♥The Secret Methods of Vampyrism♥
Vampyrism is the taking of the Lifeforce of the human to empower the Vampyre. The Vampyre absorbs the Lifeforce from the human. The human absorbs it from animals and plants. The plants take it from the sun, and so on and so forth.
The chemical breakdown of nutrients and its place in the biochemical cycle (The Krebs Cycle) that transfers energy is not the whole story. Just as modern physicists are finally aware of the fact that much of the mass of the universe is "missing", biochemists remain unaware of the role of a "missing" element in the energy system of the human body. This missing element is the so-called astral universe which includes the astral bodies of all living things.
At the heart of eating is the concept of astral energy transfer. The actual transfer usually requires a discoincidence of the astral body from the physical which, in turn, usually entails a loss of consciousness. Hence, after a large meal, most humans and animals will become sleepy because it is when they sleep that the true energy transfer occurs.
Another example of the role of sleep in energy absorption can be seen in those cases of extreme danger to physical survival. If a human is crossing a desert and dying of thirst, he/she may slump down to unconsciousness and sleep. When he reawakens, his energy level is renewed and he can continue the struggle. This happens because during unconsciousness his/her astral body separated to some extent from the physical body in order to permit the flow of stored energy into the various tissues of body and brain.
The most refined source of the Lifeforce energy for Living Vampyres is thus found in the astral bodies of humans while sleeping or in some other way not normally conscious. We often travel to the sides of sleeping humans to draw off the accumulated store of their life energy from the drowsing astral form which rests near.
To achieve this Higher Level of Vampyrism requires the Vampyre to be able to rise from his physical body in the astral with sufficient awareness and intention. The achievement of this conscious out-of-body travel requires will, practice and the assistance of The Undead Gods through Vampyric Communion. The Living Vampyre who can perform the shedding of flesh in this way when desired is among Those Who Have Risen.
The Vampyric Initiate aspires to this exalted level of Vampyric mastery yet must gather the needed excess Lifeforce from humans first. This Lifeforce is offered up as a sacrifice, an offering to the Undead Gods in the magical ritual of Vampyric Communion. This Lifeforce offering attracts the Elder Gods and draws Them near to the aspirant so that he may be aided in invisible ways in his evolution to achieve astral control. The Loosening of the Astral Ties (which bind the astral tightly to the physical of most humans) is dealt with in greater detail as a mystery of the Inner Temple.
Yet how can the Vampyre Initiate first obtain the life energies he/she needs in order to attract the Undead who will help him/her to then become an Astral Vampyre?
When the human is conscious, the astral body shares the space of the physical, interpenetrating every part. However, the astral, in a normal healthy human, is usually somewhat larger than the physical body such that it will surround the physical to a distance of often between a few inches to several feet. Those who have experienced a Loosening of the Astral Ties and are therefore more capable of seeing into the astral universe have, throughout the ages, reported the auras surrounding different humans. This is commonly seen in religious paintings of Europe's last fifteen hundred years which portray the so-called "halo" or "nimbus" about the heads and hands of historical religious figures (who quite commonly were actually Living Vampyres).
Thus whenever you touch a human, you are also penetrating his astral body to some extent. With that penetration by your astral of his, it is now relatively easy to draw off some of his Lifeforce energy. It will not permit the degree of flow, the "deep drinking" which is possible when preying upon the sleeping human, unencumbered by either your physical or his but this lowest level of Vampyrism is at least possible.
The act of drawing the Lifeforce from the victim's astral into your own is, at heart, instinctual and not teachable. At the same time there are specific physical-astral actions which go hand-in-hand which are learnable.
Here then, are the fundamental secrets of Vampirism:
†Contact†
Contact refers to the necessity for some part of your astral body to contact the astral body of the human. Any physical skin to skin contact assures just such contact.
†Penetrate†
Your astral must penetrate into the astral of the human to enable the absorption of the Lifeforce. The more your astral enters the human's astral, the more rapidly and deeply the force can flow.
†Draw In†
With penetration, the Vampyre must actually draw in the Lifeforce of the human. This drawing in will usually accompany the inhalation of the physical breath by the physical body. Thus, for physical contact Vampyrism, it is best to inhale deeply. You will come to feel the fluid intake of the vaporous, liquid-like Lifeforce flow as it enters you. In addition, tense and draw up the anal sphincter muscles with the inhalation as this stimulates the same mechanisms involved astrally with Vampyrism.
†Break Contact†
It is equally important to withdraw completely from the human's astral following the Vampyric act for at least two very good reasons. First, you do not wish to have a reverse flow of the precious Lifeforce back to the human and, second, you do not want to cause the physical destruction of your prey by leaving a Vampyric tendril constantly draining the human's Lifefore into your own. We are not gluttons and remember the first Vampyric Principle: Never Waste Food!
Works Cited: The Vampire Bible
