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- LB>What exactly is Xem?
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- No, I should be nicer than that. I'll explain what Xem is if you can
- explain for me exactly what Nirvana is. But if you haven't studied
- Buddhism, perhaps you can tell me what Tao is? Ki?
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- Let's try something easy ... what is symbolized by the Fool card?
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- Thank you. Now, let's see if I can explain Xem. First, be warned that
- the exploration of Xem which I've written and published in the _Ruby
- Tablet_ runs 26 pages, 35 if you count the appendix and bibliography.
- I'm not going to upload those 26 pages here.
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- Xem is a state of Being that can be achieved by an Initiate who Xepers.
- It is a state of Being more advanced than what we have yet achieved.
- (At least no one I know is brash enough to claim they've achieved Xem.)
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- Xem is a state of personal exaltation, knowledge, wisdom, balance, and
- power.
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- Xem is but a stage of growth, and not a final one. As advanced as Xem
- is, as desirable as it is, having achieved Xem there will be more
- advanced states of Being to be achieved. It is but a remarkable
- milestone on the path of Xeper.
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- Within the Temple of Set, you'll also find Xem heralded as the Quest, as
- a process of achieving initiation after initiation, of progressing
- through stage after stage of growth.
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- Hmmmmnn ... wonder why it took 26 pages to say that ...
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- Balanone
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