Leviathan

Leviathan and Oroboros The giant sea snake monster upon the Waters that guards the threshold That ring which does not allow any escape, the prison of the ego

The great sea serpent that guards the borders of this reality. It is the gate you must pass through, the dragon one must slay in order to transcend reincarnation, transcend this world.

The Chaos of the Deep

The collective human ego is the devil, satan, lucifer The impulse to be separate and individual and to try to supplant and replace God The Creator with one’s own self, reality, world,…..

JOB 41

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life? Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house? Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering. No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me? Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me. …. It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment. It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair. Nothing on earth is its equal — a creature without fear. It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”

“Leviathan: His name means “twisted” or “coiled” in the Hebrew language. He is mentioned five times in the Bible. Oddly, Psalm 104 implies that God made Leviathan to “sport with.” A description of this massive beast, given in chapter 41 of the Book of Job, suggests that it is a sea creature. Later Jewish myths directly identify Leviathan as a sea monster, a terrible being capable of devouring one whale a day. There is a legend tracing back to Rashi, a rabbi from eleventh-century France, who explains that God created both a male and a female leviathan, but killed the female shortly thereafter because, were these creatures to procreate, mankind could not stand against them. A further story in the Talmud suggests that on the Day of Judgment, God will slay the leviathan, using its meat to prepare a feast for the righteous and using its hide to create the tent wherein this feast will be laid out. In many stories, Leviathan is pitted against the great beast Behemoth. In the trial of Urbain Grandier, a pact was produced, which was purported to be Grandier’s contract with Satan for his immortal soul. Grandier, a Jesuit-trained priest, was Burned at the stake in 1634 in the French town of Loudun, after having allegedly orchestrated the possession of a number of nuns under his care. Leviathan was one of several distinguished devils who supposedly signed his name to Grandier’s pact. Leviathan is also mentioned in the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, in connection with a spell. There is a high likelihood that Leviathan is a holdover from early Babylonian influences and is in fact a Jewish version of the Babylonian and Sumerian monster Tiamat, also connected with water. In Mathers’s translation of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Leviathan is identified as one of the four principal spirits, ranked alongside Lucifer, Satan, and Belial.”

• The Dictionary of Demons: Expanded & Revised Michelle Belanger