Human vampires that live
among people are not as folk imagine them to be, and in this file Dr. Fortin,
president of the Theosophical Society of Occultists of France, recounted two
examples that he knew.
First Case
Monsieur Thorel and one of his friends, a physician, visited me at
Paris. These gentlemen came to inform me of some extraordinary things which
were going on at Genecy, a village situated near Ruffee.
A girl named Eugenie, whose physiological characteristics were very
extraordinary, had been living for twelve years in a cottage at that place. For
twelve years this girl had been bed-ridden and lived without eating. A small
quantity of pure water was sufficient to satisfy all her wants.
The most extraordinary phenomena occurred around her person; such as
raps and knocks on the walls, answers to mental questions, apparitions of
spectres, hands isolated in space, an invisible force which took hold of
objects that were held in the hands of the spectators; but the most
extraordinary thing of all was that her clean clothes, locked up in a box, were
put on her and exchanged for those she wore while she was lying quietly in bed.
People from all parts came to see her. As Ruffee was situated on the
Bordeaux line, a road which was much used by the Government officers of that
time, Eugenie was visited, amongst others, by Monsieur Thiers, who passed there
a night to witness these things.
All the people of the Government, delegates and ministers, came to see
the seeress of Genecy.
After I had been told of these phenomena, I hurried to see them myself
and started for the place with Monsieur Thorel and his friend, Dr. Boudoin. I
took with me Doctor de Guerne, so as to be more secure in our observations;
because at that time I was only a student of medicine.
I had at that time a somnambulic person as subject in hand. She had
extraordinary clairvoyant powers, and so, of course, we took her with us, and
we expected to make use of her for the purpose of controlling the phenomena of
Eugenie.
When we arrived at Ruffee, we said nothing about our project. We started
at night for Genecy, hoping to surprise Eugenie before she would be able to
hear of our arrival.
Monsieur Thorel had selected the best horse in his stable, and our trip
seemed to come to an end without any remarkable incident, when suddenly the
horse stopped and refused to advance further. Monsieur Thorel took it by the
bridle and attempted to lead it on; but all his efforts were in vain. The
horse, covered with sweat, was trembling in every limb and neighing in a manner
indicating terror and pain.
I then invited my somnambule to come out of the carriage and magnetised
her to find out what was the matter. She described phantoms and monstrous
beasts who obstructed the road in front of our horse. The cause of this
phenomenon was explained to us in this manner. Having arrived at Genecy near
the residence of Eugenie, she had already perceived us by her clairvoyant sight
and knew our object. We were forced to take another route, which was pointed
out to us by our clairvoyant.
The cottage in which Eugenie lived was an isolated house by the side of
the road. Its appearance was very miserable, and in the interior there was only
one window through which the light of day fell upon the seeress, who was lying
in a bed, the serge-curtains of which were fastened to the bed posts. The white
clothes which the seeress wore, formed quite a contrast with the squalid
appearance of the surrounding furniture, which consisted of a table, four
chairs and a trunk.
Eugenie seemed to be from 35 to 40 years of age, of a dark complexion
and nervo-bilious temperament. Her face was round, her hair black as the wings
of a raven, her eyes projecting and round, grey with a green tint, spotted with
brown. They shone with a feverish glare, the pupils were lightly dilated and
had all the characteristic appearances indicating an amaurotic condition. Her
eyes were insensible to even strong light, her mouth was large and her teeth
foul; her hands were extraordinarily fine. Her abdomen was considerably
extended and swollen, and her legs looked dropsical. Her temperature was below
the normal point.
We got two ladies, to whom Eugenie seemed to be particularly attached,
to introduce us, hoping so to gain her confidence and to obtain thereby a true
and detailed account of her condition. To all our friendly questions she
answered with an uncertain voice and in a dry manner, indicative of uneasiness.
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"I know the
object of your visit," she said. "You want to take me to Paris, but I do
not want to go. I could produce no miracles there,
I am satisfied where I am now".
The next day we found her better disposed. We heard sounds, saw a
phantom in the form of a woman dressed in white and veiled. A silver piece of
five francs presented by Doctor de Guerne was taken up as by an invisible hand
and held in space in spite of our efforts to remove it, until it finally fell
on the floor. Other phenomena occurred, but I shall restrict myself to a
description of the most important ones.
We had a box made of 60 by 40 centimeter depth, which could be closed by
a double lock and added a secret chain.
In this box we put a night gown, a shirt and a bonnet (cap), each of
which articles were marked secretly by each of us with private signs and our
signatures. Doctor Boudoin insisted on sewing to the gown a piece of his
handkerchief, which he tore for that purpose, and to one of the ribbons of the
bonnet he fastened a ring which he took from his finger. After locking the box
we took some strong glue and glued four layers of paper one on top of the
other, over the same. Doctor de Guerne then took the box in his arms and we
waited.
Presently Eugenie commenced to laugh, but, imagine our surprise, when we
saw on her head the bonnet, to which the ring of Dr. Boudoin was fastened. All
this was done without our being able to see a single motion, and Dr. Guerne,
who held the box, felt not the slightest shock. When we opened the box, we
could not deny the evidence. Bonnet, gown and shirt were completely exchanged.
For five days and six nights one of us remained constantly with Eugenie
without losing sight of her. A little pure and cold water was all she took, but
the visits of several women, who came with their children to have them touched
or blessed by the seeress, soon led to a relation.
First came a woman with four children, the oldest of whom was about
eight years of age. A small boy of four years was the first one to be presented
to her. Eugenie took him up in her arms, and while a shiver of excitement
seemed to run through her, she covered him with kisses. She kissed passionately
his lips, his eyes, his head, his neck; she seemed to suck him, to inhale him;
her face had suddenly become transfigured by an expression of frenzy; there was
a wild and fiery look in her eyes, and the child crying piteously attempted in vain
to escape from her embrace.
Ten times we witnessed the same performance.
I was selected to attempt to magnetise Eugenie by surprise, for we hoped
that by doing so we might obtain still more information. For this purpose I
posted my own somnambule, after having magnetised her first, at the foot of the
bed, with the object of thereby obtaining a double control. By my touch I
established a communication between the two sensitives.
Next, following the advice given me by my seeress, I threw the bed
clothes suddenly off, and grasped the legs of Eugenie, put her two feet against
my own breast, and pointing with my right hand at her face I commanded her with
a loud voice to sleep. I was young, I had faith.
At once Eugenie gave a terrible cry, followed by strange hissing sounds.
The commotion was so great, that a uterine hemorrhage appeared, which literally
covered me with blood.
My somnambule, having been overcome by faintness, had left the cottage
and fallen down on the way. Monsieur Thorel, who was standing near the door,
seeing her in such a critical condition, came to take me away from the bed of
Eugenie, and I went to the assistance of our poor somnambule, who was lying
there, vomiting blood.
It was Sunday; a lot of country people had collected and made hostile
demonstrations. A rumour had spread that the physicians of Paris intended to
carry off Eugenie against her will. Things looked quite different, when they
saw a strange woman rolling in the street and a man who was covered with blood
come out of the house of Eugenie. There was no more doubt. Evidently we wanted
to assassinate her.
I took my subject up in my arms and attempted to seek shelter at the
foot of a large calvary near by, which was surrounded by walls; when
fortunately the officers of police, who had been already notified, came running
up to us, followed by the Catholic priest and the mayor of the village.
The country doctor and the Thorel family, whose authority was respected
at that place, explained rapidly the situation to the authorities.
Let us review the facts and make our scientific deductions. Eugenie
found herself, after the death of her mother, alone with her father and went to
the neighbouring town of Angouleme to take a situation as a servant. She
obtained such a situation in the house of a doctor, who found that she was
clairvoyant. He magnetised her regularly for six years. Suddenly this doctor
died with out having provided for the future of the poor girl, and Eugenie
returned to her village, where she lived with her father, and by force of habit
she fell at certain hours into the magnetic sleep. Her father, having received
instructions by his daughter, granted consultations and prescribed medicines,
etc.
They went on living in this manner for two years, when the father died,
Eugenie, who was now alone and without support, fell several times into a
cataleptic condition, in which she was believed to be dead. The first time this
condition lasted 21 days and the last time 17 days. A t our visit she had been
lying in bed for 12 years, and she was very much emaciated. Nobody ever saw her
take any food, —a fact which has been ascertained by an almost constant surveillance,
and it is certain that very often she was unremittingly watched for 15 to 20
days at a time. All that any one ever saw her partake of, was a little pure and
cold water.
Doctor Boudoin, who was practising in that part of the country, informed
us that two of his friends remained alternatively with her for 14 days to watch
her without interruption.
With her last cataleptic fit her menstruation ceased and her abdomen
began to take size and form of a state of pregnancy at the full term. During
the period of such suppression she used to complain of having a taste of blood.
May we not suppose that this girl vampirized herself? Her blood, which was all
the time retained, may have become assimilated and served as nourishment?
During winter her condition grew worse. She became weaker and had the
appearance of a corpse, especially in consequence of her immobility. Her voice
was very weak and seemed to come out of her abdomen. At such times her seership
was very great. In Spring time the inhabitants and the physicians of the
neighbourhood assisted at a veritable resurrection. Eugenie came slowly and
laboriously to life again.
How can we explain this last phenomenon?
By the vampirism which she exercised upon those children that were
brought to her that she may touch and bless them. Indeed, in winter roads
become very bad, there are no more visitors and no more children to be
vampirized.
One more remark. At the time when I attempted to magnetize her, her
blood was red as vermilion. We examined it carefully with the microscope. Nothing
indicated a chloratic condition or a change in its constituent particles. After
the described event took place, Eugenie became hungry, recovered life, rose and
went out.
I expected to take her to my house, to continue my experiments; but was
called back to Paris, where I had to remain for several days, and when I
returned to take her with me, she had left the country in company with a
stranger.
Second Case
In 1868 there was at Paris in the rue Rochechuart, a woman, whose old
age was a mystery. Every one who knew her, noticed, that she always had some
young girl with her as “Demoiselle de campagnie,” and that she changed those
companions very often. Those girls were seen to enter into the old lady’s
service in perfect health, but soon they showed signs of withering, which
always affected their health and often caused their death. When the parents
complained, they were quieted by some presents or by money.
In spite of all this generosity, public opinion began to speak, and the
old lady was said to eat the girls to prolong her own life. She was declared to
be a veritable vampire. The last young girl in her service was the daughter of a
coachman. The father seeing his daughter losing her health, and having heard
the accounts of the fate of the other girls which preceded her in that service,
complained to the “Commissaire de Police."
An examination was held, the physicians gave evidence that it would be
dangerous to let children or young girls stay with the old lady. She was
therefore fined a sum of money as indemnity to the coachman’s daughter and then
died a month afterwards.
Analysis
Shall we draw the conclusion from these two observations that the
Vampirism is a law of nature? Man must learn to assist his evolution by
science. (1)
The subjects which can be affected by vampirism are of different
classes:
1) The lowest order (sorcerers and pythonesses), when they are left to
themselves without guidance, may fall in a state of catalepsy, whose special
character is its eminent resemblance to death.
2) Buried in such a state of death-like trance, the phenomenon of “dédoublement”
(or division of two sets of principles) results. The principles which
constitute the animal soul (Kama-Rupa) (2) impart to the vampire two
characteristics. He will go to where he is attracted and feast on the blood of
his friends or his parents, to sustain the vital principle of his body, which
is imprisoned in the grave.
3) There are also vampires which form a class of elementaries. They are
the assistants of men in the performance of black magic. To speak in general
terms; — all the blood which is spilt can attract those phantoms. This is a method
employed by necromancers to evoke the dead. (3)
4) Sacrifices made by the shedding of the blood of animals are a part of
the ceremonies of black magic. In olden times sacrifices were made in the
regular places of worship according to prescribed religious rites, and the
selection of animals was an exact science.
Human sacrifices were of two orders, either voluntary and by consent of
the victim, or involuntary, when they attempted to resist.
At Babylon, where compulsory human sacrifices were a national
institution, where black magic was taught like any other official science, those
practices attracted bad influences, which soon transformed that city of wonders
into a fated place. Thence forward Babylon was doomed to destruction.
Here we see the action of the inexorable law. These sacrilegious
immolations were a double crime. First the act in itself whose consequences
react upon its authors in life and in death, and next as being an outrage of
the divine laws.
A voluntary human sacrifice is a human holocaust. Man may give his life
by devoting himself to what he believes to be useful to humanity, or it may be
demanded by our social institutions. There is a holocaust. The Druids
sacrificed virgins in the island of Bayne, because those virgin priestesses of
high seership by spilling their blood gave divine revelations for the salvation
of their country. This means the collectivity; the mystery of blood, the
mystery of revelation. This is the science of the Druids.
The modern world, being unable to grasp the spirit of antiquity, will
say that nothing was found. This is an error. An evolution has been
accomplished, a halting place on the grand route of humanity has been reached.
Gaul has become France. None can avoid the law of transformation. Stability
would be death.
Conclusion
Modern science seems to become more and more neglectful as to the world
of causes and the principles of transcendental metaphysics. Our highest
scientific authorities study Matter in its various states, to utilize its
forces for the benefit of man.
Will this laudable object be accomplished, and do the results justify
the efforts used to obtain them?
Is the individual more happy now?
Is the family better situated?
I leave others to answer these questions. (4) It seems to
me that modern science in going in an unfortunate direction. While she denies
the vampirism of the graves which sucks the blood of the living, she organizes
an official vampirism a vampirism of sentiments, a vampirism of physical
forces, and a vampirism of the grave. Modern life has created a social
condition, in which solitude, so salutary to spiritual meditation, cannot be
realized; it is a human whirlpool to which vampirism has become allured.
Woe to the people of Europe, who could not find another method of educating
and saving their children, (the Future) than by shutting them up in colleges
and boarding schools which make them victims of vampirism (5) by this
monastic seclusion.
Nature punishes terribly those who transgress her laws. Science does not
belong to any particular person, she is the transferable inheritance of every
member of the great human family. Occult Science beckons to us from the East to
reascend her mountain-heights. There we shall find the corner stone upon which
humanity will build her church, against which error and immobility will battle
in vain.
Notes
1. At the Court of King David
there were enough of young girls. Nevertheless the Bible says:
« The King, having grown old and unable to warm him
self, search was made through all the tribes for a young virgin. Abissay-Seunamite
was selected as able to furnish the required physiological conditions, which were
then known. She was taken to the King, “who know her not.” She never left the
King and slept on David’s bosom. »
We cannot explain this fact with
out admitting that this was an act of vampirism by which the old King prolonged
his life.
2. Kama-Rupa. That which remains, after the separation of the higher principles from
the lower ones by the process of dying is complete, consists of the fourth
principle [Kama] and the lower parts of the fifth [Manas].
This Kama-Rupa (the animal goal) has still a more or less in distinct consciousness of
its own, and its actions resemble those of a person walking in his sleep. It has
also a remnant of will, in a more or less latent condition. But as the higher principles
have left this, will is no more guided by any moral considerations and cannot
exert itself in any other way than by following its attraction s.
Its lower passions, animal desires
and material attractions still remain, and in proportion as they have been more
or less developed, nursed or fortified, during earth life, in the same
proportion will they act more or less powerfully after the death of the
physical body.
Nothing likes to starve: — each
body as w ell as each principle has a powerful attraction and craving for those
elements which are necessary for its subsistence. The principles of lust,
gluttony, envy, avarice, revenge, intemperance, etc., will rush blindly to the
place to which they are attracted an d where their craving can be temporarily gratified;
— either directly as in the case of vampires, by imbibing the emanations of
fresh blood, or in directly by establish in g magnetic relations with sensitive
persons (mediums), whose inclinations correspond with their own.
If there is still a magnetic
relation existing between the vampire (elementary) and its buried physical
body, it will return to the grave. If there is no such relation, it will follow
other attractions.
It craves for a body, and if it
cannot find a human body, it may be attracted to that of an animal. The gospel
account of the swine in to which Jesus drove the “evil spirits” may be a fable
in its historical application, but it is a truth, not only a possibility, with
reference to many such parallel cases. — Translator
(This note was added by Blavatsky)
3. The physicians at Paris
prescribe at present fresh blood to cure the anemic conditions of chlorosis and
other cases of loss of power. It is a strange sight to witness every day the
rush of a great number of people for the slaughter houses, where young women
and girls drink the warm blood of butchered animals. It is all the rage, it is
the fashion. Nevertheless it is certain that the blood in all its parts does
not assimilate with the human system. It is difficult to digest and produces
horrible nightmares, but it is the fashion.
We hope that Science, which is ignorant
of the effects of blood-drinking, will soon cease to advise people to drink the
blood of animals.
All through antiquity science and
the greatest legislators have prohibited the drinking of blood on account of
its pernicious consequences. I have had a young lady under treatment, who
became insane in consequence of visions which horrified her. Having drunk blood
on three occasions, she saw after the third time enraged oxen and sheep rush
upon her. No more pitiful sight could be seen than to behold this poor young
lady. Two more such cases w ere mentioned to me by a friend, a physician. From
these observations w e must conclude that blood can produce dangerous results,
especially when the patients have the gift of clairvoyance. But in all cases we
ought to desist from drinking it.
I know an executioner at Alençon (Departement
de l’Orne), who was sick before each execution. He saw those phantom s throwing
themselves upon the blood of the guillotine, and what the most terrible thing
was, that amongst them he recognised his deceased friends and parents. I have
attempted to obtain information amongst the butchers. Amongst fifty whom I
interrogated, four had been forced to quit their occupation of killing animals.
They too saw those phantoms come to gorge them selves with blood.
Although the exuberant healthy
appearance of butchers generally is said to be due to the vapors of blood, butchers
usually do not reach an old ago. Amongst the Israelites seers were so numerous
that the legislators established the office of sacrificers in consequence.
We frequently meet with people
today, who become ill at the sight of blood.
4. A new danger appears on the
scientific horizon in the form of a proposed inoculation of carbon in the
animals whose flesh is eaten. Official science shows that the virus may remain
in a latent state for an unlimited time with out apparently manifesting itself.
We are therefore in danger of having poisoned meat to eat.
5. The young ladies, shut up in
boarding schools, are vampirising each other. An irrefutable proof of this
assertion lies in the fact that: daring their enforced common seclusion, the
menstrual flow, by which function the girl becomes a woman and a mother, does
either not appear or is scanty, or ceases and reappears only daring vacations
when they are visiting their families, to disappear again when they return to
school. Let legislators and mothers think over that question.
(Theosophist, March
and April 1884, p.148-149 and 158-160)
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