Vampire Watchers and the Kemetic Order of Aset Ka

Recently I was turned on to the idea of researching "vampire watchers."  This is allegedly a group of people that watch the modern vampire community much as Watchers watch the immortals in the Highlander franchise.  I had heard of the idea in the vampire community a few times before but had never paid much attention to it.  Through a bit of basic web searching I found that whenever there was mention of the "Vampire Watchers Group" there was almost always mention of the Aset Ka as well.

The Kemetic Order of Aset Ka is a spiritual order that claims lineage from ancient Egypt and vampirism plays a part in in their teachings and beliefs.  I won't go into too much detail about the specific beliefs of the Aset Ka, but my perception is that it's a bit of a mixed bag of Kemetic beliefs, vampiric beliefs, and some New Age beliefs all thrown into a blender.  It's interesting that even though they claim ancient lineage, no one seems to be able to produce anything concerning them before 2006 or so.  By doing a simple WHOIS search on their domain name one can see that it was created in 2006.

My personal opinion is that the Aset Ka (and probably the Vampire Watchers Group as well) were created to get publicity for the Asetian Bible by Luis Marques (published in 2007).  No one seems to know anything about them aside from very general information that has been rehashed over and over again and most people claiming any association with them always refer to the book.  This book seems to be the only evidence of their structure, beliefs, practices, or very existence and is marketed as the authoritative source on the Aset Ka.  One should also keep in mind that since the release of Asetian Bible the Aset Ka have not been very active except to promote and refer people back to that work.

Maybe the Aset Ka are more than a publicity machine to sell books.  If that's the case, I think claiming to be older than humanity is still a stretch.  Claiming ancients roots to gain some sort of validity is nothing new in the occult world but eventually the truth always comes out.  There's nothing wrong with starting a new organization and picking up ancient ideas but claiming direct lineage is dishonest.  Doing it just to sell books is even more dishonest.

Taking all of this into consideration, I have to say that all of the mystique surrounding the Aset Ka, and the Vampire Watchers for that matter, is all pomp and posturing.  They are trying to start an "ancient" tradition (which has too many similarities to other traditions and practices in the vampire community and the new age community to even count), apparently in hopes of getting rich off of it.  I can certainly see why someone would attempt this as vampires have been very popular for the past few years and "ancient" or "secret" knowledge is always desirable no matter the time period.

So to anyone that may be fearful of the Aset Ka or the Vampire Watchers, all I can say is take a deeper look and read between the lines.  The only thing they are really dangerous to is your wallet.  Their practices and traditions may be just as valid as any other practices or traditions but an ancient occult order the Aset Ka are not.  The Vampire Watchers make convenient bogeymen for the vampire community and this is perhaps why they were created and seem to talk almost exclusively about the Aset Ka.  It's made to get one thinking "Well, if these watchers are watching the Aset Ka then there must be something going on there."  The only thing going on is marketing, I think.

The Kemetic Order of Aset Ka
WHOIS for asetka.org
Asetian Bible at Amazon UK
Compare this entry at Paranormal-Encyclopedia.com with this deleted Wikipedia entry.
Forums for "Vampire Watchers Group"
See this thread on VampireForum.net.

Hopefully after going through that information you can see what brought me to my conclusion about the Kemetic Order of Aset Ka and the Vampire Watchers Group.  Maybe this will explain a few things or set some minds at ease.  I certainly feel like I now know a lot more about these elusive Vampire Watchers I've heard about.