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Posted a local ad to see if I can find any energy workers in my local area to get notes from or learn from.

Already got two replies from people wanting to help, good.

I still can't figure out how to intentionally cultivate and store lots of the vital energy. It seems like at best I get an automatic supply of it and can just patch the leaks.

http://papimi.gr/

This site is mentioned in the Magus of Java and looks promising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pap-Ion_Magnetic_Inductor

Pap-Ion Magnetic Inductor (PAP-IMI or Papimi) is an electromagnetic "energy medicine" device manufactured in Athens. It was invented by Panos Pappas, a Greek mathematician.[1] Proponents claim that the pulsed electromagnetic waves or fields generated by the device have pain relieving properties, cure AIDS, cancer and reduce grey hair and wrinkles.[1] It is also purported to have rapid healing effects, and benefit chronic fatigue, allergies, and fractured bones, among other health problems.[2][3]

It has been described as "potentially dangerous" as it may be used in place of valid medical therapies,[2] and "a major health fraud".[4]

It is illegal for use in the United States due to lack of Food and Drug Administration approval.[5][6] Health Canada has issued a recommendation for the public to avoid use of these risky, unlicensed devices, and has ordered the Canada Border Services Agency to seize them upon attempted import into the country.[7] Actor Dan Haggerty has appeared in commercial endorsements for the device, although there is no evidence he was aware of the legal and ethical problems associated with it at the time he agreed to endorse it.[5] Although importation of the device to the US is illegal, a number of machines were imported under fraudulent descriptions.[8][9]

Dear Chairmen and Ranking Members:

An exposé published over last several days in the Seattle Times (see attached articles) found “a global network of manufacturers who sell unproven devices, and unlicensed practitioners who prey on unsuspecting patients.” It reported a growing practice of exploiting the uncertainty surrounding so-called energy medicine, a type of alternative treatment that manipulates the body’s energy fields to cure disease and improve health, and the desperation of those suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses to profit from the use of unapproved and potentially deadly devices.

An article published as part of the Seattle Times series has brought to my attention one particular unproven and potentially dangerous energy-medicine treatment currently being used in my home state of Washington and at least four other states. The so-called the Pap-Ion Magnetic Inductor (PAP-IMI), which has never been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claims to pulse the body with electromagnetic waves, has been marketed as a rapid-healing machine to patients suffering cancer, AIDS, chronic fatigue and allergies, among other health problems.

According to the report, inventors of PAP-IMI were denied FDA approval in 1995, but have exploited the rules governing clinical trials for devices to treat U.S. patients with almost no oversight. The piece described how unlicensed operators used the unproven device on patients, including infants and seniors, during a supposed multi-site clinical trial; how patients were not properly informed and even mislead about the device’s safety and efficacy; how two Floridians died just days after getting PAP-IMI treatments in 2002; and, how the head of the PAP-IMI operation, found a second IRB to continue his clinical trial, where he continued to offer for-profit services from an unapproved use of the device for diagnosis and treatment.

This is one of several examples uncovered by the Seattle Times. I fear these may be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to deadly scams aimed at vulnerable Americans who are sick and holding out hope for a cure to what ails them. Moreover, I feel that the investigative work started by the Seattle Times raises additional questions about resources for compliance enforcement and oversight at the FDA, oversight of the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) that govern clinical trials for such devices as well as drugs, and oversight and accreditation of unlicensed-medical practitioners.

As a member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which has the responsibility for oversight of FDA, I urge the panel to investigate these troubling claims, especially:

1) If FDA has adequate inspection and enforcement tools to locate manufacturing and distribution networks selling and/or operating non-FDA approved devices for various therapeutic outcomes;

2) What options does the FDA have to combat overseas exports of unapproved devices, and what legal actions can be pursued against overseas purveyors of devices that flagrantly have ignored FDA’s approval standards;

3) If rules for clinical trials and IRB’s need to be strengthened, particularly with regards to adverse event reporting, FDA oversight of IRB’s, and possible statutory or regulatory changes needed to prevent IRB shopping as exhibited in this case;

4) If there should be a consolidation of IRB oversight in one office versus splitting it between the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) and the FDA as is the case currently;

5) If tools for enforcement and oversight of unlicensed professionals need to be increased at the federal and state level, including the accreditation system alternative medicine practitioners;

6) If penalties for failing to inform patients about risks or report deaths need to be increased;

7) If other unsafe, unproven medical devices are being used on American patients.

Americans with serious or life-threatening illnesses should have the option of turning to alternative or experimental therapies. We must ensure that the FDA has procedures to weed out cases of snake-oil peddlers who recklessly risk the safety and lives of patients. I hope the committee will take immediate action to investigate and protect American patients.

Sincerely,

JAY INSLEE

Member of Congress

https://web.archive.org/web/20091009125448/http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/wa01_inslee/medicaldevices.shtml

>well, guess that's bullshit

If you have to buy something, buy a Hyper Dimensional Resonator by Steven Gibbs.

I think I give up on trying to understand what Vril is for now. It is enough to know what it does; vitalizes the whole body and thoughts, and to use intention while breathing, eating, etc. to draw it in. Unless someone can point me the right way, I don't know what to read any further on the topic.

>>137019

It's the same thing as vital energy or ki. Read Energy Work by Robert Bruce and Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon.

>>137021

>telling him to read books he already read and put in his library

>>137031

>that filename

Experiencing some synchs here. I think I know who you are but I don't want to break rule 5 and identify you.

>>137034

I just re-discovered this new board, used to post when it was halfchan and attended some Melb /fringe/ meetups.

Is it who you think it is?

Just wanted to drop in and say that the "vital force" described in art and science of personal magnetism is ATP, it wasn't discovered till 1929 so it didn't have a name when the book was written. The intelligent will know what to do with this little PSA.

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1067/adenosine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483284/

https://gnosticwarrior.com/alpha-and-omega.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ultimate-energy-producing-supplement-eliminating-fatigue/id1451896717?i=1000434512647

???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMklbwPPYUg

>>137139

>bullshit occultism

Vril

You carry the heritage of the earliest wielders of magic, the mysterious vril masters. Your parents bound your head to optimize the shape of your skull for remarkable mental abilities; thus, you can manipulate the powerful life force known as vril.

Class Skill: Knowledge (history).

Bonus Spells: hypnotism (3rd), levitate (5th), vril feedback (7th), confusion (9th), telekinesis (11th), mass suggestion (13th), grasping hand (15th), clenched fist (17th), crushing hand (19th).

Bonus Feats: Combat Casting, Persuasive, Iron Will, Skill Focus (Knowledge [arcana]), Silent Spell, Spell Penetration, Still Spell, Vril Amplification, Vril Healer, Vril Maneuverist, Vril Metabolist, Vril Metamagician, Vril Sculptor.

Bloodline Arcana: Whenever you cast a spell of the compulsion subschool, increase the spell’s DC by +2.

Bloodline Powers: While your oblong skull gives you an unusual appearance, you can draw power from the world around you to manipulate the actions of others and move objects and creatures with the power of your mind.

Mind Shield (Su)

Starting at 1st level, you generate a mental shield around your body that protects you from physical attack. As a swift action, you gain a +1 deflection bonus to AC for 1 round. This increases by +1 for every five sorcerer levels you possess, to a maximum of +5 at 20th level. You may do this a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.

Telepathy (Su)

Starting at 3rd level, you can communicate telepathically with any creature within a range of 30 ft. This range increases by 10 ft. every three levels, to a maximum range of 180 ft. at 18th level. You can use this ability a number of rounds per day equal to your level. These rounds do not need to be consecutive.

Invisible Hand (Su)

At 9th level, you can project a 30-ft. cone of force as a standard action that acts as a bull rush against all creatures in the area. Your CMB for this bull rush is equal to your caster level plus your Charisma modifier. This bull rush does not provoke an attack of opportunity, and spell resistance does not apply against this ability. You may do this 2/day at 13th level and 3/day at 17th level.

Imposition of Will (Sp)

At 15th level, if you still have an uncast spell of at least 5th level you may give up that spell to cast dominate person instead. At 19th level, you may give up an uncast spell of 8th level or higher to cast dominate monster.

Dominator (Su)

At 20th level, your mental powers reach their zenith. You can cast any spell you know using the Silent Spell and Still Spell feats without increasing its caster level 1/day. Also, you gain a +4 racial bonus to resist enchantments and mind-affecting effects, and when you cast a spell from the compulsion subschool, you increase its DC by a total of +4.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/sorcerer/bloodlines/bloodlines-from-3rd-party-publishers/kobold-press-bloodlines/vril-bloodline/

Anyone have a link to the costa books?>>136574

I found a couple of gems in this book: http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1911vril.pdf

>But we are only indirectly concerned with the question of “what kind of food.” Our principal concern in this book is rather “how food should be eaten.” The ancient occultists laid great stress upon the importance of the proper mastication of food, and modern science is becoming very much interested in the subject. In actual practice the old occultists practised many of the fundamental principles that are found in the modern popular theory called “Fletcherism,” except that they did not carry the matter to such an extreme as some of the modern teachers on the subject. The ancient teachers held that all food should be thoroughly masticated until it was reduced to a pulp and was then almost unconsciously swallowed. They carried this to such an extent that they even followed the plan of mastication when a mouthful of milk was taken, and when the softest foods were placed in the mouth. They did not have the knowledge of the chemistry of foods possessed by modern science, but their experience taught them that food masticated in this way gave the greatest nourishment, and, what to them was equally important, that in this way the nerve-ends of the tongue and mouth absorbed a supply of concentrated Vril from the food. They held that the nerves of the tongue and mouth alone were capable of performing this office, and that after the food passed down the throat there was no possibility of the absorption of Vril from it.The ancient occultists held that so long as there remains “taste” in the mouthful of food, there is Vril to be found in it. When the “taste” disappears, the Vril has been absorbed. Consequently they ate slowly, and masticated each mouthful carefully so as to extract the greatest amount of “taste” from it. They claimed that this method of eating not only served to extract the largest amount of Vril from the food, but also gave to the person eating it the fullest epicurean pleasure.

And

>It was one of the favorite theories of the ancient occultists that all “sex foods” contain more Vril than other classes of food. By “sex foods” is meant such animal or vegetable products as contain either the reproductive cell or seed, or else serve to nourish the young animal or plant. In the first mentioned class we find eggs, nuts, fruits, grain, corn, berries, which contain the “seed” of reproductive life. In the second class we have milk, cream, butter, the fruit-juices, syrups. The theory was that nature gave in concentrated form the Vril needed by the young growing animal or plant.

The second one I actually got it last year in the form of gnosis.

I did try to eat by extracting its energy by chewing until no taste is left and I noticed I became sated in roughly the same amount of time I would normally spend swallowing food, except having eaten much, much less actual matter.

I've speculated for a long time that chronically fat people might be trying to compensate for a deficient absorption of energy, but I didn't know why. This might be it.

I don't share Atkinson's theory regarding the nerves. I think the key is in the etheric body having a major "input port" in the mouth area. Whatever the case may be, it works. I will continue experimenting.

>>137202

Bless you, may your days be many and Vrilsome.

>>137202

>there's a second book for me to read

Hmmm.

I received a huge email from Tom Montalk on this topic btw but I still have to read through it all and I've been so busy this week.

Hi,

Going back through old emails I missed. Just saw the one about Vril.

Well, vril is just one name for it, right? So there’s also:

- orgone

- odic rays

https://borderlandsciences.org/project/od/article/Vassilatos_on_Reichenbach_Odic.html

- qi/chi energy

Check this out:

https://ia800803.us.archive.org/9/items/JPRSL502226September1974ProceedingsOfTheFirstConferenceOnPsychotronicResearchPartII/JPRS%20L5022-2%206%20September%201974%20Proceedings%20of%20the%20First%20Conference%20on%20Psychotronic%20Research%20Part%20II.pdf

P.221 of document: “Points of High Electrical Conductivity on the Integument (skin) of Animals and Other Living Things.” 1973 paper by Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Pyatkin, a Russian scientist. His team measured the electrical conductivity of various points on the skin of farm animals and found that they correspond to Chinese acupuncture charts of the human body. Further, there were some additional points that weren’t on the charts, and a few that were missing in certain animals. Testing on a dead animal, none of the points registered as being conductive, so they were inactive. Similarly in sick animals, even though they were alive, many of the conductive points were absent. This shows that we are bio-electric beings, or that our subtle energy field has electrical properties as a side-effect that can be measured, and that acupuncturists from centuries ago somehow knew of these key points.

P. 225: “Man-Plant Communication Experiments” Marcel Vogel, IBM senior chemist. Vogel experimented with plants being able to pick up on human thoughts and emotions. For it to work, he found that the plant needed to be acclimated to its environment (the lab space) for a week or more. Further, the experimenter must intentionally emit his subtle / qi energy into the plant. And then, he must quieten himself and focus his intention – any erratic thought, distracted thought, etc. would interfere with the results. The more controlled his thoughts and emotions, the better the results. A polygraph-style device was used to monitor the plant through direct contact with its leaves. The experimenter was able to influence the plant from up to 110 miles away just by focusing his consciousness on the plant.

P 354. “Unusual States of Consciousness” Dr Viola P. Neal, President of the Higher Sense Perception Research Foundation. She mentions the phenomenon of people attending “night classes” in hypnagogic states of awareness. That is, they are not fully awake, not fully asleep, but can divide their consciousness between their bedrooms and another dimension where they’re in a classroom with other people and a lecture being given on various subjects with information that does not exist (yet) in our world. These classes are vivid, logical, and can be recalled the next morning if the person is skilled enough. If they don’t recall what was said, the info may still percolate up and through their consciousness in their daily activities as inspiration that came from somewhere else. Sometimes, people who recognize each other there, end up finding and recognizing each other here in this dimension. Also see this article which has more info, including Neal’s own night class experiences, including one where she was taught that the caudate nucleus (part of the brain) is important for advanced psychic abilities. And see this video on YouTube for a meditation that trains it, the key being somatic consciousness, or awareness of your own body (and presumably the space surrounding it, per Richard’s Meditation).

>>137254

https://ia800400.us.archive.org/19/items/CIA-RDP96-00792R000200040001-1/CIA-RDP96-00792R000200040001-1.pdf - Chinese Journal of Somatic Science, Volume 1 No. 1. July 1990.

P. 41 of document. “Research into Paranormal Ability to Break Through Spatial Barriers”. Song Kongzhi, Li Xianggao, Zhou Liangzhong. Aerospace Medicine Engineering Institute.

In 1983 and 1984, the famous psychic Zhang Baosheng was tested in a series of very rigorous experiments. He was tasked with removing pills, photographic paper rolls, coiled wire, a metal washer, and coded/colored sticks of plexiglass that could not be forged, from glass sealed bottles, glass sealed tubes, and a wax-sealed plastic bottle.. The glass bottles and tubes were sealed by heating and pinching together the opening but leaving a tiny slit. The slit was much smaller than any of the objects that were to be removed. Somehow, the slit needed to be there for it to work, even though the objects were to emerge elsewhere from the wall. Since it was glass, there was no way to break the bottle and remove the contents and put it back together, so if the objects were removed, they could only be done so through paranormal powers. High speed cameras at 400 fps, 600fps, and 1000fps were running during the tests at multiple angles.

Results: objects were successfully removed, either whole (in the case of photographic film, washer, pills, plexiglass sticks) or partially (in the case of the coiled wire). One of the pills was caught on high speed film exiting the bottom corner of a glass bottle quickly (as fast as a human running). No sign of hole, slit, or damage was observed afterward on that part of the bottle. The high speed frames show it partially emerging from the glass. Likewise, the photographic film roll is seen pushing against and then emerging from the lower part of the bottle’s sidewall and land on the table surface all in less than ¼ of a second (speed was 30 cm per second). In the coiled wire experiment, the wire moved downward as the fingers somehow ‘pinched and dragged it’ through the glass from the outside. Only about 5 turns of the coil of wire were pulled through the glass before the experiment ended. But without PK power, this simply would not have been possible.

In another series of experiments (p 32 of this document) Zhang Baosheng was tasked with moving objects out of, and into, a large sealed cabinet greater than 1 cubic meter volume. He succeeded in moving pieces of plywood, a calculator, a magazine, and a folder of papers one page at a time. However, most of the trials failed and he was straining a lot more than previous experiments. This shows there was a size limit to the container and size of objects.

https://ia601204.us.archive.org/32/items/CIA-RDP96-00792R000400290002-1/CIA-RDP96-00792R000400290002-1.pdf - Chinese Journal of Somatic Science, Volume 1 No. 2. July 1991.

P. 18 of document. “Research in Restoring a Broken Leaf through ESP”. Wang Chongyuan et al. Bai Qiuen Medical University.

Li Zhanru, a 19 year old female known to have paranormal powers, was tested on her ability to mend a ripped apart leaf back together. This test was conducted three times in different conditions. In all three cases she succeeded. The experiment process went as follows: a pittosporum leaf was torn in 2 pieces and placed into her hands. She held it in her fist and after 5-25 minutes she gave notice that she “felt” something (her abilities activated). When the hand was opened, the leaf was back together. The leaf was then analyzed under microscopes to see what exactly happened. Analysis showed that not all parts of the tear were mended, but the parts that were, were mended perfectly. That is, the veins of the leaf and tissues were joined perfectly together as if nothing happened. The thinner parts of the leaves were mended in greater concentration than the thicker parts, as if the process was aborted before finishing. But no doubt, the mended areas were healed at the cellular level.

https://ia801204.us.archive.org/27/items/CIA-RDP96-00792R000300020002-1/CIA-RDP96-00792R000300020002-1.pdf - Chinese Journal of Somatic Science, Volume 1 No. 4. August 1991.

P. 43 of document. “Preliminary Investigation of Implicit Space and Implicit Matter.” Shao Guangda, Huang Yawei, Yan lin.

The authors propose that ESP/PK has the ability to take explicit matter in explicit space (explicit meaning ordinary world we know, manifested) and ‘excite’ it into implicit matter in implicit space (hidden). They point to several examples of how matter behaves when in the implicit state.

Little Hong was tasked with removing a letter from a sealed envelope. 8 minutes later she said it had been transferred to the folds of a blanket nearby. Researchers checked but did not see it. Another subject, Little Ping, said the letter was indeed in the blanket. They checked and sure enough it was there. Researchers theorized that the first time they checked, the letter was still in the implicit state, hence could not be seen. It manifested into the explicit state by the time the second girl pointed it out.

In another experiment, a subject was asked to remove 6 cigarettes from a sealed pack. All six disappeared from the pack, and he was able to catch 2 of them. The others were still missing. A month later, in the same room during another experiment, he caught 2 more. The remaining 2 never showed up and were assumed to be lost in the implicit state.

In a related experiment, all 20 cigarettes in a pack were tied together with string. The subject was not told this. When he attempted to extract just one, all 20 came out along with it. So even in the implicit state, the cigarettes maintained their physical form and connection.

When the psychic ‘sees’ the objects in their implicit state, it’s done through clairvoyant vision and for example a cigarette might be a short thick white light.

Little Yun was known for being able to pluck flowers from a distance. One day she saw her dad shaving and thought why not use a knife to cut the flowers instead of just ripping them. The subsequent flowers showed signs of being cut not plucked.

Little Hong extracted a cigarette from a pack and made it appear inside a transparent plastic box, but when it appeared it was standing on its end, vibrating, and giving off a humming noise. Researchers theorized that implicit matter has a certain vibration and frequency to it.

(NOTE: implicit matter like this might just as well be a slip into a 4th spatial dimension).

>>137256

Implicate and explicate orders

https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa/zfa2019_12_012_marwaha_may.pdf

bump for someone to actually reveal properly the details of what vril is

>>137599

"What is vril?" I asked.

Therewith Zee began to enter into an explanation of which I understood very little, for there is no word in any language I know which is an exact synonym for vril. I should call it electricity, except that it comprehends in its manifold branches other forces of nature, to which, in our scientific nomenclature, differing names are assigned, such as magnetism, galvanism, &c. These people consider that in vril they have arrived at the unity in natural energic agencies, which has been conjectured by many philosophers above ground, and which Faraday thus intimates under the more cautious term of correlation:–

"I have long held an opinion," says that illustrious experimentalist, "almost amounting to a conviction, in common, I believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in their action."

>>137601

These subterranean philosophers assert that, by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call `atmospheric magnetism,' they can influence the variations of temperaturein plain words, the weather; that by other operations, akin to those ascribed to mesmerism, electro-biology, odic force, &c., but applied scientifically through vril conductors, they can exercise influence over minds, and bodies animal and vegetable, to an extent not surpassed in the romances of our mystics. To all such agencies they give the common name of vril. Zee asked me if, in my world, it was not known that all the faculties of the mind could be quickened to a degree unknown in the waking state, by trance or vision, in which the thoughts of one brain could be transmitted to another, and knowledge be thus rapidly interchanged. I replied, that there were among us stories told of such trance or vision, and that I had heard much and seen something of the mode in which they were artificially effected, as in mesmeric clairvoyance; but that these practices had fallen much into disuse or contempt, partly because of the gross impostures to which they had been made subservient, and partly because, even where the effects upon certain abnormal constitutions were genuinely produced, the effects, when fairly examined and analysed, were very unsatisfactorynot to be relied upon for any systematic truthfulness or any practical purpose, and rendered very mischievous to credulous persons by the superstitions they tended to produce. Zee received my answers with much benignant attention, and said that similar instances of abuse and credulity had been familiar to their own scientific experience in the infancy of their knowledge, and while the properties of vril were misapprehended, but that she reserved further discussion on this subject till I was more fitted to enter into it. She contented herself with adding, that it was through the agency of vril, while I had been placed in the state of trance, that I had been made acquainted with the rudiments of their language; and that she and her father, who, alone of the family, took the pains to watch the experiment, had acquired a greater proportionate knowledge of my language than I of their own; partly because my language was much simpler than theirs, comprising far less of complex ideas; and partly because their organisation was, by hereditary culture, much more ductile and more readily capable of acquiring knowledge than mine. At this I secretly demurred; and having had, in the course of a practical life, to sharpen my wits, whether at home or in travel, I could not allow that my cerebral organisation could possibly be duller than that of people who had lived all their lives by lamplight. However, while I was thus thinking, Zee quietly pointed her forefinger at my forehead and sent me to sleep.

>>137602

According to the account I received from Zee, who, as an erudite professor in the College of Sages, had studied such matters more diligently than any other member of my host's family, this fluid is capable of being raised and disciplined into the mightiest agency over all forms of matter, animate or inanimate. It can destroy like the flash of lightning; yet, differently applied, it can replenish or invigorate life, heal, and preserve, and on it they chiefly rely for the cure of disease, or rather for enabling the physical organisation to re-establish the due equilibrium of its natural powers, and thereby to cure itself. By this agency they rend way through the most solid substances, and open valleys for culture through the rocks of their subterranean wilderness. From it they extract the light which supplies their lamps, finding it steadier, softer, and healthier than the other inflammable materials they had formerly used.

But the effects of the alleged discovery of the means to direct the more terrible force of vril were chiefly remarkable in their influence upon social polity. As these effects became familiarly known and skilfully administered, war between the Vril-discoverers ceased, for they brought the art of destruction to such perfection as to annul all superiority in numbers, discipline, or military skill. The fire lodged in the hollow of a rod directed by the hand of a child could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. If army met army, and both had command of this agency, it could be but to the annihilation of each. The age of war was therefore gone, but with the cessation of war other effects bearing upon the social state soon became apparent. Man was so completely at the mercy of man, each whom he encountered being able, if so willing, to slay him on the instant, that all notions of government by force gradually vanished from political systems and forms of law. It is only by force that vast communities, dispersed through great distances of space, can be kept together; but now there was no longer either the necessity of self-preservation or the pride of aggrandisement to make one state desire to preponderate in population over another.

>>137603

THIS people have a religion, and, whatever may be said against it, at least it has these strange peculiarities: firstly, that they all believe in the creed they profess; secondly, that they all practise the precepts which the creed inculcates. They unite in the worship of the one divine Creator and Sustainer of the universe. They believe that it is one of the properties of the all-permeating agency of vril, to transmit to the well-spring of life and intelligence every thought that a living creature can conceive; and though they do not contend that the idea of a Deity is innate, yet they say that the An (man) is the only creature, so far as their observation of nature extends, to whom the capacity of conceiving that idea, with all the trains of thought which open out from it, is vouchsafed. They hold that this capacity is a privilege that cannot have been given in vain, and hence that prayer and thanksgiving are acceptable to the divine Creator, and necessary to the complete development of the human creature. They offer their devotions both in private and public. Not being considered one of their species, I was not admitted into the building or temple in which the public worship is rendered; but I am informed that the service is exceedingly short, and unattended with any pomp of ceremony. It is a doctrine with the Vril-ya, that earnest devotion or complete abstraction from the actual world cannot, with benefit to itself, be maintained long at a stretch by the human mind, especially in public, and that all attempts to do so either lead to fanaticism or to hypocrisy. When they pray in private, it is when they are alone or with their young children.

They say that in ancient times there was a great number of books written upon speculations as to the nature of the Deity, and upon the forms of belief or worship supposed to be most agreeable to Him. But these were found to lead to such heated and angry disputations as not only to shake the peace of the community and divide families before the most united, but in the course of discussing the attributes of the Deity, the existence of the Deity Himself became argued away, or, what was worse, became invested with the passions and infirmities of the human disputants. "For," said my host, "since a finite being like an An cannot possibly define the Infinite, so, when he endeavours to realise an idea of the Divinity, he only reduces the Divinity into an An like himself." During the later ages, therefore, all theological speculations, though not forbidden, have been so discouraged as to have fallen utterly into disuse.

The Yril-ya unite in a conviction of a future state, more felicitous and more perfect than the present. If they have very vague notions of the doctrine of rewards and punishments, it is perhaps because they have no systems of rewards and punishments among themselves, for there are no crimes to punish, and their moral standard is so even that no An among them is, upon the whole, considered more virtuous than another. If one excels, perhaps, in one virtue, another equally excels in some other virtue; if one has his prevalent fault or infirmity, so also another has his. In fact, in their extraordinary mode of life, there are so few temptations to wrong, that they are good (according to their notions of goodness) merely because they live. They have some fanciful notions upon the continuance of life, when once bestowed, even in the vegetable world, as the reader will see in the next chapter.

>>137604

I HAVE spoken so much of the Vril Staff that my reader may expect me to describe it. This I cannot do accurately, for I was never allowed to handle it for fear of some terrible accident occasioned by my ignorance of its use. It is hollow, and has in the handle several stops, keys, or springs by which its force can be altered, modified, or directedso that by one process it destroys, by another it healsby one it can rend the rock, by another disperse the vapourby one it affects bodies, by another it can exercise a certain influence over minds. It is usually carried in the convenient size of a walking-staff, but it has slides by which it can be lengthened or shortened at will. When used for special purposes, the upper part rests in the hollow of the palm, with the fore and middle fingers protruded. I was assured, however, that its power was not equal in all, but proportioned to the amount of certain vril properties in the wearer, in affinity, or rapport, with the purposes to be effected. Some were more potent to destroy, others to heal, &c.; much also depended on the calm and steadiness of volition in the manipulator. They assert that the full exercise of vril power can only be acquired by constitutional temperamenti.e., by hereditarily transmitted organisation–and that a female infant of four years old belonging to the Vril-ya races can accomplish feats with the wand placed for the first time in her hand, which a life spent in its practice would not enable the strongest and most skilled mechanician, born out of the pale of the Vril-ya, to achieve. All these wands are not equally complicated; those entrusted to children are much simpler than those borne by sages of either sex, and constructed with a view to the special object in which the children are employed; which, as I have before said, is among the youngest children the most destructive. In the wands of wives and mothers the correlative destroying force is usually abstracted, the healing power fully charged. I wish I could say more in detail of this singular conductor of the vril fluid, but its machinery is as exquisite as its effects are marvellous.

I should say, however, that this people have invented certain tubes by which the vril fluid can be conducted towards the object it is meant to destroy, throughout a distance almost indefinite; at least I put it modestly when I say from 500 to 600 miles. And their mathematical science as applied to such purpose is so nicely accurate, that on the report of some observer in an air-boat, any member of the vril department can estimate unerringly the nature of intervening obstacles, the height to which the projectile instrument should be raised, and the extent to which it should be charged, so as to reduce to ashes within a space of time too short for me to venture to specify it, a capital twice as vast as London.

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I went with my host and his daughter Zee over the great public museum, which occupies a wing in the College of Sages, and in which are hoarded, as curious specimens of the ignorant and blundering experiments of ancient times, many contrivances on which we pride ourselves as recent achievements. In one department, carelessly thrown aside as obsolete lumber are tubes for destroying life by metallic balls and an inflammable powder, on the principle of our cannons and catapults, and even still more murderous than our latest improvements.

My host spoke of these with a smile of contempt, such as an artillery officer might bestow on the bows and arrows of the Chinese. In another department there were models of vehicles and vessels worked by steam, and of a balloon which might have been constructed by Montgolfier. "Such," said Zee, with an air of meditative wisdom–"such were the feeble triflings with nature of our savage forefathers, ere they had even a glimmering perception of the properties of vril!"

This young Gy was a magnificent specimen of the muscular force to which the females of her country attain. Her features were beautiful, like those of all her race: never in the upper world have I seen a face so grand and so faultless, but her devotion to the severer studies had given to her countenance an expression of abstract thought which rendered it somewhat stern when in repose; and such sternness became formidable when observed in connection with her ample shoulders and lofty stature. She was tall even for a Gy, and I saw her lift up a cannon as easily as I could lift a pocket-pistol. Zee inspired me with a profound terror–a terror which increased when we came into a department of the museum appropriated to models of contrivances worked by the agency of vril; for here, merely by a certain play of her vril staff, she herself standing at a distance, she put into movement large and weighty substances. She seemed to endow them with intelligence, and to make them comprehend and obey her command. She set complicated pieces of machinery into movement, arrested the movement or continued it, until, within an incredibly short time, various kinds of raw material were reproduced as symmetrical works of art, complete and perfect. Whatever effect mesmerism or electro-biology produces over the nerves and muscles of animated objects, this young Gy produced by the motions of her slender rod over the springs and wheels of lifeless mechanism.

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When I mentioned to my companions my astonishment at this influence over inanimate matterwhile owning that in our world, I had witnessed phenomena which showed that over certain living organisations certain other living organisations could establish an influence genuine in itself, but often exaggerated by credulity or craftZee, who was more interested in such subjects than her father, bade me stretch forth my hand, and then, placing her own beside it, she called my attention to certain distinctions of type and character. In the first place, the thumb of the Gy (and, as I afterwards noticed, of all that race, male or female) was much larger, at once longer and more massive, than is found with our species above ground. There is almost, in this, as great a difference as there is between the thumb of a man and that of a gorilla. Secondly, the palm is proportionately thicker than oursthe texture of the skin infinitely finer and softerits average warmth is greater. More remarkable than all this, is a visible nerve, perceptible under the skin, which starts from the wrist skirting the ball of the thumb, and branching, fork-like, at the roots of the fore and middle fingers. "With your slight formation of thumb," said the philosophical young Gy, "and with the absence of the nerve which you find more or less developed in the hands of our race, you can never achieve other than imperfect and feeble power over the agency of vril; but so far as the nerve is concerned, that is not found in the hands of our earliest progenitors, nor in those of the ruder tribes without the pale of the Vril-ya. It has been slowly developed in the course of generations, commencing in the early achievements, and increasing with the continuous exercise, of the vril power; therefore, in the course of one or two thousand years, such a nerve may possibly be engendered in those higher beings of your race, who devote themselves to that paramount science through which is attained command over all the subtler forces of nature permeated by vril. But when you talk of matter as something in itself inert and motionless, your parents or tutors surely cannot have left you so ignorant as not to know that no form of matter is motionless and inert: every particle is constantly in motion and constantly acted upon by agencies, of which heat is the most apparent and rapid, but vril the most subtle, and, when skilfully wielded, the most powerful. So that, in fact, the current launched by my hand and guided by my will does but render quicker and more potent the action which is eternally at work upon every particle of matter, however inert and stubborn it may seem. If a heap of metal be not capable of originating a thought of its own, yet, through its internal susceptibility to movement, it obtains the power to receive the thought of the intellectual agent at work on it; and which, when conveyed with a sufficient force of the vril power, it is as much compelled to obey as if it were displaced by a visible bodily force. It is animated for the time being by the soul thus infused into it, so that one may almost say that it lives and it reasons. Without this we could not make our automata supply the place of servants."

I was too much in awe of the thews and the learning of the young Gy to hazard the risk of arguing with her. I had read somewhere in my schoolboy days that a wise man, disputing with a Roman emperor, suddenly drew in his horns; and when the emperor asked him whether he had nothing further to say on his side of the question, replied, "Nay, Cæsar, there is no arguing against a reasoner who commands twenty-five legions."

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As a reiki master I can confirm that happens. Some people also report a tingling projected outward from the hands, sort of like static electricity.