Exploring the Concept of Vril

Tonight's book recommendation is over 100 years old from 1911 titled Vril or

Vital Magnetism.

The Arcane Teaching Secret Doctrines of Ancient Atlantis, Egypt, Chaldea,

and Greece In the Arcane Teaching,

the term Vril indicates the universal principle of vital energy, life force,

or vital magnetism, as it is sometimes called.

The term itself is believed to have had its origin in

language of ancient Atlantis traditions holding that Atlantean root Vri,

meaning life, is the source of the word Vril,

the later expressing the idea of the vital principle or life energy.

Vril is the principle of inner vital power or energy found to

be imminent in all forms of specialized matter, inorganic or organic.

It is the recognition of universal imminence that has led

science to advance the new theories that life is present in all forms of matter,

even in the crudest and grossest states, phases, and forms of matter.

The latest conception is

that life consists in the power of independent action and movement, that is,

in the ability to act and move from inner and inherent power,

and not from power or force applied from without.

It is this very power to act and move

which the arcane teaching holds to be the second phase of the existence of vril.

A body may possess sensation and will,

ability to feel and ability to exercise volition,

and yet not be able to act and move.

Feeling and will are mental states or qualities,

but the power which acts and moves is something different from mind,

for it is what is called vital force, or life energy, or vril.

Vril is the force which operates the machinery of life from the crudest movements

up to the highest exercise of the brain cells of the philosopher or mathematician.

It is by the action of Vril that the ions, electrons, corpuscles,

or particles of elementary matter are attracted and repelled,

and by which they engage in the wild whirl around each other,

which resembles the movement of the planets around our sun, which attraction,

repulsion, and consequent whirl combine to form what we know as the atom of matter.

Likewise, it is Vril which causes these atoms to be attracted and repelled,

and to manifest constant vibration,

thereby forming the combinations which give to us our elements of matter.

Vril in itself is the power within.