My Online Brothers and Sisters:
In 2010 we are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the writing of the Maidenfear Entente, the founding document of the Order of Maidenfear.
If it seems difficult to be a vampire in this day and age, imagine how things were for our founder, Anne de Molay (1930-2002). She claimed descent from the infamous last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, and all documentation supports her claim that Anne de Molay was in fact her birth name.
In an era of horror film schlock, Anne investigated the archetype of the vampire and came to the conclusion that vampirism was a very real interaction with life energy that could benefit the practitioner. Having shared her vision, Anne was able to form a group of like minds and established House Maidenfear in 1966 and then the Order of Maidenfear in 1970.
Why "Maidenfear"? Why use a word with no obvious associations with vampirism to communicate the Order's existence to the world? Anne wrote, "I came upon this term, and for some reason it struck me deep, it resonated within me. What a perfect concept, the nervous excitement of fear and desire captured in a single word. For me, this word was so replete with energy itself that I could see nothing else but toapply it in my own form of vampirism."
In 1970, Anne inherited a generous amount of money after the passing of her father. She was about to turn 40, she was ahistory teacher , she had decided against having a family, and her one absorbing passion was the Order of Maidenfear. Anne invested in the future of her Order by buying a large Victorian house in Philadelphia, the building that became House Maidenfear. Dedicated to Anne's vision of the vampiric life, vampires from the city and the Eastern seaboard came to live in House Maidenfear.
In council on the Summer Solstice of 1970, the Maidenfear vampires wrote and approved the Maidenfear Entente, a document which would be the constitution of Order operations. Additionally, a special shrine to the universal guiding force, called Raven, opened within the house. For the next twenty years, House Maidenfear and the Order operated in relative obscurity. After all, this was not a philosophy that everyone was ready to hear. Like minds found and joined the order.
Anne de Molay was the first Grand Master and remained in that position until 1987. She passed away in 2003, but not before leaving volumes of her thoughts and ideas for the vampire community.
Two months before Anne's death, I was elected Grand Master of the Order of Maidenfear. One of my first acts, with Anne's blessing, was to change the title from "Grand Master" to "Matriarch". And so I am here today.
We don't exactly have a standard greeting or parting, but I'm partial to the parting words that were common in the Church of All Worlds. Never thirst!
Lupia Sappho Wolf,
In 2010 we are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the writing of the Maidenfear Entente, the founding document of the Order of Maidenfear.
If it seems difficult to be a vampire in this day and age, imagine how things were for our founder, Anne de Molay (1930-2002). She claimed descent from the infamous last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, and all documentation supports her claim that Anne de Molay was in fact her birth name.
In an era of horror film schlock, Anne investigated the archetype of the vampire and came to the conclusion that vampirism was a very real interaction with life energy that could benefit the practitioner. Having shared her vision, Anne was able to form a group of like minds and established House Maidenfear in 1966 and then the Order of Maidenfear in 1970.
Why "Maidenfear"? Why use a word with no obvious associations with vampirism to communicate the Order's existence to the world? Anne wrote, "I came upon this term, and for some reason it struck me deep, it resonated within me. What a perfect concept, the nervous excitement of fear and desire captured in a single word. For me, this word was so replete with energy itself that I could see nothing else but to
In 1970, Anne inherited a generous amount of money after the passing of her father. She was about to turn 40, she was a
In council on the Summer Solstice of 1970, the Maidenfear vampires wrote and approved the Maidenfear Entente, a document which would be the constitution of Order operations. Additionally, a special shrine to the universal guiding force, called Raven, opened within the house. For the next twenty years, House Maidenfear and the Order operated in relative obscurity. After all, this was not a philosophy that everyone was ready to hear. Like minds found and joined the order.
Anne de Molay was the first Grand Master and remained in that position until 1987. She passed away in 2003, but not before leaving volumes of her thoughts and ideas for the vampire community.
Two months before Anne's death, I was elected Grand Master of the Order of Maidenfear. One of my first acts, with Anne's blessing, was to change the title from "Grand Master" to "Matriarch". And so I am here today.
We don't exactly have a standard greeting or parting, but I'm partial to the parting words that were common in the Church of All Worlds. Never thirst!
Lupia Sappho Wolf,
Matriarch
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