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Quotes from 'vampries' and biblical statements related to them.

There are some quotes in the bible and in Saint references that refer to 'vampires' ,the 'damned', 'demons' etc. These may prove vampires exsist, or at least the church accepts they might do.
Related to Vampires in general
 
St. Augustine: Chapter Ten, Volume Nine:
"...That the very fact of man's corporal morality is due to the compassion of God, who would not have us kept for ever in the misery of this life. The wickedness of demons was not judged worthy of this compassion, and in the misery of their condition, with a soul subjected to passions, they have not been granted the mortal body, which a man has a recieved but an eternal body."
 
This means that the 'demons' were given a immortal body and forced to stay on earth than go to paradise. This is reference to vampires who are said to come back to life after death and roam the earth for all time, immortal and unstoppable.
 
St Augustine: Chapter 11
"Apuleius says also that the sould of men are demons. On leaving human bodies they become lares if they have shown themselves good, if evil, lemures or larvae"
 
This means that we all have our own hidden demon inside. In this life if we don't sin, when we die we will become spirits or angels and go to heaven. If we do sin we will become 'Lemures' or 'larvae', another term usually assosiated with vampires and the undead.
 
"According to Apuleis, larvae are maglignant demons created out of men"
 
It means any mortal man can be turned into a larvae. This could symbolise a vampire creating a fledging using a mortal.
 
Gospel: St. John 1:5"
"And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it"
 
This can be linked to the fact vampires surive in the dark and the sun is rumoured to kill them.

Related to Psychic vampires

Psychic vampires are meant to survive off the energy inside mortal blood cells. Instead of draining it from mortals using fangs to get the blood with the energy in, psychic vampires can break past a persons aura and drain the energy from the blood cells without havng to drink the blood. Some parts of the bible support this theory.

Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the blood.

This shows that the blood holds the life force.

Leviticus 17:14
Because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, "You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off."

This could have a number of theories. First it says again about the life being int he blood. Here it says mortals can never take the blood or they will in toehr words 'be damned'. The last part may be representing vampires being cut off, turned into a new species for taking the life blood and thus making them dependant on it.


Deuteronomy 12:23
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

This is again saying about not taking blood as it is the lifeforce. The way it says "you must not eat the life" gives the impression anyone who does will be punshied. Again another link to being damned?

Now for some Vampire book quotes. My favourite author is Anne rice so most of these(maybe even all) wil lbe from her characters and the books she's wrote.
Interview with the Vampire
"Evil is a point of view, God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creature under god are as we are, None so like him as ourselves."- Lestat
"Most of all i longed for death, I know that now. I invited it. A realease from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. "-Louis
"I knew peace only when i killed and when i heard her heart in that terrible rhythm i know only again what peace could be."- Louis
"But there wasa hell and no matter where we moved to i was in it" -Louis
"The world changes, we do not, there in lies the irony that finally kills us"- Armand.
"What if all i have is my suffering, my regret?"-Louis
"Yes die. I wnated to die before. Now i wished to die. I saw it with such sweet clarity,such dead calm."- Louis
"Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt!"
"You evil is that you canot be evil and i must suffer for it"-Claudia
"I had seen my becoming a vampire in 2 lights; first light simply enchantment but the other light was my wish for self-destruction"-Louis
The Vampire Lestat
"Old truths, ancient magic, revolution amd invetion conspire to distract us from the passion that one way or another defeats us all."-lestat
"My greatest sin is that i've always have a wonderful time being myself"-lestat
"I don't like myself you know. I love myself, of course. I'm commited to myself until my dying day but I don't like myself"-lestat
"God that our immortal bodies could be such varied prisons for us that our immortal faces should be such masks for our true souls,"-Lestat
"Even when we die we probabaly don't find out the answer to why we were ever alive"
"beauty meant nothing because it came from the despair inside of him and it was nothing to do with despair finally because the despair wasn't beautiful and beauty then was a horrid irony?"-Lestat
"Madness is not your enemy not if you are truely strong."
"It seemed the greta lessons of my life had been learned through the renunciation of fear. Fear once again breaking this shell around me so that something else could spring to life."
"Innocence- not an absence of experience but an absence of illusions"
"i don't beleieve in antyhing that makes me stronger than you think."
Queen of the damned
"You must know we do not change over time. We are as flowers unfolding, We merely become more ourselves."-marius?
"We change but do not change, we grow wise but are as fallible things! We are only human for however long we endure, thatw as the miracle and curse of it!
"Beauty is everywhere one looks. That is nature and death is everywhere in it."
"Maybe there would be no war, no rape, no violence if all beings were little and had little dreams."
"I am beyong time like i always have been"
"We don't change we become ever closer to the perfection of whatw e were meant to be"-Marius?
"We would be hard put to determine what was more evil; religion or the pure idea! The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant simple abstract soultion! Both have bathed this earth with suffering. Both have brough men literally and figuratively to it's knees"
"We must wrestle forevre with those questions,how the siple solution  was not whatw e alays wanted but what we must always fear."!
"Vampires don't settle old scores we harbour them"-lestat
"They believed in nothing now they are nothing"-Akasha
"Living int he shadows, feeding in the darkness rots into a solitary hollow exsistance. Eternity seems like a good idea until you realise you're going to spend it alone"-Lestat
"My tecaher left me to my darkest lesson. We are all alonein this world and there is nothing but the cold dark wasteland of eternity."-Lestat

We do not change over time, there in lies the irony that finally kills us.