Revelations

Revelations A Step-by-Step Commentary on The Published Teachings of The Vampire Bible.  Contents Revelations............................................................................................ 7 The Vampire Creed ............................................................................. 9 The Dragon Speaks ............................................................................ 16 The Calling of the Undead Gods ....................................................... 23 The Seven Steps of Ritual .............................................................. 38 Some of the Signs. .......................................................................... 52 The Secret Methods of Vampirism ................................................... 67 1. Contact ........................................................................................ 76 2. Penetrate ..................................................................................... 79 3. Draw In ....................................................................................... 81 4. Break Contact............................................................................. 84 The Predator of Humans ................................................................... 95 Paragraphs 1 - 7 ............................................................................. 95 Paragraphs 8 - 12 ......................................................................... 100 Shurpu Kishpu ................................................................................. 106 Dayside Commentary .................................................................. 111 Twilight Commentary ................................................................. 125 The Coming Apocalypse .................................................................. 136 The Dayside .................................................................................. 136 The Twilight ................................................................................. 139 v  vi  Revelations A Step-by-Step Dayside and Twilight Commentary on the Published Teachings of The Vampire Bible. WITHIN LIES FACT AND FANCY, TRUTH AND METAPHOR. DISCRIMINATE WITH CARE. These are the first words of The Vampire Bible. The last words of the final Teaching of the Temple in The Vampire Adept Bible read, “Without lies fact and fancy, truth and metaphor. Discriminate with care.” These words were not idly chosen to bracket the formal published Teachings of the world’s only authentic Vampire Religion, HEKAL TIAMAT. They were chosen to emphasize a number of critical principles that the Vampire needs to inculcate into the deepest recesses of his character. Here lies bedrock. Here lies multiple, embedded meanings. At the first level, these words act as a legal and public disclaimer. It is warning the reader to not just believe everything as written. It is clearly stating that not all they will read is true and factual. At least some of what is written is fanciful and metaphorical. In the dictionary, “metaphor” is defined as “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them figurative language.” In other words, metaphor is instructive but not literally true. Metaphor is intended to convey a meaning but is not the meaning itself. Fancy is defined as “a mental image or representation” and “(archaic) fantastic quality or state”. In other words fancy (as opposed to fact) is 7  nonphysical in nature, and is a creation of the mind. (This subject is expanded in depth in the discussion of the dimension of Agreement in The Vampire Adept Bible). However, the key point is that fancy, like metaphor, is not grounded in ordinary fact but operates on a different level. That stated, there arise questions to be answered. How to determine what is fact and what is fancy? How to distinguish between what is truth and what is metaphor? How does one “discriminate with care”? “Discriminate” is defined as “to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of”, “to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences”, and “to use good judgment”. In other words, to “discriminate with care” means that the reader is expected to make judgments based on discovering differences between what is written and what is true. The reader is both warned and expected to test the Teachings he reads and then discover what is fact and what is fancy. The reader is told he must actively seek to discover for himself by personal effort what is truth and what is metaphor. In other words, the Temple is an intelligence test. And the final words of The Vampire Adept Bible warn us that life itself is an intelligence test. Discriminate with care. 8  The Vampire Creed I AM A VAMPIRE The Vampire Creed makes clear the basic beliefs of our religion. "I am a Vampire" is stated twice, once at the very beginning and again just prior to the last line, to emphasize the importance of this statement of identity. You need to understand that you are a Vampire with a capital "V". Vampirism is a religion (as well as a Nightside metaphysical discipline and a practical philosophy). Just as the members of any religion are designated so by the convention of capitalizing their name, as in Buddhist, Moslem, Christian, Jew, etc., the Vampire is a member of the Vampire religion. This is also why we are members of the Temple of the Vampire. The Vampire designates a class of members of a religion. It would be just as appropriate for us to refer to our religion as the Vampire Temple in this same sense. You state "I am a Vampire" as a choice, as an act of will. The balance of the Vampire Creed defines and elaborates upon the meaning of that statement; but above all, being a Vampire is a choice. First you choose to be what you feel you already are. You are a Vampire, a member of the Vampire religion. And what is it that our religion holds to be true about being a Vampire? We hold that the Vampire worships his ego and his life as the only true God. We hold that the Vampire trusts reason above belief, distinguishes between truth and fantasy, respects survival as the highest of laws, identifies magic as applied natural law, rejects death as a virtue and is dedicated to the enjoyment of life in the present. The Vampire holds these views, as expressed in this creed as the foundation of the Vampire religion. And notice what is absent from the Vampire Creed. There is no statement regarding anything outside what the Vampire values and rejects regarding life as it is lived. The Vampire Creed does not include anything supernatural whatsoever. The Vampire Creed defines the limits of the Vampire belief system. 9  I HONOR MY ANIMAL INSTINCTS The perfect guide to moral conduct for the Vampire comes directly from the physical body. What feels good is good. What feels bad is bad. Yet if this perfect guidance is only blindly obeyed instead of honored, then the lusts of the body can cause ruin to your life, restrict your ability to feel pleasure by finding yourself imprisoned or even end your earthly pleasures by being killed. The Vampire Creed advises us to honor our animal instincts. This means to be aware of what the body says to us about our physical likes and dislikes, as well as the myriad emotional responses that we can feel moment to moment, day to day and year after year. You cannot honor what you ignore or reject. To honor your animal instincts you must first be aware of them! You must open your awareness to the present moment, that door to immortal eternity that the "lower" animals enjoy in a state of perfect enlightenment. Look at the common house cat. Unless in severe pain, the cat will always enjoy this eternal moment, proud of its existence. Never questioning its needs, desires, likes or dislikes, a cat will never consider evaluating itself. The cat glories in its existence and lives with supreme self esteem. It so values itself that it will never assign a value to itself. The cat has risen entirely above the need for self esteem through perfect self acceptance beyond the need for self esteem. The Vampire is advised to recover the purity of this animal instinct beyond the need for self appraisal, beyond all concepts of good and evil, those twin lies borne of a split view of a single perfect universe. Honor your animal instincts. In doing so you reveal your perfection as above all others. You take the place of command and authority that is yours as Vampire, Master of the Earth. 10  I WORSHIP MY EGO The ego is your sense of having a separate self. The “you” at the center of your awareness is the ego. The Vampire does not suffer from the delusion that being separate from the experiences of life is a curse or problem as is the case with the vast majority of human religions and philosophies. To the contrary, the Vampire glories in this uniqueness, this sense of being apart from the rest of the world. The ego brings into sharp contrast the experiences of life because you are there to have them! They have meaning and importance because your presence grants the rest of the universe meaning and importance. The human seeks to apologize for his presence in the world as if he were a disease or irritant. The Vampire feels quite the opposite. The ego is what permits the universe to exist at all! When I close my eyes, the world of light and vision ceases to exist. My eyes grant reality to the stars, the Sun and the Moon – all that is only exists because I see it. My ears create the sounds and music of the world. I am the cause of the Harmony of the Spheres. My touch enables things to have impact and warmth. My feelings determine the mood of all that is. My senses of smell and taste fill out what would otherwise be a drab non-existence. I am the gourmet of the world. The ego also carries the meaning of selfish intention, of pride, and of self-importance above all else. This is fundamental truth. The Vampire worships himself. He is the center and creator of all else. Without the self, nothing matters and nothing exists. I WORSHIP MY LIFE Life is more than mere breathing. Life encompasses the whole of experience. I worship and honor my life because I am the creator of all that is experienced. I openly enjoy the pleasures of life and I forcefully condemn and reject what is painful to me. My life is all that is. I worship my creation. 11  I AM THE ONLY GOD THAT IS As is carefully detailed in The Vampire Priesthood Bible, what one chooses as God is fundamentally the most important person in your life. Therefore, the Vampire chooses himself as his God. As the center and creator of the entire universe of experience the Vampire is the God of constant creation. He is also the God of power for he can move the heavens with a flicker of his eyes, and when he walks the world rolls beneath him. He is the immovable and perfect experiencing center. I EXALT MY RATIONAL MIND The Vampire Predator Bible carefully details how the use of reason remains the only valid means to knowledge. Being able to identify the facts of reality, validating them and then extrapolating from those facts to make useful predictions about reality is not only respected and honored by the Vampire, it is considered to be the most wonderful of all skills that the Vampire possesses. He exalts the use of reason above all other skills and tools, for without reason the Vampire is lost in a world that cannot be controlled and in a universe without any possible meaning. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FANTASY The use of reason permits the identification of truth versus fantasy, fact and metaphor. Truth can be validated through reason. Fantasy fails that test. Facts can be isolated from mere claims of fact. The Vampire eternally strives to make these evaluations and judges his world accordingly. SURVIVAL IS THE HIGHEST LAW If you no longer exist then nothing has any value. You are the hub of the universe around which all else revolves. Thus your destruction negates all values. Laws are guidelines to determine what can work. For example, there are laws of physics that define the relationship between force, mass and acceleration (F=ma). 12