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Magick Matters
"Eleven volumes, thousands of pages of patents, diagrams, articles, and historical reconstruction — Gerry Vassilatos's lifework on what the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation called the most comprehensive treatment of Vril energy ever assembled. Published between 1992 and 1995, the Compendium argues that the heroic age of wireless — Loomis, Stubblefield, Meucci, Dolbear, Tesla — was not really electrical at all, but the empirical exploration of an older, deeper, "thready, living, glowing" force the medieval Europeans called woivre and that Bulwer-Lytton named Vril.
Each volume gathers period patents and contemporary commentary around a phase of that exploration. Vol. 1 (White Ray Conductors) opens with lightning rods, aerial batteries, and the "vrillic detritus" of nineteenth-century atmospheric research. ...>>
"Vril is another name for the life energy of the body, known in other cultures worldwide as mana, prana, chi, or vital force. Most of the ancient cultures of the world were aware of this important force and worked to make use of it.
In today's world, especially in the West, we move along through life completely oblivious to this truly vital force. Although this force cannot be seen, it is the life force within our bodies. It takes energy from food and provides muscles with energy, which in turn allows us to move about in daily life as well as grow and metabolize. Nourishment, digestion, and elimination are all driven by the life force.
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