During my recent study of Adolf Hitler and the period of history in which he features, I came across an author by the name Savitri Devi. To my delight, I found one of her works, "Gold in The Furnace", as a free download and proceeded to do so.
Firstly, it is no exaggeration to say that no book has shocked me so much as "Gold in The Furnace" did. The shock I felt was caused by Devi's zealous love for National Socialism and Adolf Hitler, which is communicated with intense passion from every page of the book. Clearly, my "education" regarding this period in history runs deep and therefore to read something so diametrically opposed to what I had come to believe was shocking (although I must admit a feeling of gleeful "naughtiness" the more I read!).
I was also intrigued to find that she died in a village called Sible Hedingham, which is just down the road from where I live.
The book is Devi's account of her time in Germany just after the end of World War II. She travels the war-torn country, lamenting at the destruction of the National Socialist heartland, seeking out and talking to others of like mind and covertly distributing pro-National Socialist leaflets. Of course, very soon she gets rumbled, is arrested by British occupying forces (which undoubtedly was her intention), is sentenced to five years in prison but only serves two, during which time she writes the book.
This is the first part of her Wikipedia entry:
Savitri Devi Mukherji (September 30, 1905 – October 22, 1982) was the pseudonym of the Greek-French writer Maximiani Portas, a prominent proponent of animal rights, deep ecology[1] and Nazism, who served the Axis cause during World War II by spying on Allied forces in India.[2][3] She wrote about animal rights movements and was a leading member of the Nazi underground during the 1960s.[4][3][5]
An admirer of German National Socialism (Nazism),[5] Savitri Devi was also an animal-rights activist who authored the book The Impeachment of Man in 1959[3] and was a proponent of Hinduism and Nazism, synthesizing the two, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been sent by Providence, much like an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. She believed Hitler was a sacrifice for humanity which would lead to the end of the Kali Yuga induced by who she felt were the powers of evil, the Jews.[3] Her writings have influenced neo-Nazism and Nazi occultism. Among Savitri Devi's ideas was the classifications of "men above time", "men in time" and "men against time".[6] Rejecting Judeo-Christianity, she believed in a form of pantheistic monism; a single cosmos of nature composed of divine energy-matter.[7][8]
She is credited with pioneering neo-Nazi interest in occultism, deep ecology and the New Age movement. She influenced the Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano. In 1982, Franco Freda published a German translation of her work Gold in the Furnace, and the fourth volume of his annual review, Risguardo (1980–), was devoted to Savitri Devi as the "missionary of Aryan Paganism".[5]
Savitri was an associate in the post-war years of Françoise Dior,[9] Otto Skorzeny,[9] Johannes von Leers,[9] and Hans-Ulrich Rudel.[9]
She was also one of the founding members of the World Union of National Socialists.[2]
The fascinating aspect of Devi is that, during a historical period in which the majority of the world viewed Hitler, National Socialism and, indeed, Germany as personifications of evil, Devi held the polar opposite view. She viewed Hitler as a divine figure, sacrificng himself in an attempt to free German people and "Aryan" culture as a whole from degradation and decay at the hands of the Jews, the real power of evil.
In other words, she was an extremist, a militant and obviously had no fear or concern that she would be hated, vilified or maybe worse by the mass of people during her lifetime. Whatever the validity of her beliefs, she had, in my opinion, huge moral courage, something that is almost impossible to find in our current age.
Towards the end of another work, "The Lightning and the Sun" , is a passage which I think sums her up well. She writes:
I am not qualified to venture precise and specially political forecasts. This whole book has, moreover, little to do with that which people ordinarily mean by “politics.” It is history, no doubt, and therefore also“politics”; but politics considered from a cosmic angle, from which current events and the men who stand behind them appear in an unusual light.
Those who are daily and directly in touch with the social, economical and military realities which are, already, moulding the immediate future, can say nothing about that future, for they know nothing. And I know even less than they do about precise events, i.e., about the details of the road the world is taking. But I know the road. I know it, because that knowledge is not the concern of politicians, sociologists, economists or military experts but precisely that of people who look at history, past and present, and who live the history of our times; from the cosmic standpoint.
There is nothing in the way of documents, very little in the way of statistics, to “prove” the soundness of what I say. Times to come will confirm it or not confirm it. All I can state now, in favour of my point, is that it tallies with all the forms of the one, unwritten Tradition which I happen to know.
Below is a fascinating talk by a great orator, a person that you will no doubt also not have heard of, Jonathan Bowden - a self-confessed "cultured thug".
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