The first edition consisted of only 1,000 copies and is quite rare. In spite of its near-legendary status, The Lightning and the Sun is a notoriously hard to find book.

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. 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. She aspired to be the Saint Paul to Hitler's Jesus. Savitri Devi's goal was to create a new National Socialist religion. 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. The Lightning and the Sun is Savitri Devi's magnum opus and one of the founding texts of post-World War II National Socialism.

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