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Pulp Vril Society

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British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote a novel in 1870, entitled "Vril: The Power Of The Coming Race", which describes an ancient, powerful, subterranean race of technologically and spiritually superior beings, the Vril-ya. Occultists and theosophists were much taken with the book and its themes. One interesting aspect of the book: the Vril-ya speak a language derived from "Aryan roots".

The initial founding of the Vril-Society occured in 1918, led by the academic and retired Bavarian general Karl Kaushofer. The Vril-Society goals were to understand the true origins of the Aryan race; to contact secret masters of Vril power (said to exist in "Ultima Thule", hence the group's name), and to find and develop techniques of harnessing the Vril forces personally and technologically. Other names were at times applied to the society -- the Luminous Lodge, the Lodge of Light, or the Brothers of Light.

Note: Vril-ya are the underground people; Vril is the mysterious power/force which they can manipulate.

In 1922, Haushofer founded the Institute for Geopolitics; the Vril-Society archives were kept there, and Vril-Society meetings apparently occurred there. Haushofer had connections with many future members of the Nazi party since the end of the Great War, had traveled widely in the Orient before the Great War, and studied under the Russian magician Gurdjieff. His lectures, advice and writings helped develop the strategy and justifications for the Nazi policy of lebensraum.

Membership in the Vril-Society was never publicly published, but included prominent Nazis such as Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, and Hermann Goring. Many members of the Vril-Society (though not Hitler) also belonged to the Thule-Gesellschaft (founded 1918), usually in positions of authority. The Thule-Gesellschaft, a German group with occult and folkloric interests, and a much broader membership, is mostly known for sponsoring the creation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

By mid-1928, the Vril-Society ceased operating; many of its members have joined the Ahnenerbe.