Maria Orsitsch, also known as Maria Orsic, was a famous medium who later became the leader of the Vril Society. She was born on 31. October 1895 in Zagreb. Her father was a Croatian and her mother was a German from Vienna.
The Mystery of Maria OrsitschMaria Orsitsch was first mentioned and pictured in 1967 by Bergier and Pauwels in their book: “Aufbruch ins dritte Jahrtausend: von der Zukunft der phantastischen Vernunft.” Maria soon followed the German national movement which was active after WWI, a movement whose objective was territorial and political accession to Germany. In 1919 she moved to Munich with her boyfriend and fiancé. It is not known whether they were married or not, since both disappeared in 1945.
In Munich, Maria was in contact with the Thule Society from the beginning and soon created her own inner circle with Traute A, another Munich medium, and other friends. This group was called “Alldeutsche Gesellschaft für Metaphysik”, the official name of the Vril Society.
All of them were young girls, although somewhat peculiar since they were staunch opponents of the new fashion for short hair among women. Both Maria and Traute had very long hair, one blonde and the other brown. They wore very long pigtails, a very rare hairstyle in the early 20th century.
As expected, this soon became a characteristic of all the women who made up the so-called Vril Society, which is said to have existed until 1945. And it was not by sheer whim, since they firmly believed that their long manes acted to cosmic antenna mode to receive communications outside our world.
On the other hand, in public, they never exhibited their hair in a ponytail but preferred to wear it down to attract less attention. As identification, the members of the Vril Society, also called “Vrilerinnen” carried a disc that represented two of the most important mediums of the group: Maria Orsic and Sigrun.
In December 1919, a small group of people from the Thule, Vril and DHvSS (acronym for Men of the Black Stone) Societies, including Maria and Sigrun, rented a small cabin near Berchtesgaden (Germany).
Maria, then, affirms that she has received a series of mediumistic transmissions in a kind of writing that she calls “Templar-Germanic”, in a language that she claims she does not know, but that they contain information of a technical nature for the construction of a machine flying. Supposed documents belonging to the Vril Society mention that said telepathic messages come from Aldebaran, 68 light-years away, in the constellation of Taurus.
As for the documents, it is said that Maria had two piles of papers resulting from these telepathic trances: one with the unknown handwriting and the other perfectly legible. As for the latter, Maria suspected that it might be written in an archaic form of what might be a Near Eastern language.
With the help of a group close to the Thule Society known as the “Pan-Babylonianists”, made up of Hugo Winckler, Peter Jensen and Friedrich Delitzsch among others, they were able to find out that this language would be none other than ancient Sumerian, the language of the founders of ancient Babylon. Sigrun helped to translate the message and in the process to decipher the strange images of the circular flying artefact that appeared in the other pile of papers.
The concept of the many things that are put into the “alternative science” drawer, matured in these years and in those that were to come immediately afterwards. The fact is that, due to financing difficulties, the project for the construction of said flying apparatus took three years to get underway. Supposedly, by 1922, different parts of the prototype had been independently manufactured in various factories financed by the Thule Society and the Vril Society.