The Vril-ya: The Salvation Race of the Hollow Earth?

The never, came, never saw, nor did they conquer.

H.G. Wells and his use of science fiction to provisionally create a future according to the needs of a control structure, was the default means of future-proofing global social and technological changes by the end of the Great War. The Fabians used science fiction to ready the population to accept the 'inevitable' as the agenda was unfolding. This form of predictive magic was spawned from and within similar social circles that also created the 19th century occult revival.

In 1871, a novel by a Rosicrucian named Edward Bulwer-Lytton entitled, Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, is perhaps the first work of science fiction designed to generate a sense of expectation within readers, in that the storyline itself would eventually come to pass. The narrative being presented is not a fantasy, but rather a blueprint of what is, and what is to come. Influential occult figures such as Helena Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, along with other Theosophists, claimed that the book's narrative of a master race living inside a hollow earth who possess the power of an energy form which they called Vril was rooted in fact.  

In the story, a young adventurer discovers a subterranean civilization of angelic Aryan-looking beings called the Vril-ya. The Vril-ya, who were once human, went to live inside the earth before the Great Flood as described in the Bible. Their cities are linked by networks of tunnels in which they create technological 'wonders'. This narrative of Vril, the Power of the Coming Race, eventually became culturally, if not esoterically infused within Nazi ideology, as later, the Third Reich—along with their secret weapons development programs—basically went underground into bunkers and tunnels inside mountains after 1942 in order to design and build their 'V' weapons.  

However, the one aspect of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel which really captured the imagination of occultists of the time such as the Order of the Templars and Thule Society in Germany, was the energy force of the Vril-ya; the "all-permeating fluid" of Vril, which the Ariosophists took to mean Aryan blood. A force, if kept pure and free from being contaminated by other inferior blood races, could unleash incredible psychic and energetic forces according to the training of one's Will. This included telepathy and wonder weapons which could wipe out entire cities.

The suggestion is made in the novel that the Vril-ya will eventually return to the surface of the earth if a pure racial Aryan blood group evolves on the surface of the planet, taking with them their awesome magical powers and sharing these powers with the surface Aryan master race. The idea so excited members of the Thule Society that they formed a group in Berlin called Wahrheitsgesellschaft, or The Society for Truth, which was charged with discovering the power of Vril and using it to create wonder weapons.  

Although this was a fictional novel, it was taken very literally as fact by many intellectuals of the time; not just in Germany, but also in the United States and significantly, in the UK, where similar ideas of racial magic were being developed—fusing science fiction and Eugenics as a necessary destiny for mankind to aspire towards, or perish. The underlying theme was always the same: that the tall, blond, blue-eyed and fair-skinned races were the inheritors of the earth, and they will be forever in danger as long as dark and ape-like humans continue to multiply. This created a phobia among the upper echelons of society of impending extinction 'of their superior kind' before the Vril-ya, or a similar magical race arrives to evolve the earthly master races into the next stage of evolution.