The Woman Who Invented White Identity

Inside the Black Sun Book Club: tracing the occult roots of today's "based" right

The young men filling your timeline with talk of “white identity” and “white racial consciousness” don’t know they’re repeating ideas invented by a woman.

Her name was Savitri Devi. And she was Greek, not German.

Savitri Devi, born Maximiani Portas, 1905-1982

In the 1930’s, she traveled to India, immersed herself in Hindu mysticism, and recast Adolf Hitler as a messianic avatar for all “white” people everywhere.

Before her, there was no such thing as “white identity” in the Nazi imagination. Because Hitler didn’t care about white people. He cared about the Germans! The French were his enemies. So were the British, Belgians, Americans, Slavs (especially them), and more.

But Savitri Devi changed all that. She took a German ethnic movement and spiritually-universalized it into something targeted at disaffected men across the Western world.

It worked. As a result, today’s hyper-masculine “dissident right” influencers have no idea that a woman wrote their script for them.

This is just one thread in a story I’ve been tracing for months. In July 2024, I discovered the book Black Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Within fifty pages, I realized that what’s surfacing on social media today is deeper and darker than edgy politics or ironic memes.

Clarke’s book demonstrates that, at bottom, it’s an occult religious system, complete with rituals, myths, and messianic figures. It’s explicitly set up in opposition to Christ.

And men are consuming it by the gigabyte.

I’ve now posted the first two sessions of my Book Club, where we’re currently working through Black Sun together. In these sessions, we cover:

• George Lincoln Rockwell’s “cosmic awareness” experience while meditating on a swastika

• How Julius Evola’s tantric sex magic became “based” Manosphere philosophy (Bronze Age Pervert took his whole shtick from Evola)

• The spiritual trap that captures young men and systematically destroys their relationships and their faith

• Why none of these ideas are new; they were circulating before the rubble stopped bouncing in post-war Europe

The ideas and pattern aren’t new. But the digital distribution is.

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Book Club Continues Tomorrow

Wednesday, 2:30pm Pacific / 5:30pm Eastern, we cover chapters 4-6: Imperium, Savitri Devi and the Hitler Avatar, and Nazi Mysteries.

This is where things get genuinely strange. A Greek woman’s Hindu-inflected Hitler worship. Tantric concepts of civilizational cycles. The deliberate fusion of Eastern occultism with Western racial ideology. And the templates that are still circulating through Christian spaces today—unrecognized.

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