The Teachings of Dr. William Pierce interpreted by Wayne Macleod
The Path
What is the meaning of life? Every human being has asked this question at some time. The ability to ponder such mysteries is one of our human gifts that place us above the animal. You need wonder no more. Here the question will be answered.
First we must define the Creator. Myth religions have viewed the Universe as a static, once and for all time creation. The Earth, Sun, Moon, the stars, the fish in the sea, birds and mammals, and man were born in acts of creation, and left to remain as they are for eternity. Separate and above them, an anthropomorphic divinity creator is viewed distinct from Nature, so that a direct act of the divinity is seen to be supernatural, meaning above the natural.
Now will be revealed the Reality, and it is this: Man, the Universe and the Creator are not separate. They are all parts of the Whole, and the Whole was Self-created. We live in a Self-realizing Universe where creation is on-going; it has never stopped. Creation is not static; it is fluid and dynamic, like a living being. Therefore we should not think of the Universe as a creation, but itself, the Whole, as being the Creator.
The tangible Universe includes the blazing suns of the firmament, the interstellar gas from which stars are born, all of Earth’s creatures, man, etc., all are the material manifestation of the Creator. We all belong to the Whole, and the Whole is the Creator. The Universe is ongoing and Self-created.
In the development of any living being there is the purpose of fulfilment. So is there with the Creator. In the Universe there is the internal Urge toward the One Purpose. From the tenuous gasses of the void have come suns and planets, and from the Earth have come plants and animals. In man the Urge is manifest within also, for from man will come higher man.
All are on the Path of Life leading to the One Purpose: the Self-realization of the Creator. This is the meaning of man’s being. Man is on the Path of Life to the Self-realization of the ever evolving and dynamic Whole.
Before man each part of the Whole was blind: the gasses of the void could not foresee the suns which they were to become. The Urge carried the Whole along the Path, and each part of the Whole, though blind, has served the Creator’s Purpose. Man has served the Creator’s Purpose in this blind way through instinct, but also in another way, in an enlightened and conscious way.
Man is on the threshold between unawareness of the One Purpose and a state of all-seeing Consciousness. Not everyone will cross this threshold. Those who attain Divine Consciousness will ascend the Path of Life to ever-higher man. Reason will illuminate the Path for them and give them foresight; it will likely be a mighty aid to the Creator’s Urge within them. Those who do not attain Divine Consciousness will be diverted from the Path by false reason.
The difference between true reason and false reason is this: true reason seeks to guide man’s actions in accord with the consciousness of the Whole, while false reason does not. Men and women of true reason seek order in all things, and shun chaos. They are pleased by harmonious relationships, by progress on the Path of Life, by truth, beauty and nobility, and hate all that is contrary to these pursuits. They have within them the Creator’s Urge, which burns brightly in some but less brightly in others, for although the Urge is within all things the state of consciousness of the Whole is not equal in all. It is more highly evolved in living beings than in the non-living, in man more than other animals, and in some individuals more than in others.
Regardless of the Urge within all, truth, reason and beauty do not always prevail in the life of man. Then come forth the self-seekers, the liars and those of base motives when falsehood is held in place of truth, ugliness is preferred over beauty, when disharmony rules and lies are heard everywhere, and evil deeds are seen yet no one can act against them. In those times the thoughts of men and women are only of themselves, and through amusements, eating and drinking, games and parties, stupefying intoxicants and every form of self-indulgence they divert their thoughts away from the meaninglessness of their lives.
Some attempt to give direction to their lives by accumulating wealth, by wielding power, by becoming skilled in some art or craft. But unless these purposes are related to the Creator’s Purpose they are without merit and the lives of those who pursue them are without meaning, and may as well never have been.
Death comes to the man or woman without Divine Consciousness, living matter becomes non-living matter, meaningless life become meaningless death and even the personality is annihilated. Eternal nothingness is the destiny of those who are spiritually empty.
But those who have attained the state of Divine Consciousness partake in the immortality of the Whole, because their consciousness resides with the Community, and just as the Community lives to serve the One Purpose, so do they, for all eternity.
The Community of Divine Consciousness is the Community of the Awakened Ones, of the Climbers on the Path of Life, of the Rune of Life, of the Ordained. People who would become members of this community are now to be called Cosmotheists; for these are the people of the Rune. They are known for their knowledge, consciousness, discipline and service. By consciousness is meant the state of mind of the Awakened Ones, of those who have gone beyond knowledge and are aware of their being part of the Whole. Like knowledge, consciousness requires receptiveness, diligence and purity of motive.
Discipline comes from the Community and from within. Without it there is no mastery, but with it the People of Divine Consciousness may fully serve the Creator’s Purpose. Service is in the new way of Divine Consciousness, not in the blind way of sub-man and of inanimate matter (which also serve the Creator’s Purpose).
The new way is the way of higher man, of the Awakened Ones; it is the way of true reason. The People of the Rune are fully conscious agents of the Creator’s Purpose.
These, the People of Divine Consciousness, are the beginning; they are the first crossers of the threshold between ignorance and awakening; between sub-man and higher man. They are ordained to overcome false reason and to put to an end all that would contravene the Creator’s Purpose.
And this is our summons: put your life into the service of the Cosmos. Abandon folly and the corruption of self-seeking nothingness. Enter into the Awakened Ones’ Cosmotheist Community to partake of our joyful certainty that the Creator’s Purpose will be fulfilled, and lay with us the foundations of a new world. Cross with us the threshold of Divine Consciousness.
On Living Things
The lessons of the Path of Life lead to an understanding and evaluation of all living things: of the variety of animals, of the races of man, and the varying qualities of individuals. Through the Urge came the ordering of the non-living, the highest ordered becoming living, and the Urge continued the ordering of the living to the higher levels of consciousness. The ordering continues. All matter, both living and non-living, is ordered in a hierarchy: animate above inanimate, conscious above unconscious.The Urge is toward higher consciousness; the purpose of all material things is the implementation of the Urge in service of the One Purpose; and the value of each is in its potential for serving the One Purpose.
Our understanding will serve as a guide in evaluating all things. Some have taught falsely that all things, since all belong to the Whole, are sacred and inviolable. They may be of good will but their understanding is limited, and their teaching is contrary to the Creator’s Purpose. For man is not a spectator but a participant, and every part of the Whole lives only by violating other parts; every animal consumes other forms of life. It is only the Whole that is inviolable, only the One Purpose that is divine or sacred. The parts of the Whole come and go; they are subject to the eternal process of Creation, which annihilates some, preserves some and transforms some.
Others have taught falsely that it is man that is sacred and inviolable, and of one kind, who stands aside and above the Whole process of creation. On the contrary, without serving the One Purpose man’s life is without value and can even become an abomination, or a defilement of all life.
Thus, people are ranked in value: First are those with Divine Consciousness who walk the Path of Life with sure foresight, who have crossed the threshold from man to higher man and knowingly serve the Creator’s Purpose. These are the Awakened Ones. Next in value are those of goodwill and of awakening consciousness. These are of the Cosmotheist Community. Next is the stock of them from which the Awakened Ones have arisen, those of the same race-soul, for they collectively are the reservoir of higher man from which the Awakened Ones are drawn.
But members of this reservoir are also ranked in value. Those who are uncorrupted by false reason, who are of goodwill, who have mastered themselves, who have great capacity for knowledge, who are of strong constitution, are of higher value than those who are corrupted, indifferent, self-seeking, servants of alien masters, weak and ill formed.
All of the latter who, even though of the stock from which the Awakened Ones arise, cannot claim any value by reason of their stock alone. For they may threaten through evil action the One Purpose if they are corrupted by false reason and are of ill will, and also through weakening of the stock if they either lack capability for discipline or knowledge or are of poor constitution.
All other life can thus be ranked: the races of man not of the stock from which the Awakened Ones arise, the beasts, the birds, the fishes, the insects, the large and small forms of inanimate life. Every form of life has potential for either good or for evil effect, for either serving the Creator’s Purpose and for contravening it. Its potential for evil may come from harming the stock from which the Awakened Ones arise, by weakening or destroying that stock physically, by denying that stock sustenance, by corrupting the stock spiritually and/or by the mixing of blood. Let us understand these evils.
The process of Creation is the process of developing the Self-consciousness of the Whole. Its way has progressed from blindness to foresight, from unguided groping to the threshold of directed progress. Because its way has been groping the Creator has followed many channels, the Urge has taken many directions. In some channels the current of progress has been slow, in some rapid. Some channels have ended in stagnant ponds; some ponds have dried up altogether. In other channels that current has been rapid but has gone askew; reason has developed without true consciousness, strength without discipline and action without service toward the One Purpose. Thus are we to understand the diversity of the forms of life.
In one channel the current has been sufficiently rapid and the course sufficiently true that the stream of life has now nearly attained open water. The world is full of species that have branched from the main evolutionary tree to fill their niches; some continue to evolve along their branches, some have ceased to evolve and some have become extinct. Only man is on the main trunk of life, not merely a branch.
Similarly, the races of man are due to the Creator’s blind groping; and only one, of the stock of the Awakened Ones, is on the Path of Divine Consciousness. But other currents also run and the danger still exists of being swept into a false channel, of emptying into a stagnant pond. And so the strictest measures must be taken against all that would weaken the stock of the Awakened Ones, against the disease organisms that plague sustenance, and especially against the lesser stocks that threaten corruption by mixture.
The stock of the Awakened Ones has reached the threshold separating the unconscious way of progress from the conscious way, the threshold that when crossed has all our values changed. In an age of immanent consciousness hostility to the stock of the Awakened Ones has mostly served to advance it, like the wolf strengthens its prey by pruning away the weak. In an age of the Awakened Ones’ consciousness their stock will prune itself, to better serve the One Purpose because it will be done with foresight.
But at this threshold the greatest care must be used; its crossing is a time of danger, because the old way no longer serves and the new way still awaits implementation.
And these are the qualities that man shall value: First, conviction in the knowledge of consciousness of the Whole. Second, strength of reason, for with its possession the more effectively can the Creator’s Urge be implemented. Third, strength of character, which is the ability to act with the nature of higher man. Fourth, physical constitution to serve well the One Purpose.
These are the ways in which man shall consciously serve the One True Purpose: Our stock shall be kept pure, without mixing with the blood of other stocks, for each stock follows a different course along the Path of Life. We shall increase the number of our stock and make every land where it dwells free from the danger of mixing. Laws and institutions shall be arranged so that in each generation numbers of offspring will be born to men and women in proportion to their own value: the best shall engender the most and the worst none.
We shall act as the wolf and winter, to prune and select, and do all the above as conscious agents of the Creator’s Purpose.
On Society
Human institutions are of the Whole and cannot be perfect while the Self-realization of the Whole remains incomplete. They can only serve the One Purpose imperfectly. While man lacks consciousness society must reflect that blindness, and may even become an instrument of regression contravening the Creator’s Purpose. But with the Awakened Ones society should reflect their consciousness and their true reason; it should manifest in its institutions the Urge ever towards the One Purpose.
Survival, right striving, order and progress are the proper determinants of human institutions. Accordingly, society has four proper functions: defence of the Community and stock, guidance of the Community’s members, organization for the maintenance of order and pursuit of the One Purpose, and constant elevation of the Community’s racial stock.
The Community must protect itself from environmental pollution, whether from greed, malice, negligence or ignorance. It must practice vigilance against famine and disease and against all who would harm it either physically or spiritually. If someone teaches that the mixing of racial stocks is permissible, or that everyone is of equal value, or that human life has no purpose, then the Community shall outlaw and expel that individual.
If someone’s behaviour or lifestyle leads others astray or weakens the Community, then that person cannot remain in the Community, for the Community must protect itself against indiscipline as much as against falsehood.
The Community must preserve the knowledge gained in each generation and impart it to future generations, and facilitate the gain of new knowledge with libraries, schools and laboratories. Knowledge must also be imparted outside of institutions through customs, celebrations and festivals. Above all, the Community must direct knowledge, for it is not any knowledge for which its members strive, but knowledge that leads to conscious understanding of the One Purpose.
Festivals and rituals must likewise raise consciousness with demonstrations of grace, skill and strength. The Community must glory in the self-mastery of its own members, and value their achievements so that all will strive to match or surpass them.
The Community itself is an instrument of service, and every institution must manifest that reason for being. It is not merely the sum of its members, institutions and material assets; it is an organization requiring coordination of its components. The Community must judge its members in such a way that the order of the Community best serves the Creator’s Purpose.
In other societies people are ranked by wealth, age, popularity, skills, etc., but the Cosmotheist Community is different in that its members attain their station according to their value in the Community’s attainment of the One Purpose.
There are four essential community institutions: the family, the academy, the corps of guardians and the hierarchy. By family is meant a man and woman united by the Community specifically for begetting and nurturing children. It is not necessarily any man and woman living together who are beyond childbearing age, or include any members of an extended family, such as grandparents. In the academy youth receive training and scholars carry on their work. The corps of guardians defends the Community from both physical and spiritual enemies. It shall be composed of members ordained to a life of service to the One Purpose, of the most disciplined, the most conscious and the most capable.
The hierarchy is the institution by which the Community holds itself to the Path of Life. It is a community of priests, of individuals who may also be fathers, scholars, guardians or workers within other fields of service to the Community. The hierarchy guides and judges. It keeps the Community moving ever upward, ever toward new knowledge, ever toward higher levels of consciousness, toward greater strength and discipline, all for more effective service to the Creator’s One Purpose.
The Community strives toward higher man by pruning and selecting the stock in which it is based. It ensures that the children born in each generation manifest the qualities that best serve the One Purpose more strongly than in each preceding generation. It elevates itself by awakening ever more fully in each member the Consciousness of the Whole, and by strengthening all its institutions: to make the family engender children of ever higher quality, to make the academy more effective in raising children towards ever higher consciousness, to make the corps of guardians more vigilant, to make the hierarchy wiser, truer and more effective in its guidance of the Community.
Thus, the structure of the Community evolves consciously, not blindly. Its institutions are guided by an ever-growing sense of direction, with an ever clearer vision of the Godhead that is the manifest destiny of members who follow the Path of Life.
APPENDIX
In presenting Cosmotheism Dr. Pierce used commonplace words such as “Urge” and “Path” although these are human terms not normally used in reference to the Universe. Such practice is necessary for a popular religion because to describe the intended concepts more accurately would require scientific language and probably mathematics far above the heads of average people. We should not put a human meaning behind such words, however. The various manifestations of self-creation evident over great expanses of space and time are the consequence of natural forces working on large numbers.
Although the term “Urge” is used, the non-Awakened Universe does not “know” its destiny; therefore in its Path to Self-realization blind experimentation is performed. Dr. Pierce uses the term “groping”. For example, multiple types of suns are spread throughout the galaxies, from brown dwarfs to black holes. In the development of life on Earth over ninety percent of all species that ever existed are extinct. There have been multiple forms of fish, insect, bird, reptile and mammal, with an evolutionary progression seen in time from fish to amphibian to reptile to mammal. Amongst the entire array of species there were some who were not mere branches on this tree of life; they were on the main trunk of that tree and led the way to higher life. Through them the Universe took steps toward its inherent goal of Self-consciousness and Self-Realization.
Man occupies the highest position on the tree of life, and also exhibits diversity with many races. The beginning of species diversification is first racial diversification. Are all these races mere branches on the tree of life, or is there one that is a continuation of the main trunk towards higher man? How can we know? Surely one method of knowing would be to look at the history of all races to see which has shown the most progressiveness over time, and when we do we see that there is one race of mankind that outshines all others. It is the white race. Not only has the white race produced Western Civilization; it also produced the Classical Civilization of ancient Greece and Rome, but what is little known is that this same white race also gave the world other civilizations, like the ancient Sanskrit Civilization of India although most of the people of that country are now no longer white. Not only did the white race produce some of the greatest ancient civilizations, but those same civilizations passed away when their white inhabitants were lost through miscegenation.
Realizing the importance of the white race in producing civilizations does not mean that other races are incapable of producing civilization, or that non-white individuals cannot be intelligent and give the world great works. It does mean that the white race has been the leading race in the progress of mankind, which we can see within the world today. If we have any doubt then we should ask: what are the countries where we would want to live and raise our families? There are a number of white countries we could pick, and not necessarily those known for their wealth and power. There is virtually no non-white nation on the Earth today that is as attractive for living, except for reasons of climate and sandy beaches, and this fact is virtually admitted by the multitudes of non-whites migrating from their own homelands to white lands. The whitest nations, the Scandinavian, consistently occupy the highest position on the U.N.’s list for best countries to live in. Even prosperous and technical Japan is not the best if one is a woman. We might think this is a peculiarity of our modern age, but if we had lived 2,000 years ago in the age of Greece and Rome, we would have seen exactly the same.
So in the Path of Life of the Universe toward Self-realization we see that this progress will most certainly be found in the white race more often than in others. For that reason alone Cosmotheism must be white based, and must seek to preserve the white race alone from its current dangers. We do this in service of the Universe. Not all white individuals exhibit moral qualities; that cannot be expected. It is white nations from which will come higher man.
Wayne Macleod.
Cosmotheism Now! 