Greetings and welcome back to the Order and Ordinance. We’re back again on this Sacred Day to continue our dive into the inner workings of the Innate Personality Flaw that heavily inflicts Humanity and how such a condition leads to corruption. That will be the focus of today’s Commentary. Last time, we properly defined what the Innate Personality Flaw is and how it comes to be; today, we’re going to show how corruption comes about as a result of such a condition existing.

For this explanation, there’s no better brush to begin painting this toxic picture of corruption than through the fundamentals of Xyphoist Morality; we have at our disposal the 7 Immoral Acts laid out by the Nine Lords themselves to use as guidelines for this explanation. I’ll be going through each of those 7 Immoral Acts and explain how the Innate Personality Flaw that brings about openings for corruption to infiltrate leads to potentially committing one or more of those acts.

First, I want to simply reiterate that, as a basis, the Innate  Personality Flaw that inflicts Humanity leads predominately to such conditions as Hubris and Fear; those two conditions will be the principal causes for corruption taking hold and for people inflicted with said corruption to then commit immoral acts. With that in mind, let’s go through each Immoral Act and illustrate the cause and effect properties of the Innate Personality Flaw.

Immoral Act of Obtaining Immortality

We start with the act of trying to obtain immorality or a state of suspended spirituality. The very act itself aims to create a cosmic stasis that doesn’t allow free spirituality to flow between the various realms of the Spiritual Spectrum—directly putting existing in peril as that Cosmic Flow is necessary to keep reality stable.

Someone who tries to become immortal is driven by both Hubris and Fear—namely of Death. They may also be bathed in hedonistic or compulsive behavioral patterns and simply cannot fathom a reality where their seeking of endless pleasures would come to an end. Here, we see how the Innate Personality flaw creates the conditions for this Immoral Act. A person, inflicted with corruption, may feel “small” or “inadequate” on the grander scale, may not take Lord Kyaien’s gift of Life to its true meaning, and therefore fears the end of their own existence. Naturally, this may also compound with another Immoral Act—that being World Self-Obsession—as those who are corrupted often commit multiple sins in tandem.

Unwanted Proselyting and Preaching

This sin is heavily dependent on that condition of Hubris and practically a built-in part of most of the Theigrited Philosophies themselves as they are derived from the Theigrit himself. The mentality behind this particular Immoral Act is arrogance and the refusal to respect the differences of other philosophies. Those that seek to preach their own philosophy and especially seek to convert others to them—especially if that conversion is forced—actively disregard the Spiritual Liberty of others.

In our Philosophy, as we mentioned Time and Time again, the Lords have guaranteed that all beings have Spiritual Liberty to believe in whatever they wish with no punishment for not being a follower of the Order. Those that seek to preach, proselytize, or convert others actively spit in the face of that universal liberty, and such a mentality comes from incredible heights of arrogance and pride—in other words Hubris. The Innate Personality flaw coupled with the medium of corruption can lead people to believe that their beliefs are not only higher than others, but that all must submit to those beliefs, and that force can be used to achieve that.

Using belligerent force to meet an End or Goal

Next, we move to the use of violence or coercion and exploitation. Using physical violence, sexual abuse, exploitative or mentally abusive coercion once again usurps Spiritual Liberty and actively causes harm to others. In this case, we step into the category of Evil, which is defined under Xyphoist Philosophy as being corrupted, tainted, and willfully causing harm. Using that formula alone shows that in order to do such evil acts, one would have to be corrupted and knowingly so first.

Here we can see both Hubris and Fear playing together as conditions of the Innate Personality Flaw in action. The arrogance to usurp the liberty of another through such violent or belligerent acts is also a desperate act of fear. Someone who uses such actions is so fearful of not obtaining their self-serving goals that they resort to the lowest and most destructive of behaviors to achieve those outcomes.

Punishing Others Self-Righteously

We move to the Immoral Act of punishing others for not following a particular moral code or set of beliefs. To add Xyphoist context for those unfamiliar, in the Philosophy ONLY shall the Lords administer Divine Punishment through their explicit divine mechanisms. As such, no one else can punish another for disobeying a moral code of any origin and not face that Divine Punishment as well. Once again, we see evil may play a role in this if the punishment is belligerent, and we can once again attribute that to usurping Spiritual Liberties.

We can directly link this sin to Fear and Hubris in tandem. One would have to believe themselves on the level or in the stead of a God to think themselves capable to punish others in the name of divine intervention. They also would fear any disobedience on both a systemic and personal level to feel the need to anoint themselves the punisher of others for philosophical or religious reasons. Once again, we see the Innate Personality Flaw at work along with possible inferiority and superiority complexes at play psychologically.

Habitual Intoxication

Next, we come to the Immoral Act of habitual intoxication of the body and mind—namely boiling down to addictions so compulsive they not only cause harm to the individual inflicted with them but to those around them as well. We see this lesson within “Xykozheiz” with the tale of Benavuer Talakaizin—one of Deceptuary’s human apostles of corruption who aided in the creation of one of Deceptuary’s mortal vessels. That vessel, the Goblet of Intoxication, was created after Talakaizin was inflicted with severe levels of corruption from abusing alcohol stolen from the neighboring village cathedral. In his intoxicated state, Talakaizin forced his own beloved lover into the church, murdered her, and used that abhorrent act to create the Goblet as a vessel under Deceptuary’s possession.

This tale gives us a glimpse at the destructive powers of addiction; the habitual intoxication lead to horrendous outcomes for everyone around Talakaizin. This is paralleled in our modern timeline, as we have ample examples of how addition has put strain and tragedy in the personal lives of billions of people across this planet. Perhaps losing a loved one to addiction, or a fatal car crash in which an intoxicated driver crashes into and kills a family in another vehicle or even anyone in the driver’s vehicle too.

The corruption of intoxication spreads harm in a myriad of ways, and for this particular Immoral Act, Fear is root cause. Habitual intoxication is predominately used to escape from reality—particularly situations that are harsh or hard to cope with. Addictions are limited to simply substances such as alcohol or drugs, but can extend to other behavioral escapes such as digital addictions, physical exertions such as overworking or overexercising, and so many other cases of trying to escape from reality. If done to such a level where it becomes harmful, those acts are corrupted by way of Fear—the fear of raw reality with no buffers in place.

Worldly Self Obsession

The next Immoral Act can be boiled down to excessive narcissism. The Act of extreme self-obsession and narcissism often leads to dangerous levels of selfish behavior and an acute lack of concern or care for the lives or conditions of others. People inflicted with this corruption are often willing to sacrifice others for their own personal gain. We can see things such a greed or envy also fall into this sin, as greed is driven from obsessive and selfish behaviors, and envy is driven from the lack of having what others may have and willingness to act harmfully to undermine or to even take those from others as a result.

One would think that Hubris is the key aspect of this sin, but it’s actually Fear. Those that are self-obsessed—much like the Theigriet—fear sharing existence with others or being seen as “irrelevant. Those narcissistic behaviors are a direct reaction to a fear of lack of prominence within existence. And so while the resulting behaviors may come off as conceited, arrogant, prideful, or haughty, the root is actually an acute fear of irrelevance. The Innate Personality Flaw’s circumstance within Humanity being the lowest in spiritual power among mortals plays a major role in this particular Immoral Act.

Humanity, over time, has suffered a severe inferiority complex in regards to the greater celestial beyond. We often feel insignificant on a cosmic, and that has lead to the desire to place humanity on a pedestal beyond that upgrades our tangible existence to godlike levels to compensate. The fear of insignificance is the root cause, and those outside of this Order are perhaps the most likely to fall to this Immoral Act. Part of being a Xyphoite means accepting that Humanity is what we are. The Philosophy actively tells us, as followers of the Order, to discard that Self Obsession for the Greater Will and the Order.

Dividing the Xyphozons or trying to become a sole God

Finally, we reach the Immoral Act of trying to divide the organs of the Order itself and subsequently trying to create some form of “ultimate singular god” status. This is Deceptuary ultimate goal. To cope with his fear of irrelevance, Deceptuary declared during his argument with the Nine Lords of the Order that he intends to engulf them and become an ultimate god. Lord Pharuuii explicitly warned Deceptuary that such a goal would destroy existence and would also destroy Deceptuary himself. Deceptuary handwaved the warning, blinded hy his own Hubris, and carried on with his first rebellion anyway; he was handed his first major defeat as a result.

It goes without saying that trying to disembowel an organ system—particularly one that is holding all of existence together and is the creator of said existence—is catastrophic by default. Much like believing one can live without a liver or kidneys or a heart, the Order is a unified body and all organs of it function to maintain existence itself.

Those that seek this type of corruption are heavily inflicted with Hubris above all else, and are often linked directly to Deceptuary himself, as he has a direct interest in the destruction of the Order by any means possible. Likewise, emissaries of this corruption are so steeped in Hubris that a universal god that strips Spiritual Liberty away in exchange for ultimate power is something they are willing to accept at their own detriment. In that case, Fear of the unknown versus an attachment to a singular but authoritative being plays directly into the Innate Personality Flaw.

Conclusion

By going through each of the 7 Immoral Actions, we can how the Innate Personality Flaw opens the floodgates for corruption to cause people to commit these Immoral Acts. Moving forward, we can use this rough sketch to continue painting our painting on how corruption is facilitated by the Innate Personality Flaw. However, that next step in this painting shall wait until we rejoin here again. As such, have a great rest of your Sacred Day!

—voX, jzX