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X, XTIAN
"Christ," "Christian." "Xtian" is HPB's
usage, as in "The impious Xtians." There are two Christs. There is the
"historical" Christ of the Church, which is a composite of John the Baptist, St.
Paul and a symbolic "carpenter" (i.e., church-builder) of the mythical village,
Nazareth. Belief in the existence of this unreal person is all that is required
for obtaining physical immortality. The other Christ is a consciousness-raising
state of mind, practiced by occultists who call themselves, not "Christians,"
but Gnostics, Rosicrucians, and the like.
X-FACTOR
Colin Wilson's term for the special energy
or force beyond the four natural forces (electromagnetism, gravity, strong and
weak nuclear forces). Various authorities call this occult power by different
names; Mesmer's animal magnetism, Bulwer-Lytton's Vril, Crowley's
Will, Freud's Libido, Jung's synchronicity, Reich's
Orgone, etc.
XANADU
Name of a project proposed by Ted Nelson. Its
goal is a worldwide computer-based information network using "Hypertext linked
in many directions rather than in one- dimensional sequence".
XAPHAN
The demon who tends the infernal fires. God of
arsonists.
XIBALBA
The Quiché Mayan equivalent of Hell or the
world of the dead.
XUL
Sumerian for "evil." Xul is also the 6th Mayan month
(see MAYAN
CALENDAR.)
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