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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 ...
John Martin (1789–1854): Pandemonium, In Coming Race the architecture of the Vril-ya is compared with John Martin's paintings . The word Vril comes from the novel The Coming Race published in 1871 by the English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) and was probably derived from the Latin word virilis (manly', 'powerful').
Another novel with a supernatural theme was A Strange Story (1862), which was an influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula. [35] Bulwer-Lytton wrote many other works, including Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871) which drew heavily on his interest in the occult and contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. [36]
Cover of the programme for the event. The Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete (more fully billed as 'The Coming Race' and 'Vril-Ya' Bazaar and Fete, in joint aid of The West End Hospital, and the School of Massage and Electricity) was an event held March 5–10, 1891 at the Royal Albert Hall in the British capital of London.
Vril is a science fiction novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first published in 1871 under the title The Coming Race. Vril may also refer to: VRIL, a 2002 album by SCH; Vril Dox, a DC Comics character, also known as Brainiac 2; Vril Society, a pseudohistorical Nazi secret society founded in 1921
The narrative has many commonalities with Jacolliot's original, but with additional concepts taken from the "Mahatma letters" in Theosophy, in addition to the novel The Coming Race (Vril). [3] In his 1922 book, Beasts, Men and Gods, the Polish explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski relates a story which was imparted to him concerning a subterranean ...
Johnston took the -vril suffix from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular novel, The Coming Race (1871), the plot of which revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.
Vril manipulates Hakk into shooting the other bounty hunter. He seizes a device that was used to control Tribulus (a giant simian beast strongly resembling Validus of the Fatal Five) and implants the device into his own head. Vril gains control over Tribulus and they take the bounty hunter ship as their new headquarters. [9]