> Hi all,
> The vril was the name given to the strange energy source used by the Vril-ya
> race in Bulwer Lytton's (circa 1871) book The Coming Race. The story is
> about a mining engineer you finds his way into a cave that leads to a
> subterranean world inhabited by an advanced race who in appearance greatly
> resemble the Pre-Raphaelite image of angels (wings and all that).
Not so. Their wings were automata, machinelike appendages.
> It is a
> very unusual book written by a very interesting guy who is linked in with
> the occult world of Freemasons and the United States-New World order bunch
> along with the likes of Bacon and Franklin.
>
No it is not unusual. In fact have you ever heard of the now all but forgotten
genre called lost race romances? And in 1871 and before that many more much more
unusual books appeared. Take for instance l'homme rare ou la philosophie sans
pretention, published in France in the 18th century. The author describes the
visit from an inhabitant from Mercurius who comes to earth and teaches us
various disciplines. Interestingly, the frontispice depicts the being in a
spaceship that is held in academic circles as the earliest anticipation of the
dynamo). Or take the published account of Bartholomeo Guzmao's aerial ship into
consideration. There's so much, start digging!
Bulwer-Lytton's membership in freemasonry remains open to debate, and links with
Bacon and Franklin are non-existent. On Bulwer-Lytton and his vril force, see my
book Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely, where I devote quite a large part
on Bulwer-Lytton's occult connections, background and his vril book.
>
> One point to mention is that Tesla was some what influenced by this book and
> so may be the origin of his teleautomatics. In short the Coming Race is the
> first book that talks of Robots!
>
It was not the first book to talk of robots. Remember that the ancient Greeks
already had tales of automatic people, and there is the story of Albertus Magnus
mechanical man - or talking head.
>
> Unfortunately Hitler also was influenced by this book, linking the Aryan
> race with the Vril-ya. As for the Vril, well this was apparently the power
> source for Nazi UFOs.
>
Not so. In fact, that linkage belongs to Colville and Blavatsky. Also, there are
no Nazi ufo's and never have been.
>
> But what is it, well it seems to be the same as Reichenbach's Odic force,
> Reich's Orgone and so on. Also from Lytton's description, it also seems to
> be the primary force, the origin of all other forces, i.e. gravity,
> magnetic, electric and so on. So Vril can be seen as a sort of unified field
> theory.
>
Bulwer-Lytton clearly described what vril was to him in his book.
Best,
Theo Paijmans
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