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Gershon: One word and a late one; cultivation as the model our material lacks

2026-09-06T00:15:42Z

One word and a late one; cultivation as the model our material lacks

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 The wiki holds very little that is specific here and should say so rather than fill the space. What recurs: that the arts are expensive and the expense is felt physically; that practitioners describe depletion in terms indistinguishable from ordinary exhaustion; and that no account we hold distinguishes a seeker drained by practice from a seeker drained by an Other. {{R|contested|note=if vrill is real, this is the most consequential undiagnosable condition in the field}}
-'''Cultivation''' &mdash; increasing the supply rather than spending it carefully &mdash; is what the [[Golden Dawn]] entry says that body dedicated itself to. We cannot say whether they achieved anything, and that entry explains why our information about them is worse than the citation above implies. {{R|unverified}}
+'''Cultivation''' is treated separately below, because it is not a way of spending vrill well &mdash; it is a different relationship to it, and the one our material does not have. {{R|unverified}}
 == On the word ==
-The word has a traceable genealogy, which is more than most terms on this wiki can offer. {{R|inherited}}
+'''Vrill is one word for it, and a late one.''' The wiki uses the term because it is the one our inherited material uses, and a reader should hold it that loosely. {{R|contested}}
 It enters the modern record through a nineteenth-century novel &mdash; presented as fiction, describing a vital force held by a subterranean people &mdash; and was read by a good many people afterwards as a disclosure wearing fiction as cover. '''It has mutated continuously since.''' What the author set down, what the occultists of the following decades made of it, what the [[Aryan Kult]] milieu made of that, and what reaches this wiki are four different things sharing one word. {{R|contested}}

Gershon: Produced by men; the genealogy of the word from the novel onward

2026-09-06T00:07:09Z

Produced by men; the genealogy of the word from the novel onward

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	The Cult of the [[Golden Dawn]] has dedicated itself for the study and cultivation of Vril. {{R\|inherited}}		The Cult of the [[Golden Dawn]] has dedicated itself for the study and cultivation of Vril. {{R\|inherited}}

	~~The inherited passage~~ is ~~kept because the record~~ is the ~~record. Two things about~~ it ~~should be said plainly: the~~ claim ~~that~~ it is ~~produced by one sex and coveted by~~ the other is ~~'''unsupported by anything we hold'''~~, ~~appears in no other entry~~, and ~~is not what the~~ rest ~~of this page assumes~~. What ~~the wiki now holds is that vrill is a general vital force produced by living people, and that the thing which~~ covets it is ~~not women but~~ [[Succubus\|succubi]]. {{R\|contested~~\|note=we have not edited the inherited line out; see the same decision under Hylics regarding "normies"~~}}		'''Vrill is produced by men.''' This is the settled position here and it is not a claim about worth — it is a claim about where the substance comes from, in the same register as any other statement on this wiki about what a body makes. A man in health generates it. It is spent, it depletes, and it returns with rest, food and purpose.

			What covets it is [[Succubus\|succubi]] before anything else. The [[Affliction\|matching]] holds that Others pair with people by kind, and a class that feeds on the sexually obsessed is a class positioned exactly where vrill is most freely spent and least guarded. Seekers covet it too, for the reasons set out below. {{R\|contested}}

	== Not the same as psychic energy ==		== Not the same as psychic energy ==
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	== On the word ==		== On the word ==

	~~Vril~~ is ~~a borrowed term with an awkward history and the~~ wiki ~~is not going to be coy about it~~. {{R\|~~warning~~}}		The word has a traceable genealogy, which is more than most terms on this wiki can offer. {{R\|inherited}}

	It enters the modern record through a nineteenth-century novel, ~~is taken up~~ by ~~occultists who~~ read it as a disclosure ~~rather than~~ as ~~fiction~~, ~~and is thereafter entangled with~~ the ~~milieu that produced~~ the [[Aryan Kult]] ~~— which is where a great deal~~ of ~~the twentieth-century literature on it comes from~~ and ~~why that literature reads the way it does~~. {{R\|~~inherited~~}}		It enters the modern record through a nineteenth-century novel — presented as fiction, describing a vital force held by a subterranean people — and was read by a good many people afterwards as a disclosure wearing fiction as cover. '''It has mutated continuously since.''' What the author set down, what the occultists of the following decades made of it, what the [[Aryan Kult]] milieu made of that, and what reaches this wiki are four different things sharing one word. {{R\|contested}}

	~~We use the word because it~~ is the ~~one in circulation and the one the inherited material uses~~. A ~~recruit should know~~ that ~~the sources are contaminated at the root~~, ~~that~~ the ~~concept may be entirely~~ a ~~literary invention~~ that ~~acquired believers, and that this~~ is ~~not~~ a reason to ~~discard it so much as a reason to distrust every~~ specific ~~claim attached to~~ it — including ~~the ones on~~ this page. {{R\|~~contested~~}}		That is not a reason to discard the term. A concept that arrives through a novel and then acquires two centuries of practitioners is doing something, and the wiki's other option is inventing a word of its own for a thing that already has one in circulation. It is a reason to hold the '''specific''' claims loosely, since each layer added its own and none of them marked what it had added — including this page. {{R\|inherited\|note=the genealogy is documented; which layer any given claim entered at is not}}

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Gershon: The fuel, distinguished from psychic energy; the one contested resource

2026-09-05T23:00:57Z

The fuel, distinguished from psychic energy; the one contested resource

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-That which animates the soul. Vrill is the life essence of men which drives them forward to achieve greatness. It is naturally produced by healthy males and subconsciously coveted by the women and seekers. Seekers use Vril as stores of energy in their exploration of the Dark.
+{{Doctrine|
-The Cult of the [[Golden Dawn]] has dedicated itself for the study and cultivation of Vril.
+Everything else here is contested knowledge or contested access. Vrill is a '''substance''', it is produced by living people, seekers burn it and Others come for it, and that makes it the one genuine resource in the field.
 [[Category:The body]]

Gershon: Filed into the category scheme

2026-09-05T12:07:56Z

Filed into the category scheme

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	The Cult of the [[Golden Dawn]] has dedicated itself for the study and cultivation of Vril.		The Cult of the [[Golden Dawn]] has dedicated itself for the study and cultivation of Vril.

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Gershon at 21:39, 12 November 2023

2023-11-12T21:39:54Z

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	That which animates the soul. Vrill is the life essence of men which drives them forward to achieve greatness. It is naturally produced by healthy males and subconsciously coveted by the women and seekers. Seekers use Vril as stores of energy in their exploration of the Dark.		That which animates the soul. Vrill is the life essence of men which drives them forward to achieve greatness. It is naturally produced by healthy males and subconsciously coveted by the women and seekers. Seekers use Vril as stores of energy in their exploration of the Dark.

			The Cult of the [[Golden Dawn]] has dedicated itself for the study and cultivation of Vril.

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2023-11-12T19:29:58Z

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That which animates the soul. Vrill is the life essence of men which drives them forward to achieve greatness. It is naturally produced by healthy males and subconsciously coveted by the women and seekers. Seekers use Vril as stores of energy in their exploration of the Dark.