Vril, or Vital Magnetism

...than the human imagination can picture. In the same teaching, we may see that, even more subtle than the finest forms of matter already mentioned, there exist etheric substances that are infinitely rare, tenuous, and refined. The same is true regarding the teaching concerning Vril original: "Vril"; a term popular in 19th-century occultism, likely derived from Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, referring to a universal, all-permeating life energy.. Not only do we see Vril manifesting in the internal movements of ions, atoms, and molecules of matter, and again in its more refined phases in animal and human life, but the teaching is that there are forms and manifestations of Vril so much higher than these that the ordinary human mind would be unable to conceive of them.

However, the principle of Vril is always the same, whether in its high or low manifestations. Much of what is called "psychic phenomena" can only be explained by a knowledge of the existence, principles, and laws of Vril, as set forth in the Arcane Teachings original: "Arcane Teachings"; referring to secret or esoteric doctrines intended for a small group of initiates.. Even the ordinary processes of thought are carried out with the aid of Vril in a manner not yet understood by average people, or even by physical scientists. It remains for the occultist original: "occultist"; a student of the "occult" or hidden laws of nature and the mind. to define and understand these finer forces of nature as they appear in the processes we call "thought."

Many of us confuse the idea of "thought" with that of "mind," but the occultist and the scientist know better than this. Mind, in itself, is a great principle, the exact nature of which cannot be grasped by the ordinary intellect. Thought, on the contrary, is a manifestation of the mind, assisted by Vril. The material scientist who observes the operation of Vril in the processes of thought, and who recognizes the relationship between these processes and those of the physical world, is right as far as his observations go; the activities of Vril are indeed employed there, just as they are in many physical and chemical processes for the reasons we have already stated.

However, one makes a false logical leap by concluding that, because of this, thought is merely "a secretion of matter" or "a by-product of matter." Such a person fails to realize that Mind is the original cause of thought, and that it employs Vril in its thinking processes just as it employs the delicate matter of the brain cells. It is only when we recognize the coexistence and coordination of Mind, Vril, and Matter that we are able to perceive the real underlying causes of the phenomena of thought.