vril

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She said that they had gradually disappeared from the more civilised world since the discovery of vril, and the results attending that discovery had dispensed with their uses.

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  • "These people," he says, "consider that in the vril they had arrived at the unity in natural energic agencies"; and proceeds to show that Faraday intimated them "under the more cautious term of correlation," thus: —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 3
  • 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
  • But as time went on it became more and more the personal power, which 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
  • 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
  • The vril is not altogether a fiction, as some chelas and even "lay" chelas know It is simply that the gradual development of man's seven principles and physical senses has to be coincident and on parallel lines with Rounds and Root-races. —  Five Years of Theosophy
 

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