Pilgrimage (book)
| Author | Savitri Devi |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Devi's pilgrimage to Nazi sites |
| Publisher | Self-published |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 354 |
| OCLC | 236261773 |
| Preceded by | Gold in the Furnace |
| Followed by | The Lightning and the Sun |
Pilgrimage is a book by Savitri Devi. It is a memoir and personal account of her pilgrimage to various Nazi sites in 1953. It was self-published in Calcutta in 1958. The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.
Background and publication
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in 1953[1]
It was the first book of Savitri Devi's since Gold in the Furnace, which had been published in 1952.[2]
Pilgrimage was self-published by Devi in 1958, in Calcutta.[3][2] Some sources say it was published in 1953, closer to the actual pilgrimage.[2] Its first edition was illustrated, and had 354 pages.[3] Some sources say it was published closer to the contents it depicts, in 1953. It followed the release of her last book in 1952, Gold in the Furnace, also a memoir.[2]
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one of several books she published at this time[1]
Contents
Pilgrimage, a memoir,[2] is a personal account of her pilgrimage to various Nazi sites in 1953. It contains her reflections on the experience.[1]
The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.
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Analysis
As with the other works she wrote in the 1950s, Pilgrimage contributed to
"is a more reflective and more revealing memoir of pious Nazi gnosis in a hostile world."[4]
Scholar Frederick J. Simonelli described it as one of Devi's "main works of Aryan mysticism and National Socialist philosophy".[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Flowers, Stephen E. (2022). The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich. Rochester: Inner Traditions. ISBN 978-1-64411-575-6. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kaplan 1999, p. 8.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Pilgrimage". Worldcat. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
- ↑ Goodrick-Clarke 1998, p. 149.
- ↑ Simonelli 1999, p. 163.
Works cited
- Atkins, Stephen E. (2004). Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups. Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-04852-4. Search this book on
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- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (1998). Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3111-6. Search this book on
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2002). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3124-6. Search this book on
- Kaplan, Jeffrey (1999-02-01). "Savitri Devi and the National Socialist Religion of Nature". The Pomegranate. 7 (Winter): 4–12. doi:10.1558/pome.v13i7.4. ISSN 1743-1735.
- Macklin, Graham (2020). Failed Führers: A History of Britain's Extreme Right. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-62729-0. Search this book on
- Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-262-9. Unknown parameter
|orig-date=ignored (help) Search this book on - Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02285-2. Search this book on
- Trimondi, Victor; Trimondi, Victoria (2002). Hitler, Buddha, Krishna: eine unheilige Allianz vom Dritten Reich bis heute (in Deutsch). Wien: Ueberreuter. ISBN 978-3-8000-3887-9. Search this book on
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- ↑ Figueira, Dorothy Matilda (2023). The afterlives of the Bhagavad Gītā: readings in translation. Oxford scholarship online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-887348-8. Search this book on
