Böcker av Savitri Devi

Three thousand years ago, Akhenaten was the Pharaoh of Egypt. But he was also much more: poet, philosopher, and visionary. He was "the world's first individual" and "the most perfect man in history." In this book, Savitri Devi tells his story as no one else can. Akhenaten's life stands today as a message to us all.

Ce livre, - commencé en Écosse au printemps 1948 et écrit, de temps à autre, en Allemagne entre cette date et 1956, - est le résultat de méditations de toute une vie sur l'Histoire et les religions, ainsi que de l'expression d'aspirations et d'une échelle de valeurs morales qui était déjà la mienne avant la Première Guerre Mondiale. Il pourrait être décrit comme une réponse personnelle aux événements de 1945 et des années suivantes. Et je sais que beaucoup de gens ne l'aimeront pas. Mais je ne l'ai pas écrit dans un but autre que celui de présenter une conception de l'Histoire - ancienne et moderne - inattaquable du point de vue de la Vérité éternelle.

The Lightning and the Sun is Savitri Devi's magnum opus and one of the founding texts of post-World War II National Socialism. Written in Europe from 1948 to 1956 and published in India in 1958, The Lightning and the Sun sets forth a unique and stunning synthesis of National Socialism with the cyclical Traditionalist philosophy of history and Hindu mythology. Savitri Devi's goal was to create a new National Socialist religion. She aspired to be the Saint Paul to Hitler's Jesus. Paul of Tarsus took Jesus, who was a religious prophet and a failed political revolutionary, and turned him into a divine incarnation, creating a religion which served as the vehicle for the triumph of Jewish values over Rome. Savitri Devi sought to transform Adolf Hitler, who was also both a prophetic figure and a failed political revolutionary, into a divine incarnation-an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu-hoping to create a religion that would serve as the vehicle for the triumph of National Socialism over egalitarian modernity. In spite of its near-legendary status, The Lightning and the Sun is a notoriously hard to find book. The first edition consisted of only 1,000 copies and is quite rare. The 1979 Samisdat reprint is long out of print and also quite rare. The most readily available edition is William Pierce's dramatically abridged version, which cuts two thirds of the text and was not authorized or checked by Savitri Devi. The Savitri Devi Archive's new edition of The Lightning and the Sun reprints the complete and unabridged first edition and corrects its many typographical errors. It also updates the citations, adds a number of explanatory notes, includes a helpful Editor's Foreword, and provides a detailed index. With this new edition, which is edited and manufactured to the highest academic press standards, The Lightning and the Sun has finally found a worthy embodiment.