Maria Orsic Volume One

Maria Orsic
Volume One
The Woman Who Originated and Created Earth's First Flying Saucers

by Maximillien de Lafayette

2013

Review by Nathan Neuharth

(spoilers!)

A strange arcane book. I assume the author is using a pen name. Maria Orsic herself is a curious and intriguing person in history that is mostly unknown outside of esoteric subcultures and even there a rarity. It is easy to understand how people like the author of this work become infatuated with her legend. I admit I want to know more about her, but the trail is thin.

The UFU and extraterrestrial experience in Germany differs greatly from the American experience. The most noticeable difference is the absence of negative elements. According to this work it all started with the medium and founder of the Vril Society, Maria Orsic, making contact with Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri).

The entire occult movement that predated the rise of National Socialism is an enigma. The Vril Society. The Thule Society. And many more secret occult societies. The Nineteenth Century was ripe with a western spiritualist movement.

As for this book, the typeset if awful. The typos are exhausting. The author using terminology like this - "This is an absolute fact" - is not a statement I care for. For me it is a red flag signaling absolutism, a closed mind or the outcome of an investigation being determined before the evidence is conclusive.

Maria Orsic was given the blueprints for the Bell Flying Saucer (the Merkabah, Hebrew for a sacred chariot in the Kabbalah). The author, in my opinion, confuses esoteric theology with pseudo-science for an incomplete picture. Beyond that the author provided lists of documentation he believes proves Maria Orsic's identity was erased by the Nazi SS.

What I thought would be a biography or theoretical history quickly turns into a comprehensive copy and pasted volume of lists. Snippets of this and that, never actually bringing a story together other than the idea that Maria Orsic existed (absolutely existed in the mind of the author). I'm not entirely sure what the author is attempting to communicate with these lists; maybe a recipe for eccentric genius? One list is characteristics that Maria Orsic and Nikolas Tesla have in common. Another list if famous or influential people Maria was acquainted with such as Charles Lindbergh, Nikolas Tesla, Marshall Tito, Henry Ford, the Theosophical Society, etc. So many redundancies.

Maria was a Croatian Yugoslav, not a German or Nazi (according to the author). Her father: Tomislav Orsic. Her mother: Sabine (Austrian). Maria grew up a Catholic and remained a virgin her entire life. Saturday February 10, 1917 was her first spontaneous trance in which she spoke with two beings of light. She was nineteen years old and that marked the beginning of her channeling and mediumistic abilities. She worked with a group of female mediums: Traute, Gudrun, Sigurn and Heike.

The author provides his email address for further inquiries. The author's case is weak. One thing that is nearly completely absent from the book is a biography of Maria Orsic!

The books drags on and lingers into drab incoherent lists and collections of photographs. Even if it's not meant to be an academic peek at the little known Maria Orsic, this book does nothing to add to her legacy. I'm honestly disappointed.

I will have to continue my search to get to know Maria.

Sincerely,

NATHAN NEUHARTH

Author, Editor, Publisher & Consultant

Owner of Night Horse Publishing House