Labro, St. A Roman Saint solemnly beatified a few years ago. His great holiness consisted in sitting at one of the gates of Rome night and day for forty years, and remaining unwashed through the whole of that time, the result of which was that he was eaten by vermin to his bones.

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

Law of Retribution (See Karma).

Linga-sharîra (Sans.) "Astral body," i.e., the aerial symbol of the body. This term designates the doppelgänger, or the "astral body" of man or animal. It is the eidolon of the Greeks, the vital and prototypal body, the reflection of the man of flesh. It is born before man and dies or fades out with the disappearance of the last atom of the body.

Logos (Gr.) The manifested deity with every nation and people; the outward expression or the effect of the Cause which is ever concealed. Thus, speech is the logos of thought; hence, in its metaphysical sense, it is aptly translated by the terms Verbum, and the Word.

Long Face A Cabalistic term, Areekh Anpeen in Hebrew; or "Long Face," in Greek, Macroprosopus, as contrasted with "Short Face," or Zeir Anpeen, the Microprosopus. One relates to Deity, the other to man, the "little image of the great form."

Longinus, Dionysius Cassius A famous critic and philosopher, born in the very beginning of the third century (about 213). He was a great traveler, and attended at Alexandria the lectures of Ammonius Saccas, the founder of Neo-Platonism, but was rather a critic than a follower. Porphyry (the Jew Malek or Malchus) was his pupil before he became the disciple of Plotinus. It is said of him that he was a living library and a walking museum. Towards the end of his life he became the instructor in Greek literature of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. She repaid his services by accusing him before the Emperor Aurelius of having advised her to rebel against the latter, a crime for which Longinus, with several others, was put to death by the Emperor in 273.