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The Lightning and the Sun (1958) is a book by Savitri Devi Mukherji which outlines her philosophy of history along with her critique of the modern world. The book is famous for its claim that Adolf Hitler was an avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. In The Lightning and the Sun, Savitri Devi Mukherji elucidates her concept of "Men in Time," "Men above Time," and "Men against Time" using the lives of Genghis Khan, Akhnaton, and Adolf Hitler, respectively, as illustrations of the forces of "Lightning" (destructive power), "Sun" (life-giving energy), and "both Lightning and the Sun" (destructive power harnessed for a life-affirming purpose). There is also a chapter about Kalki and the Kali Yuga. Begun in 1948, completed in 1956, and first published in 1958 in Calcutta, she said it "could be described as a personal answer to the events of 1945 and of the following years." It is dedicated "To the god-like Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times; both Sun and Lightning: Adolf Hitler, as a tribute of unfailing love and loyalty, for ever and ever." It opens with quotations from The Bhagavad Gita and Rudolf Hess.

The book was published most recently by National Vanguard Books in a shortened/abridged version. Resistance Records released an audio recording of readings from the book.