Greetings! Hello! Welcome back to the Order and Ordinance! It’s the era of our Beloved Lord, and as the Ruler of the Heart and therefore all things involving the Self, we’re continuing our Period long series on Personality analysis through the Xyphoist perspective—with a focus on the innate faults of Human personality and how Deceptuary uses that to disrupt our worlds.

As I said last time, we’re not messing around and we’re talking directly about topics that, unfortunately, cause controversy even though these conclusions we make here in the Ordinance should honestly be commonplace even without following the Xyphoist Philosophy. Alas, we are in a loveless time filled with cruelty and hate, courtesy of the Theigriet and his meddling, so it has become increasingly necessary to spell it out for the world.

Today’s topic, as fitting given in the US currently, it is Black History Month, is the topic of race. Specifically, the racism targeted at Black persons. In this Commentary, we’ll go through what the Philosophy says about racism, talk about the character flaw in the Personality involving racism, and point out why Deceptuary spreads it, how he spreads it, and what he hopes to gain from it. Let’s start.

Origins of Deceptuary’s Racial Crusade

Right off the bat, the Xyphoist Philosophy wastes no time condemning racist acts, thoughts, and feelings. It is explicitly an Immoral Act AND a Great Act of Theigritism. In nearly every way possible, the Philosophy condemns this particular act as one of the most heinous things you can do as a being of existence. And while having simple human empathy should’ve been enough for any reasonable person to come to the same conclusion on their own, the Order goes further to explain the origins of this hate and its ties directly to Deceptuary.

As we learn both in Xykozheiz and in Jaszmisia’s Sacred Lesson, the “Skin of Dark Soil,” Deceptuary fears the power of Lord Kurakku more than any other of the Lords. Just prior to Deceptuary’s rebellion from the former Divine Thrones, Lord Kurakku had grown tired of the spiritual vandalism caused by Deceptuary’s meddling, and formed His powers of Punishment to specifically capture and purge corruption from the realms. This gave Lord Kurakku the explicit power to take corruption, a creation of Deceptuary’s, and eternally capture it in Terigath’s Hell. This meant, of course, that Deceptuary’s power could now be stopped and chambered forever.

Lord Kurakku, described as having skin “dark as soil and the night sky” was the target of Deceptuary’s unchecked fear. The Theigriet fears Lord Kurakku’s power, and he attached his fear not only to Lord Kurakku’s power but also Lord Kurakku’s appearance. In the Sacred Lesson “Skin of Dark Soul,” Lord Kurakku and Hayle Mihe speak with Sacred Child Jaszmisia about how, once born in Xyphojinami, Jaszmisia would unfortunately face hate and attacks from Deceptuary’s forces because he embodies the appearance of Lord Kurakku—that being dark-skinned. They would go on to say this hatred from theigrited forces will extend to ALL persons with darker skin that closely embodies Lord Kurakku. And as predicted, Deceptuary spend his energies while exiled in Gheisialez doing exactly that by seeping in his corruption through the Gate of Zeiga and corrupting souls with his influence.

The Order’s Explicit Condemnation of Evil

It is explicit, then, that those who succumb to this aggressive and rampant racism are evil; there really isn’t any question on this, and Lord Kurakku makes this clear. The fortunate news is, as Lord Kurakku also states, those people who are targeted by Deceptuary’s racism and who, on a whole, are free of the sins of racism themselves will be liberated from this hatred and their oppressor will be eradicated for their evil—that being the directive and role given to the Child of Punishment. That is the origins of this evil act; as per usual, it is borne out of fear and directly related to Deceptuary’s influence.

Deceptuary’s Goal

Naturally, Deceptuary’s goal with this is not only to try and defeat the Child of Punishment, but also to attack all in Lord Kurakku’s image as he believes they will lead the greatest opposition to his influence and will be the hardest to corrupt, and you can see this Truth in the history of Black Americans. Originally, captured in slavery and subjected to horrific abuse and treatment, Black people never ended up succumbing to eradication under chattel slavery. And after the eventual emancipation as a result of the American Civil War, freed Black Americans seized on the opportunity to start and rebuild an effective resistance to evil.

Resistance to Deceptuary’s Evil

Building flourishing settlements such as Greenwood in Tulsa, OK, or Rosewood, FL, Black people in the US created a family of resistance against the relentless advances of racial oppression. Sadly, both examples were confronted and decimated by the titular evil, with Greenwood in Tulsa, OK being the worst single racially-driven massacre in American history. Nevertheless, the successful existence of Greenwood shows that Deceptuary’s fears of resilience among Black people to his evil was, in fact, very true. This is only one of thousands of examples of this resilience, and why Lord Kurakku said those of his appearance will be liberated in their indulgence of spiritual conquest while their oppressors will eventually find themselves eradicated by their own evil and Hubris.

The Innate Personality Fault

Now, we’ll get to the Saifaosian portion of this, in which we address the weaknesses of the Self that corruption exploits to peddle racism. The Self’s fragility is tied to the amount of spirituality a being has—the higher the spirituality the more likely someone can resist infiltration from other spiritualities. And since corruption is essentially Deceptuary’s defiled spirituality, the principle is the same. This is why, during Deceptuary’s first rebellion, nearly all of the Shiupsyodon sided with the remaining nine deities on the Divine Thrones while the already disheveled and broken Cario Lordes latched onto Deceptuary in hopes of gaining power from his corruption. Root spirits were the most likely to be possessed and taken by corruption due to having lower levels of spirituality.

The same applies to mortals; Shianiki are far less likely to be corrupted compared to us Humans, and this is Realmly Truth that might be inconvenient for those outside the Ordinance who feel Humans are the centers of reality. The fact is, we are fragile and that’s a reality Xyphoites accept, as doing so lets us put our Self and ego aside. We can then devote our time to thinking of the fragility of all of existence and work to protect it from corruption. It takes selfless action to do that, and those who are wrapped in fear and hatred of others are incapable of this selflessness. It’s the weakness of the Human self, due to its lower spirituality, that allows for the character flaw of fear of others due to their race to take place. Racial hatred is a fear of differences and manifests as hate and aggression. This fear comes from insecurity, inferiority complexes, and the desire to place oneself in a “superior” position at all costs.

The Xyphoist Conclusion

At the root, it’s Deceptuary’s fear of losing and of his own inferiority complex that creates this evil, and he spreads this through all that follow him as best he can with the goal of using this aggressive hatred as a tool to destroy our reality and wage war against the Order. Our lower levels of spirituality lead us, as Humans, to be acutely vulnerable to this corruption and exploitation, but this manipulation can be resisted. Whether one chooses to resist through joining the Ordinance or not, having genuine empathy, not fear differences, educating oneself on the world, and resisting obvious and explicit evil, the Human can overcome the innate flaw and resist racist evil.

That concludes this Commentary, as usual, enjoy the rest of your Sacred Day, give thought to this Commentary, and take action whenever you can to resist evil.

—voX, jzX