Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs Book Review

[MichaelJeffrey]

The following review is taken from my site http://racialobserver.com

Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs by Ben Klassen

In 1973, Ben Klassen launched a dynamic new religion aimed at the White race with his book entitled Nature's Eternal Religion, the religion was created to promote the survival, expansion and advancement of the White race. Since the time of his first book, he spent the next two decades writing various books and articles, meanwhile attempting to accomplish his goal of making a Whiter and brighter world come to fruition. Ben Klassen has done much for our movement during his tenure as the Pontifex Maxiumus of his church and we should honor him for that.

In 1993, Ben Klassen released his last and final book entitled Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs very shortly before taking his own life after the death of his beloved wife, Henrie. With this last book he gives us a very intimate look into the ordeals he has gone through and the sacrifices that he had made trying to accomplish his goal. This book outlines the various legal battles that he and the members had to endure under persecution by our enemies, the adversity that he faced heading this church and also the pleasant memories that he shared with us as well.

Ben Klassen really had a knack for writing and I highly recommend that all White men and women read his books, especially his first two being Nature's Eternal Religion and his follow-up book entitled The White Man's Bible. Ben Klassen really understood how the world truly worked and he had amazing foresight. It was very interesting to read this book and get an in-depth look at his relationship with his wife Henrie, his daughter Kim and also his friends and extended family. It was very interesting to read about the construction of the brick and mortar church and the inception of his school for gifted boys at what he called the World Center in North Carolina.

Ben Klassen was a man against time and he knew that his time was running short. He talked extensively in this book about his quest to find two people for our movement, one being the great promoter i.e. someone in the same vein as Adolf Hitler to push our movement forward to critical mass and also, he was looking for a rich benefactor to bankroll our movement, someone similar to Henry Ford in his fanatical endeavor of printing his Dearborn Independent newspaper and The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Ben Klassen was in his 70s when he wrote this last book and he knew death was near, unfortunately he never found the great promoter, nor the benefactor. He quotes a christian con-man near the end of the book as saying "Success without a successor is failure." and I wholeheartedly agree with that statement.

This book details various trips that Ben and his wife Henrie had made for pleasure and some business oriented. The overriding theme in the book is that time is running out and he must find someone so the church does not go asunder. Ben Klassen tried multiple times to turn the church over to a successor but to no avail. He details the death of his wife Henrie from cancer and his subsequent depression that ensued thereafter. I thought it was somewhat depressing reading about her death and the scattering of her ashes in the Rocky Mountains because I got such a feel for them both as characters in this intimate book that sometimes reads like a diary. After the death of his wife it seems things really started spiraling out of control and Ben Klassen was desperate to turn over the church. He ended up selling the church property to Dr. William Luther Pierce former chairman of the Natinal Alliance and ostensibly giving the church away to some young skinheads but subsequently relinquishing it and giving it to a Dr. Rick McCarty. Shortly thereafter Ben Klassen committed suicide by swallowing four bottles of sleeping pills at the age of 75, he is buried in Ben Klassen Memorial Park. We must remember as explained in The White Man's Bible to Creators suicide is not a dishonorable act if done when you have accomplished what you have set our to do with your life.

The church did not survive for long after Dr. Rick McCarty took over and legal battles continued, it was dissolved until Matt Hale came along as the new Pontifex Maxiumus in 1996. In 2003, Matt Hale was arrested and in 2004, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison on trumped-up charges. Today the church continues under the guise of The Creativity Movement and another group called The Creativity Alliance both under separate leadership. It is good to know that the message that Ben Klassen contended is still resonating with new people and the church lives on. I highly recommend this book if you can find it, it is quite rare to find a paperback copy, I was lucky my fiance bought me the only copy on Amazon. Nevertheless this is a very interesting and intimate look into the personal life of Ben Klassen and the history of the Church of the Creator. This is a rather arcane subject but if you consider yourself a Creator of a White Nationalist you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Michael Jeffrey