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==Vril Society== | ==Vril Society== | ||
[[File:The Coming Race (1871).png|thumb|Cover of an 1871 edition of The Coming Race <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Coming_Race_(1871).png wiki]</ref>]] | [[File:The Coming Race (1871).png|thumb|Cover of an 1871 edition of The Coming Race <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Coming_Race_(1871).png wiki]</ref>]] | ||
The Coming Race is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, reprinted as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. Among its readers have been those who have believed that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril" is accurate, to the extent that some theosophists, notably [[Helena Blavatsky]], William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as being (at least in part) based on occult truth. A popular book, [[The Morning of the Magicians]] (1960) suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in pre-Nazi Berlin.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril Vril]</ref> | [[The Coming Race]] is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, reprinted as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. Among its readers have been those who have believed that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril" is accurate, to the extent that some theosophists, notably [[Helena Blavatsky]], William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as being (at least in part) based on occult truth. A popular book, [[The Morning of the Magicians]] (1960) suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in pre-Nazi Berlin.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril Vril]</ref> | ||
The [[Vril Society]] was formed by a group of female psychic mediums led by the Thule Gesellschaft medium [[Maria Orsitsch]] (Orsic) of Zagreb, who claimed to have received communication from Aryan aliens living on [[Alpha Tauri]]<ref>[https://theskylive.com/sky/stars/aldebaran-alpha-tauri-star Skylive.com]</ref>, or [[Aldebaran]] in the [[Taurus (Constellation)]]. Allegedly, these aliens had visited [[Earth]] and settled in [[Sumerian-Egypt Invasion|Sumeria]], and the word Vril was formed from the ancient Sumerian word "Vri-Il" ("like god"). A second medium was known only as Sigrun, a name etymologically related to Sigrune, a Valkyrie and one of Wotan's nine daughters in Norse legend. | The [[Vril Society]] was formed by a group of female psychic mediums led by the Thule Gesellschaft medium [[Maria Orsitsch]] (Orsic) of Zagreb, who claimed to have received communication from Aryan aliens living on [[Alpha Tauri]]<ref>[https://theskylive.com/sky/stars/aldebaran-alpha-tauri-star Skylive.com]</ref>, or [[Aldebaran]] in the [[Taurus (Constellation)]]. Allegedly, these aliens had visited [[Earth]] and settled in [[Sumerian-Egypt Invasion|Sumeria]], and the word Vril was formed from the ancient Sumerian word "Vri-Il" ("like god"). A second medium was known only as Sigrun, a name etymologically related to Sigrune, a Valkyrie and one of Wotan's nine daughters in Norse legend. | ||