Laburum: is a Kabbalistic sign, embodied in the Great Magical Monogram which is the seventh and most important pantacle of the Enchiridion.

Lady-bird: A rustic mode of divination was that practiced with the lady-bird or lady-fly. The lady-bird was captured by a maid and bidden to fly. "north, south, or east, or west," in the direction in which her lover lived. Wichever way the insect flew, there dwelt her future husband.

Lampadomancy: Divination by means of the flame of a lamp.

Lancashire Witches: A story with many pathetic and pitiable features, and one which is eloquent of the ignorance and credulity of the age, is that of the Lancashire Witches. Not very far from Manchester lies Pendelbury Forest, a gloomy though romantic and picturesque spot. At the time when
it was inhabited by the witches—that is to say, about the
beginning of the ijth century—it was held in such terror by law-abiding folks'that they scarcely dared to approach it. They imagined it to be the haunt of witches and demons, the scene of all sorts of frightful orgies and diabolical rites. So that when Roger Nowel, a country magistrate, hit upon the plan of routing the witches out of their den, and thus ridding the district of their malevolent influence, he fancied he would be doing a public-spirited and laudable action. He promptly began by seizing Elizabeth Demdike and Ann Chattox, two women of eighty years of age, one of them blind, and the other threatened with blindness, both of them living in squalor and abject poverty.

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Lao-tzu: (Chin.) A great Sage, Saint, and Philosopher, who preceded Confucius.

Lapis Exilis: A name applied to the Graal itself. It is this stone which causes the phoenix to renew her youth. Lapis Exilis, according to Wolfram von Eschenbach, was synonymous with the Holy Grail.

Lapland: The Laplanders have a reputation for magical practice which is almost proverbial throughout Europe, and certainly so among the peoples of the Scandinavian •Peninsula. Indeed the Finns still credit them with extraordinary power in sorcery and divination. Many Scandinavian scions of nobility were in ancient times sent to Lapland to obtain a magical reputation, and Eric the son of Harold Haarfager found Gunhild, daughter of Asur Tote, sojourning among the Lapps in A.D. 922 for that purpose. English literature abounds with reference to Lapland witches. But Sorcery in Lapland was a preserve of the male shamans or magicians. Like the Celtic witches the Lapps were addicted to the selling of wind or tempests in knotted ropes.

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Laurel: A tree which Apuleius classes among the plants which preserve men from the influence of evil spirits. It was also believed to give protection from lightning.

Law of Attraction:

Law of Retribution: (See Karma).

Lazar, Robert:  A physicist who claims to have reverse engineered UFOs at the Area 51 facility.

Lazaris: hhhhhhhhhhh

Leadbeater, (Charles): jjjjjjjjj

Lecanomancy: Divination by means of dropping precious stones into water and listening to the resultant sound.

Leo: The fifth Sign of the Zodiac.

Lemuria: kkkk

Levi, (Eliphas): Alphonse Louis Constant, better known by his pen-name of Eliphas Levi, was a French occultist of the nineteenth century, who has been called " the last of the magi." He was born about 1810, the son of a shoemaker, and through the good offices of the parish priest was educated for the church at St. Sulpice. In due course he became a deacon, taking a vow of celibacy. Shortly after this he was expelled from St. Sulpice for teaching doctrines contrary to those of the Church. How he lived during the ensuing years is not known, but about 1839 under the influence of a political and socialistic prophet named Ganneau, he wrote a pamphlet entitled The Gospel of Liberty, for which he received six months imprisonment. In Paris, notwithstanding his vow of celibacy, he married a beautiful girl of sixteen, who afterwards had the marriage annulled. It was probably not until Madame Constant had left him that he studied the occult sciences. At all events his writings previous to this show little trace of occult influence. In 1855 he published his Doctrine of Transcendental Magic, followed in 1856 by the Ritual of Transcendental Magic; in 1860 was issued his History of Magic ; in 1861 The Key of the Grand Mysteries ; Fables and Symbols in 1864 ; Le Sorcier de Mendon and La Science des Esprits in 1865. Most of his works have been translated by Mr. A. E. Waite. He died in 1875.

Levi's knowledge of the occult sciences was much more imaginative than circumstantial, and in perusing his works the reader requires to be on his guard against the adoption of hasty generalisations and hypotheses.

Levitation: A term in use among spiritualists to denote the raising in the air of the human body or other objects without visible means, and presumably through the agency of disembodied spirits. Thus the levitation of tables and other more or less weighty objects is a common feat among " physical" mediums, whether or not a supernatural explanation be required. The witches of olden times, too, were popularly supposed to make use of some occult mode of locomotion in their nocturnal travels, being transported through the air by the arts of their master, the Devil. And the poltergeist was also thought to suspend in the air, without visible means of support, the agent through whom he manifested himself. As a spiritualistic phenomenon levitation of the human body became known at an early stage of the movement, being recorded in connection with the medium Gordon so early as 1851. But the most important of levitated mediums was D. D. Home, and many accounts of his feats in this direction are given by witnesses who were themselves convinced of their genuineness.

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Ley Lines: kkkkkk

Libanomancy: Divination by means of incense smoke.

Liber Spirituum: The Book of Spirits. A medieval manual of black magic.

Life After Death: hhhh

Life Waves: according the Theosophists, are three in number. It is necessary to remember that the Deity, the Logos has three aspects corresponding to the Christian Trinity. These aspects are first that of Will; second, that of Wisdom; and third, that of Activity, and each has its definite scope in the creation of a universe. When the Logos sets about the great work of creation of a universe. When the Logos sets about the great work of creation he sends the first life wave through his aspect of Activity into multitudes of bubbles in the ether, and thereby forms the various kinds of matter. The universe having been thus far prepared, he through his aspect of Wisdom sends the second life wave, which bringing with it life as we usually understand that term and penetrating matter from above, gradually descends to the grosser forms and ascends to the finer forms. In its descent, this life wave makes for an ever-increasing hetergeneity, but in its ascent the process is reversed and it makes for an ever-increasing homogeneity. The work of creation is now far enough advaced to permit of the creation of man, for matter has been infused with the capacity of form and provided with life, and the Logos, therefore, through his aspect of Will, bears forth the Divine Spark, the Monad, and, along with the form and life, ensouls man. (See Theosophy, Logos, Ether, Evolutio, Solar System, Monad)

Lightwork:  is a spiritual life-style, an integration of rational mind and intuition in a supportive way. It can be considered to be a modern mystic-school based on the roots of ancient teachings without the dogmatic limitations. Lightwork typically includes a deep interest in consciousness, other dimensions, and views about starseeds, walk-ins, ETs and the multi-dimensional-self.

Other schools of thought see lightwork in simpler terms, stating that it's about learning to manifest more of our higher selves, or in Michael teachings terminology, our true personality.

Lilith: According to Wierius and other demonologists, Lilith was the prince or princess who presided over the demons known as succubi. The demons under Lilith bore the same name as their chief, and sought to destroy newborn infants. For this reason the jews wrote on the four corners of a birth-chamber a formula to drive Lilith away. (See Babylonia.) 

Lithomancy: A species of divination perfrmed by stones, but in what manner it is difficult to acertain due to historical obscurities.

Loch Ness Monster: kkkkk

Lodge, (Sir Oliver): (1851-1940)
Pioneer of radio, physicist, professor, one of the greatest scientists of his time. He described contact with his deceased son in Raymond; or, Life and Death (1916) - something which gave him the great authority when writing about the afterlife. He was also one of the first to write about the sub-atomic particle for the hereafter. Lodge's scientific work in physics includes investigations of lightening, the voltaic cell and electrolysis and electromagnetic waves. He also studied the nature of ether, a medium permeating all space and of the ether drift, the supposed relative motion between the ether and any body with in it.

Logos: Fohat -- is the term very commonly used in Theosophy to designate the Deity. Along with the great religions, theosophy has at the beginning of its scheme a Deity who, in himself, is altogether beyond human knowledge or conception, whether in the ordinary or the clairvoyant states. But when the Deity manifests Himself to man through his works of creation, he is known as the Logos. Essentially he is infinite but when he encloses a "ring-pass-not" within which to build a kosmos, he has set limits to himself, and what we can know of him is contained in these limits. To us he appears in a triple aspect -- the Cristian Trinity -- but this is, of course, merely an appearance, and in reality he is a unity. This triple aspect show him as Will, Wisdom, and Activity, and from each of thse came forth one of creative life waves which formed the universe. From the third came the wave which created matter, from the second, the wave which aggregated diffuse matter into form, and from the first, the wave which brought with it the Monad, that scintillation of himself which took possession of formed matter, to start thereby the evolutionary process.

Lucid Dream: hhhhh

Lucidity: a faculty by which supernormal knowledge may be obtained. It is a collective term for the phenomena of clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry, premonitions, etc.

Lucifer: A variant name for Satan. Dante describes him as having three heads and six wings.

Lycanthropy: The transformation of a human being into an animal. The term is derived from 'the Greek words, luhos a wolf, and dnthropos a man, but it is employed regarding a transformation into any animal shape. It is chiefly in these countries where wolves are numerous that we find such tales concerning them. (See Wer-wolf.) But in India, and some parts of Asia, the tiger takes the place of the wolf; in Russia and elsewhere the bear, and in Africa the leopard.
It is usually savage animals regarding which these beliefs are prevalent, but even harmless ones also figure in them. There is considerable confusion as to whether such transformations were voluntary, or involuntary, temporary or permanent. The man as transformed into the animal may be the very individual himself, or, on the other hand may be only his double, that is his spirit may enter the animal and his body remain unchanged. Magicians and witches were credited with the power of transforming themselves into wolves and other animal shapes, and it was asserted that if the animal were wounded that the marks of the wound would be discovered upon the wizard's body.

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Lynx: A Chaldean symbol of universal being, the name of which signifies " power of transmission." It was reproduced as a living sphere or winged globe. The first example was perhaps put forth by mind on the plane of reality, to be followed by three others called paternal and ineffable, and latterly by hosts of lynxs of a subordinate character, described as "free intelligences." The lynx is described by Eliphas Levi as " corresponding to the Hebrew Yod or to that unique letter from which all other letters were formed."