Book · 2006 · Fiction
Coming Race
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A huge amount of what she's writing is her taking fiction that other people had written and like repurposing it particularly the works of Edward Bullworth Littton who's the guy who wrote the coming race.
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Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is a nineteenth-century science fiction novel depicting an advanced subterranean civilization of beings who harness a mysterious and powerful energy source known as vril. Robert Evans discussed the novel extensively across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards while tracing the intellectual history of Helena Blavatsky and her influence on occult and Nazi mythology. Evans explained that Blavatsky constructed much of the cosmology for her final book by repurposing fiction written by others, drawing heavily on Bulwer-Lytton’s novel about an underground master race. Although the author published the book in 1871 as a piece of speculative fiction and was not a white supremacist or a Nazi himself, Evans pointed out that the novel unexpectedly became deeply influential within the bizarre esoteric circles of Nazi occultism. While Bulwer-Lytton originally envisioned these subterranean beings as potential conquerors of humanity, Blavatsky reinterpreted them as benevolent spiritual guides for mankind. Through these podcast discussions, the novel is highlighted not merely as a piece of Victorian speculative literature, but as a significant cultural text that inadvertently shaped twentieth-century fringe political and occult belief systems through its imaginative portrayal of a hidden, superior civilization living beneath the surface of the earth.
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Robert Evans Um and yeah, this book it's not Bull Woritten obviously this is published in 1871. Not a Nazi. I don't even… 3
“So, the entire cosmology of Blovsky's last book is based in large part on a mix of Bailey's work and that novel, The Coming Race, by Edward Bullworth Littton. Now, where he'd envisioned this underground master race as being like potential conquerors, she saw sees them as benevolent spirit guides.”
“a huge amount of what she's writing is her taking fiction that other people had written and like repurposing it particularly the works of Edward Bullworth Littton who's the guy who wrote the coming race”
“Um and yeah, this book it's not Bull Woritten obviously this is published in 1871. Not a Nazi. I don't even think he's particularly a white supremacist, but his book is going to become extremely influential to the weirdest kind of Nazis.”
