The Lightning and the Sun

The Lightning and the Sun

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

The Lightning and the Sun is Savitri Deviâ€™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 Deviâ€™s goal was to create a new National Socialist religion. She aspired to be the Saint Paul to Hitlerâ€™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 incarnationâ€”an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnuâ€”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 Pierceâ€™s dramatically abridged version, which cuts two thirds of the text and was not authorized or checked by Savitri Devi.

The Savitri Devi Archiveâ€™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 Editorâ€™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 (1905â€“1982) is one of the most original and influenÂtial 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 nationalÂity as â€œIndo-European.â€ She earned Masterâ€™s deÂgrees in philosophy and chemistry and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Lyons. Her books include A Warning to the Hindus (1939), Lâ€™Etang aux lotus (The Lotus Pond) (1940), A Son of God: The Life and PhilosoÂphy 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-WhiskÂers and the Two-Legged Goddess (1965), SouÂvenirs et rÃ©flexions dâ€™une Aryenne (Memories and ReflecÂtions of an Aryan Woman) (1976), And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi InterÂviews (2005), and Forever and Ever: Devotional Poems (2012).

Country	USA
Author	Savitri Devi
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Third
EISBN	9781935965558
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Counter-Currents Publishing
Manufacturer	Counter-Currents Publishing
PublicationDate	2015-03-05
Publisher	Counter-Currents Publishing
ReleaseDate	2015-03-05
Studio	Counter-Currents Publishing

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