Vampires galore

Well I really do not know what I am getting into. I have been writing on aliens, and now here I am writing about Vampirism. No need to fear though, it’s about energy vampires that I am concerned about, not the real variety, the Count Dracula variety. That could be scary, but luckily it seems, if C.W.Leadbeater and company is to be believed, they would not exist in countries where people burn their dead. They need the body to project themselves into the astral form. 
The Astral Plane by C.W Leadbeater contains several interesting accounts of the plane that is said to be the next to that of the physical plane that we live in. The belief is that we enter the astral world soon after our death. It is said to be much like the world that we live in and exists in the same region although unknown to us. According to Mr. Leadbeater the completely soulless and depraved men can not stay in the astral world after death and has to go to the “eighth sphere” whatever it is, to under go painful torments for the terrible deeds done by them while living. 
Well such men, if they know something of the “black arts” can postpone this fate indefinitely by preserving their body in a “cataleptic trance” by infusing blood into it and thus keeping it in a state of freshness. It is said that the eighth sphere can not claim them till the dispersal of the physical body. As there were no blood banks in the distant past, they had to draw blood from other beings with the help of their “semi materialized astral”. 

Leadbeater has said that there were a few such examples of vampires at the time of writing his book. I could not get the date of the actual publishing of the book from it, but I believe the articles in it were written sometime early in the last century. Interestingly he cited Russia and Hungary as the most likely places in which we can find some of these rare individuals. 

The book might be available at some of the Theosophical sites