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The Truth About Vampires

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narfellus

i for one believe in them, but not the hollywood tripe, not even Bram Stoker.  I also believe there are several different kinds of vampires, including people who drink blood, and then there are energy vampires, who are still living and sometimes not aware of what they do.

But i want to talk about the classic vampires, you know, fangs, bats, Transylvania, etc.  I've found two really good books on the subject that i found interesting: Vampires: The Occult Truth and Monsters.

http://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Occult-Truth-Llewellyn-Series/dp/1567183808/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1354907363&sr=8-3&keywords=truth+about+vampires

and

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Investigators-Beings%C2%A0%C2%A0-MONSTERS-Paperback/dp/B008N3HT96/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354907473&sr=1-2&keywords=monsters+an+investigators+guide


The latter book speculates that the oldest vampires stretch back to the Egyptian dynasty in the form of pharaohs who wanted to live beyond physical death, mostly so they could continue the work for their noble cause as acting as an intermediary with the gods.  To do this, they had to create a very special shrine (a tomb) and prepare the body a very special way (mummification). Eventually though this degraded into pure greed for power.

To quote:

Central to vampirism is the point that the vampire was once a living human being and only entered the vampiric state after passing through the process of physical death. To grasp the deeper historical roots of vampirism, it's necessary to take a different approach. Such an exploration must necessarily be speculative in places, since the origins of the vampire tradition date back to eras well before written history; still, there are signposts on the way, ranging from certain odd details of history and archeology to occult lore concerning death.

Our search will begin in neither of these places, though. Rather, we will start in the country that is now called Egypt but was once known as Khem, the Black Land, the gift of the Nile. When we think of ancient Egypt nowadays, nearly all of what comes to mind relates to the Egyptian obsession with the secrets of the afterlife. Few societies in all of history have been so intently focused on the mastery of death and the attainment of immortality. The largest single body of surviving ancient Egyptian literature consists of handbooks to help the dead escape the dangers of the Duat— the underworld where the sun went at night— and achieve eternal life. The Pert em Hru or Book of Coming Forth By Day, better known nowadays as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is the oldest and most famous of these handbooks, but there were many others.

Central to this lore was a set of teachings about the different souls, or spiritual aspects, of each human being. The two most important souls in Egyptian thought were the ba and the ka, which correspond almost exactly to the modern magical concept of the astral and etheric bodies, respectively. The ba, according to Egyptian lore, was not bound to the physical body and could travel to distant places— its emblem in Egyptian art was a human-headed bird, representing its powers of astral flight— while the ka was linked to the physical body; it could travel for short distances away from it but had to return regularly and could not survive if the physical body decayed or was destroyed.

To maintain life after physical death, Egyptian teachings held that the critical point was to preserve the ka in working order. This required, first of all, the permanent preservation of the physical body— a requirement that led to the development of ever more complex technologies of mummification; second, magical processes to "open the mouth" of the ka and enable it to take in nourishment; and third, regular offerings made to the ka so that it would not wither away from starvation. In the language of modern magic, food and drink were used to provide the ka with a steady source of etheric energy so that it would be able to maintain its existence and avoid the second death (the process through which the human soul sheds its etheric body after death and goes on into the afterlife). The tomb of every Egyptian who could afford mummification thus had a ka temple connected to it, and each of these temples had at least one ka priest, whose job it was to feed the ka of the dead with sacrifices every day.

If the ka no longer received these offerings, it faced a peculiarly unpleasant fate. As chapters 52 and 53 of the Pert em Hru make clear, a ka who did not receive offerings had to venture out of its tomb at night to find what nourishment it could— and that normally added up to excrement and urine, two readily available sources of low-grade etheric energy. These starving ka wandered at night, naked or clad in their funeral clothes, and the pale light they gave off led them to be called khu, "luminous ones." Not all khu restricted themselves to filth; some invaded the houses of the living, causing physical or mental illness. There is even a passage in the Pert em Hru that seems to indicate that khu could attack the living directly and drink their blood. Once the system was well established, therefore, it was very hard to stop safely. The cost of sacrifices and the upkeep of ka priests became an economic burden large enough to play a major role in the collapse of several Egyptian dynasties, but the system continued solidly in place until Egypt fell under Persian rule in the sixth century before the common era, and even then lingered on in places until the coming of Christianity.



If but we knew the power of our thoughts we would guard them more closely.

desert-rat

The energy vampires are also know as psychic vampires , most are people that will tell you a sad story and get some of your energy with out really knowing what they are doing .  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_vampire     There are a very few that do know what they are doing , thoes are evil people . desert rat 

majour ka

I wish vampires did exist, the female ones on true blood are hot!  :-P

Lionheart

Quote from: majour ka on December 07, 2012, 22:20:16
I wish vampires did exist, the female ones on true blood are hot!  :-P
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