This document may prove too dry for the mere seeker of distraction
to stomach and I would advise anyone with such a nature to exit this page
immediately. The contents have been passed from vampire to vampire for
centuries and the actual date of the events outlined are lost in antiquity.
Nor is it certain that the events as outlined in these pages were actually
witnessed directly by one of my kind, as it may well be proven at a later
date that these events were directly responsible for the creation
of my kind. Lastly I must make some mention of the literary style in which
the following revelations are written as you may otherwise find yourself
at odds with its lengthy meter. The version of 'the legend' I recount to
you now was passed to me during the 1950's while I stayed at Fontainebleu
Abbey, in France, at the invitation of one of the leading pupils of the
'spiritual giant' George Gurdjieff. Apparently the words and phrases were
selected and combined in such a way as to produce a change in the consciousness
of the reader and so out of concern for the effectiveness of the truths
outlined I have changed nothing.........
".....Upon such times, during the history of mankind, when sufficient consciousness has gathered within him, or has been forced to arise within him by one sort of calamity or another, one particular question is inevitably formulated; that being, 'what is the meaning and purpose of life'?
To answer this most fundamental of queries mankind has gone to all kinds of weird, hilarious, devious, fantastical and incredible extremes to create for itself some suitably comfortable explanation with which to assuage the terrible pangs of self doubt engendered in them by such a moment of genuine conscious awareness. Thereby enabling them to get on with their lives undisturbed by the truth.
This problem man has with discerning the truth, (and thereafter creating all kinds of fanciful inventions to take its place), occurs because a human being can think only as an individual and apperceive life only from an individual point-of-view. Thus a human being tends to ponder upon its own 'individual' purpose in life.
In truth, in the ordinary run of things, there is no more an individual purpose in life for an individual human being as there is for an individual tree or an individual elephant. On the other hand there is most definitely a purpose for the collective of humanity as a whole, as there is a purpose for the collective of trees as a whole and the collective of elephants as a whole, as there is for all of life on earth in general. This purpose can be summarized fairly simply as follows :-
'The Earth is a living being'.
The Earth is a 'living being' in every true sense of that phrase and 'life' as it exists upon the Earth is an 'organ' created out of the Earth, for use by the Earth. In much the same way that the skin on a human being is an organ created out of its body, for the use of the body. Of course, the human being is only aware of its skin in so far as it performs the vital life sustaining role it was designed for. Similarly the Earth being is aware of the 'organ' of 'life' only in so much as it performs the vital life sustaining role it was designed to fulfil. For the sustenance of it's own being.
Our sole purpose in existence, the sole purpose we were brought into existence and the sole purpose of all life as it exists upon the earth in its many and varied forms, is to sustain the Earth. Nothing more...or less...than this.
Thus so, our purpose is to serve the Earth. In this the truth of life is very simple, unfortunately mankind is not. It seems that Man is no longer 'humble' enough to serve. In fact, man believes, (and he has created the religious dogma to prove it), that life on Earth was actually created for his own benefit and for his own usage.
How then does life on Earth serve the Earth? This can be summarized in the following way...
'Forms of life exist upon the Earth in order to perform the functions of assimilation, transformation and transmission of energetic substances for the Earth'.
Everything is eating, everything is eaten.
It is unnecessary for our purposes to catalogue life in
all its many forms as it is sufficient to note that these forms range from
the simplest of particles that carry
out the most rudimentary of functions, along a scale of increasing complexity
and capability, until we reach the animal that has named itself man. What
then is man's part in this energetic processing function?
Mankind exists to produce a certain energetic substance for the being (well being), of the Earth. Mankind is an organ developed and evolved by the Earth specifically to provide this substance. All life on Earth contributes to the provision of this substance in some way. What is this energetic substance that is so important to the being of the Earth that it has gone to such great lengths to secure regular provision thereof?
This energetic substance is a combination of the three types of substance that mankind itself requires in order to survive. These energies are as follows...
Without the 'food' of perception as received through the senses, the human being ceases to exist to his or her self, even though that being may be perceived by others. Just as a corpse can be seen but the being itself is no longer in existence. The moment the flow of perceptions cease for a being is the moment that being ceases to exist. To couch this simply, if a being loses its sense of perception, (what a human would call its five senses), it then instantly ceases to exist at a physical level. Perception is life to us. Without perception there is no life. Perceptions are our most vital food.
Without the 'food' of air we would also perish, though less swiftly than with the cessation of perception, some long minutes at least. Air is the second most vital food to us.
Physical matter is commonly accepted as food by almost all of life and here again if this energy is denied the organism will perish, though much more slowly than in the case of the denial of perceptions or air. Physical matter is our third most vital food.
Every time a being eats physical food something truly 'sacred' takes place, or at least should take place, if the being is aligned with the natural order of its arising. The three vital energies should be combined at this point to produce the substance that is required by the earth, the substance that we as beings exist to provide. Yet this 'sacred' function seems to be impaired in some way because the sacred substance that the Earth requires is not produced in either the correct quantity or quality by Man. Observations show that this situation is progressively deteriorating. Why is this so and what effects does this have?
The key to this dilemma is that there is a fourth element
involved, or should be involved, in this process of food combination. In
Man this fourth ingredient is consciousness. If consciousness were not
required the Earth being would have been able to spare itself the effort
of human development, as most other animals in the animal kingdom can perceive,
breathe and consume physical matter just as well as man can. If these three
factors alone were enough then Mankind would not be required, at least
in its present form and capability. In fact these factors did suffice during
the many aeons of the Earths infancy but with the passing of time and the
steady maturing of the earth a more subtle energy was eventually required.
The substance as transformed by the unconscious animal kingdom were not
enough.
A hundred times more or even a thousand times more of this essential being
food that the Earth needs could be produced by a conscious animal, an animal
more aware of its purpose.
In the beginning it was so. Man the animal was born to
see and know and be, in self conscious awareness of himself and his acts.
Men and Women rejoiced in their simple lives, knowing themselves brought
forth from the earth and living in natural harmony with it. Man's life
was easy, as the Earth who mothered him also created the perfect environment
to sustain him, as man sustained the earth in turn.
Human beings were few in number at this early time, for even a small number
of fully conscious beings could provide a vast resource for the Earth.
Mankind was perfect then, in the full completion of their roles and living
lives of exceptional duration by our standards. The gardener seldom needing
to harvest her fruit.
This was paradise, and so it should have remained....
What happened to change man's simple, happy existence? How did he forget his purpose and find himself outside the garden?
An evil angel was cast out of heaven and sent to plague
the world, or so many of the ancient scriptures tell us and this is indeed
something like the truth. In fact it was an accident of cosmic proportions,
one that the poor Earth could neither foresee nor avoid. A huge comet,
trailing fire and smoke like a colossal serpent, smote the garden of Eden.
The perfect environment built to carefully nurture mankind changed in a
few brief hours into his most unimaginable hell. For those that survived
this terrible cataclysm, both man and unconscious animal alike, life would
never again be the same.
In the foul dingy atmosphere which lasted many months and disrupted the
closed ecosystem of the Earth for many years, mankind witnessed for the
first time the curse of unnatural death and the entire world, traumatized
and wounded began to fight for survival in this harsh new climate. Mankinds
innocence was shattered, he had been 'tempted' by the serpent.
Two important legacies are still with modern man as a direct result of those harrowing times. One part of this unfortunate inheritance is that man developed the ability to forget, mainly as a means of removing from his awareness the on going trauma and horror of his circumstances. As time has passed this self-forgetfulness has been gradually refined and extended to cover almost every aspect of his being. This 'self-forgetfulness' can only be achieved by being less consciously present within the sensory vehicle that directly experiences reality, that is, less present within the physical body. Also, as man gradually became less centered within the direct perception of reality he began to dwell more and more within a function of his brain that had become artificially over developed due to the shocking nature of his new unnatural surroundings, his imagination. The eventual result is that modern man now lives and deals with a very large part of his life while acting from this aberrant psychic mechanism, in fact beings in the modern world are even revered for skill in this area. Original 'pre-comet' man did not imagine at all. He was wholly present in the experience of a reality that he did not feel the need to escape. To him reality was bliss. The 'reality' of the world is still available to mankind but to return to this experience we must cease to dwell in our imaginary world and 're-member' ourselves.
The second part of our dreadful inheritance, made possible by the first, is that there arose in man a function which we nowadays refer to as the ego. The ego was born in him as a result of new requirements forced upon him. He must now protect himself and survive in a dangerous uncertain climate, something which he had never had to do before. The simple consciousness that had been developed in him by the Earth became transformed in this process into exceptional animal cunning.
So mankind, through his forgetfulness and through his egoic need to control the strange chaos in his world, to become secure in it, no longer properly fulfilled the purpose for which he had been created. He still produced the substance that the earth required but he only produced it unconsciously, like the rest of the animal kingdom do. Thus man ceased to provide the substance required of him in a conscious and willing fashion during his life on Earth, in fact it was now only in his death that the earth could wring from him the being food required.
"Men are now many, it must be so for they are worth
so little."
"Men's lives are short, for they are bitter fruit."
A tragic situation but perhaps all is not so lost or hopeless as it may at first seem, after all some seeds of truth remain even now, all be it in odd unlikely places and the great garden may be coming into a cycle of fertility once more. May be as time passes the falseness in man, accidentally and artificially created by those evil events so long ago, will begin to heal and we will begin to remember ourselves. Once again to knowingly fulfill our sacred purpose on the Earth.
I seems that some are ready even now to do this work, they realize the present irresponsibility of modern life and are seeking, however blindly, to reconnect with the power and purity of the ancient race memory. Some struggle along other paths in an effort to destroy within themselves the binding illusions of the subconscious imagination and to root out and chase from power the the impotent dictatorial ego.
There are a few things that can be done now and also things which must eventually be done if we are to live again as we once lived before. The most important thing to do right now is what we were originally designed to do. Only this will help in the overall healing process and as mankind begins to respond again to the Earth, the Earth will return that response to man."
What has all this got to do with vampires, you might ask? Well, legend has it that during the time of the comet a whole community of human beings had become entombed underground as huge tremors shook the land. These people, from the land of Yosferra, found themselves completely trapped in deep caves in which they had taken refuge from the cataclysmic events on the Earths surface. The story is that even though the supply of food soon became exhausted they found a way to live on until a tunnel was scratched with their bare hands which lead them back to the surface. This is supposed to have taken four generations and only a handful of pale deformed creatures eventually broke free to cower beneath the sun. The legend is that these few survivors are the progenitors of the Vampire race and that the heinous practice of consuming blood which had enabled these creatures to survive the entombment in the cave is still practiced to this day by their modern descendants.
I do not know if there is any truth in this legend but they do say there is no smoke without fire. There is a curious similarity about the name Yosferra and the name Nosferatu..........
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