Vril Society
The Vril Society is a hoax about a German secret society, with ties to Thule Society, founded in 1921 with medium Marie Orsic who supposedly were in contact with Aryan aliens from Aldebaran (constellation Taurus) and developed UFO technology. Other supposed members were Antichrist figure Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg. |
It is associated with Hollow Earth-Inner Earth theories (race that was forced to live underground after the flood).
Secretary of State for the Colonies and Rosicrucian Edward Bulwer-Lytton (friend of Benjamin Disraeli, Paschal Beverly Randolph and Eliphas Levi) played a role in the revival of occultism in the 19th century and wrote Vril the Power of the Coming Race in 1871. He was a member of the Orphic Circle who conducted séances and evoked spirits in mirrors and crystals with Emma Hardinge Britten, who co-founded the Theosophical Society. Helena Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society expanded on the Vril force in The Secret Doctrine.
In the 20's popular science writers like Willy Ley and Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon, gave rise to a rocketry trend in Berlin Germany. The name Thule refers to the mythical Hyperborea.
In 1937 nazi Germany explored Antarctica (Neu-Schwabia). Wilhelm Reich did research on Orgone energy, comparable to Vril force.
In 1945 nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun were transferred to the US through Operation Paperclip.
In 1946 admiral Byrd visited Antarctica (Operation Highjump).
Willey Ley and Wernher von Braun wrote Conquest of the Moon in 1953.
In 1967 Louis Pauwels and Kabbalist Jacques Bergier wrote The Morning of the Magicians (published by Gallimard), a work of alien fiction comparable to HP Lovecraft, mixing the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn with the story of a Vril Society and nazi's escaping to Antarctica. Pauwels also wrote a book about George Gurdjieff and his student Karl Haushofer, a friend of Rudolf Hess (Thule Society) and Erich von Ludendorff. Bergier was a member of Mensa (Buckminster Fuller as president).
In the Internet age the hoax was spread in the Conspiracy Church by Wulf Schwarzwaller (The Unknown Hitler), Vladimir Terziski (UFO Secrets of the Third Reich), Brad Steiger (The Rainbow Conspiracy), Alan Baker (Invisible Eagle The History of Nazi Occultism), Peter Moon (The Black Sun), Wes Penre, Len Kasten, Ancient Aliens (David Childress, Michael Salla, George Noory, David Wilcock), Donald Marshall,..
It was debunked by Nichols Goodrich-Clarke. Peter Levenda researched the Nazi-Tibet connection through the work of Ernst Schafer of the Ahnenerbe.