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?
