Uma fonte pode ser Edward Bulwer-Lytton 's vril . Em seu romance de 1871, A Raça Vinda, reimpresso como Vril, o Poder da Raça Vinda, Bulwer-Lytton refere-se ao "poder vril" e à "força terrível de vril". ".
O romance está fora dos direitos autorais e foi publicado on-line aqui .
"What is the 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 energetic 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. These subterranean philosophers assert that
by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call
'atmospheric magnetism,' they can influence the variations of
temperature--in plain words, the weather; that by 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."
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"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; and I have no doubt that it requires much skill
and practice in the exercise of its various powers. It is hollow, and
has in the handle several stops, keys, or springs by which its force
can be altered, modified, or directed--so that by one process it
destroys, by another it heals--by one it can rend the rock, by another
disperse the vapour--by 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."