Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

144 SELF-INlTIATION INTO 1HE GoLDEN DAWN lRAOITION
LAC VIRGINIS: Virgin's milk. A term for Mercurial Water.
LAMP: A continuous spiritual Fire.
LANCE: Masculine energy.
LAPIS LUCIDUM ANGULARIS: "The cornerstone of Light." The supreme
Essence.
LAPIS PHILOSOPHORUM: The Philosopher's Stone. In practical Alchemy this
is a powder and not a stone.
LATON: The Matter of the work. The production of the Philosopher's Stone at the
white stage.
LEO RUBEUS: The Red Lion.
LEO VIRDIS: The Ore of Hermes. The Blood from Sulfur. The first Mercury of
Gold, altered by means of Luna. Sometimes called Green Water. Also
sometimes refers to Vitriol.
LILY: The female principle.
LION: Heat and sulfurous action.
LUNA: The Planetary name for Silver (but in practical Alchemy this often
refers to a mixture of antimony and iron).
LUNA PHILOSOPHORUM: The pure living Alchemical Spirit of Silver-the
refined Essence of Heat and Moisture.
MAGNESIA: Sometimes used for talc, but often this term is used in reference to a
mixture of metals.
MAGISTERIUM: A quality treated as a substance, or an operation to cultivate or
emphasize a quality. (Example: The Magisterium of Principles-Separation.
The Magisterium of Weight-to exalt in weight.)
MAGNUM OPUS: The Great Work or masterpiece. It is the goal of the Alchemic
process-that is, to reach a purified state of spiritual perfection. The creation
of the Philosopher's Stone. Illumination.
MARE NOSTRUM: Our Sea. The physical body.
MARRIAGE: Union. Conjunction.
MATER METALLORUM: The "Mother of Metals," also known as Living Silver.
MATERIA LAPIDIS: Tincture.
MATRIX: The place where a substance is developed. The womb. An essential
component of realization, without which Spirit cannot be joined to matter.
MEDICINA CATHOLICA: Universal Medicine. The anima.
MENSTRUUM: That original material from which all metals are derived. This
term is also used to describe Mercury wherein gold has been dissolved.
Usually describes a solvent in the corporeal process of the purification of
the gold. Any fluid that dissolves a solid, sometimes a catalyst. Constant
mild heat that is continued for forty-two days.
MODERATE FIRE: Sexual passion.
MYSTERIUM: The Essence of the Interior Nature.
MYSTERIUM MAGNUM: The Great Mystery; The First Matter of All Things.
The Mother of all finite living things.
NATURA ABSCONDITA: The Hidden Nature or Essence.
NITRE: Saltpeter.