Vampires Pt. 7

Covens

A Guild, an order, a ring, a syndicate, a clan. In vampire terms, it is a coven. The natural, humanistic desire to fulfill the need for social interaction is present even in the vampire. Truly, it is often easier to remain alone, but the ties that bind us in our mortal state also draw entities close in the immortal state.

As for demons...
Considering the demons that indwelt the man in Mark 5:10 "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many.", it is apparent that many demons end up congregating together. Perhaps this serves the purpose of security--protection from the more powerful beings out there. Contemplate the manner in which new demon-indwelt vampires are born, it takes at least two demons in league with one another to achieve the creation. As a reminder, we have already discovered that the human is drained of blood and life and that at the instant the human spirit releases the body the demon slips in. It is at this point that blood is reintroduced into the system to revive the deceased body. That means that two demons must conspire to create a vessel: the vampire and the uncloaked spirit.

The demon nature, as can be gleaned from the work of Satan, is to desire servitude from humanity. The legends of the gods and their human followers can lead one to believe that it was the goal of many demons to establish for themselves an order, populated by human servants. It is not beyond doubt that the greater demonic vampires began covens of human vampires to serve their interests and needs--forever doing his bidding and seeking his interests.

As for humans...
The human need almost certainly drives them to social interaction. If not already belonging to a greater society, the desire usually results in the lonely vampire setting his mind to creating a companion. It is recorded that huge and powerful covens sprung up from the simple desire not to be alone.

In seeking my talks,
I reached out and gave,
The wilting stopped for her,
And love and friendship sprang
-Ko'shek (Epicedium, civ)

Intensity of relationships is inherent in the vampire nature. Love is bound up in immortality and so makes the expression stronger and more meaningful. Imagine the bonds of friendship and love being tethered unendingly. Though life in one age erupts and then dwindles away like a lighted candle eats its wick, the tie remains. Through wars and famines, conquerors and kingdoms, the adhesion endures. Though vampiric expression is fearsomely strong and the bond made by blood is lasting, human emotion and reason still compel the creatures to act rashly and selfishly. The fighting and division, therefore, still occurs, but the magnitude of pain is greater than anything that a mortal can know.

So, covens grow and gain strength. Even the best managed divide, though. The ensuing battles between houses have decimated entire covens, wiping them from existence and it has ravaged others to the point of ferocious retaliation. The fighting makes stronger bonds in the core of the covens and, over time, galvanizes loyalties and relationships. Thus, the greatest covens are usually the most battle scarred of them all. The ancients that lead them have suffered the great pains of betrayal and desperation for love lost. Wisdom wrought by pain stays their course and establishes them as untouchable gods among lesser gods.

To answer the question, yes, there are covens. Those known to exist are most definitely led by humans and those only rumored to exist are probably guided by demons, but the fact remains that the human desire to seek one another remains. This trait is not shed with the passage into immortal life, but magnified and deepened even beyond our mortal comprehension.

Further questions will be addressed.
Can vampires steal the blood of another vampire?
Do child vampires grow up?
What is the oldest vampire legend?
Who is the oldest vampire?
Are vampires and zombies actually the same thing?
What's the step by step biological process of going from human to vampire?
Do vampires have super strength?
Can vampires change into animals (like bats)?
Is it true that, in some cases, the Slavic language calls vampires and werewolves by the same name?
Do vampires needs sleep?
Do vampires require food?
Are vampires smarter than regular humans?

Vampires Pt. 6

What is thirst?

The unabating call of unpolluted desire issues forward to the center of a vampire's mind. His power wanes as desire increases. The summoning invades the depths of the inhuman heart and with nearly tangible hands it grasps at and drags the creature to satisfy its craving. In human terms, it is like choosing not inhale breath or ignoring the smell of fresh bread on the fortieth day of a long and difficult fast.

The depth of the desperate urge is unfathomable to us. It would render a human absent of freewill if the emotion was coursing through his or her frame, but to a vampire it can be withstood--with great practice and even greater pain; it is a testament to the power of the creature. This demanding, nearly intelligently seeking force is known as the thirst. It is the thirst that all vampires feel—those indwelt with a human soul or an evil demon spirit.

The body, a creation of demons during the days of legend, was imperfect from its start. The commendable, yet still deficient efforts yielded the magnificent and powerful vampire species.

The new body had its ever increasing strength. Eventually it was discovered that it could heal itself from only small fragments of flesh. No natural death would ever prevail over it. Emotion and experience were heightened to sometimes excruciating new levels, and its five senses were just the beginning of what it could now experience. In all this, however, the new creation soon displayed its weaknesses. The creation was magnificent, but not without a price. Fire could destroy it, but this was manageable. The sun caused it to first burn and then become cancerous, so the vampire remained hidden away during daylight. But, above all else, beyond conscience and righteousness, there was the thirst. It was the instinct that ensured survival from its perpetual flaw.

Through trial and error much was discovered during the first days of vampirism. The blood, though it was attempted repeatedly, was too elusive to yield to the crafter's manipulation. It was God's law that ran through it, and, like gravity and the changing of the tide, this law could not be broken. The blood could not be changed like the flesh had. It degenerated over time no matter what blood was used. The only blood ever to continue eternally was that of Jesus Christ.

Because of this broken aspect of fleshly existence, the demons saw that the virus was altered. The virus was engineered so that it overwhelmed the vampire with the imprinted instinct to kill and drink. It gave them the scent of human blood as a tool for recognition. The force was as decided as the cyclic migration of the birds.

Each time a vampire would feed, the blood would last for only a while--it would then begin to die. As the blood died, the vampire would become increasingly lethargic and exponentially thirsty. The unfed vampire would drop into dormancy after too long a time--revivable by demons, but otherwise dead.

Now the vampire body took blood and adapted to it. After drinking, the strength in the body would return, and the vampire could go on for many days, but eventually, the thirst came back again. Again and again the killing and drinking would occur. The "blood cycle", it was called, began and the perpetuity of the cycle was understood and adopted as a way of life. Some called it being undead: a state in which one was caught between life and death. It was like a hell on earth to glean life again and again from the truly living so that those deserving of death could go on clinging to the imitation of life.

Oh, how this blood cycle would torment those human souls that fought against it. Animal blood would suffice, but the time it took for the body to adapt and the physical changes that inevitably occurred because of it were often too difficult to endure. The guilty conscience would lose out to the allure of human blood.

There were those damned creatures that held to life because they feared death and the unknown punishment that might follow. Because of this, they always returned to drinking. It was torturous to fear the eternal repercussions of drinking so much that it drove the fearful to drink all the more in order to stay alive and avoid the potential consequences that death might bring. Like an unending wheel of earthly guilt and punishment the thirst keeps on.

The ones that continually lived in guilt usually succumbed to the conclusion that all of their life was merely vanity. Life unending was pointless without a purpose; drinking and killing was no purpose. They began to free themselves by fire. A great many found immortality too difficult to traverse and sought the alluring fires. The animalistic madness that set in on those wishing to avoid the shedding of human blood usually led them to conclude their lives in the fires as well.

The death that the human vampires began to flock to became known as the Immortal Passing. The Library of Kamodd notes that this ritual became a venerated practice among the immortal. Once five lifetimes were reached, the vampire was given the opportunity to stop the futility of undying life in a dying world. Surprisingly, the answer was often in the affirmative and many an immortal passed into the afterworld that way. Some even wasted away four of the five lifetimes simply wishing to meet with the Immortal Passing.

The Books mention that it was often the battle against the thirst and the deaths it caused that drove vampires mad. The madness of a vampire was not a simple thing either. In a vampire mind, human reason went to war with the vampiric instinct. Division in mind actually caused pain like a real tearing in the mind. The instinct ruled so powerfully that it seemed free will did not really exist. So, most were driven to their ends, never living long enough to discover how it might have been.

It was well known, after a time, that the longer a vampire lived the stronger he or she became. This did not go unnoticed by the wise. Some chose to see the thing through to its end and found that over many centuries, the body began to keep the blood alive longer. The blood in the ancient vampire was still mortal and dying, but it was documented by the vampire Yurim that it could now last for decades at a time without replenishment. This adaptation could be analogized to the immune system as it adapts to new infections, so the vampire adapts to the preservation of its blood. Over time, a vampire body learns to heal faster, to react more quickly, and to last longer between drinking. That, of course, is only a small sampling of the power that accompanies an ancient, but that road of discovery is for another time. For now, I leave you with this basic understanding of the thirst: an unwavering, all encompassing, desire to drink human blood.

I have begun to realize a power over the call of blood. The journey marking each murder has lasted to my increasing satisfaction. Though, I long to be free of the shameful practice so that even three score is not yet enough.

-Yurim (Observations of the Kind, An Essay, 1938)

Bitterness and shame,

All is waxing,

All are aging,

Even we are ending,

Not flesh or strength,

Or our reflected face,

But our will and mind.

-Ko'shek (Epicedium, xxii)

The demon's cloak,

Is his sonathanos (vampire),

And the cloak is his door,

By blood he may enter.

-Ya'ray (Pondus, clxvi)

Further questions will be addressed.
Are there covens?
Do child vampires grow up?
What is the oldest vampire legend?
Who is the oldest vampire?
Are vampires and zombies actually the same thing?
What's the step by step biological process of going from human to vampire?
Do vampires have super strength?
Can vampires change into animals (like bats)?
Is it true that, in some cases, the Slavic language calls vampires and werewolves by the same name?
Do vampires needs sleep?
Do vampires require food?
Are vampires smarter than regular humans?

If you have your own question or a remark, please leave me a comment.

They Fell

They were called sons. A sect of the chosen breathing in the highest existence of enlightenment and breathing out praise. They walked on the beaches of eternal knowledge. The visual stimuli were of such immense gravity that the collective masses would have hardly understood it. The choir of voices singing the praise for creation would have been like an astounding ocean of sound. To have observed the perfect power exerted on all things--it would have been enough to impress on anyone the awe that casually demanded submission. These eyes that saw this all belonged to the heavenly host. We call them angels.

Who knows what possessed the third that chose to leave their creator and cleave to the devil. Though he is no doubt strong, he is no God. It has probably been said before, but some pondering has led to the likely proposition that these angels likely followed in rebellion but it is not clear whether they followed Satan as their leader. Wouldn't it be more likely that Satan is plagued with a disunified group of demons that all seek after their own interests? The power plays could extend into ridiculous realms.

As mentioned in the Books of Koshek, Arar (The curse) is mentioned as one such demon. Rising to power by subjugating humanity to his will he was finishing what Satan had started.

The antediluvian kingdom that he built saw multitudes bow to him. This is no small matter. You see, before the fall, all angels could manipulate and form the world around them. They could shape and build and push and pull anything they desired save for the bodies of humans--the ownership of that matter belonged to them. When the fall occurred, however, the demons lost the power to manipulate the matter around them. This was disconcerting at first, but they soon made a discovery: the ownership of the human body can be transferred from the human to the demon. When the spirit leaves, the matter remains. The matter that remains can then be manipulated. In this form it is called dark matter.

As you might guess, this became a gross power to Arar when the masses bowed before him. He was mighty among immortals and it only diffused at the flood and ensuing battle. The flood wiped the polluted human genetic line and the angels of the eastern lands battled and bound Arar to his prized elder tree in the garden he had made for himself to roam.

With his fall, the demons that served him dispersed or were bound and Satan assumed primary control. In his absence, Koshek and the other vampires persevered and eventually established shadow kingdoms of their own. The modern vampires were born.

Vampires Pt 5

Who was the first vampire?

Throughout history there have been stories and legends running rampant with the spirit of the vampire, or rather, the incarnate demon. The legends reach back extremely far. The most clearly defined origins for the vampire are seen in the etymology of the word vampire, or, as was used by Slavic peoples (who eventually became the Russians, Ukrainians, etc.), the word upir.¹ The first usage dates from at least the 10th century and some believe that the word and its meaning could have originated in the 7th century AD.² The word upir was originally found, indicating a wicked blood drinker, as a commentary piece in a Slavic translation of the Psalms dating from the 10th century.³ Some have gone further and suggested that the ancient Greek language has a form of the word, but supportive evidence is scarce.

Regardless of the word vampire (vampyre, upier, upir, etc.), the legends of creatures that desire blood are still intact in ancient memory.⁴ The stories reach back to the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian understandings of demonology. The Babylonians seemed familiar with the wanderings and torments of the undead. If you get the chance, take a glance at the 19th century work of Augustus Montague Summers, The Vampire, his Kith and Kin and observe his train of thought. It is a very well conceived, logical progression of thoughts and conclusions pertaining to the vampire.

At the bottom of this post, you’ll notice I’ve gone to the trouble of putting together a few resources for you to check out on your own (tip: use Google Language Tools for the Russian pages), but none of that really answers the initial question. The truth is, the first vampire is an unknown figure lost to the chapters of time. We can only look back so far. It is, however, safe to conclude that the first vampire is still living today--in some form or another--since he is most defiinitely a demon. He is likely one of the first that fell from heaven and took up residence on earth. His story is briefly mentioned in Genesis chapter 6 and debatably attested to in the writings of Enoch. In the end, however, your guess is as good as mine. No one really knows.



¹Chambers, W. & Chambers, R.Chambers’s Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge Retrieved 2008-03-11.

²Russian Etymological Dictionary by Max Vasmer. Retrieved on 2008-03-11.

³Sobolevskij, A. I.. Slavjano-russkaja paleografija. Retrieved on 2008-03-11. See The Original Here

⁴Summers, A. M. The Vampire, his Kith and Kin Retrieved on 2008-03-11.

Further questions will be addressed.
What is thirst?
Are there covens?
Do child vampires grow up?
What is the oldest vampire legend?
Who is the oldest vampire?
Are vampires and zombies actually the same thing?
What’s the step by step biological process of going from human to vampire?
Do vampires have super strength?
Can vampires change into animals (like bats)?
Is it true that, in some cases, the Slavic language calls vampires and werewolves by the same name?
Do vampires needs sleep?
Do vampires require food?
Are vampires smarter than regular humans?

If you have your own question or a remark, please leave me a comment.

Vampires Pt 4

Are vampires all evil?

The question as to whether vampires are all evil challenges the semantics of the word evil. Without a doubt, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and so we are all evil to one degree or another. So, the word you and I are speaking about right now is taken to mean evil as in contradictory to God on all accounts.

In the case of the demon possessed vampire, this creature is evil without argument. The agenda driving the demon is to contradict God. This is done brazenly and no mistake is made concerning the intent.

There are, however, vampires that are indwelt with the human spirit still. To say that these vampires do evil is accurate. They contradict God's righteousness every time they take a human life. We know that this, of course, is to survive. Feel free to engage me in debate as to whether a vampire of this nature is committing an unforgivable act when it is only done to survive.

The word unforgivable is the key point. Is it forgivable if a vampire kills, then goes through the process of repenting and seeking forgiveness, and then, overcome with need, kills again? Is it forgivable if a vampire kills and knows that he or she will kill again? It is the way a vampire survives. Human blood must flow through a vampire's veins and no other will suffice.

Let's take a moment to consider alternatives. It is true that a vampire can sustain himself on blood bank supplies, but the frequency of dependence is raised because that blood has already begun to die. A vampire can take blood from a willful giver to stay alive, but the instinct to kill is usually dominant and overpowering. A vampire that bites and doesn't kill will inevitably begin to make countless other vampires with the introduction of the virus. So, killing is almost a necessity, but I stress the word 'almost'. Some have lived lives devoid of killing, but their carefulness can never be lax.

To answer the question, all vampires are not evil. They are drawn to the tendency to commit evil, but they struggle with need and instinct in a way that is foreign to us. They compete with their sin like we would compete with not eating or drinking for prolonged periods. Even this, however, is a weak analogy. Capturing the vampire's true draw probably cannot easily be analogized. Thank God for those that yield to conscience rather than their thirst. They are likely stronger in their resolve than I.

Further questions will be addressed.
Who was the first vampire?
What is thirst?
Are there covens?
Do child vampires grow up?
Who is the oldest vampire?
If you have your own question, please leave me a comment.

Vampires Pt 3

Do vampires live forever?

Being that a genuine vampire is indwelt with a demonic spirit there can be no doubt that even with the shedding of the flesh the demon is an eternal being. However, the question is likely aimed at whether the flesh can go on living forever, so that is what will be addressed.

In actuality, the genetic recombination and adjustment caused by the viral reprogramming gives the body a stem cell for every fleshly component but the blood. The blood, a sacred element under God’s law, breaks down over time regardless. (The only blood that actually perpetuates is that of Jesus Christ.) It seems, in the case of the vampire, that for all the good of the virus, the blood breaks down more quickly and isn’t regenerated as with unaltered humans–thus the reason for the addition of a means to replenish it through the ducts in the fangs and the origin of the legends that record vampires as blood drinkers. This need for blood keeps the system functioning. I mention this because a vampire that is devoid of fresh blood, given enough time, will eventually die. This death, however, cannot really be considered full death.

Death, it seems, is temporary if the spirit (demon) remains with the body and blood is reintroduced. A portion of the living blood cells will convert into stem cells (a property of the still present, non-living virus code residing in the blood residue left in the body) and the body will eventually regenerate to the point of complete functionality. Once life is in the vessel again, the demonic spirit can reattach to it. Without the presence of a spirit, however, the body, even if it responds and rebuilds, will be empty and lifeless. It could be equated to a tree: alive, but lacking any awareness.

Now, as you can see, this nature carries with it the peculiar ability to regenerate indefinitely and even come back from the dead. It can therefore be concluded that the vampire’s flesh will, in ideal conditions, never die. Unending life is only stopped by the complete destruction of the vessel–often accomplished by burning it. The burning must be complete, leaving no possibility for reintroduction of blood to the virus in order to stave off the vampire’s resurrection.

In the case of a vampire still indwelt with a human spirit (this happens when the virus is introduced but death never occurs and a demon never inhabits), death can result from a prolonged bout absent of fresh blood. For the human spirit, once the body is dead, the spirit cannot remain and is immediately called to Sheol or Heaven. This irresistible experience occurs with a human vampire as well.

As was originally stated, a demon, even if the body is lost, can reinstate himself into another vampiric host. This has happened and can theoretically continue forever. During the time apart from the previous host the demon sometimes falls into the same routines he carried out while in the flesh. This phenomenon has been noticed by the living and attributed to the ghosts of the dead. In actuality, it occurs as a side effect of the separation between demon and host. The two have taken on each others’ identities while united and the separation sometimes leaves the demon confused, disposed to wander with the adopted traits until they wear off.

The identity crisis can become a challenge when a demon moves from one vampiric vessel to another as the memories transfer with the demon into the next person. It requires discipline to differentiate between the two persons and sometimes results in schizophrenia.

I’ve digressed slightly, but I thought these interesting sub topics worth discussing. In case you missed it, the answer to the initial question is yes, vampires can live forever, but they can also be killed.

Further questions will be addressed.
Are vampires all evil?
Who was the first vampire?
What is thirst?
Are there covens?
Do child vampires grow up?
If you have your own question, please leave me a comment.

Vampires Pt 2

Where did the virus come from?

It can be said that things began to change approximately 6,012 years ago give or take a few months. It started with the coming of a serpent of old (Revelation 12:9, 20:2) when, indwelt by the already fallen Satan, it spoke to the second human–a naive and trusting woman named Eve. It was not long from this time that Adam, the first among humankind found that his wife had eaten of a forbidden fruit. Nobody really knows his motivation, but he decided then and there to join his wife in rebellion against God’s only edict. The consequences of this choice would forever alter the course of all history.

The serpent was cursed to run along his belly for the rest of time. One could infer from this curse upon an animal species that it was this being’s willingness to be defiled by the indwelling of a demon that it was punished. It can be further speculated that this willingness between species is precisely what categorized them into clean and unclean groupings in later years. (see Genesis 7:1-2 for a reference to clean and unclean animals even preceding the Law of Moses).

It is perhaps a faulty speculation to think that animals are inclined to do anything other than what is natural and innocent, but the early chapters of Genesis demonstrate that animals have at least some capacity to be controlled by good and evil forces. Maybe this gives us a better idea for the reasons behind ancient gods of the pagans appearing to look like animals. Baal was often depicted as a bull.

Moving beyond this line of thought, it is still evident that the presence of demons in our world has occurred from the beginnings of creation. These demons, it seems, are pretty obsessed with indwelling flesh. (see Luke 11:24, Matthew 12:43 for the reaction of a cast out demon)

It seems also that the demon is met with torment when occupying the flesh of a living man. (Matthew 8:16 and following verses depict demon possession as a debilitating situation) If the possession is so difficult to manage without going mute or crazy it would benefit the demon to gain possession of an emptied vessel. This could be the basis for legend–what was done to gain full possession of movement, thoughts, and speech.

It is recorded as myth and legend, but nonetheless disturbing since it was believed, at one time by the masses, that those who were supposed to be dead could rise from the grave with sinister motivations. Hindu mythology recounts the belief in creatures known as Vetalas: beings that are created with the union of corpse and demon. The motive behind the union was never really investigated, but the general consensus was that they existed simply to torment the living. Sometimes they were considered protectors of a village, but at a cost to those living within. The possessed-dead beings were said to be responsible for causing miscarriages, the death of children, and a driving force that led to madness.

These beings, if we choose to believe the root of the legend, could have been created by demons wishing to bypass the possession of the living, preferring instead to inhabit the dead. The positive of inhabiting the dead was the absence of a soul to contend with. The negatives, however, were vast. The deceased body would inevitably be wrought with brain damage the longer it was left dead. This would thereby cause great confusion to the demon as he brings himself to bear with the mind of the vessel. The body would undoubtedly be difficult to manage the longer it was left to decay. The brain, even if it were very fresh, would be filled with memories, desires, and impulses that the demon would be forced to either submit to or contend with. The appearance of the deceased person would be recognizable to those still living that knew the individual in life.

These drawbacks might explain a few questions about the legends. In the event that a dead person was possessed the demon would come into union with the mind of that vessel and, just as we are largely driven by our thoughts, memories, and emotions, the demon too would experience these sensations. (This might be very unusual if the demon had never possessed a person before.) Those sensations would likely draw even a demon back to the family they now remembered. This could account for many of the legends that occur throughout history of people being visited by their dead relatives. The levels of brain damage coupled with the evil nature of the demon would also lend credence to the claims that deceased relatives were coming back and attacking old friends and family. Just as a bear that feeds on the food of humans becomes more dangerous because of his familiarity with man, a demon is more dangerous when he is drawn to humans–regardless of the innocence behind the initial attraction, the violent nature has the tendency to take control.

Because of these challenges, it would have been a goal of the early demons to devise a way around the very human drawbacks that they encountered. Mind you that the angels were probably privy to the knowledge of how things worked. They could observe the biological state of man and, in their vast ability to comprehend, they might have sought to introduce biological engineering into the world. This engineering could be done by introducing a virus that reprogrammed the DNA of humans. The virus, in theory, could be equipped to change DNA’s code to whatever they desired of it. The possibilities are innumerable.

That code could have been made and introduced into the world very easily. Consider the fact that God chose to send a flood over the entire earth to destroy all of creation. It causes me to wonder what warranted such a drastic reaction. Was it merely sin that brought the necessity of such annihilation? Or was it perhaps necessitated by a badly damaged genetic line? Could the virus–or variants made by successive experiments–have overtaken the population at large? What were the Nephilim? What did Genesis mean when it spoke of the sons of God who saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose? Could this union between the sons of God and the daughters of men have been accomplished from spirit to flesh? Or was it the offspring of genetically engineered supermen indwelt with the spirits of angels uniting with the daughters of ordinary men?

Of course, it may be that the sons of God were simply the “once righteous” or “sons of Seth”, but the ambiguity is such that this interpretation seems less than satisfactory. It seems unlikely since it is followed by the statement that the Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. It seems as though the heroes of old were known as Nephilim and they were identified uniquely because they were born by the sons of God and the daughters of men. The natural assumption is that this was somehow an unnatural union that produced a species–or many species–of half-humans known as Nephilim.

Therefore, it seems, that the virus we’re speaking of could very well have been the reason for a total annihilation of the inhabitants of earth. It also, could have been the forerunner to the more subtle form of the vampire. Let us examine the nature of the vampire.

A vampire is gifted with tremendous strength, speed, eyesight, hearing, regeneration of any portion of the body still indwelt with a spirit, and life that does not seem to have an end. The only weakness to a vampire is mutation of cells by ultraviolet light, death by fire, and the nagging mind of the old human (which loses poignancy over time). Even the mutation of cells can be overcome by cutting off the affected flesh. Even the removal of all of the skin from the body, which is usually all that is affected, can be recovered from.

The greatest drawback among vampire nature is the mind of the vessel. Alas, it is inescapable if the demon wishes to inhabit an adult whose mind has made concrete connections. (Maybe that’s why there’s so much child demon possession in Jesus’ time–children have less of a developed mind. See Matthew 15:22, Mark 7:24-30, Mark 9:17-18)

The nature of a vampire, given by the virus engineered by devils, is the perfect vessel for the evil spirits to occupy. Its dogged dependability as a method of inhabiting the flesh has shown itself to last effectively through the millennia.

Further questions will be addressed.

Do vampires live forever?

Are vampires all evil?

Who was the first vampire?

Vampires Pt 1

They were known by many names throughout the ages. Vetelas, strix, undead, and vampire. The legends always spoke of those that had died coming back to feast on the blood of relatives. It was thought that the victims themselves returned as vampires. It led to mass hysteria and exhumed bodies–burned and staked.

What is the true nature of the vampire? Here it is.

A complete vampire is created when another vampire bites him and drains him. Upon biting him, a virus enters. It essentially reprograms the DNA and begins a process of change from specifically tasked cells to base cells in the body. These stem cells will eventually have the capacity to reproduce any portion of the body that is damaged or destroyed. Before the process is able to complete, however, the victim is fully drained of blood and dies. During this process the vampire never releases the victim. A connection is made that is beyond the realm of human understanding.

At death, the spirit is released from the body and a new spirit enters–it is the demon. Remember that the demon seeks a vessel to reside in and is tormented whilst exposed and without a host (Matthew 12:43). Upon entry, blood is forced back to the vessel’s blood stream and the body begins to revive. As the body struggles to regain life the virus continues its work. It converts the physiology to a new type completely. The brain damage from death is repaired by the stem cells, the sensitivity to ultraviolet becomes acute, strength increases, the senses sharpen, the body ceases to age, and the teeth grow and link with the blood stream. The new code takes hold, the demon inhabits, and the vampire is complete.

The process can be applied to those that have already died as well. It simply requires the demon to enter and the virus to take affect for reanimation to be possible. This is because the virus even works on dead cells, mimicking the code that is present and setting to work to create living cells in place of the dead ones.

In both cases, the resulting creature is then more demon than human, but the human mind remains. Often times the demon suffers an identity alignment with the host. That is to say that the demon begins to think the way the once living human did. The human mind is now his and he may even mistake himself for being that person. That means that the same emotions, memories, and habits resurface in the new life. This is why a vampire often finds himself visiting family he once knew and compulsively feeding on them.

There are, however, human vampires as well. These are created when the process to becoming a complete vampire is interrupted and never carried all the way through. If a bite occurs the virus is passed on, but if death never comes then the human spirit remains with the changing body. All the attributes of the vampire set in, but the spirit is still the person’s own.

Human life, by comparison, seems as a dull dream would seem. The senses were so unrefined and unevolved that experiences now seem distant and unimportant. The vampire life soon takes greater precedent as the ultimate experience.

Survival for a vampire relies on an avoidance of the sun since the ultraviolet rays damage the cells and cause horrible mutations and aggressive cancers that ravage in days rather than months. Keeping away from fire or any other sure form of complete obliteration preserves. And the blood of a fresh victim every few days or sometimes weeks keeps a vampire from declining into dormancy. The blood is the only element that does not reproduce itself. It is rejected over time as a foreign and threatening presence in the body. This, therefore, requires the vampire to suck the blood of humans to stay alive. Each time new blood is introduced it begins to break down and falls prey to rejection. The body starts to force it from its system and the thirst of the vampire becomes enormous. Sickness and pain result from not drinking and finally a form of death that is only returned from with the introduction of new, living blood into the system. This feeds the virus and the body revives itself.

Further questions will be addressed.

Where did the virus come from?

Do vampires live forever?

Are vampires all evil?

Who was the first vampire?