The Enigma of Maria Orsic: Between Occult Legend and Historical Myth
The name Maria Orsic (also spelled Marija Oršić) occupies a unique and controversial space in the intersection of 20th-century history, occultism, and ufology. Often described as a beautiful medium of Austrian-Croatian descent, she is primarily known as the founder of the Vril Society, a secret organization that allegedly received telepathic blueprints for advanced flying machines from extraterrestrial sources.
While mainstream historians often categorize her as a figure of modern mythology or "brown esotericism," she remains a central figure for those researching the "Vril" phenomenon and Nazi occult mysteries. Who was Maria Orsic?
According to legend, Maria Orsic was born on October 31, 1895, in Zagreb (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) to a Croatian father and an Austrian mother. By 1919, she had moved to Munich, where she became involved with the Thule Society, an occultist group that explored Germanic origins and mystical traditions. The Vril Society and the "Vril Maidens"
Dissatisfied with the Thule Society's political leanings, Orsic reportedly formed her own inner circle, the Alldeutsche Gesellschaft für Metaphysik (All-German Society for Metaphysics), later known as the Vril Society.
The Vril Maidens: The core of the society consisted of female mediums who grew their hair exceptionally long, believing it acted as "cosmic antennas" to facilitate communication with other worlds.
Key Members: Beside Maria, other prominent figures in the "Vril Damen" included mediums known as Sigrun, Traute, Gudrun, and Heike. The Aldebaran Messages
The most sensational claim surrounding Orsic is that in 1917, she entered a deep trance and received technical data from beings in the Aldebaran star system (68 light-years away in the Taurus constellation).
Source 2: The National Archives (TNA) – Kew, UK
Most people look to Germany or the US, but the British captured a massive amount of SS intelligence.
- What to look for: File KV 2/3445 (alleged psychics in Berlin). While Orsic is not named in the index, related PDFs on the "Vril Project" are accessible for download. You must create a free account.
The Vril Society
- Founded in Berlin after WWI, alongside the Thule Society.
- Named after Vril, a mythical energy source described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1871 novel The Coming Race.
- Orsic was said to be its most powerful medium, channeling messages in a script called “The Temple Runes” or “Orsic Runes.”
Representative primary/secondary avenues for verification
- Civil registries and church records in Austria/Southeast Europe for any Maria Oršić/Orsic/Orsich birth or death records.
- German and Austrian police or intelligence files (Weimar, Reich, wartime SS/Abwehr, postwar Allied intelligence reports).
- Contemporary newspapers (Vienna/Berlin press archives, 1918–1945).
- Technical records from German aeronautical research institutes (RLM, Luftwaffe research labs) and Allied technical intelligence reports from 1945 onward.
- Scholarly histories of occultism in interwar Central Europe and vetted historiography on Nazi technology programs.