Douglas Mercer
February 24 2025
Continued from Pierce (Part Eight)
As I am writing this it is late January 2022. As of now I have organized all of the material except this, the very end, and I believe that though all of it is important I think this is the part that I hold out the most hope for. I am not sure when I will try to publish this essay, or how, though I know that at some time I will. Pierce of course is an incendiary and an inflammatory figure, though he himself thought that he was just writing clear and lucid things full of old wisdom and sound common sense. The world of course thinks different, and to be truthful I am not sure where exactly I fall down on that question.
I do know that for myself, and I think for any honest man, I can never hold as solidly the same views I did before after listening to him speak, exhort, and reminiscence, in what were marathon sessions for two months. Probably I think that I will publish this rather far in the future, both when my own life and the life our country is on a more solid footing. He always told me that timing and ripeness was everything; and that when the time is right you just know. And the last thing he told me as he walked me to my car was that he had given me the story of the century. As I write down the last of what he told me I have little doubt that is true.
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The most surprising thing he told me during my stay with him was that he was not really a political man, and over time I saw what he meant. He said genetics and race is everything, but that it was the consciousness of the race, race-consciousness if you will, that mattered ultimately. And that the material incarnation of race served only as a kind of reservoir or nursing pond for the thought.
He said that if you listened to someone like Savitri Devi our Aryan ancestors they were, you might say, like the ubermenschen they talk about, even the Hebrews had their version of it, what they called giants in the earth, though of course those two are as dissimilar as can be. He said that these were dim ancestral memories and from what he could gather all the races of the earth had some memory of what you might call White Gods who once ruled the earth, and anticipated what is termed a White Visitation. He said that he thinks that is what those monolithic structures like Domberg and Stonehenge, which are scattered at sites all across Northern Europe, were all about. That the far back ancestors of the Aryans would seem to be like gods to us, like gods which sprung from the earth, and they had a different mode of consciousness and a different mode of being, and a different way of relating to their environments than we do. We can have memories or presentiments about this type of awareness, but that because we have emerged into the cold light of history we can only attain it in fits and starts.
After all he said look at a bat, most bats are stone blind, or nearly blind, but a bat has means of interacting with the world, like sonar or ultrasonic sounds to produce echo, and are able in ways that are mysterious to us sense where they are and how to navigate. He said that our loss of this super-sensitivity was necessary in order to create our civilizations and our technology, but that the alienation that so many our best artists experience is a direct result of the almost unknown sense of this loss. He said too over time this former mode of thinking would be superadded to our present means—and that this would be, for want of a better word, the Superman. But he cautioned me not to think of any Superman of the future as being the end of nature, nature knows no end, nature is nothing but eternal creation and eternal recreation—and that the superman too would be just a rope tied between what had come before it and----well, god knows what.
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The term Cosmotheism was named by a French political figure named Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794). The name, strictly speaking, refers to the idea that the universe or Cosmos is God (theos) or that there is some kind of world soul (anima mundi). The way I took it from Pierce is that the most important aspect of it was that the divine sentience is in some way or other intertwined or entangled or infused into the material world. That is the divine is immanent in the world rather than being somehow above or behind (or below) it. This divine cosmos which we see and explore is a dynamic system and it is living and it is conscious. And most importantly this conscious cosmos has a purpose and a goal that is it is going someplace with intention and aim. And to Pierce man and his awareness were the key to the whole system, that man needed to have the same purpose as the creator, and that when man’s will or desire or urge was identical to the creator’s will, when he was aligned with it and in tune with it, then the universe, or this instantiation of it, would come to its completion.
But he made sure that I knew that what we are experiencing now is only the latest version of the divine will, that there have been an infinite number of worlds in the past and there will be an infinite number in the future, that we will move from successive state to successive state in a never ending spiral; but that each incarnation and its completion was a refinement of all past ones; and that when this one reaches its conclusion the gods, us included this time, will embark on more and more and better and better and more superior creation—for that is the purpose of the creator and so our purpose as well---more creation. I suppose you could call this a form of pantheism, or an update of Shaw, but as he told me what comes from the past is only a vague premonition of what sentience really is, and what it can become---that none of the great men of the Aryan past wanted acolytes they wanted successors---and that one day we will stand on the shoulders of those giants---and see forever.
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You know, he said, when I talk about our religion to people who may not have been totally clued in to the thing, or got into the swing of it, I feel a bit sheepish. I mean I have a background in science, and I can see how if it’s not handled carefully it could easily be misconstrued or turned into a parody, as if I was nothing but some cat lady holed up in a book store where they have incense burning all the time and Tarot cards on the wall. Someone once pointed out to me that when I began to formulate my thoughts on Cosmotheism it was the heyday of gurus and New Age Thought, and you had an explosion of what they call the esoteric, you had Est, and Scientology, and Primal Scream, and that whole Human Potential movement, and Carl Jung hovering over them all like the ghost of Christmases future. Well, I can see the surface logic of that claim, and I suppose if you wrote a textbook about it you could give me a chapter on modern Mystics; not that they would, they like their holy men to wear sandals strictly.
I can say at the time I never thought of such things, the age of Aquarius blessedly passed me by without a nod or a wink, but I have since gone back and sort of dipped my toe in some of it, and though I think they miss the main picture by a country mile now and again they hit on something which is congruent with what I envision. I just think they miss the depth and the breath of it, and they miss the history of it too. For aside from a few who are more or less on our side, they do not see that this is a possession of the Aryan race, and a creation of our race alone, and so it sort of descends into some kind of universal witchcraft. Although, as you have noticed, I am fond of cats.
I like to think that far from being a mystic or a seer or a sage or, what was it you called me, a holy man, I am and have always been man of science. Hell, I am not even sure you even can call it a religion, but if you want to call it that I am sure you can, and you might not be too far off. What I always go back to is Shaw, he was where I started and aside from a bit of embroidery I’ve added, he is where I’ll end. He simply called it Life. Life is what is sacred, life is what is holy, though here again you throw out these words and you at least miss some of the point, human language may be a divine vessel which aids us in our understanding, but it is also a limiting factor when it comes to the proliferation of consciousness.
I mean you know they say that dogs can hear things that we cannot, they hear higher pitched things which makes us seem like we have wax in our ears. And I think life is like that too, that there are all kinds of different modes and ways of being and understanding, and ours is just one way. But as the highest form of being which this incarnation has thrown up we are the most important way, provided we see it all in a context of a dynamic and evolutionary perspective. My friend (and inheritor) Kevin Strom says that one way of looking at it is that we are already the creator, or will become the creator, a creator who is willing himself into being right now. That we are a part of something greater than what we can yet imagine. We are a part of the emergent Life of the Universe, God coming into being, the living engine of new Universes and Realities being born, which we can but dimly see in the distance, as the midge sees the forest across the water.
One of my writers said the following: we are immortal beings who are amnesiacs relative to our true nature. We are caught up in a dream world unaware of ourselves as creators of the fantasy. The goal is to get us to wake up from the dream, to recall our rightful heritage — and become supermen.
I think that you get the picture as long we never forget these are only ways of putting it, pointers as it were, and not definitive statements. And I’m sure as we progress through the successive states of our being, all of this language will be refined or ultimately tossed overboard, for then there will be no need to describe reality, or put it in words, for we will have emerged into its light.
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You know when I first came here I set out to form a church. To be honest I did it mostly for tax purposes, and I got all caught up in the government bureaucracy, and they said we didn’t have enough chairs, or the road in was too bumpy and they denied us, very typical of how those people think. But when I had to fill out some forms I had to give myself a title and I thought about it for a minute and went with minister just to be safe, though I’ve never liked the ring of that word, it reminds me of all the pious nonsense they spout on Sunday so the folks can go home with a bit of hope. The earth itself is a church of course, if you want to put it that way, and I’m sure all my enemies would laugh, but there is no organization on earth which is more deserving of being called a church than the one you are in right now. But I never call myself a minister or a preacher or a pastor—and certainly not a rabbi obviously—no, the name I go by is teacher. For what we in our little group are are students and we are learning, and what we are doing can best be described as a process of never-ending education.
He then handed me a piece of paper. He reiterated that I could write whatever I liked and that he was more than looking forward to going over what I came up with. His one thing was that somewhere in it he would like me to work in what he had just given me and I assured him I would, and he said that I could call it a homily. And I can think of no place better to place it than here and now, now that we are done.
Our purpose is the creator’s purpose—that’s what Cosmotheism teaches. The creator’s purpose is to create, to create new beings and new worlds, and to bring those worlds to the completion of self-consciousness, though this is just the completion of the stage of transition, after which successive states evolve one after the other endlessly. The Aryan race on earth is now the focal point of the creator and his purpose is that we shall become gods in our own right, become free and autonomous, and immortal, constitute our own ground, and thus take on a life of our own, that is begin to live. This dynamic process is the purpose of the creator and so it is our purpose—that is what Cosmotheism teaches, that a state of self-realization will occur when we are read into the ground plan of the god, and become independent of it. We thus stand on the verge of an epochal change to another mode of being, another state of mind, and as such we are the means by which the creator realizes its creation of eternal self-evolution; and it is our task today to become aware of who we are and so become who we are. That is what Cosmotheism teaches.
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William Luther Pierce III died on August 25 2022, only a few weeks short of his eighty-ninth birthday. Looking back on it I suppose he did seem a bit frail, but for a man who had worked himself to the bone for his entire life he had held up quite well. I got the call about his death from Kevin Alfred Strom who, along with Will Williams, is Pierce’s appointed successor. They were gracious enough to invite me to the funeral, an offer which I was glad to accept. They told me it was Pierce who asked them to extend this invitation and I can say that it was both a solemn and a joyous occasion; no one who was there doubted that Pierce had been a warrior for his people and that his soul, so noble and so courageous, lived on in those successive states which he had written about. He was of course laid to rest with all of the special rites of his people. And having met the men who are the inheritors of the National Alliance I say with certainty that William Pierce’s legacy is in the best of hands. More than likely, it will go on forever.
THE END
