_Laxa Chimolea_ is salt growing to stones. _Laxativa_ are medicines working upwards, and downwards. _Leffa_ is called the predestination of hearbs. _Leffas_ is an occult boiling vapour of the earth, by which hearbs and plants grow. _Lemures_ are spirits of the Element of Aire, which Heathen think to bee ghosts of men departed. _Lephante_, or _Lephantes_ is the first kind of Tartar, or Bole, holding the midle betwixt stones, & clay. _Lethargyrium_ in _Paracelsus_ is the spume of Mercury, or of Silver, or of Lead, which is separated in their purifying, and purging. _Lethargius_ is the finder of Mines. _Limbus_ in _Paracelsus_ is the great and universall world, the seed, and first matter of man. _Liquidum de resoluto_, is that which is liquid of its own nature. _Liquor_ is many times taken for oyle, when the name of the thing of which it is a Liquor, is put to it. _Liquor Aquilegius_ is destilled Wine. _Liquor essentialis_ is that humour which is turned into flesh, and bloud. _Liquor herbarum_ is made of hearbs pounded and pressed, and digested. _Liquor Mercurii_ is the balsome of things, in which the vertue of curing or healing consists. _Liquor Mumiæ_ is the fat of a Man. _Liquor Mumiæ de gummi_ is oyle of Gumme. _Liquor salis_ is the balsome of Nature, by which the body is preserved from putrefaction. _Locus vitæ_ is the seat of the mind or soul. _Locustæ_ are tops of boughs of trees, as yet tender and green. _Lorindt_ is the commotion of waters, or a harmony made by them. _Ludus_ is a medicine that cures the stone by dissolving of it. _Lumbrici Nitri_ are worms found in the earth, or mud, so called for their slipperinesse. _Luna_ is Silver. _Luna compacta_ is Quicksilver. _Lunaria_ is the Sulphur of Nature. _Lustrum_ is the creame of Milk. M. _Macha_ is a flying worm. _Magia_ in generall is wisdome, and it is twofold. Naturall, which is lawfull, and is the ground of all true Physick, and the occult wisdome of Nature, without which all mans reason or knowledge is ignorance. The other is Diabolicall, superstitious, and unlawful, and is called Necromancy, whereby men attaine to the knowledge of things by the assistance of evill spirits. _Magia Metaphysica_ is an art lawfull for Christians to use, by which any occult secrets are discovered. _Magisterium_ is in _Paracelsus_ any secret extracted out of naturall things without any Elementary separation, with which other things are wont to bee prepared; yet with the addition only of other things from which that which is extracted is separated. _Magnalia_ are peculiar works of God. _Magnesia_ is commonly taken for a Marcasite, but that which is artificiall is melted Tinne into which is put Quicksilver, and both mixt into a brittle matter, and white masse. _Magneticus tartarus_ is a stone, in a man as hard as a Loadstone, and spongious. _Magoreum_ is a Magick medicament, or secret. _Maius noster_ is our dew, and the philosophicall Loadstone. _Malek_ is Salt.