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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, John Lee wrote:
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> Kris, you are a master propagandist, as are most jews.
> John Lee
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 12:00 AM
> Subject: [CTRL] [1] Hitler's Priestess Ñ Savitri Devi, The Hindu-Aryan Myth,
> and Neo-Nazism -repost
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> > -Caveat Lector-
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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
> > -----
> > Another fine one from, Mr. Goodricke-Clarke. A sample.
> > Om
> > K
> > -----
> >
> >
> > 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
> > -----
> > 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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