X
The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet and the last letter of the proper Latin alphabet. As a numeral it stands for ten.
XAINTRAILLES, MADAME DE
A lady who was initiated into Freemasonry by a French Lodge that did not have the excuse for this violation of law that we must accord to the Irish one in the case of Miss Saint Leger. Clavel (Histoire Pittoresque, page 34) tells the story, but does not give the date, though it must have [...]
XAVIER MIER È CAMPELLO, FRANCISCO
[Francisco Javier Mier y Campillo - Ed. 2010] He was Bishop of Almeria, and Inquisitor-General of Spain, and an ardent persecutor of the Freemasons. In 1815, Ferdinand VII having re-established the Inquisition in Spain and suppressed the Masonic Lodges, Xavier published the Bull of Pius VII against the Order, in an ordinance of his own, [...]
XEROPHAGISTS
On the 24th of April, 1738, Pope Clement XII issued his Bull forbidding the practice of Freemasonry by the members of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of the Freemasons of Italy continued, however, to meet; but, for the purpose of escaping the temporal penalties of the Bull, which extended, in some cases, to the infliction [...]
XERXES
A significant word in the Degree of Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, the Thirty-second of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He is referred to in the old instructions of that Degree as represented by Frederick the Great, the supposed founder of the Rite. Probably this is on account of the great military genius [...]
XINXE
A significant word in the higher Degrees. Delaunay (Tuileur, page 40) presents it as Xincheu, and says that it has been translated as the Seat of there Soul. But in either form it has evidently undergone such corruption as to be no longer comprehensible.
XYSTUS
In ancient architecture a long and open, but sometimes covered, court with porticoes, for athletic exercises.
XYSUTHRUS
The name of the Babylonish King at the time of the Deluge. According to Berossus, ninth of a race who reigned 432,000 years. Also, Adrahasis of Surippak, son of Ubara-Tutu, the Patriarch, to whom, according to the Deluge Tablet, the gods revealed the secret of the impending Deluge and who erected an Ark accordingly, whereby [...]
