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Bulwer Lytton calls vril, and the operation of which he has fairly accurately described in his _Coming Race_, that the colleges for the higher training of the youth of Atlantis were specially occupied in developing.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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The "Vril-ya" enjoy a utopian social organisation based on "vril", a source of infinitely renewable electrical power (commerce promptly produced the beef essence drink, Bovril).
doggdot.us 2009
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The vril-powered saucer thrummed softly on the roof of the Führerbunker awaiting his arrival.
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Reich of the Black Sun, by Joseph Farrell; continuing our Secrets of the Second World War theme, we come to this magisterial compendium of Nazi Secret Technology and Refuge theory and practice, in which our author looks over the questions of occult vril, anti-gravity, secret SS A-bomb projects, vortex engines, Antarctic bases, flying saucers, and the Fourth Reich with a pitch-perfect combination of overt skepticism and total gullibility.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005
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But I reject @vril Levign just on a matter of principle.
bettyalready Diary Entry bettyalready 2005
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When the High Gods had destroyed Atlantis for its sins, the priests of Xotli and their slaves had fled from the sinking land in a mighty fleet of flying ships powered by the mysterious force called vril.
Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968
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In the earlier times it seems to have been personal vril that supplied the motive power -- whether used in conjunction with any mechanical contrivance matters not much -- but in the later days this was replaced by a force which, though generated in what is to us an unknown manner, operated nevertheless through definite mechanical arrangements.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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Their position was quite equal to that of the men, while the aptitude many of them displayed in acquiring the vril-power made them fully the equals if not the superiors of the other sex.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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In Les Fils de Dieu (The Sons of God) (1873), the French author Louis Jacolliot linked vril with the subterranean people of Thule.
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Jocelyn Godwin, in Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival (1993), identified agni power with vril.
sionnach commented on the word vril
coined by Bulwer-Lytton a mysterious force imagined as having been discovered by the people described in The Coming Race; the fundamental resonant energy which is inherent to planetary structure Tesla Society Scientific Dict.
Also forms one root of the word "Bovril"
October 7, 2007