Vril – Bulwer-Lytton Atlantean Force & Nazi Occult Tech
Vril · Vril Force · Vril Society Vril-Gesellschaft · Berlin Vril Disc
1871 fiction to 1960 pseudo-history·British Victorian sci-fi then Nazi occultism hoax·🇩🇪 Berlin – mythic Vril Society HQ location (Tiergarten) – literary source, Germany
About
About Vril – Bulwer-Lytton Atlantean Force & Nazi Occult Tech
Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 sci-fi novel The Coming Race invented Vril – subterranean Atlantean survivors powering utopia via all-permeating 'Vril' energy (staff). Post-WWI esotericists (Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier 1960 Morning of Magicians) fabricated that Berlin occultists formed Vril-Gesellschaft/Vril Society 1918 advising Nazis, building Vril-1 Saucer via Channel Maria Orsic – grafted Atlantis crystal onto German flying saucer. Zero Nazi documents mention Vril society or Vril discs; entirely postwar fiction. Yet culturally powerful – aligns with Atlantis crystal and vimāna saucer myths; included as literarily-constructed tech myth.
Why it mattersArchetypal example of fiction-becoming-pseudohistory via Pauwels forgery; informs understanding of Atlantis–Nazi linkage popular culture.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Why Vril? Perhaps Vríl from Sanskrit? No
Theories
- 01Post-war French journalists stitched Bulwer + List Ariosophy + Foo fighter into unified myth
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- No device built; claimed Vril discs 1922–45
- Period
- 1871 fiction to 1960 pseudo-history
- Culture
- British Victorian sci-fi then Nazi occultism hoax
- Purpose
- Fiction: utopia power; Hoax: Nazi Wunderwaffe saucer propulsion
- Abandoned
- 1947 novel hoax emerges 1960
- Rediscovered
- 1871 Coming Race; 1960 Pauwels/Bergier Le Matin des magiciens chapter invents Berlin Vril society; 1990+ websites animate disc blueprints
- Excavation
- Not applicable
1871
Bulwer-Lytton publishes Vril – Atlantean subterranean Vril-ya
1960
Pauwels/Bergier fabricate Vril Society as Nazi occult source
1995
Video The History Channel Vril mythology spreads as history
2005
Goodrick-Clarke Occult Roots of Nazism debunks Vril archive absence
On the ground
Structures & features
52.5200° N · 13.3700° E · 35 m · 3 mapped features
Berlin Tiergarten – claimed Vril lodge
phantom lodgeTiergarten district vague Vril society meeting place claimed postwar
52.5200° N · 13.3700° EBavarian Bulwer-Lytton archive Knebworth
archiveNovelist's estate where Vril invented – provenance
51.8600° N · 0.1900° WBundesarchiv (failure to find Vril files)
archiveBerlin-Lichterfelde archives – no Vril society entry (negative evidence)
52.4300° N · 13.2900° E