From Eliyahu
In the last issue in this series, we looked at the early contactee
movement. We saw that the UFO phenomenon did not merely appear in the sky.
It began to speak. Men claimed that Space Brothers, higher intelligences, or
visitors from beyond the earth were bringing messages to mankind. That
opened one stream of the UFO mystery: the stream of occult communication.
In this issue, we turn to another stream: hidden technology. The UFO
story has always had these two major branches. One branch says: beings from
beyond are communicating with mankind. The other branch says: hidden powers
possess advanced technology, secret craft, and knowledge beyond what the
public is allowed to know.
Sometimes these two branches run separately. Sometimes they come
together. When they do, the result is especially troubling: occult contact
joined to technological power. That is why we must discuss Vril, Thule, Nazi
occultism, Operation Paperclip, and the shadow of secret weapons.
This is not an easy subject. There is documented history here. There
is also legend, exaggeration, fraud, and material that cannot be verified.
So we must move carefully. We do not need to prove every story to recognize
the pattern.
Before going further, we should set a rule. We must not claim
legends as facts. Some people are careless with this subject. They take
every story about Nazi flying saucers, underground bases, Vril women, alien
contact, Antarctica, and antigravity craft, and they present it all as
proven history. That is not our approach.
But we should also avoid the opposite error. We should not dismiss
an entire pattern simply because some details are unproven. The occult is
hidden by nature. Secret programs are hidden by design. Legends may grow
around real events. Myths may preserve distorted memories. False documents
may circulate around genuine mysteries. Rumor, secrecy, deception,
intelligence activity, and occult imagination can all become tangled
together.
So the wise question is not merely: “Can we prove every detail?” The
better question is “What can be documented, what remains unproven, and what
pattern appears when these materials are viewed together?”
That is how we will approach the Nazi shadow in the UFO story.
The Occult Nazi Background: There really was an occult and
mythic background to some of the ideological currents that fed into early
20th-century German nationalism. This does not mean Nazism was simply “an
occult movement.” It was political, racial, militaristic, revolutionary,
anti-biblical, and murderous. Its roots were many. We should not reduce it
to just occultism. But neither should we ignore the occult and mythic
currents that were present in that world.
Before and around the rise of Nazism, there were völkisch movements,
racial mystics, Germanic myth-makers, Ariosophic teachers, secret societies,
and writers who blended nationalism, race theory, pagan imagery, Theosophy,
runes, Atlantis-type speculation, and supposed ancient Aryan wisdom. This
was a world obsessed with hidden origins, superior bloodlines, lost
knowledge, and spiritualized destiny.
That atmosphere illuminates Nazi origins. The Nazi world did not
grow out of ordinary politics alone. It also drew energy from myth, occult
imagination, racial religion, and the desire to remake the world through
power. That is why the Thule Society [pronounced TOO-luh]] and related
circles continue to attract attention.
The Thule Society was part of the post-World War I Munich
environment of nationalist, anti-communist, racial, and occult-tinged
thought. It was not the whole source of Nazism. But it did exist within the
same cultural swamp from which early Nazi politics emerged.
The name “Thule” itself points to a mythic northern origin - a
distant, hidden, almost sacred place associated with ancient racial destiny
in the imagination of some Germanic occult nationalists. This is important
because the same basic pattern later appears in UFO mythology.
Hidden origins. Superior beings. Secret knowledge. Chosen
bloodlines. Ancient wisdom. A coming transformation. World power. Whether
the language is ancient Aryan mysticism or modern extraterrestrial contact,
the pattern is familiar: mankind is told that the key to the future lies in
hidden knowledge from a source outside the revelation of YHWH. That is
spiritually dangerous.
The Vril Society: The word “Vril” did not begin as a Nazi
program. It comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1871 novel The Coming Race.
In that story, Vril is a mysterious power possessed by a hidden subterranean
race. Later, some occult-minded people treated the idea as if it pointed to
a real hidden force. Eventually, Vril became part of a much larger
UFO-occult legend.
In that later legend, a secret Vril Society was said to be connected
to the Thule Society. Female mediums, often associated with the name Maria
Orsic or Orsitsch, allegedly received telepathic messages from beings from
the Aldebaran star system. These messages were said to include plans for
advanced flying disc craft. Those plans were allegedly passed into secret
German programs, resulting in Nazi flying saucers. That is the story as it
is often told.
But we must say plainly: this full Vril/Aldebaran/female-medium
saucer story is not documented and verified. We do not have solid
contemporary documentation proving that Maria Orsic led such a group, that
Aldebaran beings transmitted spacecraft plans, or that the Vril Society were
involved with channeling flying saucer technology for Nazi Germany. As to
the existence of the Vril Society, or something like the group under another
name, there are at least two historians from the period that stated that
such a group did exist, though not endorsing the entire story as fact. To be
fair to those who hold to the Vril story, they would say we should not
expect a secret occult group to be well document, since the whole point of
such a group is secrecy.
At any rate, if we can’t prove it why discuss it? Because even if
the story may be legendary, it perfectly displays the pattern we are
tracing. Nonhuman contact. Mediumistic communication. Hidden knowledge.
Secret technology. Superior beings. Ancient origins. A chosen elite. A
coming occult new age. The Vril story may not be provable as history, but it
is deeply revealing as mythology. It shows how easily occult revelation and
advanced technology could be involved in one powerful UFO origin story.