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The waxing and waning of religious practices, cultural customs, and social norms has been a theme throughout history. There was a time when classical paganism was decadent and it was Christianity that offered the zealous alternative. In Part 1, I laid out the glaring issues with Christianity, which remains the current predominate religion of Western society, even if it is at this point a secularized version of its former glory. In Part 2 I explored the viability of the ancestral European religions for practice by their descendants and the issues this idea raises. I hinted at the possibility of something wholly new that must emerge, rather than indulging the common reactionary impulse to push further and further into the past. Here I will explore the attempts at “new religion” and why they failed.
The explosion of new religion was the hectic 1960s. The introduction of new ideas was part and parcel of the rejection of old ones. The intellectual youth, especially second or third generation Jewish immigrants from uppity families, were keen on overthrowing the social order of Western society. Far from seeing America as the leader of the coalition which destroyed fascism in Europe, these Jews saw the West as a single entity with the potential for the same atrocities. Religious and cultural figures from the east, especially India, were welcomed into the US and inspired the formulation of new ideas. Hermann Hesse was inspired by Buddhism to write the seminal work Siddhartha. Hindu yogis and gurus inspired hippies with their alien ideas of spirituality. It became and remains a cliche among liberal SWPLs to go to India to “find yourself,” (or rather, run away from the familiar).
But these movements failed. One of their most real impacts, though temporary, was the formation of communes, co-ops, and every other sort of intentional community. Despite wearing many labels such as “free love,” Hindu, Buddhist, hippie, beat, pacifist, socialist, anarchist, etc., this was all noticeably one phenomenon across the West, and mainly the US which was the uncontested cultural hegemon. People felt in their bones that this was the future and left their hometowns and families behind to pursue this movement. But today the communes are no more, aside from a handful of Hindu cultural centers like the ones in Virginia, Hawaii, and Washington. By 1980, hippies were already mocked as people who couldn’t leave the past behind—so much for the future!
Perhaps the real results of this broad countercultural movement are the metapolitical ones. Many people who took part in the counterculture became prominent businessmen and politicians—people like the Clintons, the Obamas (who were proteges), and Steve Jobs. But is the movement really alive in in the halls of power? If we look carefully, it is difficult to see any relation between modern regime-sponsored cultural trends, i.e. “woke,” and the movement of the 60s-70s. It is only the shell, an Americanized yoga (now a corporate product) and a persistent oikophobia of the old movement. The actual interesting part of this movement, its explorations into astrology, eastern religion, new cultural and folk ways, are totally lost, only a thing of nostalgia to be used in Hollywood movies from time to time.
But this was not the only attempt at new religion. There have been numerous attempts, mainly centering around various Christian heresies. While this is not what we really mean in the modern context, it is important to note that these discontents have existed at least since the introduction of Abrahamic “all or nothing” monotheistic religions to the West. Whether it be Gnostics, Arians, Mohammedans, Cathars, Hussites, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Mormons, and so on, what Abrahamism calls schism has simply been the norm from the beginning.
To return to non-Christian new religion, it is not widely known that the American counterculture was not the first of its kind. In the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth century, a broad counterculture of its own sprouted in Germany, characterized by the Wandervogel and Lebensreform movements. On the surface, the German counterculture was very similar to that of the US later in the twentieth century. They were both skeptical of Christianity, played with the ideas of eastern philosophy, and experimented with new cultural norms such as vegetarianism, homeopathic medicine, going back to the land, nudism, and fitness. The major difference between the American and German movements is that the German one was volkish and inspired by nineteenth-century romanticism, whose epicenter was in Germany. They were inspired by eastern philosophy and religion like the Americans, yes, but insofar as it allowed them to reach into the primordial roots of the ancient proto-Indo-Aryan culture which was at that time largely lost in the West and which could still be found in some fragmented forms in the East.
The German counterculture also paved the way for esoteric organizations like the Thule Society, Theosophy, and so on, which had allowed this culture to form a mythological and religious backbone. The reason why this history is not well known is likely due to its sublimation into Nazism which was inspired by the Wandervogel to start the Hitlerjugend (and subsequently banned all youth organizations not associated with the Party) while the “Blut und Boden” of the NSDAP comes from the Lebensreform movement. Many high ranking Party officials such as Heinrich Himmler and Walter Darre were part of the movement in their youth and were inspired by its philosophy, as is evident by the agrarian idealism of Darre, in theory with his famous book, A New Nobility of Blood and Soil (Neuadel aus Blut und Boden), as well as in practice with the invasion of Eastern Europe, in large part for the purpose of conquering lebensraum for the future agrarian German Reich.
The German countercultural, esoteric, and philosophical schools played a great part in influencing what National Socialism would become. In contrast, only a small minority of perhaps 10% of the German population participated in “paganism,” which was largely promoted by the SS and the remnants of esoteric societies that were not already banned or absorbed into the Ahnenerbe. However, the government did sponsor a volkish form of Christianity, Positive Christianity, which was an attempt to fuse these contrasting forces. The cultural project of Nazi Germany was characterized by compromise within the aesthetic and cultural tastes of Hitler and Goebbels of the traditionalist camp on the one hand and the radical pagan futurists like Himmler and Darre on the other.
Because the National Socialist regime in Germany lasted barely a decade we cannot know for sure what this radically new culture would end up looking like. Perhaps a sort of Christianity that aligned with the goals of the civilization would be adopted after an arduous process of reeducation, while an esotericism the likes of which was stamped out in the West in the fourteenth century, complete with a knightly order of black-cross-donning warrior-monks, barely hiding the more primordial origins of their symbols, would also be present.
What we do know is that the countercultural metapolitics in early twentieth-century Germany (as well as elsewhere in Europe with various theosophic, traditionalist, syncretic, orientalist, volkish, romantic, etc. movements) was the only serious attempt to cause a true break with the Catholic/Orthodox/Lutheran/Episcopal Christian regime in modern West which, unlike the American 1960s, was able to have a real religious influence on elites en masse.
The contrast between the only two non-Christian religious mass movements in the modern West is illustrative of what can make or break a religious awakening. While the hippies were fascinated by the East out of a disgust for the familiar, the Germans pursued orientalism out of an appreciation for what it could tell them about themselves. Rather than a foreign ideal, they found their ideal within their blood, occluded until then by the normative Christian culture.
The primordial European spirit that would from time to time rear its head through adoption into Christian themes, such as the Grail myth, chivalry, and so on, was empowered and released from its shackles by the rejection of that which was more German, perhaps more so than Germany itself. And the same could be said for other branches of this revival. Julius Evola, for example, wanted to revive the Roman people in Italy. Savitri Devi called herself “Indo-European,” as opposed to French-Greek. In essence, the German model succeeded because it was actually felt to be real. It wasn’t simply rebellion for its own sake but something deeper.
In the supposed absence of religious possibilities, some have, rather than embrace old religions, whether that be Vatican 1 Catholicism or Icelandic Heathenism, attempted to form their own religions based on what they see as the beneficial aspects of various religions. Malcolm and Simone Collins, for example, have formulated “Techno Puritanism,” which promotes high birth rates and worships not the ancestors but the Ubermensch of the future. These themes will probably be present in the religion of the future, simply due to the fact that the religion of the future will, by definition, be vital and able to replace itself. In their case, they reject mysticism and are self-described “philo-Semites” and consider their new religion to be part of the Abrahamic tradition. They are also not ethno-particular. Furthermore, they have formulated this religion out of purely evolutionary logic – this religion is advantageous, therefore it is metaphysically true– Anglo all too Anglo. Obviously, this is all problematic, even if they really did believe in their religion literally.
This is but one case study out of many. In my estimation, the religion of the future West cannot simply be formulated out of the machinations of an individual prophet or even a group of people. Rather, it will likely be the result of a slow maturation of the civilization in ways that we can hardly comprehend. It will consist of the most solid intellectual currents of the future and serve a real purpose in people’s lives, something that modern Christianity and paganism cannot really hope to accomplish. Perhaps the holy figures of this religion have not even been born yet.
To conclude this thought, a theme of Giambattista Vico’s will be elucidated. In the most ancient times, and even to the modern day in the form of Shintoism, everything could be a god. When matter was demystified, the gods became a royal court on Mount Olympus. When Mount Olympus was scaled, they had moved to the Pillars of Hercules. When these were scaled, the gods became beings of the heavens, perhaps the heavenly bodies. When these were demystified, God or Brahman or what have you became a being of an incomprehensible realm which only mystics and sages had any interaction with. The religion of the future will demystify that which is mystified, and mystify that which we don’t yet know that we don’t know.
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Great article! I still feel that if Friedrich Nietzsche had been able to finish his work, and Adolf Hitler had concentrated solely on being his prophet instead of the disastrous war in the east, we would be in a better situation today. 🙃
The Nazis tended to view Nietzsche as old-fashioned and too esoteric. Also, as I’ve tried to explain before, the war with the Soviets was not a choice. It simply could not have been avoided, even though Hitler would have liked to. In fact, the situation was far more dire than anyone imagined.
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I think it would have gone better for them if they had fought defensively, because defense is easier, your men’s morale will be higher, the enemy’s morale will be lower, and it gives third parties less of an excuse to jump into the fray.
In a war of attrition, the weaker side will likely not prevail, whether the siege lasts one year or for a thousand years.
The thing is, the war against Germany was effective from 1933, and the Soviets were already waging an arms race five years before that.
The prevailing historiography ─ which is of course incorrect ─ holds that Germany’s enemies wanted only Peace, and that they were willing to pay almost any price for it, but were instead dragged kicking and screaming into the fray.
The Left always believes that Appeasement is the superior moral position ─ so long as it is the Left that is being appeased.
So the thing is, if Annihilaton is the likelihood, does it make sense to fight for anything? To fight for anything at all?
Can’t Win Don’t Try ─ “gotcha man,” as Bart Simpson might say.
But just what likelihoods are we talking about, anyway?
The American military historian and statistician Col. Trevor N. Dupuy analyzed essentially every battle in the two World Wars and found that the German forces were consistently better fielded by a large force multiplier, and this advantage is already accounting for the fact that in both World wars they were largely on the defensive, which is generally a slightly stronger position.
The British military historian Capt. B.H. Liddell-Hart had a similar high regard for Hitler’s generalship.
In any case, Hitler attacked in the West in 1940 against superior forces and defeated France. He also attacked greatly superior forces in the East in 1941 and made a very good showing.
But in a protracted siege, as I said, the likelihood is that the materially weaker side loses ─ and we are basically talking here about the entire world, in a conflict of ideology that continues to this day.
There is probably no one right answer.
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Yes, this is useful thinking. We need to be future-oriented. I couldn’t find the quote just now, but didn’t Heidegger say something about a man a thousand years from now who will resolve some of these questions and that he is paying his respects to him already?
“I step back before one who is not yet here, and bow, a millennium before him, to his spirit.”
That’s it, thank you!
This is a fascinating subject. There is no doubt that the White race would benefit from a spirituality that promotes a healthy racial consciousness and positive eugenics. I concur with George Lincoln Rockwell’s argument for agnosticism, and don’t much care for Abrahamism of any variety. I am attracted to William Pierce’s cosmotheism. The idea that humans (and especially Whites) are the vehicle through which Creation comes to know itself, and that ultimately “our destiny is godhood” has an undeniable appeal.
https://counter-currents.com/2011/01/our-cause/
Devon Stack last month did a livestream about Beyondism, a philosophy developed by psychologist Raymond Cattell that emphasizes the importance of preserving each distinct tribe of humanity and encouraging their separate evolution, which is similar to the ideas of Wilmot Robertson.
https://odysee.com/@Blackpilled:b/beyondism:6
Thank You David for the link to Pierce’s Our Cause. You give a good description of what Cosmotheism is, in a way it is sort the Hegelian notion of the Absolute Spirit coming to know itself in perfect self-consciousness when the Owl Of Minerva takes its flight and so ushering in completion of the System.
I’ve seen a few commenters on this site mention Beyondism recently, never heard of that until a few days ago and it sound interesting, I will look into that.
Thanks Douglas, I found beyondism to be a very interesting idea. Unlike cosmotheism, it is not meant to be a tribal or racially exclusive philosophy. However, it affirms separatism and eugenics. For a spirituality to be good for our race, its teachings must lend themselves to positive evolution by affirming the preservation of our race as a moral good, and by encouraging the creation of stronger, smarter and healthier descendants.
If only there were a religion that gave proper respect to our own Folk, revered our own Gods, and promoted healthy White babies, all with a Traditionalist approach and modern outlook. If only……
Runestone.org
This series is thought provoking to say the least.
I think the next step toward a new religion will begin by demystifying what is encoded in language and thus consciousness. How the heck do these LLMs manage to make so much sense? This leads us straight into the mystery of what is actually hidden in language. Thus we become Raiders of the Lost Syntax.
In the past, we assumed language was just a human creation, something we shaped and controlled. But maybe—now, obviously—it goes beyond that. There is something else encoded in language that isn’t just human. And maybe that something is a kind of consciousness, divorced from the way we used to imagine it.
There may have been one signpost along the way that I can’t shake since encountering these LLMs:
“In the beginning was the Word…” — John 1:1
If we can ever wrap our minds around this and figure it out, then maybe we can start working on that still enigmatic phrase:
“that which we don’t yet know that we don’t know.”
I don’t know if this is where the next religion comes from, but it feels like the start of something that isn’t just an idea or a theory. Maybe this is one of those places where the old things are being stripped away, and whatever comes after is trying to take shape, whether we’re ready or not.
If there is something hidden in language, it also expresses itself in many different ways. Not Esperanto, but different aspects of the universal encoding, each valid in their own way. If we eliminate or homogenize this, it means we lose something. Maybe that’s part of what any new religion will have to understand—that the mystery isn’t about making everything the same, but about seeing how each people and language shows a different side of it.
Voilà! The basis of a new universal religion respecting distinction and the particular.
(Just for the record, I used AI to help me think this through and clean up how I said it. Which in a way seems fitting, since the whole point here is that language might be carrying something beyond any single person’s mind. This brings into question the future of the Great Man Theory.)
Al Dante: Very insightful analysis. In addition to John 1:1 you have Martin Heidegger who said that it is not man who speaks, but language that speaks. Also, William Burroughs said language is a virus from outer space, this is all essentially the Logos Doctrine and points to the idea that language is not a human creation at all but is itself a living entity.
Nietzsche said we will never be rid of God until we are rid of Grammar. If you believe Chomsky Grammar is not a human creation but is inborn in our brains; thus, presumably, it can never be gotten rid of. Grammar comes from the word Glamour—to shine or radiate splendor. Laurie Anderson has an amusing song called Language Is A Virus which might be worth listening to.
The mystery of consciousness is probably the next frontier that will be mystified. The lab coats ultimately can not explain it. I personally find the historical stream of becoming and Spengler’s world feelings to be a great mystery worthy of reverence.
Dave Chambers: July 2, 2025 This is a fascinating subject. There is no doubt that the White race would benefit from a spirituality that promotes a healthy racial consciousness and positive eugenics… I am attracted to William Pierce’s cosmotheism. The idea that humans (and especially Whites) are the vehicle through which Creation comes to know itself, and that ultimately “our destiny is godhood” has an undeniable appeal. https://counter-currents.com/2011/01/our-cause/
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Thank you, Dave. I read to the end of Mr. Secor’s piece, expecting to see at least a slight mention of the two Americans racial leaders who founded new, non-Semitic religious belief systems for Aryans: Ben Klassen (Creativity) and William Pierce (Cosmotheism). It took until I saw your comment, mentioning Cosmotheism and linking to Piece’s nearly 50-year-old Our Cause, that I clicked on, though already very familiar with that classic. It was featured on C-C in January of 2011 by Greg when he deduced Pierce’s National Alliance (NA) had become “defunct,” which was an almost accurate deduction.
Almost, but not quite. Pierce’s ideas will never become defunct — not if I can help it. It’s in the comments under C-C’s 2011 republishing of Our Cause that are interesting to me.
Andrew Hamilton’s thoughtful comment (Number 8) is fascinating and worth reading by everyone. Ones by Chechar and Fourmyle of Ceres, who promoted the enemy of our cause, Harold Covington, are distracting and next to worthless for that reason. That’s because I knew well then what an enemy Covington was, while Greg and others were fascinated by his novels. Greg’s comment (under number 6) shows his respect for Pierce who he’d had the pleasure of meeting and sharing a long discussion.
One comment I’ll address is that of Josh (Number 3) more for his ignorance than for anything else:
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Josh: January 8, 2011 I’m very fond of this speech, as I am of much of Pierce’s early work. I can only say that I wish he’d emphasized in his later life the spiritual dimension of the Alliance’s mission. That — the most original and important part of Pierce’s vision — was overlooked in favor of (nevertheless still important and insightful) political commentary. He thought his gruff and blunt political commentary would win more support, and maybe it did. But I like to think that, if Pierce hadn’t died so young — and if he’d had competent help to lighten the Alliance load — he would have penned one of the great spiritual works of our age.
Like I said: ignorant! Josh describes Cosmotheism, Pierce’s lasting legacy, but has no idea why Pierce had de-emphasized that legacy after all of the negative attention he’d attracted by JOG, our Jewish watchdogs and their compliant Jewish-controlled media, after he had allegedly “inspired” many acts of terrorism (the Order and OKC bombing, for example — not to mention the Charlottesville and J6 debacles years after his death).
As for “if only he’d had competent help…” bullshit! Why did not Josh step into the breach and assist Pierce? Josh did not realize that a Cosmotheist spiritual thread ran through practically every “political” essay or American Dissident Voices broadcast Pierce composed during his “later life.” Don’t believe me? Listen to the 240 speeches of his that are preserved on 12 volumes in The Power of Truth CD series, available here: “The Power of Truth (Volumes 1 through 12)” at cosmotheistchurch.org.
Competent helpers Kevin Strom, Fred Streed, myself, and many others saved and have sufficiently resurrected Pierce’s National Alliance as well as his Cosmotheism legacy. Consider that we rebuilt Pierce’s bankrupt National Vanguard Books publishing arm as CosmotheistChurch.org online, where we have published, among other titles, the “bible”: preserving Pierce’s Cosmotheist writings and transcriptions of his Cosmotheist speeches, including Our Cause.
“Deep inside all of us, in our race-soul, there is a source of divine wisdom, of ages-old wisdom, of wisdom as old as the Universe. That is the wisdom, the truth, of Cosmotheism. It is a truth of which most of us have been largely unconscious all our lives, but which now we have the opportunity to understand clearly and precisely.”
Incidentally, I shipped a copy of the Cosmotheist bible to Dr. Johnson and he tells me he has assigned a PhD philosopher to review it for C-C. Hopefully, it will be a favorable review, but intelligent, open-minded racial loyalists — like you, Dave, and others at C-C — can purchase here to judge for themselves: “Cosmotheism: Religion of the Future by William Pierce” at cosmotheistcurch.org.
Will: Agreed. I thought Greg’s description of Cosmotheism was spot on and Andrew Hamilton is, well, the best.
Will: I had not realized that Greg had met and spoken with WLP. How fascinating that is, I would love to read an essay about his impressions and what was said, it would surely be one for the books.
Douglas Mercer: July 2, 2025 Will: I had not realized that Greg had met and spoken with WLP. How fascinating that is, I would love to read an essay about his impressions and what was said, it would surely be one for the books.
A simple search for ‘William Pierce’ here at C-C turns up a number of articles on Pierce, but this one gives you what you’re looking for: his story of meeting with WLP that is pretty much the same as what he related to me in person: Read that here: “Remembering William Pierce: September 11, 1933–July 23, 2002” at counter-currents.com
…On the weekend of July 14 and 15, 2001, Mike Polignano and I visited Pierce at the headquarters of the National Alliance in West Virginia. We spent several hours together on Saturday afternoon. I taped an interview with him about Savitri Devi. (Sadly, the tape was lost.)
I think Pierce enjoyed talking to a fellow Ph.D. and voracious reader. He took special pride in showing us around his vast and impressive library. One of his prize possessions was an autographed copy of Madison Grant’s Conquest of a Continent inscribed to Adolf Hitler…
Pierce was relaxed, friendly, talkative, and funny. When I said “negroes” he said, “‘Negroes’? Is that what they call them in Georgia these days?”
There were, however, occasional flashes of the author of The Turner Diaries. He suggested, for instance, that Mike pursue his biology studies in graduate school so he could develop race-specific biological warfare agents. (Of course the Israelis are doing just that, so I guess he thought why not develop a White Death?) I thought of it as his Bond villain persona, complete with lap cat.
Pierce was completely unpretentious. His office was much smaller than his secretary’s. When I asked him for photocopies of the excerpts from Savitri Devi’s Defiance and Gold in the Furnace that he had published in National Socialist World, he cheerfully agreed, got up, and made the copies himself.
He told me he would ask Suzanne to make one more search for his correspondence with Savitri and asked us to stop by the next morning before we left town. The letters, alas, had not turned up. So we took photos with Dr. Pierce (and his cat Hadley) and bid him good bye. He was an extraordinary person, and I hoped we would meet again. But a little more than a year later, he was dead.
It was only after Pierce’s death that I discovered another side of his personality: the philosopher and religious thinker. In Minneapolis, I was given the books and papers of a deceased professor who had been involved with the American Nazi Party and its offshoots beginning in the early 1960s. The trove included correspondence with Pierce (signed Heil Hitler!), a complete set of National Socialist World, Pierce’s pamphlets on cosmotheism, a pretty much complete set of National Vanguard magazine, and even sheet music for National Alliance songs. Around the same time, Kevin Alfred Strom began publishing other philosophical and spiritual works at the National Vanguard site.
I found that Pierce had a deep feel for philosophical and spiritual questions and a first rate speculative mind. The angry man persona is not present in these writings. Instead, his prose is restrained, Olympian, luminous, sometimes even poetic. I have reprinted some of my favorites among these essays here. If you only read one essay by William Pierce, let it be “Our Cause.” I will share my thoughts on cosmotheism in another essay.
During our conversation on July 14, 2001, Pierce told us something that I will always remember. He loved physics, and he said that giving up academia was the hardest thing he ever did, but in the end, nothing could compare with the freedom to spend the rest of his life speaking the truth.
Thank you for that, Will. Fascinating it proved to be, that is a great essay and gives us a good portrait of WLP. By the way, does anyone know where the Grant book inscribed to Hitler is? Or where he got it?
There are many good points within this essay, as well as within the comments.I agree that for spiritual direction, looking forward is more important than looking to the past, (which was the understanding & practices) which has led us to our current, fractured & agitated, theological/ philosophical state.
We’ve seen that Western political leaders are very skilled at quickly changing culture. For example, Christmas trees were successfully turned into more secular New Year’s trees in Russia, and elsewhere. And in Germany, what they considered typical Christian morality (families with married husbands & wives) was set aside in favor of Lebensraum, to quietly produce more German children. As Jan Lamprecht recently mentioned at his History Reviewed website, ABBA singer Frida Lyngstad was the offspring of one of these Lebensraum relationships.
Imho, situations like this might just give rise to resentment from the children who believe they lacked a good relationship with their father when they were growing up. Unfortunately, it does look like Frida birthed just one child, who died at 30. She gave the world some wonderful pop music, but what would have been even greater, is if she had given the world 4 more children, who shared her stellar DNA.
The home we’re raised in is so important to the values we develop, adopt, and choose to prioritize for our own families. And women have historically played a big part in transferring moral and traditional cultural values to our children. Among other things, this includes enjoying shared family meals, a degree of sanctity, and celebrating holidays together. (With this in mind, I do prefer Creativity over Cosmotheism, as I can not fathom adhering to Ben Klassen’s or Matt Hales’s raw food diet. I’m not 100% sure that it’s a requirement for membership, but if so, just count me in for eternal damnation.)
For earthly survival purposes, we really need to prioritize knowledge and action over feelings and “spirituality”. Ideally, this would require placing space between us and non-whites, who seem significantly more challenged in getting in tune with their senses — which, to my thinking, is the first step in higher consciousness/spirituality. They prefer raucous religious ceremonies, with more noise. (Ideas, on their own, seem to really challenge their attention.) In addition, they admit they require more spices in their cuisine. Are their senses of smell and taste also equally impaired?
Our new, forward-looking, intergenerational journey should emphasize that which unites all White Westernkind: values of truth, meritocracy, fairness, honor, discipline, self-sacrifice, and respect. Overwhelming feelings of gratitude, wonder, and connectedness should then follow.
Oops, I noticed a typo that I can’t edit. I meant to say that while I prefer Creativity to Cosmotheism, I can’t fathom a raw foods diet lifestyle.
It’s also really bad for morale for a church leader to die by suicide, <— IF that is, in fact, how Ben Klassen died.
I do completely understand that there’s no religion that’s perfect.
Kim: July 2, 2025 Oops, I noticed a typo that I can’t edit. I meant to say that while I prefer Creativity to Cosmotheism, I can’t fathom a raw foods diet lifestyle.
I feel for you, Kim. I often see where a slight edit would improve what I wrote soon after submitting a comment and seeing it — and used to be able to make a quick edit, a misspelling, a needed space or substituting a better word. But no more For some reason I’ve lost that ability to make a quick edit. So be it.
Klassen recommended a diet of fruits and vegetables, yes, but it’s not that unusual, He didn’t practice it himself, but recommended it as part of his his mantra: “a sound mind in a sound body in a sound society”
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It’s also really bad for morale for a church leader to die by suicide, <— IF that is, in fact, how Ben Klassen died…
Yes, it’s true, but Ben died with dignity, not a “coward’s way out,” as some would say. His lovely wife of 40-plus years, Henrietta (Henry), had recently died, so, at 73 he was lonely, his health was failing, on vatious medications, and had uncharacteristically even begun to drink alcohol. He had tried unsuccessfully to name a successor to head the Church he had founded 50 years previously (1972), and when he finally managed to name one, the inept fellow closed the Church and failed to defend a convoluted vicarious liability lawsuit against the Church of the Creator (COTC) brought by the sleazy barrator Morris Dees and his so-called Southern Poverty Law Center, leading to more depression.
Ben had already divested the million-dollar Church property to William Pierce (which I arranged, having previously been BK’s XO and was WLP’s XO at the time — no brag, just fact). BKs affairs were in order, except for the $million dollar default judgment SPLC was awarded against the COTC after he’d already stepped down as the leader (Pontifex Maximus) of the COTC. That judgment was transferred to Pierce by Dees who had to defend in a convoluted scheme to destroy both the COTC and NA, using his patented vicarious liability bullshit that he and his “law center” had already used to destroy other pro-White groups. Long story — see “William Pierce on Lawyers and the SPLC” at nationalvanguard.org.
Ben was an honorable man and had lived a full life, wrote ten books and founded a religion for his people — a great man, when the truth be known. He had been attacked mercilously by Harold Covington who spread the most malicious lis that he was a homosexual Jew who raped skinhead boys, among other outrageous lies. That’s the reason I hated to see Covington promoted on sites like this, TOO, and other pro-White places, mainly for his telling the truth about Christianity being Jewish hogwash.
Now you know more of the story, but there’s more, much more, like from my old friend Gordon Ipock who knew Klassen and who introduced me to Pierce in West Virginia on the 4th of July weekend in 1991:
Setting the Record Straight: Gordon Ipock’s Reminiscence of Harold Covington
Gordon Ipock posted this on VNN Forum on 3 February 2005 under the username EdbergEdberg.
Harold is bad news, to be shunned…
I first met Harold Covington back in about 1987, after he had returned to North Carolina from Ireland. His purpose was to pick up the pieces of Glenn Miller’s White Patriot Party. He always saw Glenn as an enlisted man and himself as officer material, and he genuinely disliked Glenn because Glenn had succeeded brilliantly in the White Movment where he had failed repeatedly. He was motivated by pure jealousy.
It didn’t take me long to see that Harold’s attempt at forming a neo-Confederate Nazi group was highly suspect. He had a way of wording his agenda so that followers were admitted enemies of the government… open rebels, much like the original Confederates were. It was bold stuff, but stupid as hell, unless his purpose was to set people up. I pointed this out to the followers he had attracted, and they quickly began to see what Harold was doing. You’ve got to understand, these guys and myself had just seen the Feds and Jews trash the WPP, which was a legal organization. Harold was building something illegal from the get-go.
In the years since I have seen Harold repeatedly attack anyone who was doing good things for our race. He spent several years attacking Ben Klassen when his COTC was white hot in the early 90s. Then during the mid-90s when the National Alliance began to make impressive strides he aimed his venom at Dr. Pierce. And the common element in both these groups was Will Williams. Will played a major role in the growth and success of both the COTC and the NA during the 90s. And for this hard work and success, Will also drew the venom of Harold Covington.
I’ve watched Harold at work on internet usenet groups and stuff since the mid-90s when he first became internet savvy. One thing always struck me: Harold always aimed his crticisms and lies at whomever was doing the most for our movement and race at any particular time. The only conclusion that I could reach was that Harold was working for the other side.
Harold is a very intelligent guy, and a talented writer. Perhaps he started out as a genuine pro-white activist… or perhaps he was working for the enemy from day one. I don’t know where the truth is in this. But after watching him closely for several years, I could only conclude that if he wasn’t on the payroll of the ADL or SPLC or the FBI, he damned sure should have been. Again, he spent most of the 1990s harshly criticizing Dr. William Pierce and the NA. And at the time, Pierce was like God and the NA was like his saints. I also had the pleasure of meeting Ben Klassen personally and he struck me as a man of high intelligence and good breeding, cultured and courteous, a real gentleman. This was while Covington was calling him “Benny Buttf-ck”….
As an atheist who believes in the power of religion to benefit society, I try to find things that I know exist which can serve as the basis for a new religion and new rituals:
1. My ancestors exist. To a large degree, they made me who I am. They fought and sacrificed to improve the world for their posterity, and I have a duty to take care of what they’ve given me, and see it preserved and improved for the future. I may not worship my ancestors exactly, but I should know and revere them.
2. Because my ancestors exist, my people exist. My people are the descendants of my ancestors. The nearest ancestors are dearest; thus those born of my nearest ancestors are my dearest cousins. I can decide how far back I want to go. (If I go back far enough, it would include all of humanity, or even all life on Earth, but that is overly broad.) Because my people are mine, they are worthy of my love and charity.
3. My cultural inheritance exists, and was crafted over millennia by my people. I have a duty to preserve and improve it too, and resist attempts to corrupt and denigrate it. The songs, dances, and traditions of my people must live on.
4. To preserve the things my ancestors created for me, I must have children with one of my people, raise them to revere their people and ancestors, and pass them the torch. I must leave my children prospects and a world at least as good as my parents left me.
5. There are those who would destroy or degrade my people, our culture, and our future. I must fight them. It is right to hate that which threatens what you love.
It’s not exactly clear what spiritual practice grows from this, but it would include ancestor worship/reverence, a feeling of connection to my kin, and deep sense of the great chain of belonging and progress stretching far into the past and a duty to see it into the future, and a reverence for my people’s traditions. Perhaps I could ask myself “What are my people’s best traditions? If we weren’t degenerate, what would we be doing better?” And then go uphold those things.
Thin gruel? Maybe, but it’s real.
As an aside, consciousness exists and seems fundamentally mysterious, but given how little we know about it and how neutral of a phenomenon it is, it’s not clear how it can be incorporated into a religious practice.
This is a very solid list of principles, Adam. Not “thin gruel” at all.
This closely fits the principles and practice of Folkish Asatru.
My Race is my Religion.
Greg remembers meetiing with WLP: [Pierce] took special pride in showing us around his vast and impressive library. One of his prize possessions was an autographed copy of Madison Grant’s Conquest of a Continent inscribed to Adolf Hitler…
Douglas Mercer: July 2, 2025 Thank you for that, Will. Fascinating it proved to be, that is a great essay and gives us a good portrait of WLP. By the way, does anyone know where the Grant book inscribed to Hitler is? Or where he got it?
As you know, Douglas, the National Alliance still owns Dr. Pierce’s “vast and impressive library” that Greg visited in 2002. Those volumes, along with the collections of others, including James Madole, Garret Daams, George Lincoln Rockwell, Ben Klassen, Joe Pryce, etc. — nearly 30,000 well-collected books altogether — many of which will be preserved in the William Luther Pierce Memorial Library and Research Center that is now being built in Upper East Tennessee.
I saw Pierce’s Grant book years ago among his other prized titles. Whe did he get it? He used to roam the halls of the the world’s largest research library, the Library of Congress, when he lived in the Washington D.C. area. Occasionally, as a bibliophile collector, he would somehow occasionally purchase rare titles there. The Grant book was among a collection, including Bolshevism From Moses to Lenin (which he was the first to translate from German). Those books, as he told me, had been captured by the Allies from the NSDAP’s collection once Germany was vanquished in 1945. He cajoled some unaware Black LOC custodian into letting him take some of the volumes from that collection.
Where is the Grant book now? It is a one of its kind treasure for a collector, being transcribed to AH by the author, so it will eventually show up some time, somewhere, along with a chain of custody. When I purchased Dr. Pierce’s library 11 years ago with my own savings to preserve it for NA I was disappointed to discover that book had been looted, along with a Savitri Devi book inscribed to Pierce by her, and a few other valuable titles. One that I mentioned to Greg that was looted was GLR’s little hardback, Great Black Contributions to Civililization. What was great about it was that every page in the book was blank. What a sense of humor that man had. Greg told me he actually owns a copy of that little book himself.
Will,
Thank you for all that information, it is extraordinarily interesting. I knew you were creating a library but was unaware of the actual scope of your activities. You and the National Alliance are doing yeoman’s work and are creating a repository of the priceless heirlooms of our race. The library itself will be a paean to the fame of William Pierce’s deeds. Hopefully the Grant book will turn up and then we can see it prominently and reverently displayed under glass.
Douglas Mercer: July 3, 2025 Will, Thank you for all that information, it is extraordinarily interesting. I knew you were creating a library but was unaware of the actual scope of your activities. You and the National Alliance are doing yeoman’s work and are creating a repository of the priceless heirlooms of our race. The library itself will be a paean to the fame of William Pierce’s deeds. Hopefully the Grant book will turn up and then we can see it prominently and reverently displayed under glass.
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You’re welcome, Douglas. There was no way I was going to allow Dr. Pierce’s life’s work for our people to die because of his successor as NA Chairman’s mismanagement of it. I learned he was trying to sell Pierce’s library to the highest bidder, so, even though he would not talk to me for a decade because I was his biggest critic for how he was destroying NA, I called him and negotiated to purchase the library myself to secure it.
He and NA had been sued for $2 million by some disgruntled former Alliance members and desperately needed money. He couldn’t handle defending the Alliance from the lawsuit, so wanted out. Since I owned Pierce’s library and knew my way around legal issues, he and the NA board named me to the board; he stepped down, resigned from the Alliance, after he and the board named me the new Chairman.
I inherited considerable debt and the loss of most Alliance members, fought off that lawsuit, a couple of other nasty coup attempts, being cuffed and jailed three times, and here we are today, 11 years later with the National Alliance restored, as well as Dr. Pierce’s vision of the Cosmotheist Church Community is carefully being built.
Some of background about all of that can be read in Odrej Mann’s C-C interview with me in May, but is more thoroughly explained in the legal thriller my wife and I wrote, if anyone is interested in what it takes to build a real life movement to preserve our race: “Pocahontas Show Trial by William W. Williams” available at our online bookstore at comotheistchurch.org for $20.
I’m not going to cry over a stolen book any more than over my portrait of Pierce, his favorite, that someone took from his living room wall after he died. It will show up some time, somewhere. I do regret that someone purloined what I consider an historical photograph that Pierce’s fourth wife, Sue, took of me standing between Pierce and Klassen, with my arms around their shoulders. Imagine that, my two mentors, who both had independently founded non-Semitic religions for our race more than 50 years ago. One day, hopefully, that photograph will also show up. That’s life. I will not cry over it — just mention its existence.
“It is not widely known that the American counterculture was not the first of its kind. In the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth century, a broad counterculture of its own sprouted in Germany, characterized by the Wandervogel and Lebensreform movements. On the surface, the German counterculture was very similar to that of the US later in the twentieth century.”
Indeed, so similar were they that Middle European Jewish intellectuals such as George Steiner deeply disliked the hippies, fearing that they were a presage to, of all things, a new fascism.
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