Chapter LXVIb

Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.

The mystic engages in direct address to the divine ('Benedicite Domine!', 'Blessed be God!') as a means of defense and comfort.

The doctrine and practice that spoken or sung word carries causal-magical force — that uttering names, formulas, songs, or incantations alters reality directly rather than merely communicating about it. Vainamoinen's runo-songs that move mountains and command iron, Norse galdr, Vedic mantra, Shinto kotodama, the magician's barbarous names in the Greek Magical Papyri, Iamblichean arcane signatures and inexplicable symbols, biblical creation-by-word. Distinct from sacred_names (the ontological power of names themselves) and prayer (address to the divine); word_power_incantation is the magical-causal efficacy of the spoken word as such.

The utterance of 'Benedicite Domine!' and the subsequent declaration of faith immediately cause the demonic manifestation to vanish, demonstrating the causal power of spoken religious formulae.