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The Vampire Codex
Michelle Belanger
This is the Internet Edition of
the Vampire Codex.
This text is copyrighted and has been
donated to the Internet Sacred Text Archive by the author. For more information, please
refer to the
Introduction.
You can also visit the author's home page at
www.michellebelanger.com.
Introduction
I. The Kheprian Charge
II. Beginnings
III. Catalysts of Change
IV. Awakenings
V. Potential
VI. Other Awakened
VII. Fledglings
VIII. The Beacon
IX. Characteristics
X. Subtle Body Changes
XI. Separateness
XII. Basic Feeding
XIII. Breath and Life
XIV. Assimilating Energy
XV. Blood and Life
XVI. Geography of the Energy Body
XVII. More on Feeding
XIX. Dreamwalking
XX. Choosing Donors
XXI. The Kiss and the Curse
XXII. Subtle Links
XXIII. Feeding Through Links
XXIV. Manipulating Links
XXV. Cautionary Notes
XXVI. The Caste System
XXVII. Priests
XXVIII. Counselors
XXIX. Warriors
XXX. Subtle Reality Basics
XXXI. Augmentation
XXXII. Subtle Perception
XXXIII. Manifesting
XXXIV. Nature of the Aura
XXXV. Perceiving the Aura
XXXVI. Energy Manipulation
XXXVII. The Energy Ball
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XXXVIII. Augmented Healing
XXXIX. Advanced Healing Techniques
XLI. Shielding Techniques
XLIII. Creating Filters
XLIV. Spiritual Cleansings
XLV. Otherside Beings
XLVI. Creating Change
XLVII. Cycles
A Few Notes in Closing the Codex
The Vampire Codex
The Vampire Codex is a document written by occultist and psychic vampire Michelle
Belanger for use as the instructional text of House Kheperu (www.kheperu.org). The
prototype of this work was first set to paper in late 1991. A specially printed version was
offered to select students in conjunction with the International Society of Vampires
beginning in 1995. Later revisions led to the Sanguinarium edition, published by the
Sanguiarium Press in October 2000. This version is derived from the Sanguinarium edition
which also came to be circulated widely on the Internet.
The Vampire Codex has had a significant impact on the worldwide community of psychic
vampires, becoming the fundamental text used by numerous Houses, Orders, Covens, and
Clans. It is hosted on
www.quinotaur.org
as well as numerous others and has influenced
the teachings of vampire groups throughout the US, Canada, and Western Europe. It has
also come to the attention of several noteworthy occult organizations, including the
Temple of Set, the IOT and the Church of Satan. (Peter Gilmore, current head of the
Church of Satan, expressed his disappointment at Michelle's absence at the New York City
release of "V" as he wanted her autograph on the special edition of the Codex released
with that work).
As the Kheprian Order has continued to expand and reveal deeper and more complicated
levels of its teachings, the Codex has continued to grow since its first underground
releases. A special edition written for the Order of the Strigoi Vii was released as book
two of "V" October 2003 by vampyrealmanac.com in conjunction with Aangel Publishing.
An expanded, revised edition will be published by Weiser Books in the fall of 2004. This
will be the definitive edition, featuring 108 individual sections broken up into divisions
which address psychic vampirism, basic energy work, and advanced metaphysical
techniques. The version below has come to be known as the Vampire Codex: Internet
Edition and is freely and widely shared with any and all interested parties. It is derived
mainly from the 2000 Sanguinarium edition, although it includes a few sections originally
left out of that published edition.
I. The Kheprian Charge
We are the many-born. We are the immortal. We have been known by many names
throughout the ages, though few have understood the truth of our existence.
Endlessly, we die and are reborn, changed yet unchanging throughout the ages. We move
from lifetime to lifetime, taking up bodies as garments.
We are watchers and we are wanderers.
We seek knowledge and understanding above all.
Long ago we strove the sunder the life of our body from our roving minds, for it grounded
us. It held us back. It bound us to a single span of days. Through a ritual of death and
rebirth, we severed our living ties and gained immortality.
Now we are freed of the life of the body, but we are irrevocably tied to the life we cut
away. It sustains us and empowers us.
We thirst for life and we feed It is our greatest weakness and our greatest prize.
II. Beginnings
Eternal, we wander the aeons, moving to the rhythm of our own inner tides.
Freed from the most fundamental of cycles, we are nevertheless beings bound by cycles.
Our heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us forces us to acknowledge
natural rhythms that others simply ignore.
As the day waxes and wanes, we can feel it, and we know that the true realm of magick is
the night, for that is when we wax in power. As the moon grows gravid and slim, we feel
it, and we know, too, that there are more complex rhythms of power tied to her phases.
As the wheel of the year turns round, we feel the wild times, the apogees and nadirs of
power.
The dark time of the year is our time, as are the threshold times when we celebrate
Samhain and Beltane. These days are our Im Kheperu, the Day of Transformation, and our
Im Sekhemu, the Day of Double Power. As beings poised on the threshold of many things,
the energies of these holidays affect us profoundly. At these times we enjoy our greatest
power, but in balance, we also pay a stronger price. Waves of energy rise and fall within
us, and when in their grip, our hunger burns.
Forever, we are active elements moving through passive worlds.
Our rules are our own. We accept no others. We define who we are and what we shall
become. There is nothing in our lives which we cannot control if we but choose to.
Our memories are carried like gems within our souls. Over the lifetimes they build and
crystallize until we can take them out and gaze upon them as we choose.
Life sustains us, but death defines us. We are the many-born. Our conception was in
death, and each death now brings us a new beginning, forever without end.
III. Catalysts of Change
Everything we touch, we change. We take in energy constantly, and although this is how
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we feed, this energy is never destroyed. Through us, it is transformed. It changes states. It
resonates to a higher level.
Yet every birth is accompanied by struggle and pain. Every rebirth is just as painful. It may
seem that we bring destruction, chaos, and turmoil to all those around us. And in a sense
we do. But the changes are always for the better, even though the initial change may seem
terrible.
Change is terrible. It tears away what we've grown comfortable with. It destroys what we
find familiar, stable, and simple, leaving uncertainty in its wake. But to face uncertainty
and to thrive is to become stronger. Everything must change or die. We are active
participants in this universal mystery.
Every person that we come into contact with, no matter how casually, is altered.
Wherever we go, change will follow. Our dynamic spirits stretch out all around us, and the
wake we leave in our passing is like ripples on the ocean. Only the ripples we cause can
become tidal waves.
As beings on a threshhold state, we are living embodiments of the dynamic
complimentarity that keeps the universe in constant motion. This is our burden. Yet this
also is our purpose. In the gray area between two polar opposites lies revelation. We feed
upon all around us. Yet we can also harness that energy to heal. We tear away and bring
destruction, yet we also nurture new growth. This is our nature, the mystery of who we
are.
There is no rebirth without destruction. Light only blinds without shadow to throw it into
relief. Understanding comes from balancing all these things within the Self. We are that
Balance. We affect it, and it affects us. We are facilitators of the universal flow. We must
accept this, and never fear to move with that flow.
IV. Awakenings
We are neither wholly born nor wholly made what we are. The choice for us to become
was made long ago. From that time onward, we have been reborn again and again,
carrying within us in every lifetime the seed of what we are.
Sometimes we forget ourselves, and wander our lives like sleepwalkers, only half-aware of
our true natures. Yet sleeping or awakened, we are born with the potential for
transformation.
Awakening is a process of expanded awareness. Anyone with gifts and talents of a subtle
nature undergoes an awakening in their life. This is when they come into their own, finally
accepting what has been latent within them since birth. For us, the process can be
traumatic, as the existence we awaken to opens us up to a host of strange thoughts,
sensations, and experiences which lie outside the limits accepted even by other Awakened.
Awakening is the alchemical forge in which we are transformed from dross to spiritual
gold. It is the recalling of a part of our Selves that has become clouded over time. It is
becoming more than the little self of this lifetime, grasping the totality of who we were and
who we are to be -- our Essential Self.
Some of us have greater potential than others. Some are born with an instinctive
understanding of their potential and they may gradually come to realize that potential on
their own. They recall without prompting and their power is great.
The bulk of our number are born ignorant to what they are. As they grow and mature,
there are subtle hints of the latent power, but fear and self-doubt generally keep these from
being acknowledged and accepted. Such as these must be awakened to their true selves by
another of our number already familiar to our ways.
There are two rituals of initiation. The Lesser Initiation is an exchange of feeding which
occurs between the teacher and the initiate. The initiate is drained deeply, often for the
first time. This heightens his awareness of his energy body and will often catalyze him into
realizing his potential in the next few days. The sensations that this process inspires are
usually too intense to ignore or explain away. If fed from deeply enough, his instincts will
overcome him and he will feed from others in order to replenish his depleted system.
The Greater Initiation involves a ritual death and rebirth which occurs on both the physical
and spiritual levels for the initiate. It is visionary and shamanic in nature and forces the
initiate to face himself and all that he has been within the boundaries of his own soul. Like
all deaths and rebirths, this ritual strips away old identities and assumptions. The little self
of this lifetime is subsumed into the greater Self, and the initiate is irrevocably changed.
This rite is reserved for only the strongest minds, for any who are weak or filled with fear
may not survive the initiation. Their minds can be blown away like dry autumn leaves in
the face of the totality of who they are.
V. Potential
We often associate with the Awakened or with those who hover upon the threshold of
Awakening. We prefer the company of those who can interact at least to some degree
with the level of reality that is our constant daily experience.
By our very natures we Awaken those around us. Even those not of our kind can be
affected by the transformative effects of our presence. We draw out latent powers and
provide a burden of proof for individuals who have otherwise rejected their own natures
due to self-doubt. We can use this intentionally if we choose, though it will always occur
to some degree, whether intentional or not.
Sometimes we mistake a Potential of our own kind merely for one of the Awakened. If
such an unrecognized Potential is fed from, the effect, though unintentional, is equivalent
to the Lesser Initiation. The Potential feels himself undergo a change and is driven to feed
from others. Such accidents cannot be abandoned. Confused as to their true nature,
ignorant of their power, they wield that power nonetheless and can cause much damage to
themselves and others if left to struggle on their own.
Still others have Potential, but it is too weak to ever fully be realized in this lifetime.
Others are too unstable to survive the initiation. They are best left to sleep so they will
come to maturity in their own time. If forced to awaken, they are merely shadows of us --
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