“I am here at your service”
Laconic
Using very few words, brief, concise.
Lamed
The letter ל Lamed is the staff of Moses, the rod of Aaron, which represent the creative fire of the letter Shin “raised upon a pole” as a brazen serpent, like Moses did. This creative fire, raised up the spinal column “healed the Israelites” (see Numbers 21). More specifically, it is the qenim (reed, cane) of the previous verse, but developed, enflamed. In the East, this is called kundalini. In the book of Acts, it is represented by the fire that alights on the heads of the apostles (after rising up their spinal columns).
Lao Tzu
A great sage, saint, and philosopher who preceded Confucius; the author of Tao Te Ching (Ch., “book of the perfectibility of Nature”). The text is based on a kind of cosmogony containing all the fundamental tenets of esoteric cosmogenesis. Thus, Lao Tzu writes that in the beginning there was nothing but limitless, boundless Space. All that lives and is, was born in it, from the “Principle which exists by Itself, developing Itself from Itself.” As its name is unknown and its essence is unfathomable, philosophers have called it Tao (Anima Mundi), the uncreate, unborn, and eternal energy of Nature, manifesting periodically. When reaching a state of purity, man, like Nature, will achieve rest and then become one with Tao, the source of all bliss and felicity. As in the Hindu and Buddhistic philosophies, such purity, bliss, and immortality can only be reached through the exercise of virtue and the perfect quietude of our worldly spirit; the human mind must control, subdue, and even crush the turbulent action of man’s physical nature. The sooner he reaches the necessary degree of moral purification, the happier he will feel.