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Vril: The Power of the Coming Race

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Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
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Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.

Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril", at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as based on occult truth, in part. One 1960 book, The Morning of the Magicians by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in Weimar Berlin.

The name "Vril" may be based on the word virile, as has repeatedly been suggested.

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SF novel first published anonymously in 1871n under the title "The Coming Race".

Last modified: 2024-08-24 (revision #197445)

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357200
Wikidata Work ID
Q510699

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