Our Eternal Purpose
American Dissident Voices broadcast of May 21, 2016
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presented by Kevin Alfred Strom
ON TODAY’S program, I will be presenting a significant work by Dr. William Luther Pierce, the founder of the National Alliance, that has not seen the light of day for some 40 years. It was republished for the first time in the March 2016 National Alliance BULLETIN, and this radio broadcast is its first-ever presentation online. The introduction and afterword were written by the Alliance’s current Chairman, William White Williams, who wrote:
I’m yielding most of my Chairman’s commentary space this month to present the following long-lost Cosmotheist essay retrieved from our Alliance archives. This is one of Dr. Pierce’s most important messages, reaching the deepest fundamentals of our reason for being. It is condensed from a talk given by him to a group of Washington-area Alliance members and supporters nearly forty years ago, in June 1976. Parts of it were later used for his recorded speech, Our Cause. To my knowledge it has never been transcribed or republished in its entirety before today.
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Our Eternal Purpose
by William Luther Pierce
AS WE HAVE seen, our purpose as a race is, first, to safeguard our racial identity, to preserve the very special racial characteristics which the Creator has given us and which allow us, if we choose, to cross the threshold on which we now stand: the threshold between the animal and the divine. And then our purpose is to carefully and consciously, from generation to generation, ascend once again the upward path toward Godhead, toward a complete and perfect self-realization.
And our purpose socially and politically is to build a new society and a new political order with which to facilitate the racial purpose. In this regard, we define social progress and we define political progress as the social or political changes which aid our racial purpose. This is totally different from what is called “progress” today by those who misled and deceived our people.
But a false concept of progress is perhaps the least of the ways in which we have been treacherously led away from our ordained and proper Path. A more basic deviation is the perversion of our attitude toward life itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer said that the very most any man can hope for is a heroic passage through life. He was saying in his own words what has been written into the soul of our race, our race-psyche, by the Creator. What a different message that is from the one written into the Levantine soul, the Jewish soul — the Jewish attitude toward life which prevails today.
A thousand years ago our ancestors in northern Europe had not yet been corrupted. Their attitude is expressed implicitly in all the old sagas. It is the attitude that neither pleasure nor happiness nor power nor wealth is the really important thing in life, but, rather, what is important is the way we conduct ourselves, the extent to which we are true to our own inner nature. That is why honor was valued more than life itself, why it was considered more reprehensible to tell a lie than to kill a man. And it is why dying in the right way was considered as important as living in the right way.
Some of the old sagas spell this attitude out explicitly. For example, the saga of Grettir tells us: “Cattle die and kinsmen die, and so one must die oneself. But there is one thing I know which never dies, and that is the fame of a dead man’s deeds.” Even as recently as [seven] decades ago there was still an Order in Europe which had as a motto Ewig ist der Toten Tatenruhm. (The renown of the deeds of the dead is eternal.)
Schopenhauer’s use of the word “heroic” and the sagas’ reference to renowned deeds may in themselves be a little misleading. They do not mean that we should all think in terms of dying heroically on the battlefield, with sword or gun in hand. That, indeed, may be granted to some of us, but the basic message is one of having the proper attitude toward life — and toward death. That is something which all of us can do, even those who think of ourselves as being unheroic.
That attitude is one of living with eternity always in our mind, of living for the sake of eternity instead of living only for the moment. It is the attitude that the individual, who is mortal, is not an end in himself, but lives for and through the Whole — and, in particular, for and through his racial community — which is eternal. It is an attitude that seems to have eluded most of us today.
It is an attitude which is diametrically opposed to the Jewish attitude of materialism and egoism, and yet the alien, Jewish attitude is the one which has been adopted by most Americans. That alien attitude is one of the most important aspects of…
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