Savitri Devi
And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews
Edited by R. G. Fowler
Second, Revised Edition
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012
Kudos to Counter Currents for bringing out this second, slightly corrected edition, and for making it available as an inexpensive Kindle. As far as I can determine, it’s the only work of Savitri’s available on Kindle, and fortunately it’s the best one for someone to start with, as it covers the whole gamut of her extraordinary life and ideas, in her own not-to-be-imitated words.
As the editor points out, much of Goodrick-Clarke’s “Hitler’s Priestess” consists largely of paraphrases of material from these interview tapes, so anyone only familiar with her only through that book needs to acquaint himself with his hidden source.
Those who have only heard puzzling rumors about some French-Hindu woman who promoted animal rights before Peter Singer was born yet deified Hitler as a Divine Avatar and praised the Aztecs for gaining social peace by channeling violence into an institutionalized human sacrifice will find here what they need to get a handle on this enigma, at a price that will make it the best “impulse buy“ you make this year.
And after all, what’s so puzzling? If there can be “gay rabbis” then why not what Joscelyn Godwin has called “Nazi spirituality”?
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