About Belfazaar
Greetings Everyone,
My name is Belfazaar Ashantison. I am a primarily sanguinary vampire in the New Orleans area. Having been on the outskirts of the vampiric community since I was 13 years old, helping from the shadows (so to speak), I thought it was finally time to come forward. And at 37 years of age, I have. I have been a member of the Vampire Church for a few years now, and have grown, learned and helped to teach a lot.
I have also founded a Vampiric House, the House of Mystic Echoes, which is primarily concerned with accentuating the magickal side of our beings. Many vampires have taken on alternative and natural belief systems, so we, of the House of Mystic Echoes have sought to build a bridge between the pagan and vampire communities as well as be here to point others to much needed information on REAL vampirism.
Thank you very much
Vitae Dominae
Belfazaar Ashantison
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This is one of those questions where there is not really a simple
answer. Both magick and vampirism deal with the manipulation of
energies, however, there is one fundamental difference. Vampires
NEED the energy, magick users FOCUS the energy.
A quick breakdown here...
Vampirism is the drawing in of energies to be used by the vampire to
bolster the vampire's own lack of ability to self create key
essential energies.
Magick is the drawing in of energies to be used by the 'spell
caster' to exact a specific desired result.
The one key difference, as mentioned earlier...
A vampire IS the end of the road for the energies gathered, whereas
in magick the spell caster is only a focusing tool of the nergies.
This does not mean that the energies are different. Quite frankly
speaking, energy is energy. Its the sources that differ. Just as
in vampirism, magick's sources for energies are varied from spell to
spell.
So, do the lines blur? Most assuredly, but not so much from the
actualities of both vampirism and magick, but from the generalities
of them both. Myth and misconception, fantasy and illusion have
created a full blown 'smoke and mirrors' illusion that vampirism and
magick are one and the same. By the very definition of vampirism
being a physical condition, we know that this is not true. I have
heard vampirism called a 'life path', this is the basic
truth. 'Life paths' are not chosen. They are that which directly
influence your well-being. Magick is NOT a life path, as it is a
chosen path that does not directly influence your well-being. You
can choose to drop magick at any given time, but vampirism, though
you may choose not to feed, is never so easily dismissed. There
will always be that thing at the back of your mind telling you that
somehow your life essence has been depleted by your attempting to
cut it off.
I hope this helps to explain a few things.
Vitae Dominae,
Belfazaar
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