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by

Savitri Devi


Calcutta
1958

CONTENTS
PREFACE — p. ix

PART I
TIMELESS PERFECTION AND CYCLIC EVOLUTION

CHAPTER I: The Cyclic View of History — p. 1
CHAPTER II: Time and Violence — p. 20
CHAPTER III: Men in Time, Above Time and Against Time — p. 36

PART II
THE LIGHTNING: GENGHIS KHAN

CHAPTER IV: The Child of Violence — p. 59
CHAPTER V: The Will to Survive — p. 63
CHAPTER VI: The Will to Conquer — p. 87
CHAPTER VII: From the Danube to the Yellow Sea — p. 108

PART III
THE SUN: AKHNATON

CHAPTER VIII: “The Beautiful Child of the Living Aton” — p. 129
CHAPTER IX: The Heat-and-Light-Within-the-Disk — p. 135
CHAPTER X: The Seat of Truth — p. 159
CHAPTER XI: Too Late and Too Early — p. 196

PART IV
BOTH SUN AND LIGHTNING: ADOLF HITLER

CHAPTER XII: The Late-Born Child of Light — p. 213
CHAPTER XIII: The Struggle for Truth — p. 218
CHAPTER XIV: The World Against Its Saviour — p. 269
CHAPTER XV: Gods on Earth — p. 354

PART V
EPILOGUE: KALKI, THE AVENGER

CHAPTER XVI: Kalki, the Avenger — p. 411

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