16 Facts About Vril

1.

Vril befriends the first being he meets, who guides him around a city that is reminiscent of ancient Egyptian architecture.

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2.

Vril's guide comes towards him, and he and his daughter, Zee, explain who they are and how they function.

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3.

Hero discovers that these beings, who call themselves Vril-ya, have great telepathic and other parapsychological abilities, such as being able to transmit information, get rid of pain, and put others to sleep.

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4.

The narrator is offended by the idea that the Vril-ya are better adapted to learn about him than he is to learn about them.

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5.

Narrator soon discovers that the Vril-ya are descendants of an antediluvian civilization called the Ana, who live in networks of caverns linked by tunnels.

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6.

The powers of the Vril include the ability to heal, change, and destroy beings and things; the destructive powers in particular are immense, allowing a few young Vril-ya children to destroy entire cities if necessary.

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7.

The Vril-ya believe in the permanence of life, which according to them is not destroyed but merely changes form.

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8.

Vril can be harnessed by use of the Vril staff or mental concentration.

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9.

Vril staff is an object in the shape of a wand or a staff which is used as a channel for Vril.

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10.

Probably even the notion of Vril might be more cleared from mysticism or mesmerism by being simply defined to be electricity and conducted by those staves or rods, omitting all about mesmeric passes, etc.

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11.

Blavatsky's recurrent homage to Bulwer-Lytton and the Vril force has exerted a lasting influence on other esoteric authors.

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12.

French writer Jules Lermina included a Vril-powered flying machine in his 1910 novel L'Effrayante Aventure.

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13.

Vril wrote that the high popularity of irrational convictions in Germany at that time explained how Nazism could have fallen on such fertile ground.

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14.

Existence of a Vril Society was alleged in 1960 by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels.

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15.

The Vril information takes up about a tenth of the volume, the remainder of which details other esoteric speculations, but the authors fail to clearly explain whether this section is fact or fiction.

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16.

Strube has shown that the Vril force has been irrelevant to the other members of the "Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft, " who were supporters of the theories of the Austrian inventor Karl Schappeller.

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