hi Martin.
This stems from Cayce rather than Vyse no?
I have never heard of this from 19th C texts - have you?
Remember Cayce was a mystic, and at the start of the 20th century a lot of people followed these mystics, and they had an influence over public ideology - and in some cases they were linked to governments etc.
The British minister for propaganda in WW2 was H G Wells for instance, which shows you how fantasy, ideology, propaganda overlapped a lot. Cayce perhaps was part of this sort of movement, and he had links to the Theosophists origanisation iirc.
Trying to unravel that lot could be a lifetime's work. Blavatsky is another one who was influential.
Dave L
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