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An excerpt from:
Hitler's Priestess — Savitri Devi, The Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke©1998
New York University Press
www.nyupress.nyu.edu
ISBN 0-8147-3110-4
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Another fine one from, Mr. Goodricke-Clarke. A sample.
Om
K
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INTR0DUCTION
"Discovered Alive in India: Hitler's Guru!"
The young German sat on the threadbare sofa listening to the words of the old
woman before him. Through windows opening onto a balcony, shafts of
dust-flecked sunlight shone into the darkened space of her humble, spartanly
furnished room. Outside the strange, heady tumult of India resounded in the
full glare of the midday heat. All around he could hear the street sounds and
raucous, bustling squalor of this back alley in Delhi. Occasionally, her
narrative was interrupted by the songs of the exotic birds she kept in her
room and the young man was distracted by the sudden darting movement of the
many cats, her inseparable companions, that lay at her feet or dozed out on
the balcony in the warm air.
His attention fixed on the worn and crinkled face of the old woman as she
carefully chose her words to tell the story of her life. She was dressed in
the fashion of Indian women, wearing a loose white sari and a thin cotton
shift over her shoulders. Soft gray hair framed her high forehead and was
gathered behind her ears. While her brow was barely lined, her cheeks, chin,
and neck blurred in a mass of furrows and wrinkles. Her lips were thin, and
her mouth looked twisted, pointing downward at the right side. But it was her
eyes that held him. Her eyes burned with a strange luminous quality, the
light of inner vision and missionary zeal. But he also noticed that the left
eye stared with a pained expression, while the right appeared tired and
liquid, and he remembered with a start that she was now almost blind with
cataracts.
The old woman's name was Savitri Devi and the young man had traveled all the
way from Frankfurt to find her in this small bare room in old India and to
hear in her own words the story of her sacred mission for Hitler and Nazism.
This elderly and infirm prophetess of Aryan revival, a philosopher of
Hitler's cosmic purpose and Nazi pilgrim in the ruins of the German Reich at
the end of the Second World War, had lived for years in poverty and obscurity
in Calcutta and Delhi. Now in November :1978, at the end of a long life
devoted to the Aryan cause, she had found a new publisher. In late 1982 Ernst
Zundel, the founder-proprietor of the neo-Nazi Samisdat Publishers in
Toronto, publicized the availability of a set of five two-hour cassettes of
live interviews with Savitri Devi and a brandnew edition of her out-of-print
classic The Lightning and the Sun (1958). The notice was mailed worldwide on
card flyers and it is worth quoting in its breathless entirety:
THE HITLER CULT REVEALED. Discovered alive in India: Hitler's guru!
For serious students of the occult: You can now purchase the complete
set of tape cassette recorded, live interviews with Hitler guru Savitri Devi
at her home in India. Hear in her own words the narration of a prophetic
pilgrimage along the edge of the cosmic abyss. Watch the clouds of evil
scatter under the lightning of Cosmic Justice and the sun of Cosmic
Truth.
Read her shocking and most recently published manuscript, "The Lightning and
the Sun," which exposes the tangled roots of Nazism for all to see. Discover
through her the secret Nazi pyramid connection with Pharaoh Akhnaton and the
ancient cult of the sun. Learn the real significance of Genghis Khan's evil
role in history, his incredible significance in the present. Discover the
hidden springs of Hitler's manic will to power, his mystical bond with the
dark forces of time and destiny. Pursue the outlines of evil in its awesome
cosmic context.
Decipher now the encoded workings of the Nazi mind. Perceive how Hitler saw
the workings of the universe through: Human sacrifice. Vegetarianism.
Aryanism. The cyclic view of history. The children of violence. The will to
survive and to conquer. The seat of truth. Gods on earth. Kalki, the avenger.
Were ancient sanskrit laws of the universe compiled in the Bhagavad Gita the
secret source of Nazi strength? The amazing answers to these riddles are now
at hand. Read them in "The Lightning and the Sun," Hitler guru Savitri Devi's
huge, illustrated 448 page illumination of occult Nazi wisdom and prophecy.[1]
The Samisdat publicity was a resounding finale to a long and eventful life,
begun early in the century in the beautiful, old walled city of Lyons.
When I first read these lines on the card flyer, I knew very little of
Savitri Devi. But Samisdat Publishers was known to me as a far-right press
owned by Ernst Zundel, notorious for the publication in 1974 Of the first
English-language translation of The Auschwitz Lie, a short book that denied
the very fact of the Holocaust. However, the Samisdat catalogue mingled
efforts to glorify the Third Reich, minimize war crimes, and deny the
extermination of the Jews with odd books about UFOs, incredible German secret
weapons, and postwar Nazi bases in Antarctica. Ernst Zundel clearly offered
these topics as a potent myth of apocalyptic Nazi revival backed by
astonishing resources. This myth might appeal to an older generation of
unrepentant Nazis seeking imaginative relief from the division of Germany
since -1945. At the same time it introduced a young generation of Germans to
the idea of the Third Reich's achievement and technological superiority
against a backdrop of neo-Nazi science fiction.
Samisdat's presentation of Savitri Devi was evidently part of this strategy
designed to entice new audiences with the neo-Nazi message. Ancient mythology
and pyramid secrets, Eastern religion, vegetarianism, and Green ideas-the
very currency of the burgeoning New Age with its interest in exotic religion,
spiritual- truths, and a worship of nature-could be exploited as bait for the
young, unwary, or simply curious. By the late -1970s the historical
experience of the Third Reich was quickly receding into the past. As popular
literature and films ably demonstrated, Nazism was becoming something
mythical, even fantastic and also plastic, that could be molded and combined
with novel associations and thereby given new meanings. By republishing the
work of Savitri Devi, Zundel aimed to create a new cultic interest in Hitler,
linking him to ancient mysteries, the world of nature, and powerful religious
symbols drawn from the Orient.
Her ideas have since built unlikely bridges between neo-Nazism and the New
Age. Savitri Devi viewed nature in the Hindu fashion, as a violent pageant of
creation and destruction in which man held no special rights. A cloyingly
sentimental love of animals stood in marked contrast to her misanthropic
contempt for non-Aryan humans, the weak, and infirm. Himmler and Rosenberg,
among other leading Nazis, also combined a concern for animals with their
monstrous blueprints to eliminate all "unworthy" human life. The Impeachment
of Man
(1959), her book, devoted to a thoroughgoing rejection of the "mancentered
creeds" of Judaism and Christianity, was republished by the far-right
Noontide Press in America in 1991. Here the brutality of Social Darwinism
meets both the Green cult of nature and the antisocial excesses of "animal
rights" activists. Again, the amoral worship of beauty and force implicit in
Nazi thinking finds new alliances with Hinduism, the cult of Shiva, and Deep
Ecology, that radical current of ecological thought that condemns modern man
as the scourge of nature.
Savitri Devi was a Frenchwoman of Greek-English birth who had become an
admirer of German National Socialism in the late 1920s and was obsessed by
the Aryan myth. Deeply impressed by its racial heritage and caste system, she
had emigrated to India in the early 1930s to acquaint herself at firsthand
with what she regarded as the cradle of the Aryan race. There she spent the
years of the Third Reich and the Second World War in expectation of a global
Axis victory, after which she and her Brahmin husband expected to help in the
establishment of a racial New Order in the subcontinent.
During these years Savitri Devi elaborated an extraordinary synthesis of
Hindu religion and Nordic racial ideology involving the polar origin of the
Aryans, the cycle of the ages, and the incarnation of the last avatar of
Vishnu in Adolf Hitler. She regarded the Third Reich as "the holy Land of the
West, the Stronghold of regenerate Aryandom." Her ideas were actually
representative of a certain section of high-caste Brahmin Indian society that
hated the Raj and was impressed by Hitler's dramatic challenge of British
imperial power. Such Indians were fascinated by the Nazi swastika—a holy
Indian symbol-and fondly recalled the German tradition of Sanskrit
scholarship since the early nineteenth century. However, it seemed unlikely
that these ideas, so foreign to the actuality of National Socialism, could
ever find supporters in the West.
The situation changed with the total defeat and collapse of the Third Reich
in 1945. In its wake Savitri Devi pursued a long and busy career as a
neo-Nazi apologist and ideologue in Europe. She was arrested by the British
occupational forces in Germany for Nazi propaganda activities and imprisoned.
Her extravagant Hitler cult, her Hindu-Nordicist doctrine of the Aryan race,
and unswerving loyalty to the Nazi cause found numerous devotees among her
fellow prisoners and demoralized Germans. After her release she befriended
leading personalities of the Nazi regime such as the air ace Hans-Ulrich
Rudel and the commando
leader Otto Skorzeny, who both played an active role in maintaining a global
Nazi support network. She met with Nazi emigres and fugitives in Spain,
Egypt, and the Middle East. She wrote books hymning the Third Reich and
National Socialism, accounts of her propaganda campaign and detention, and a
highly charged emotional memoir of her "pilgrimage" to Hitler shrines and
other places of Nazi association in Austria and Germany during the 1950s.
Savitri Devi, a foreigner who had not even directly experienced life under
National Socialism, supplied a new religious cult for the vanished Fuhrer and
an international rationale for Nazi-Aryan ideology that effectively
transcended the narrow realities of German nationalism and anti-Semitism in
the Third Reich. Defeated and humiliated Germans who could neither grasp the
disgrace of their country nor accept the vilification of an idolized leader
found comfort in Savitri Devi's rapturous approval. Hardened practitioners of
Nazi terror and persecution were flattered by her doctrine of universal Aryan
mission. The prosaic and gruesome aspects of Nazi practice during the years
of tyranny yielded before a mythological tableau in which Hitler was deified
and his regime invested with new religious significance.
Nor was her appeal confined to die-hard German Nazis and survivors of the
Third Reich. The existence of small but persistent neofascist and neo-Nazi
movements after 1945 in Europe, the United States, and South America is a
well-documented fact. While these tiny groups and parties continue to peddle
racism, anti-Semitism, and appeals for an authoritarian state, the universal
postwar condemnation of Hitler and National Socialism is a major obstacle to
their ever gaining popular acceptance. The extermination of European Jewry
has become the horrific hallmark of the Third Reich, forever tainting any
attempts to rehabilitate National Socialist ideology. By her outright
inversion of this accepted moral scheme, Savitri Devi became a heroine of the
neo-Nazi scene. In emotionally laden prose she transformed the negative
attributes of Nazism into a religious cult of cosmic significance. The Third
Reich was presented as a rehearsal for the Aryan paradise, and Adolf Hitler
was celebrated as an avatar, a supernatural figure whose intervention in the
cycle of the ages was essential to the restoration of the Golden Age.
Powerful ideas of anti-Semitism as a form of world-rejecting gnosis, Aryan
paganism as a global religion of white supremacism, and Hitler as a divine
being within a cosmic order together compose an unholy
theology of the Aryan myth. Seen in this light, neo-Nazism has all the
characteristics of an international sect with a religious cult. There are
devotional practices, initiates and martyrs, prophecies and millennial
expectations, and even relics. By entering the strange world of Savitri Devi,
we catch a glimpse of the fatal attraction of neo-Nazism and Hitler cults for
their followers. Above all, we may understand their perennial capacity to
transmute religious energies and hopes for cultural revival into anger and
violence.
Through her divinization of Hitler and National Socialism, Savitri Devi
became a leading light of the international neo-Nazi underground from the
early 1960s onward. She was a confidante of Colin Jordan, the flamboyant
leader of the National Socialist Movement in Britain, and his henchman John
Tyndall, who heads the British National Party today. She knew Lincoln
Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, and in August 1962 she
attended the notorious Cotswold Camp in Gloucestershire that acted as the
founding meeting of the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS). In the
late 1960s her books were reprinted- in National Socialist World, the organ
of the WUNS published by Lincoln Rockwell and William Pierce. In the pages of
the magazine she was credited with a "mysterious and unfailing wisdom
according to which Nature lives and creates: the impersonal wisdom of the
primeval forest and of the ocean depths and of the spheres in the dark fields
of space ... [which Adolf Hitler made] the basis of a practical regeneration
policy of worldwide scope."[2]
By the 1980s Savitri Devi had assumed the status of a cult figure herself on
the neo-Nazi scene. Her eclectic ideas deriving from Hinduism, the myth of
the Aryan race, Germanophilia, and adoration (the word is not too strong) for
Adolf Hitler supplied a new mystique for that sinister minority of Nazi
apologists in various countries around the world. Following her death in
1982, her ashes were placed in a Nazi shrine at Lincoln Rockwell's
headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Ernst Zundel the German-Canadian
publisher of Holocaust revisionism, sold her books and taped interviews in
mass editions to young German neo-Nazis. Miguel Serrano, the former Chilean
ambassador and pioneer of "Esoteric Hitlerism," paid fulsome tribute to her
inspiration in his own books about the Hitler avatar. Nazi satanist groups
and skinheads in Europe, America, and New Zealand cultivate her memory and
ideas today. In Savitri Devi and her entourage one finds an articulate
statement of the Hitler cult that defines the unholy theology of neo-Nazism.
Chapter 1
HELLAS AND JUDAH
Savitri Devi was born Maximiani Portas on 30 September 1905 in Lyons. Her
mother, Julia nee Nash, came from Cornwall, one of two surviving daughters of
one William Nash, an Englishman, who had married his first cousin. Her father
was of mixed Mediterranean stock with an Italian mother from London and a
Greek father who had acquired French citizenship on account of his residence
in France., Although Maximiani was a French national by birth, her early
sympathies lay with Greece. Her father was a respected member of the sizeable
Greek community in Lyons, and she enjoyed their-company. Her given name
Maximiani, the female form of Maximian, a name borne by several Roman
emperors including Marcus Aurelius, also reinforced her own sense of Greek
identity.
Her mixed ancestry and residence in an adoptive country was quite possibly a
strong factor in her long quest for a true fatherland. In her youth Maximiani
sought her roots in Greece, but later she embraced the idea of a
supranational Aryan race, first in India and then in Germany, the country of
her idol and exemplar, Adolf Hitler. Although her physical appearance was
Mediterranean, she later comforted herself that she was of predominantly
Nordic stock. Her maternal grandfather was the descendant of tenth-century
Vikings from Jutland, while her father's Italian forebears came from
Lombardy, a part of north Italy settled by the Germanic Langobard tribe
during the migrations of the Dark Ages.
pp. 1-7
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Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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