Letter from Dr. William L. Pierce to members of his Cosmotheist Community, May 22, 1978:
Dear Cosmotheist:
Our computerized typesetter was
delivered March 1 and is being temorarily housed at the National
Alliance offices. In return for providing space for the machine, the
Community is allowing the Alliance to use the machine for setting type
for NATIONAL VANGUARD and other Alliance publications. We expect,
however, to set the type for the second of our own pamphlets within the
next month. This letter was composed on the new machine -- which is even
easier to use than an ordinary electric typewriter -- and you can see
how much better it looks than a mimeographed letter.
I am pleased to announce that we had 100% participation in the
purchase of our typesetter; every person who was a member of the
Community at the time we first announced our intention of buying the
machine has contributed at least one week's wages for that purpose, with
the last donation ($275) arriving earlier this month.
OUR NEW MACHINE [Image of used
Compugraphic-IV-TG Typesetter]
We have held several Sunday-evening meetings since my last
letter, the most important of which was the meeting of March 19, at
which I talked about the Cosmotheist concept of responsibility.
In that talk I pointed out that it is our consciousness of the
fact that we are the bearers of the ultimate responsibility for the
destiny of the universe which most sharply distinguishes us from others.
I contrasted our concept of responsibility with the Christian concept.
To the Christian -- and also to the Jew, the Moslem, and the adherents
of other religions lacking a holistic view of reality -- ultimate
responsibility rests with a supernatural being named Jehovah, Yahweh,
Allah, or what have you, and man's only responsibility is to carry out
his commandments.
The Christians' New Testament spells out this concept just as
clearly as does the Jews' Old Testament. According to Jesus, not a
sparrow falls to earth unless Jehovah wills it, and since men are more
important to Jehovah than sparrows, nothing happens to them unless it is
the will of God. In other words, "Don't worry; the Lord will take care
of everything."
The world, of course, would be much worse off than it actually
is if all Christians acted in accord with this doctrine of total
irresponsibility. Fortunately, men of our race have never been
completely comfortable with this non-Aryan doctrine. (Thus, the
un-Christian maxim: "God helps those who help themselves.")
Nevertheless, the idea that man doesn't have to worry about what will
happen to the world, that that's not his responsibility, that the Lord
will somehow provide, is an idea which has influenced nearly every White
person's thinking, to a greater or lesser extent, whether he thinks of
himself as a Christian or not. It is an idea which is irreconcilably
opposed to the Cosmotheist idea of man's responsibility; and it is an
idea which has caused an enormous amount of mischief and has become so
dangerous in this era that it can no longer be tolerated.
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The insidious idea that some supernatural being
has a firm
grip on things undermines man's
sense of his own responsibility.
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The most basic evil in the world today, the gravest error, is
the attitude, often unconscious, of our fellow White men and women that
conditions in the world around them around them are not their
responsibility. The government will take care of things. Or God will
take care of them. Or somebody will. But
we don't have to worry
about them. The insidious idea that some supernatural being has a firm
grip on things undermines man's sense of his own responsibility. They
work to change the world, but they seldom make a wholehearted effort.
They are not willing to go all the way, to take sufficiently radical
measures to get the job done. They play the game by the accepted rules,
because, buried in the back of their minds, is the Christian idea that
if they don't succeed in overwhelming evil men, God will do it. If they
aren't able to keep the masses from their folly, God will somehow
intervene before things get too badly out of hand. This
half-heartedness, this unwillingness to accept full responsibility, all
too often has turned a possible success into an actual failure.
We, on the other hand, understand that there is no Big Daddy
looking over our shoulders to save us from our mistakes and failures. We
understand that we ourselves
are Big Daddy, and that if we don't
stop the Jews and cure the world's other ills, no one else will. We
understand that there is no separate God and separate man, but there is
only God, and man is part of God -- a conscious part.
With consciousness comes responsibility. But it is wrong to
think that, since we have attained a certain degree of understanding, a
certain level of consciousness, some Big Daddy is, in effect, saying to
us: "You've come a long way, sonny boy. Now I'm going to let you take
over some of my responsibilities. I'm going to let you participate in
the evolutionary process and begin helping me make decisions about the
future shape of the world." Such a view still assumes a duel reality,
part Creator and part creature, with ultimate responsibility vested in
the Creator but not in its creatures.
The correct view is that the Whole has, in one of its parts --
namely, in man -- evolved a new type of self-consciousness.
Responsibility is not bestowed on us as a consequence of that
self-consciousness, but it is inherent in it, inseparable from it. We
are a new aspect, a new development of the Creator, and, because all
responsibility is vested in the Creator, it is vested in us -- to the
extent that we are conscious of our unity with the Creator.
The Cosmotheist concept of responsibility -- the understanding
that we alone are responsible for the shape of the entire future --
must become firmly embedded in our thinking, so that it completely
drives out the Christian idea of irresponsibility and guides every
aspect of our lives. In particular, we must always be conscious that the
whole future depends upon our awakening other members of our race to
their responsibility and bringing them into our community.
Sincerely,
[signed] William L. Pierce
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