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Dear Trommer,
I'm just starting a little scheme aimed at Scientologists,
ex-Scientologists, and those interested, which involves sending an
original L Ron Hubbard book chapter by chapter. Since Dennis had a
background (fairly heavy) in Scientology, it occurred to you that some on
the Trom list might be interested in a chapter by chapter look at one of
his early basic works. The idea is to send them by email every Saturday.
I started by sending the foreword to his book Dianetics 55!
Here it is for you (with the introductory blurb I sent to the other
people I've invited) and if you'd like to continue getting chapters send
me your email address. I will be very happy to put you on the
list.
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The following is the foreword to the book Dianetics' 55 and
it is the pre-Miscavige edited version. That is to say it hasn't been
edited under David Miscavige's orders (David Miscavige is the dictator of
the "Church" of Scientology, and less than 10 years ago he had
Scientology books altered, he called it edited, and details of what he
did are elsewhere recorded on the Internet.
I will be sending a chapter of it weekly to those who want to receive it.
I considered it important as it is amongst the basics of Scientology and
it should be available in an un-adulterated version. If you want to
receive this every week (probably on a Saturday) please let me know at
[email protected] . There is no charge.
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FOREWORD
SECRET! Secrets, secrets, SECRETS! Ah, the endless quest, the far, far
search, the codes, the vias, the symbols, the complications, the
compilations, the mathematicity and abstractacity of secrets, secrets,
secrets.
And truth. TRUTH! From Keats to Johnny Jones, we all have traffic with
the truth, truth, TRUTH! The professors have a truth, the religionists
have a truth, the stars and almost anything but government have a truth,
truth, TRUTH.
Knowledge! Endeared as a precious torch, abhorred as a neurotic's
nightmare, it is all
knowledge, knowledge, Knowledge! You get diplomas for it and buy books
full of it, you
perish for the lack of it or triumph in the absence of it, but whatever
it might be, knowledge is
precious, dangerous, valueless and horrible and craved.
And what is knowledge? And what is the SECRET? and what is TRUTH?
Pontius Pilate asked the question when he washed his hands. Alexander
executed messengers when the Truth was unpalatable. The Chaldean priest
corralled a bit of truth and ruled Chaldea into yesterday and Babylon
into dust motes. And rulers and men, scholars and generals have condemned
with it, dedicated their lives to it, fought for it and denied it and --
have never defined it.
What is TRUTH? What is KNOWLEDGE? What is the SECRET? Are they inventions
from a shaman's dream? Are they connected with science? Do they belong to
philosophy? What are they, whence do they come? Do they exist? Are they
owned? Have they ever been written or spoken or guessed? And would one go
mad if he knew them?
Dianetics moved into the world on May 9, 1950, with the publication of a
book, DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH. It moved with
violence although its message was peace. A half a million Americans read
it, many, many of these acted upon it and are still acting upon it, and
every year it sells still more copies -- more copies than the average
"best seller."
Dianetics was an adventure into the dark realms of the secret to
accumulate knowledge and to establish the truth. Until Dianetics these
commodities have been owned by philosophy of either the esoteric or the
monotony schools or had been used by the charlatan -- with or without
surplice -- to lure and ensnare.
Dianetics moved into a Dark Age of Reason where only a physical universe
fact was given credence. When Dianetics was born every free thinker Man
had known had long since been burned or poisoned or dust-binned into the
curriculums of "universities." It was an age where renown
awaited only the manufacturer -- not the inventor -- of the new can
opener, where sanity was adjusted with electrodes and philosophy was made
with Univacs. Knowledge and the SECRET being the total assets of vested
interest, Dianetics was hit with violence from many quarters. Medicine,
entirely cognizant that it could not cure nor even alleviate the majority
of Man's ills, yet like a prima donna who can but croak yet resists the
incoming next act, bluntly and viciously condemned in leading weekly
magazines, any further glance towards knowledge and truth. The
government, fighting a war at the time, entirely cognizant that its pilot
supply was old and slow, yet could not communicate on any subject which
might remedy the matter. The Better Business Bureaus of the U.S., an
organization solidly behind anything good and solid, upheld the objection
of capital to this new idea; the Communist Party, being solidly against
any alteration of the mind since that would undoubtedly alter devotion,
went to considerable lengths to assist the stand of capital. To anyone
who wanted a monopoly on knowledge and truth Dianetics was an enemy. To
them it was a degraded, wicked, fraudulent hoax -- or so they said.
However, there happens to be a [p14] principle that anything which is
thoroughly understood ceases. Their opinion of Dianetics could not have
been correct because Dianetics is still here.
During the ensuing four years of commotion, much happened. The only
orderly and progressive thing which happened was that Dianetics went on
encroaching into the territory of the SECRET along the roadway of
KNOWLEDGE to discover nearer TRUTH.
The primary assault of Dianetics was upon reverence and forms. The first
book was written as a javelin directed into the doubtlessly sacrosanct
vitals of philosophical departments and literature. It was carefully
careless with its commas in the belief that commas, contrary to the
prevailing mode, have little power to disturb an ultimate truth. The
first book was written to be read and understood, and it was written to
upset and override and warn off those who would give it the fate of being
reverable. And the first book was written to be used by anyone who could
understand it -- and the way it was written, this of course could not
include the extant mental charlatan nor the professional dabbler in
abilities. As one had learned these could not be trained and if they
could have been, wouldn't have been interested in the proposed goals, it
was necessary that a new breed of feline come into being -- the auditor
-- and the auditor did.
Now this adventure along the road of knowledge towards truth was very
shiny new in 1950. It was not quite so new but much shinier in 1954.
Certain promises were made in 1950. And these promises have now been
kept.
Man can be cleared. He can be cleared -- brought to the condition
described in Chapter Two of the first book -- by a well-studied and
competent auditor in a relatively short length of time.
This book contains processes which were the forerunners of the clearing
processes in use today. This means that auditors do have to be trained --
we have found definitely that they do. It also means that an auditor who
has been trained and processed can now take these newer processes and run
them as directed and can achieve the result of Clear.
Thus, in DIANETICS 55! we have, actually, the SECOND BOOK of Dianetics.
Everyone has assigned the title First Book to DIANETICS: THE MODERN
SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH. But nobody has ever referred to SCIENCE OF
SURVIVAL, published in 1951, as the Second Book. They haven't because it
obviously wasn't. SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL was a first book in its own right.
It was the first book of and under Plan C on of the real First Book.
SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL adventured into causation, not into the resolution of
problems outlined in the First Book.
Thus there has never been a Second Book of Dianetics. Such a book would
have to take the exact problems of the First Book and in the terms and
reference of the First Book resolve these problems.
Well, as one looks over fiction novels and technical volumes in general
he finds that a four year -- almost five -- lag between an author's first
and second volume would discover his public to have waned. But when we
take up a subject of the status of Dianetics and when we realize that it
is condensing into a few years some thousands of years of doing, we see
that a lag of four or five years between volumes isn't so very bad.
What happened in those four or five years? Many things. Somehow, for one
thing, research and development was financed and the basic organization,
after many limpings, survived. A lot of petty things happened which in
another decade will be bone dust -- for none of these things, none of the
tales of terror, the attacks, the financing, the business advances, were
permitted to interrupt the only thing that CAN mean any difference -- the
product of years of steady gain on the road of knowledge towards the goal
of ultimate truth. [p15]
Knowledge, Truth, Secrets -- they are the guts and anatomy of life. They
must not then be owned. They must not then be hidden or bent. They must
be permitted to stand out in the bold sunlight for all to see for only
when they are to be seen are they safe things to have, to hold, to
know.
This is the Second Book of Dianetics. It could mean a new Earth, it could
mean a new freedom. But whatever it means it cannot mean nothing in the
sense Man uses that word for you cannot unveil the SECRET and have it
ever be quite so secret ever again.
Note: Much of what in this book was termed Dianetics is, in today's
technical lineup, Scientology technology. The two fields are as
follows:
DIANETICS: from the Greek dia (through) and noos (soul), thus
"through the soul"; a system for the analysis, control and
development of human thought which also provides techniques for increased
ability, rationality, and freedom from the discovered single source of
aberrations and psychosomatic ills. Introduced May, 1950, with
publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron
Hubbard. >> which contains his early discoveries about the mind,
including the first isolation of the single source of human aberration
and psychosomatic ills, and a technology for their invariable
resolution.
>> standard dianetics : Major research breakthroughs 1968-70
resulted in final codification and release of standard technology of
greatly increased range and capability. The product of Standard Dianetics
is a healthy, happy, high-I.Q. human being.
SCIENTOLOGY: is an applied religious philosophy and technology resolving
problems of the spirit, Life and thought; discovered, developed and
organized by L. Ron Hubbard as a result of his earlier Dianetic
discoveries. Coming from the Latin, scio (knowing) and the Greek logos
(study), Scientology means "knowing how to know" or "the
study of wisdom." [p16].
>> sgientology (Latin, scio, knowing, plus Greek,
logos, study : "knowing how to know" or "the study
of wisdom") : a religious philosophy and technology discovered,
developed and organized by L. Ron Hubbard. The field of Scientology is
all of life; its technology addresses the obtaining of states of
existence above that of Man, and opens the way to these with a certain
and sure bridge into a future of beings more free and more able.
[Text preceded by >> is additions and/or corrections contained in
the hardcover seventh edition of Dianetics 55!: Editor]
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[[[The above is written by the editor of the scanned in version you see.
I'm wondering whether there are errors (wrong letters) due to it being a
scanned in version. I can't answer as to whether that is so, so this is a
warning but not a dire warning. So write to me at
[email protected] and I will email you a chapter each Saturday
and probably send you another book afterwards probably Fundamentals of
Thought and Problems of Work.]]]
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