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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>]]
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>