'''William Luther Pierce''' ([[1933]]–[[2002]]) was an associate of the [[American Nazi Party]] (ANP), founder of the [[white separatistsupremacist]], [[neo-Nazi]] [[National Alliance]] and one of the most prominent ideologues of the [[white nationalist]] movement. Educated as a [[physics|physicist]], he rose to prominence in the white separatist movement following the assassination of [[George Lincoln Rockwell]], the original founder of the ANP. [http://www.heretical.com/miscella/hbarrett.html] He gained fame and notoriety as the author of ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'', which he wrote under the pseudonym ''Andrew Macdonald''. Pierce is also the author of the novel ''[[Hunter (novel)|Hunter]]''. He founded the religion of Cosmotheism, an admixture of [[pantheism]] and [[racism|racialist]] views.
==Background and education==
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==Cosmotheism==
Pierce adopted ''Cosmotheism'' as his religion in [[1978]]. In effect it is a form of [[panentheism]], a belief that a non-Personal God is the animating Creative Forceforce within the Wholeuniverse. CosmosorMoreover, withinPierce's salutation of the entire"[[Odic universe.force|life principle]]" adumbrates the Christian [[Logos]], his professed [[agnosticism]] notwithstanding.
Cosmotheism asserts that "all is within God and God is within all." It considers the nature of reality and of existence to be mutable and destined to co-evolve towards a complete "universal consciousness," or towards a Personal Godhoodgodhood. ''Cosmos'' means an orderly and harmonious universe and thus the divine is tantamount to both reality and consciousness, them being an inseparable part of an orderly, harmonious, and whole universal system.
In his speech "Our Cause", Pierce said:
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==Final years==
Pierce spent his final years in relative seclusion in West Virginia, where he hosted a weekly radio show, ''American Dissident Voices'' and oversaw his publishing and record companies ([[Resistance Records]]) devoted to the promotion of his [[white nationalist]] political ideology and Cosmotheist religion. He died of cancer on [[July 23]] [[2002]]. Rather soon after this death, his National Alliance political organization split apart into two competing factions, and mostly due to infighting and to bitter leadership disputes. The new political organization, called National Vanguard, now considers itself to be the only proper and premier replacement for the National Alliance. Source: [[http://nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=4977]]
