I've read countless books in my life and "The Lighting And the Sun" in one of the books that has impacted me the most. It is also Savitri Devi's most well known book.
Had to delete the Black Sun image because my account was locked due to hateful imagery. So much for free speech. I never trusted things would change with Musk.
5. And taken, not by a man in someway at least superior to himself, but by a huge impersonal system without either a body to kick or a soul to damn or a head to answer for its mischief."
Savitri Devi
The Lighting and the Sun
Chapter One
The Cyclic View of History
1. Surely modern man does not 'uphold,' slavery; he denounces it vehemently. But he practices it nevertheless- and on a wider scale than ever, and far more thoroughly than the Ancients ever could- whether in the Capitalistic West or in the tropics
4. His so called leisure itself is either filled with almost compulsory entertainment, as exacting and often as dreary as his work, or- in 'lands of freedom'- poisoned by economic worries. But he is not openly bought and sold. He is just taken.
"O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation."
Bagavad-Gita
Chapter 2 Verse 15
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2. "Those whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal."
Savitri Devi
The Religion of the Strong
Kali Yuga Anthology
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"If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one- 'pure, dure, sure,' [pure, hard, certain]- in other words: unalterable. I would express this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes;
3. Collective authority, in apparently less "free" societies.
Savitri Devi
The Lighting and the Sun
Chapter One
The Cyclic View of History
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1. One of the funniest inconsistencies of the average citizen of the modern industrialized world is the way he criticizes all institutions of older and better civilizations, such as the caste-system of the Hindus or the all absorbing family cult of the Far East,
2. On the ground that these tend to check the "liberty of the individual." He does not realize how exacting,- nay, how annihilating - is the command of the collective authority which he obeys (half the time, unknowingly) compared to that of traditional collective