Truth Embodied in a Living Community In the following selection from Human Dignity - A Racial Ethic we learn that a religious truth must be made manifest in a community of believers. As Cosmotheists, we must take our consciousness of the Creator's Purpose and give it life and vitality by coming together to form a living community. Listen Our community does stand for something; for a single great truth, and it must reflect that fact. An idea - or a truth - may exist in a single mind somewhere, or it may be set down in a book buried in a library, but it only acquires significance when it becomes embodied in a living community. And a community embodies a truth not just by individual members having it in the back of their minds, but by the behavior of the whole community continually reflecting it; by having the truth mold and shape the community. If a stranger comes into a community which truly embodies a spiritual idea, he doesn't have to discover the fact of that embodiment by having someone take him aside an explain it to him. He can see it all around him in the way the members of the community act and the way they conduct their daily lives. In other words, in their attitudes and their actions as well as in their beliefs. An idea which is not embodied in a community in this way, which is not reflected in the behavior and the attitudes of the community but exists only in their minds or on paper is a sterile idea. It has no vitality, no real significance. And that's why no religion worth mentioning has ever consisted of an idea alone - of a theology or a cosmology alone - but always of an idea coupled to continuing action. The Nature of Cosmotheism This selection from Cosmotheism - Wave of the Future examines the difference between Cosmotheism and the "revealed" religions. Dr. Pierce explains that the truth of Cosmotheism is arrived at through the union of universal consciousness with man's reason. Listen Now let's remind ourselves for a moment of the nature of Cosmotheism. It's truth, it's understanding which is arrived at in a particular way. And that way is through the synthesis of subjective and objective knowledge, or to use the same words that are used in our pamphlet here, it's the perfect union of the Creator's immanent conscious in man with man's reason. Our truth comes to us through a blending of the universal consciousness in our race-soul, in our genes, with our reason. Thus our way of arriving at truth is fundamentally different from the way of most major religions, which depend in a very basic way on revelation, whether through oracles, or prophets or what have you. It's also different from the purely mystical or purely subjective religions of the East which are a fad among so many lost souls in the West today, just as it is different from the pure rationalism which used to be the undisputed philosophy of science until recently. We're not subject to the sort of problem that the revealed religions are, that they have rather, in which the prophets may contradict one another or some fine morning someone may claim he had a vision, or that an angel showed him a book written on leaves of gold, or that Jehovah appeared as a burning bush and handed him a couple of stone tablets inscribed with a new set of laws. And no Cosmotheist can get away with babbling whatever nonsense comes into his head like the Maharajee and the other yogis can because our truth is absolute. It must agree with our observations of the universe. And because our truth also comes from the soul, it's something toward which everyone who shares the same race-soul, the same genes, naturally gravitates. This, as I've pointed out before, is why one can find a Cosmotheist thread running through the entire length of Western spiritual history, including those periods when fundamentally opposing ideas ruled.