Douglas Mercer
July 4 2024
Cosmotheism asserts that we are matter and energy become conscious—and more than that, that we are the universe become conscious, that we are nature become conscious itself. It further shows us that we have reached a critically new stage in the evolution of the universe—more significant that the transition of non living matter into living things—more significant than the birth of the universe or the birth of consciousness itself—more significant than when the creatures of the sea moved onto land. This new and final stage has come about only recently when we Europeans first grasped the concept of evolution and this is the stage of conscious evolution, the ability of living beings to direct and vastly accelerate the future course of our own evolution—Kevin Alfred Strom (from Cosmotheism’s Hard Way, pg 209, Cosmotheism, Cosmotheist Books, Mountain City Tennessee, 2021, Cosmotheist Community Church).
The mind is more than conscious, more than matter---an old saying
The great William Pierce is known far and wide as a seminal race thinker—and so he is, in this domain he is the gold standard. But even Pierce said that race would be surmounted, that race was the substratum or building block which enabled the thought which would last forever. So while in eternity there will be nothing physical (no meat nor machine) race would still exist in its disembodied form as the dreams and visions which could have only come from one race (the Aryan). Cattle die and men die but the idea that Pierce formed will never die, and in the end he will not be known as a race thinker but a religious figure or, what is more, a holy man. He may not have traveled to the banks of the Ganges or smoked god awful amounts of ganja or dipped into the Ayahuasca or dropped acid in Malibu or traveled to the Himalayan Highlands; he may not have sipped espresso in a Parisian café while wearing all black with a black beret on his head and concocted preposterous but trendy theories; but no matter. For the sleepy hollows of West Virginia were more than good enough for his purposes, as the gods too were there with him. And his insane work ethic as a hardworking man and will for the cause held him in good stead; as the philosopher at the end of time, bar none.
“Man is the whole, and his purpose is the creator’s purpose. Man is a part of the substance and the means of the creator and he is nothing else; that is his entire being and purpose; the perfect union of the universe’s immanent consciousness with man’s reason this is the union of Divine Consciousness”—William Pierce (from Book One: The Path pg 110, Cosmotheism, Cosmotheist Books, Mountain City Tennessee, 2021, Cosmotheist Community Church).
Certainly there were precursors and precedents; whenever a body of reality exists all men at all times have access to it and presentiments occur, in part. Ovid said the creator is an artist; Lucretius in On The Nature Of Things was on the track; Spinoza with his pantheism and Leibniz with his monads and Poe in Eureka with his idea of God as a writer knew the trace; but it was Darwin with evolution who gave us the framework; a development in stages toward an ever upward progress. Indeed, an evolving universe is one of the key thoughts, provided that one specifies that it is a living universe and a thinking universe (panpsychism). Nietzsche with his ubermensch and man as a bridge between nature and eternity brought us to the penultimate stage; and Shaw with his Superhumanism popularized Nietzsche so the common man would be aware of it. But it was Pierce who collected all the loose stands of the thought, got rid of the baggage and frayed ends, dumped over the twaddle and nonsense which had grown up around it, and put the theory on a firm footing and a solid basis. As befits of physicist he was a hard and steely eyed man who knew what was essential and was able to state it in a straightforward way without hysteria or histrionics. For indeed, the theory is startling enough: the universe has a goal indeed, there is a mind to it, and its goal it self-actualization with man as its avatar and activating agent. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, as has been said.
What is this religion of ours, Cosmotheism? Let’s break it down: the word consists of two simple parts:
Cosmo: the all, or the totality, the whole, the universe itself, things that are all encompassing and leave no part out.
Theism: that there is a god, or some form of consciousness to the universe that is independent of human beings. But one needs to be careful with theism. It leads most to think of some transcendent being and nothing could be further from the truth, all is one, and the monad prevails. The universe is immanent and the thinking is reflexive and autonomic, this is thinking like breathing, a purely instinctual and natural state. There is indeed no there there, only a here (and now).
We know that there is a creator and we know that its purpose must be our purpose, that is our will must be in tune and align with its will. But what is the creator’s purpose? Completion to be sure. But what will this completion look like? It will be an eternity with no time but only space; time having become space; it will be a world of vision and sounds, words will have fallen away except to be sound in song and possibly cues; there will be music and there will be angelic voices, it will be a world of sensual hallucinations (if one will) where minds interface with one another to create and conjure world upon worlds with no end; it will be a world pure inception and conception, of imagination and reimagining without limit; our proper names and identities will have been jettisoned and our primordial souls will hold sway; it will be the paradise promised at the end of time, a purely aesthetic world of pure exhilaration and exuberance and high spirits.
This is more than all to the well and good but begs a question. How do we get from here to there, the there that has no there there? What is the transition? Is it a leap or a smooth gliding? Leaving aside for the moment the moment of transmogrification one can say that the times of the penultimate time will be the time (that is here and now) of development, building, and education. Man who is lost in oblivion must come to terms with what is coming lest the shock of it paralyze him. At the very least the god must do its due diligence to explain itself, however cryptically, however peculiarly, however enigmatically. One must never be able to say one was not warned, that is eyes wide open is always best.
The way the creator’s plan comes to light is though the words of men who have understood it and explicated it. First and foremost Martin Heidegger who wrote books which, when read carefully, can only be called bolts form the clear blue sky, seemingly having come from nowhere. In this aspect of his thought he has no precursors, hints here and there at best, but no antecedents, Friedrich Holderlin possibly excepted. It is literally something new in the world. What he gives is the recondite history of being, the way it operates, its internal (and eternal laws), its predilections and its penchants. And aside from the mechanics of how being operates he gives us the final clue; that it will be none other than language itself which when marshaled and mobilized will organize itself of its own will (though using men) to explain plainly what is really going on. Naturally this outcropping of language to its final and imperious form is the work of many men and some women working together and separately most of whom (one must surmise) have no idea they are being so used. It was Pierce who called man both the “substance and means” of the creator and he meant it: man is the means by which the creator comes fully into being, and man along with it. And being so used the poets and speakers who are indeed the carriers of the word, and the words and the thoughts pour forth out of their mouths in profusion into the public domain to be pored over later and filed according to the plan. It is this bursting forth of language so that everyone can see and hear, and this sorting of it later, which gives anyone who cares to hear all that one needs to know about what is happening and what is to come. It is an endeavor which naturally demands careful attention and perhaps a wild and open sensibility, but it is more than possible. It has been accomplished in fact by making the proper connections, by seeing how things are stuck together and hang together, and seeing the various frames of reference and how they overlap and by giving emphasis where it belongs and by rightly respecting the sequence of time. In the end of course it was nothing but a thing, it almost went without saying.
As we get to the end of the transition period a valedictory mood strikes one where one wants to praise famous men. And none more so than William Luther Pierce: our leader, a physicist, an organizer, writer, seer and holy man; he is surely now in the abode of the gods and is smiling down on what he has wrought and what is to come.
