received transmissions in a secret Templar script – a language unknown to her – with the technical data for the construction of a flying machine. According to Vril documents these telepathic messages came from the solar system Aldebaran which is sixty-eight light-years away in the constellation Taurus.” 129
As part of this message, the mediums were “informed” that the non-white races were in “lower (stages) of spiritual development,” and that “the more the races intermixed, the lower the spiritual development of these people sank.” 130 They were also “told” that the “divine” people of “Aldebaran” had colonized “the planet Mallona (also called Maldek, Marduk or – by the Russians – Phaeton) which existed in the area of today’s asteroid belt, then between Mars and Jupiter.” 131 Of course, the idea of the asteroid belt having been a former planet that had exploded is an old hypothesis, first entertained in the early nineteenth century by astronomers after the discovery of the second asteroid, and as they sought to explain why Bode’s Law predicted a planet should be in the orbit of the asteroid belt. 132
What is crucial to notice, however, is that Van Helsing’s allegation makes it clear that someone inside of Germany had connected the astronomical theory of an exploded planet to certain ancient Sumerian myths, most likely that of the Enuma Elish , an ancient war epic that describes the destruction of the now missing planet by means of an ancient weapon of mass destruction. 133
But Van Helsing does not stop there, for he also connects these occult practices, secret societies, astronomical theories, with the secret development of a new science and new technology:
We cannot know whether these statements about Aldebaran were based on facts, but the construction plans and the technical details that the Vril telepaths received – wherever they came from – were so accurate that they led to the most fantastic idea men ever begot: the construction of a Jenseitsflugmaschine , a “flying machine for the other side.” 134
Let us pause to consider exactly what these statements mean.
First, Van Helsing supplies considerably more detail in what is otherwise the old story that the Vril Society receives UFO plans from mediums, namely, he supplies the secret societies that came together, and names the mediums involved, 135 the time, 136 and the place, a forester’s lodge near Berchtesgaden! But secondly, as the remarks immediately above make clear, his interest is not so much these allegations, but rather that they led to the development of an entirely different technology and science by a secret society founded for the purpose by the very man later to be Hitler’s geopolitician!
As if that were not enough, Van Helsing then goes on to make the following statement:
During this early phase of “alternative science” Dr. W. O. Schumann of the Technical University in Munich, both a Thule and a Vril member, held a speech a section of which is reproduced here:
“In everything we recognize two principles that determine the events: light and darkness, good and evil, creation and destruction – as in electricity we know plus and minus. It is always: either – or…..The coming new age will be an age of a new, positive, divine technology!” 137
Van Helsing then notes that these remarks – one of the few that he “substantiates” - are drawn from “the German SS secret archives.” 138
According to Van Helsing, the first “saucer” was secretly built by the Vril Society in 1922. 139 He follows this up with even more specific information. For example, he alleges that this machine was tested for two years before it was “dismantled and probably stored in the Augsburg works of Messerschmitt.” 140 Moreover, there were entries in the financial records of German aviation companies “under the codename ‘JFM’ (for Jenseitsflugmaschine )” that showed “payments towards financing this
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