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What an excellent idea!! Thank You
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 11:06 AM, The Resolution of Mind list < [email protected]> wrote: > ************* > The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] > ************ > > 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. > > ****************************************************** > > > > 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. > > > **************************************************************************** > > > *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] > > *************************************************' > > [[[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*.]]] > > -- > Antony Phillips. > www.antology.info > Danish interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmXZ4X_uYRo > English interview Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdgqweh-4WI > English interview Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8sGp6AwuK4 > English biography > http://scientolipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antony_Phillips > [email protected] > (+45) 45 88 88 69 > Admin to SelfClearing2004, SuperScio, Cosmic History mailing lists > Jernbanevej 3f 4th > DK 2800 Lyngby > Skype (by appointment only) > > > _______________________________________________ > TROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom > >
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