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In his book Black Sun, Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke refers to the research of the German author Peter Bahn. | In his book Black Sun, Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke refers to the research of the German author Peter Bahn. | ||
[[ | [[File:Black Sun (Goodrick-Clarke book).jpg|thumb|Black Sun (Goodrick-Clarke book) 2001]] | ||
Bahn writes in his 1996 essay, "Das Geheimnis der Vril-Energie" ("The Secret of Vril Energy"), of his discovery of an obscure esoteric group calling itself the "Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft", which revealed itself in a rare 1930 publication Vril. Die Kosmische Urkraft (Vril, the cosmic elementary power) written by a member of this Berlin-based group, under the pseudonym "Johannes Täufer" (German: "John [the] Baptist"). Published by the influential astrological publisher, Otto Wilhelm Barth (whom Bahn believes was "Täufer"), the 60-page pamphlet says little of the group other than that it was founded in 1925 to study the uses of Vril energy.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril Vril wiki]</ref> | Bahn writes in his 1996 essay, "Das Geheimnis der Vril-Energie" ("The Secret of Vril Energy"), of his discovery of an obscure esoteric group calling itself the "Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft", which revealed itself in a rare 1930 publication Vril. Die Kosmische Urkraft (Vril, the cosmic elementary power) written by a member of this Berlin-based group, under the pseudonym "Johannes Täufer" (German: "John [the] Baptist"). Published by the influential astrological publisher, Otto Wilhelm Barth (whom Bahn believes was "Täufer"), the 60-page pamphlet says little of the group other than that it was founded in 1925 to study the uses of Vril energy.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril Vril wiki]</ref> | ||