(WATER)
THE BOOK OF LEVIATHAN
THE RAGING SEA
Despite all non-verbalists' protests to the contrary, soaring heights of emotional ecstasy or
raging pangs of anguish can be attained through verbal communication. If the magical
ceremony is to employ all sensory awarenesses, then the proper sounds must be invoked. It is
certainly true that "actions speak louder than words", but words become as monuments to
thoughts.
Perhaps the most noticeable shortcoming in the printed magical conjurations of the past is the
lack of emotion developed upon the reciting of them. An old wizard known to the author, who
was once employing a self-composed invocation of great personal meaning in the light of his
magical desires, ran out of words just as his ritual was moments short of its successful
culmination. Aware of the necessity of keeping his emotional response generating, he quickly
adlibbed the first emotion-provoking words that came to mind - a few stanzas of a poem by
Rudyard Kipling! Thus, with this final burst of glory-charged adrenalin, was he able to
finalize an effective working!
The invocations which follow are designed to serve as proclamations of certainty, not whining
apprehension. For this reason they are devoid of shallow offerings-up and hollow charities.
Leviathan, the great Dragon from the Watery Abyss, roars forth as the surging sea, and these
invocations are his tribunals.
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The Satanic Bible
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