Dear Friends
After receiving dozen of enthousiactic messages about my previous book, Draugadrottin, and before the released of my new Grimoire : Scholomance the Order of the Dragon, I wanted to sit with you and discuss a bit the iniatic vampiric tradition.
How could we deffine it, and how could we make a difference beewen fiction and occult reality ?
Vampirism is rightly associated with blood, and feeding off it in order to prolong one’s own existence. This image is associated with many myths surrounding the Undead archetype, not only on the European continent, but all around the globe.
Blood is, however, to be understood only as the vehicle for the very substance of life, this invisible energy, known in India under the name of prana and in China as chi. In the eyes of traditional European occultism, this vital essence is contained in three great vehicles:
• Blood
• Breath
• Sex
In traditional Romanian myths, Varcolacs and Strigois do not feed on blood, but rather on the vital essence of their prey, which is carried throughout the blood. This energy, present in all things of this universe, comes in several variants, each having their own qualities. The traditional medicine of China, distinguishes in particular the celestial and teluric energies, present in unlimited quantities in the sky and the earth, from the food energies. These food energies are themselves associated with a symbolic element, as well as organs of the human body, with different emotions, as well as with flavors. Good health, as well as longevity then depend on the ability of the human being to maintain a state of balance between these elements. We also find an energy stored at the level of kidneys, which all humans possess in limited quantity since birth and which flows throughout life, filling the energy deficiencies of the body during periods of illness, hardship, and long journeys. When the reservoir has dried up, the physical body dies. On another side of the spectrum, thoughts also create a form of energy. Altogether, it is this energy that feeds the Vampire, to prolong his own life at the expense of his prey. By this act, the Vampiric Sorcerer feeds his own physical body, initially regenerating his own health, slowing the effects of aging, and gaining with years of practice a rather ageless appearance. This surplus energy is also used for magical purposes, by overloading his body with vital essence, the practitioner of the Undead Arts, nourishes his own centers in the manner of the adepts of yogas, allowing the blossoming of certain occult abilities. This energy overload will also be used for magical purposes, and projected in sinister rituals of evocations and in spellcasting to increase intensity and efficiency. The magician will even go so far as to feed the essence of some beings evoked during these rituals, thus making their powers his own, like the ancient Pharaoh Unas, who is said to have awakened from his grave to devour the gods to become one himself. But above all, it is his etheric double, his astral body that the adept nourishes. This astral body is the vehicle that will allow his consciousness to survive beyond death. Throughout his life, the adept therefore strengthens him by the vital essence of these victims, and by numerous pacts made with other Vampiric beings or Infernal powers. By constantly nourishing it, he thus preserves it from the second death, just like a human being prevents his physical body from dying by a regular supply of water and food. It also makes it autonomous, in order to one day be able to inhabit it fully while its carnal envelope will rest in the tomb. Contrary to what has been claimed by some authors, this practice is not harmless to the prey. In fact, the ancient myths associate the bite of the vampire with anemia or even death when the victim is drained on a regular basis by a powerful Undead. This can be explained by Chinese medicine too: a lack of energy causes imbalance, weakness, fatigue, and torpor. Deprived of a critical energy balance, a person falls ill much more easily. The body will then try to restore this balance, by drawing on its own energy reserves. But, when confronted with too strong of a trial, its personal resources won’t be enough to refuel it, thus this can lead to intense fatigue and death. In Eastern European stories dealing with vampirism, it also often features a demon rising from the grave, feeding on the same victim for weeks, while that person sleeps, until she passes away, becoming a Creature of the Night herself. Vampirism is a Yoga of Darkness. A true adept will not be satisfied with simply draining the basic aura of his victim, but will seek to nourish himself in an amoral way, into the deep core of his target, in order to extract from it the purest vital essence, to fuel his own immortality and power over the world.
To discover how to deeply use to the powers of vampirism to your own benefits, and thus, engage on the path of the Death Defyier, I give you rendez vous on the 31th october, only on Become A Living God.
ND BLACKWOOD
