This song offers a major twist on vampire lore, turning everything inside out and upside down so as to reveal a new perspective (in the tradition of creativity stimulation techniques and esoteric customs). Various spiritual traditions acknowledge beings on earth who, as highly evolved souls, chose to incarnate so as to help humanity carry the burdens of life. Of course, Buddhists call these beings bodhisattvas, Hindus call them Devas, Christians refer to saints and angels, and so on. These evolved souls incarnate into human form and assist others by taking on their darkness until those people are able to process it on their own. Over millennia of reincarnations, each bodhisattva/saint takes on a massive amount of darkness (even earth-sized). The darkness doesn't technically weigh anything, but it's a burden nonetheless, and here's the thing: the thick layers of other people's darkness begin to hide the saint's own angelic light, so people can't see the saint's true nature but rather see a twisted, distorted, very dark image. Misunderstood, persecuted people from various minority cultures will grasp this phenomenon all-too-well. What if vampires, seen as the incarnation of evil, were actually saints who take on their so-called victims' darkness and grant eternal life (freeing the souls from the cycle of rebirths)? What if vampires were understood to live only at night because they are so shadowed by the darkness they carry for others? Of course, the only way to free oneself of a burden of shadows is to expose the darkness to light — an instant, automatic fix. Mightn't an angel (viewed by lesser-evolved or otherwise unseeing souls as a vampire) possibly fear disburdening all the carried darkness, lest that possibly violate the divine contract to help humanity? So these angels seem eternally bound to the night, but in fact they can free themselves by simply tapping back into the godly light that was theirs before the earth was even formed.

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The original instrumental by Archmage Band and Music for Magicians is here: https://archmagemusic.bandcamp.com/al...
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