In 2016, the world bid a sad farewell for now, to one of our time's most ingenious and insightful mystics, musician and actor David Bowie.

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In 1871, Rosicrucian author Edward Bulwer Lytton published the truth-in-fiction novel "The Coming Race," in which the narrator describes his accidental descent

to the Hollow Earth. There he is met by an ancient and advanced race of people

who utilize Vril energy. They are awaiting the day when they return to the surface, and lead humanity into a New Age of peaceful enlightenment.

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In 1971, Bowie released a 100-year update to the story, in the form of a

song called "Oh! You Pretty Things." The song explains that the youth

of this age are now evolved into the enlightened ones, and details the

frustrations of the older generations' inability to adapt. He even quotes the

book's title in the songs' lyrics:

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"Oh! You pretty things, don't you know you're driving your mommas

and poppas insane? Let me say it again, you gotta make way for the

Homo Superior. Look out at your children, see their faces in golden rays.

Don't kid yourself they belong to you, they're the start of the coming race."