. But for all that can be observed, we know that Nature shall give new recycling to those that respect its power and eradicate those that don’t. We can reflect on our own circumstances. When we see our living generations from old to young, we see our own metaphorical Sacred Tree, where the fruits of the youth fell from a more ancient tree and will one day plant a new generation of trees themselves. We look at the Ancient Tree and now it shall one day rot, but know that new trees shall grow in its place and blossom and bear fruit.

    It’s a very contemplative view of the Natural Force we live by, but it works both as a means to teaching humility to the Creating Force that spawns our vessels and forms the rules of our worlds while acting as a soothing Realmly Truth about the Eternal Reality of Death that expires the Gift of Life that we cherish. And so, as we prepare for the oncoming Period of Watching under the Lord of Life, Kyaien, we have set up a selection of Commentary understanding the Nature of Life so that we may spend the next Period cherishing and celebrating Life.

    And so, on this more brief Commentary about the Rebirth of Nature, I humbly ask you to be one with Nature on this Sacred Day. Take a stroll and inspect the deadwood and know that the felled tree once fathered samplings that will carry on its legacy. Acknowledge that the exuberant flower admired from up close will soon wilt as Nature intends. Listen to the winds, feel the rushing waters of a small creek, and know that they carry the duty of moving and refreshing Nature and should be respected for their raw power. Nature is the Creating Force, the rule-maker, and the medium that other attributes use to enact much of their presence. We are spawned from it and shall always be beholden to it. Have a wonderful Sacred Day and thank you for joining me on this Period-long musing about Nature’s presence.

    —lnX