The Lightning And The Sun Savitri Devi by Savitri Devi 9781935965558, 1935965557, B00UB8HV3U instant download after payment.

“The
Lightning and the Sun . . . is one of those rare jewels of
knowledge and understanding, like Mein Kampf, The Crowd (by Le
Bon), etc.—which have served me as the foundation for all thinking, and the
source of endless inspiration.”—George Lincoln Rockwell, 6 October 1960

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.

About the Authoress

Savitri
Devi (1905–1982)
is one of the most original and influen­tial National Socialist thinkers of the
post-World War II era. Born Maximine Julia Portaz in Lyons, France, she was of
English, Greek, and Italian ancestry and described her national­ity as
“Indo-European.” She earned Master’s de­grees in philosophy and chemistry and a
Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Lyons. Her books include A Warning to the Hindus (1939), L’Etang aux lotus (The Lotus Pond) (1940), A Son of
God: The Life and Philoso­phy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt (1946), later
republished as Son of the Sun (1956),
Akhnaton: A Play (1948), Gold in the Furnace: Experiences in Post-War
Germany (1952), Defiance: The Prison
Memoirs of Savitri Devi (1958), Pilgrimage
(1958), Impeachment of Man (1959), Long-Whisk­ers and the Two-Legged Goddess
(1965), Sou­venirs et réflexions d’une
Aryenne (Memories and Reflec­tions of
an Aryan Woman) (1976), And Time
Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Inter­views (2005), and Forever and Ever: Devotional Poems (2012).