Scientology Acts to Legalize as Religion

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:13:14 +0000

April 1954

Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

Volume 1, Number 1

SCIENTOLOGY ACTS TO LEGALIZE AS RELIGION

Three Churches Given Charters by New Jersey

THE MOST certain thing about Scientology is that no one can be certain what this "Science of Certainty" will come up with next.

In February of this year, rumors that Scientology would become a religion lost their swaddling pantlets and became a full-fledged fact. Copies of charters to three organizations, known as the CHURCH OF AMERICAN SCIENCE, THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, AND THE CHURCH OF SPIRITUAL ENGINEERING, chartered under the laws of the State of New Jersey, were proudly displayed in the Phoenix offices of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists. The Church of American Science is the parent organization for the three churches.

The news was received with mixed emotions. Some were outspokenly antagonistic to the idea. Some who'd nursed the glories of self-determinism since Book One couldn't subscribe to the new idea that the best way to win is to BECOME the enemy. Many from California feared that designating Scientology as a religion would classify it with that state's 9,857,385,237 cults.

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WHY!

Undoubtedly, with many of you, receipt of "The ABERREE" will come as a surprise--pleasant or unpleasant. You may look at our response to popular demand (Ahem!) and think: "Ye gods! Something else to spend money for!" But you needn't. We don't care whether anyone subscribes or not. If no one does, we won't have to bother with a second issue. If too many subscribe, we might even be forced to get out something better.

At the time this is written, we haven't the slightest idea what The ABERREE is going to be like, nor where it goes from here. There are plenty of magazines and news bulletins in the field now--but there aren't enough good ones and there are too many bad ones. Some just want to publish something; some have a grudge against the human race and are trying to get revenge by sponsoring CO2, cyanide, or other "quick clearing" suits and devices; others just hope some day to make enough money to pay postage; one of the most interesting started as a "lazy letter", but be-

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The Church, Religion, and Scientology

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:13:14 +0000

April 1954

The Church, Religion, and Scientology

If you're asking: "Is Scientology a religion - and many were even before it had been incorporated as a church - you might better ask: "What is religion?" Webster defines religion as having been taken from the Latin "religion, meaning taboo, or restraint." This is a dichotomy of the connotation given the word by Scientologists. Scientology seeks to free man - not to bind him.

A few comparisons:

The church waits for the body to die before the soul can be freed to be judged and damned.

Scientology seeks to free the soul (thetan) from the current body while the body still lives; to give the thetan freedom to use or discard the body, when and as it sees fit.

The church makes man an effect of a God it cannot locate or identify; takes away from man any self-determined goals beyond the limited ones of today and the hopes of a nebulous tomorrow.

Scientology tries to show that man is a god in his own right, with full power and province over his environment.

The church damns man for things that happened not of his own doing nor under his own control. For example: "The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon
the children, even to the third and fourth generations". Or, Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Life in defiance of God's order, therefore condemning all mankind to a life of sin for which he will be individually and eternally punished. Or, someone named Christ died for our sins so that we might have salvation; but if you don't believe this, you'll be eternally damned.

Scientology says: "In the beginning and forever is the decision, and the decision is TO BE". (From "The Factors", 1953). The sin of sins could be a refusal to recognize your own postulate "to be", and to accept the implanted postulate that "you can be only be if - ".

The church says God is infinite, yet sits apart in judgment. Infinite out of what? And can an Infinite Being be more infinite one place than another? Some
may argue that this is a haggling over semantics, but if there are no words to describe what is meant by infinity, why has not one been invented?

Undoubtedly, there are many things yet to be learned about man and the multitude of universes in which he has, does, or will exist- we've probably only tapped the surface. It may be years before the infinity sign for the Eighth Dynamic - the Figure 8 lying on its side - will stand upright. At present, we accept the fact there is a Supreme Being, but no one yet has had the temerity to restrict him to a finite definition. Not in Scientology, anyway.

Candid portrait of a once Widely-known Dianeticist.

New Jersey Charters Scientology as Church

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:13:14 +0000

April 1954

New Jersey Charters Scientology as Church

A copy of the charter given the Church of American Science, mother church of Scientology, is reproduced below:

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
of
THE CHURCH OF AMERICAN SCIENCE

These presents are to certify that we, L. Ron Hubbard, Sr., of the Borough of Medford Lakes, County of Burlington and State of New Jersey, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., and Henrietta Hubbard, of the City and County of Camden and State of New Jersey; John Galusha, R. R. #1, Box 394, of the City and County of Pueblo and State of Colorado; Verna Greenough of Bellmawr Park, in the County of Camden and State of New Jersey, and Barbara Bryan, of the City and County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, do hereby associate ourselves into a corporation under and by virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled "The Corporation and Association Not for Profit Act." (Title 15 of the Revised Statutes of 1937, N.J.S.A.) and the various amendments thereto and supplements thereof for the lawful purpose other than pecuniary profit as hereinafter stated and to that end we do by this instrument certify that:

FIRST: The name by which the corporation shall be known in law is "The Church of American Science"

SECOND: The purpose for which this corporation is formed is to act as the Mother Church for the propagation of a religious faith known as "Scientology". Believing that Man's best Evidence of God is the God he finds within himself, and trusting with Enduring Faith that the Author of this Universe intended Life to thrive within it, the Church of American Science is founded to espouse such evidence of the Supreme Being and Spirit as may be knowable to Man and by their use the Church of American Science hopes to bring a greater tranquility to the State and better order and survival to Man upon this planet.

The Church of American Science exists upon this Creed:

1. That God works within Man his wonders to perform.

2. That Man is his own soul, basically free and immortal, but deluded by the flesh.

3. That Man has a God-given right to his own life.

4. That Man has a God-given right to his own reason.

5. That Man has a God-given right to free and open communications.

6. That the human spirit is the only truly effective therapeutic agent available to Man.

7. That a civilization can endure only so long as both spiritual and material needs find place within its structure and that a civilization is lost when God and the Spirit are forgotten by its leaders and its people.

8. That Man and the Nations of Man carry with them their own Salvation and that teachings exist sufficient to effect it.

The Church of American Science exists to assist the strong and the weak, to suppress the wrong-doer and to champion the right and Godly. Its mission is to carry to Man revelations and teachings and practices of the present and the ages past and to assist him, his family and communities to live in greater peace and harmony.

The Holy Book of this church consists of a collection of the works of and about the Great Teachers, including the work, St. Luke.

The Saints of this Church are the great messiahs and religious philosophers.

The specific teachings of this church concern its Holy Book and those contributions on the Mind and Spirit made in more recent times as a result of scientific investigations concerning the human spirit and the physical universe.

A Equals A Equals A, And Thus Dianetics Is Equal to Scientology

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:52:28 +0000

May 1954

Matthew, buy themselves into the Kingdom of Attainment.

There are goals above theta clear: cleared theta clear and operating thetan, but for the present, we'll settle for one person on the bottom of the ladder. Nor need they demonstrate the ability to levitate their car across a police-jammed intersection. In a nation becoming shackled by controls of church and state, and steeped in the belief that we must continually prepare to destroy another segment of the world in order to survive, there is much room for a clear to demonstrate his powers in these channels of government. Or in the educational system. Or the communications field.

Maybe it's the word itself that is jamming up the computing machine. When you "clear" a computer, you don't merely remove the implanted number that's giving you wrong totals, you reduce the entire sum to a starting point of zero. Maybe none of us ever will attain this hypothetical goal until we're ready and willing to erase the whole sum and quit trying to find one or two numbers that we think stand between us and it.

Mr. Hubbard has said himself that our goal is to be nothing -- and that's all we ever can become. Maybe that's why we never see a real, honest-to-God clear -- there's nothing there. As for the pseudotype (quoting from I Corinthians), "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty".

Subscriptions Going Up

Due to the high price of coffee, it has been necessary to increase the subscription price of The ABERREE to $1.68 a year. Only by moving away from Phoenix were we able to keep this price increase down to such a minimum.

This column is two lines short; or it was before we put this in.

A Equals A Equals A, And Thus Dianetics Is Equal to Scientology

Miracles still happen! In a report by Rin Tin Tin, giving a play-by-play organizational meeting of the Dianetic Research Foundationts BOG (that's Goard of Bovernors), He, She, or It wrote:

"After dinner Saturday night the Board decided to enter into the discussion of Dianetics vs. Scientology. This discussion lasted for a considerable length of time and all phases of dianetics and Scientology were discussed. (Try it yourself, some time, when you have a few spare after-dinner moments.) The purpose of this discussion was to determine the similarities and differences between the two as they are evaluated by the various individuals of the Board.

"Since dianetics is, by the definition adopted by the Board, 'The study of the potentials of the human being and methods of achieving these potentials', any work that can contribute to the study of Man's potentials may be considered as a part of Dianetics.

"The general consensus of opinion was that Scientology is a continuation of the basic studies inherent in dianetics from its beginning. The difference between dianetics and Scientology is one of terminology and presentation and not one of basic concepts, in the opinion of the Board. The major contributions of Scientology are in the areas of Concept Processing and Creative Processing."

Students of Scientology may be amused at the narrowness of difference placed by the Board's evaluation between Dianetics and Scientology -- but if they remember Hubbard's First Book (Memo to Wichita: His initials are L. Ron) as well as his latest lectures and writings, they'll recognize the place on the Tone Scale of those who insist A equals A equals A equals A.

Scientology Council

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:52:28 +0000

May 1954

Scientology Council

621 South Oxford Avenue
Los Angeles 5, Calif.

"Ha Ha, Ho Ha, He He!!!! - Oh, that 'Line Charge'! What clever thetan cooked that up?' Why, the one with the body labeled Hardin D. Walsh. - - We thought it would be a cartoon book for Scientologists only but it seems to be attracting the "naturals" who never heard of Scientology. A very educational book of cartoons about the humorous side of Scientology -- Only $2.00.

One group leader wrote "Sure didn't think that I would have any use for an elementary Scientology book until you sent one to our group. I saw at a glance that you were so right and I had to have it. And that chart! Who is that genius Mark L. Gallert who wrote 'The Elementary Scientology Series'?" - - Oh, just a guy who saw his job and did it. He is also somewhat responsible for the eager doctors milling about at the Council. "Elementary Scientology Series", three books in one, is a must for newcomers -- $4.00. This book is being reviewed by a leading Hollywood newspaper. Will let you know how much reaching is accomplished in case you want to do it in your location.

Say, speaking of doctors - vitamins or better yet, food supplements come to mind. Ron has been after us to fortify the body during processing, some say 200 B1 and 250 C's are too much - or too little. Some say B1 without the other B's don't assimilate well, etc., etc. Well, we are aberrated because we needed more certainty on this, so we had a very fine biochemist make a study of our needs and after six months, has come up with a formula that really checks out for us, tailor-made for processing (with our own Scientology label). I have the formula all written up with complete explanations for group leaders and auditors who are interested in "stocking" this product for the convenience of your p.c.'s as well as yourself and staff. Just write us for the information.

Seen any flying saucers today? One man, Truman Bethrum, who has been on them eleven times will tell the Scientologists all about it this week-end at Scientology Council. Scientology leads the way to direct communication with flying saucers but at this time we do not advise it. This indicates we are living in a new age where scientific methods called Scientology ("the science of knowing that you know") are making man's next evolutionary steps possible. It has been our observation that the p.c.'s who get high enough can contact flying saucers out of their bodies. One man we know made an experiment and found he had even picked up radiation, which was run out. So know your basic laws of motion thoroughly and be very high before contacting saucers. He is now revising his postulates on picking up the stuff. So processed homo sapiens are in the kindergarten of the new age. Thank you, Ron.

Joanna and Hardin Walsh have a tape that has been going the rounds and been widely received. Joanna stressed the importance of the first consultation and tells of actual cases and methods she used at the Council. Hardin lectures on the 4th Clinical course as given to advanced auditors upon his return from Phoenix. It is yours for the asking if you promise to send it to another group. Notify us to whom it went.

Joanna

"Original Thesis" Is Printed Complete in H.A.S. "Journal"

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:56:23 +0000

June 1954

"Original Thesis" Is Printed Complete in H.A.S. "Journal"

Issue 28-G of the Journal of SCIENTOLOGY carried a full reprint of the book, "Dianetics, the Original Thesis", under the title, "Scientology: A New Science". This should interest newcomers to Scientology as well as "old timers" who "look down their noses" at Dianeticists as "foreigners" and consider them bedfellows of doctors, psychiatrists, etc. This issue of the Journal contains 20 pages and sells for 75 cents, compared to the $3 charged for the original book.

And this might be a good place to explain what the "G" stands for after the issue number of the Journal. Originally, there were supposed to be three classes of the magazine: Medical, designated by the letter "M" and carrying material of interest to the medical profession; Special, symbolized by the letter "S", which would go to special groups; and General, which would cover the entire field of Dianetics and Scientology. The "M" and "S" numbers would be sample "come on" issues, and those who showed enough interest to subscribe would be picked up on the "G" list. The "M" and "S" issues never have materialized.

SHOULD WE RETURN TO 'MERCENARIES'?

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ting the contract to a civilian organization to provide meals for this training center. Not only will they furnish the meals, but there'll be civilian service for officers AND enlisted men, with no dishes to wash, no floors to scrub, no sloppy tables to "G.I."

It's an economy measure. It was discovered that an outside firm could provide better meals at less expense than the Air Base itself. Which merely points up the inefficiency of a military organization. With hundreds of men idle most of the time, serving out a sentence in preparation for a war the top politicians may not be able to maneuver us into in spite of their frantic efforts, it seems strange that cooks, waiters, dish washers, etc., can be hired, food prepared and served--at a profit for some civilian firm--cheaper than the Government can do it.

Yet there have been parallel instances in the past. On Operation Crossroads, the Bikini atomic bomb experiments of 1946, more than $100,000,000 was spent to detonate and photograph two atomic bombs. A better job could have been done for one-tenth of this sum by even one of the "B" picture companies from Hollywood. It was no secret among military personnel that the pictures made by the Army Air Force of the A-blasts in 1946 and the preparations for it were far inferior to pre-explosion pictures made by a newsreel company.

In the name of economy--if the administration REALLY is interested in lightening the tax burden--maybe somebody will come up with the idea of fighting the next war by contract: give the contract to win the war to a low-bidding civilian firm and let them make the plans and hire needed personnel. It's certain experienced gunners wouldn't be pounding typewriters, typists picking up twigs and cigaret butts off the grass in the "Officers' Quarters", and cooks and dish washers operating the armament.

Besides, if it were a game as well as a job--instead of enforced servitude under incompetent rank-happies--winning a war might be fun.

SICK ITUR AD ASTRA

"A hypochrondiac", according to Will Roth in The FLITTER, "is a fellow who can't leave well enough alone. He has also been called a person with a sick sense."

A "Rev." Braxton B. Sawyer, who calls himself an "Anti-nudist evangelist", seeks laws in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas to outlaw nudism, which he admits does not now exist. Anyone know a better way to make nudism popular?

Scientology Council

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:56:23 +0000

June 1954

Scientology Council

621 South Oxford Avenue
Los Angeles 5. Calif.

BLOWING OUR RIDGES!

HARDIN WALSH says that he would like to clamber out on a long theta limb and predict that Duplication is SCIENTOLOGY's secret weapon - and - that L. RON will develop some tree-e-e-e-mendous super colossal engram eliminators along these lines. We've done some experimental work on this but RON and ONLY RON is the RON to give us the way down below and above, duplicities of DUPLICATION. What we need is more DUPLICATION OF: GOOD AUDITORS - GOOD AUDITING - GOOD AUDITORS - GOOD AUDITING - JOANNA - GOOD AUDITORS - GOOD AUDITING - MONEY - GOOD P. C.'s - JOANNA - GOOD AUDITORS - and LRH........AND OLD DEVIL AORTA.

Would certainly recommend "CERTAINTY". The H. A. S. of London will accept your order. The most information for the least money, in magazine form. All schools and groups should stock extra copies to sell and give away. Gives information about Scientology in industry - schools - the professions, etc. Practical well written processing suggestions. Let's all write these high-toned English Scientologists our vote of thanks!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

AN ENTIRELY NEW METHOD FOR SUCCESSFUL SELF PROCESSING --

Since our first tentative announcements we have received many letters asking "How soon will they be ready?" Here's our answer:

Due to the high cost of printing, at present we just do not have the money to publish them without help - so we are offering you a part in this project.

FOR JUST 30 DAYS we are offering the set at a pre-publication reduced price of $2.50. These cards do no good to anyone while they are laying around on sheets of paper gathering dust.

WE KNOW THEIR VALUE! SO DO YOU! In order to make them available right away, when they are greatly needed, we are making this offer.

The SIX STEPS was chosen because it is a basic security technique. With this new system of auditing cards, the Six Steps become an even stronger tool for clearing. The Six Steps, in themselves, make a complete processing plan, and is an unlimited technique. A person using them for only 1/2 hr. each day will find himself going steadily up scale, and maintaining a constant high tone. It is designed to extrovert and stabilize a person and thus enable him to enjoy good health, well being, and ultimate clearing. With the card auditing system it is impossible to overlook any part of this important material. Handling the cards furnish a constant method for remaining in present time. Even persons who have been completely unable to process themselves report that this card system has cleared up that problem.

The regular retail price for this set of 208 cards and instruction booklet will be- - - $3.00, plus tax in Calif. FOR JUST 30 DAYS we are offering this special so we can get them in print. $2.50. Process out the time lag - SEND YOUR ORDER IN TODAY. Additional discount to groups or quantity buyers of 20% for five or more sets.

Scientologically
Joanna

It's So Simple to Audit, Phoenix Congress Told

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

July-August 1954

It's So Simple to Audit, Phoenix Congress Told

Auditors, who have spent months and years -- plus large sums in tuition fees -- learning to be a competent Scientologist, were told at the Phoenix Congress June 5 to 8 just how simple it all is.

All an auditor need have his preclear do, L. Ron Hubbard said, is:

1. Duplicate anything he's looking at

2. Spot some spots in space, and

3. Remedy havingness.

This concatenation, Mr. Hubbard said, makes you an auditor.

For really tough cases, you have the preclear BE a problem, and BE others who are BEing problems. Below the "tough case level", you have the preclear find out what he can BE until he gets a certainty.

This technique, Mr. Hubbard said, linked with "Technique 30", will -- even in the hands of beginners -- get results far and above the fondest expectations of the most experienced auditors using the most advanced techniques back in the days of Dianetics.

Technique 30 has as its basic application the principle of Opening Procedure. In Technique 30, the preclear picks spots on opposite walls, or selects two dissimilar objects at some distance from each other in the room, and walks from one spot or object to the other at the auditor's command. He is told to put his finger on the spot, or pick up the object, tell its color, weight, and temperature, and in the case of the article, replace it in exactly the same location it was before he picked it up. Then he goes to the opposite article, or spot, and the procedure is repeated. This continues for hours, if necessary, with the command unvarying, until the preclear comes up through the entire tone scale, from apathy about the assignment to anger, antagonism, and finally, he should even get to the point where he's cheerful about carrying out the commands. There's not supposed to be even fatigue (for the preclear) no matter how long the process is continued.

Mr. Hubbard said that the symbol "30" to designate this technique was chosen because of its connotation among communications workers -- especially radio and news men -- where "30" long has been accepted as meaning "finish" or "the end". This ends a long chain of 8's and combinations of 8's started more than a year ago which linked infinity (oo) and the thetan (o). Few present at the Congress were ready to believe that Mr. Hubbard means this in its full sense and that there will be no new techniques. Instead, they interpret the use of "30" as applying to the fact auditing now is directed toward the Third Dynamic instead of the First, and the Thetan (o) still is an important consideration in all processing.

In being an auditor, Mr. Hubbard said, don't put the spot in pictures, but in actual places in the physical universe. Check the distance and direction, for example, of the school room, and put the spot in the room -- not in a picture of the room. This brings the spots up to present time.

If the preclear starts feeling ill while running this process, have him mock up his body doing "what it wants to do -- flopping out of control and vomiting".

The only time an auditor fails is when he doesn't wait long enough on extended communication lags. It may be minutes, or even hours, Mr. Hubbard said, before a preclear has the answer to an auditor's command, and the case will be retarted to the amount the auditor interrupts, either from a mistaken belief the preclear isn't cooperating, or because the auditor believes he must earn his money and act professional.

Viewpoint Straight Wire, Mr. Hubbard said, is still a potent process, but isn't recommended for groups because of the (Turn Page)

It's So Simple to Audit, Phoenix Congress Told (continued)

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

July-August 1954

long communication lags. While one Preclear might be ready for the next command within seconds or minutes, another would bog down for even as much as an hour or possibly more.

Each question is asked over and over until there no longer is a lag in answering.

Finding three spots in the room and three spots in the body alternately will bring exteriorization, Mr. Hubbard said, if the auditor will remedy havingness in between. This is done by finding out what the Preclear thinks he can have, and altering its quality until the mock-up of the object snaps into the body. The mock-up can be dim or flimsy, and doesn't even have to concern an object the Preclear or auditor thinks is bothering the Preclear. The main thing, in running havingness, is to get mass, not quality.

Mr. Hubbard said that you'd only have to print the first section of the First Book and add a short chapter on Havingness to bring the book up to date with modern techniques. He stated that you could run an engram by mocking up its duplicate and bringing it in on the Preclear -- whether he's in the body or exteriorized. "If a Black V would mock up black planets and pull them in on him, he'd start getting mock-ups. This is Dianetics, come to life," Mr. Hubbard said.

The less specific you are, the better: after an accident, it isn't necessary to spot the scene or the car -- you even could have him mock up the Empire State Building and pull that in on him.

In one of his lectures, Mr. Hubbard dwelt at length on changes in his Theta-MEST theory, stating that theta is the solver of problems, while MEST is a problem to be solved.

"When Mother says 'You're a Problem', she's saying 'You're the physical universe'," Hubbard said.

The auditor-preclear set-up is the auditor is being theta and there to solve problems, while the preclear has set himself up as MEST and a problem to be solved. Your only chance to help him is to bring him to the point where he's a solver of his own problems.

If you can understand this Theta-MEST theory, Mr. Hubbard said, your own case will start to break up.

The willingness to grant beingness and the ability to duplicate and the ability to heal are parallel, Mr. Hubbard said.

"The new technique is entirely toward the Third Dynamic," Mr. Hubbard explained in an interview after the lectures. "The body itself is a problem in the Third Dynamic." Opening Procedure has busted the difference between having Scientology and not having Scientology."

Paralleling the lecture on how simple auditing can be was the distribution to Congress delegates of Issue 31-G of The JOURNAL, which was made up of an article by Jack Horner, entitled "Any Two People Can Do It". This outlines, in a few easy exercises, a complete auditing procedure.

Possible Market for E-Meters?

Lie detector tests tried on full-blooded Indians show absolutely no reaction, Dr. W. H. Donahue, director of Oklahoma Mental Health, and O. K. Bivens, State Crime Bureau director, reported recently. Donahue credits the even graph, which has no quivers whatever, to the Indians' "stoic nature."

Donahue said the lie detectors used depended on blood pressure, respiration, pulse, and palm sweat. None of these showed any changes.

This is only true of full-blooded Indians, the director said. Those with mixed blood show definite reactions.

Because we forgot to mention a price in our last issue, some thought the NOTES ON THE DOCTORATE COURSE are now $25. That's only the next-to-the-last copy -- when we get that low. They're still $7.50 as long as they last.

150 At Phoenix Congress | Californians Set Up Auditing "Bank"

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

July-August 1954

150 At Phoenix Congress

More than 150 persons, from all parts of the United States, were in attendance at the June Congress of Scientologists held in Phoenix June 5 to 8.

At the end of the Congress, L. Ron Hubbard announced that the $3,827 in receipts from delegates would be used to publish a new book on Scientology, designed for the public as well as the professional auditor. Each of the delegates was promised an autographed copy of the first edition.

The audience was divided into six groups for morning and evening seminars and group processing. These, together with their group leaders, follow:

John Galusha, leader -- Barbara Pool, John McCormick, Evans Farber, Dick Halpern, Miriam St. Georges, J. M. Brand, Tido Churchill, Ross Lamoreaux, Jessie Hampton, Robert Nichols, Stanley Stromfield, Rebecca Jones, O.P. Reese, Julia Barenburg, Myra Carlock, Will Roth, Elda Ilger, Ken Cline, Dorothy Shoop, Catherine Hagin, Ellen Carder, Frank Dake, James Struckmeyer, Mrs. A. B. Marshall, Dorothy Woodgate, Harold Cohn, Alphia Hart.

Dick Steves, leader -- Wayne Dunbar, Geo. Schuler, Julia Lewis, Mary Stimpert, Mrs. August Vogt, Clifford Carnahan, Doug. Simcoe, Patricia Buckan, Daniel Rutenberg, Margaret Scholtz, Verda Kile, Mrs. Flatow, Gertrude Burns, Warren Amster, James Vanjo, Freddie Sutton, Beatrice Beattie, Peggy Conway, Ann Sharpe, Jon Kenworthy, Elsie Shannon, Ethel Adler, Don Schaffer, George Montgomery.

Jack Horner, leader -- Andy Anderson, Russell Goodwin, Richard Powell, Vonne Kathary, Joan Rocke, Herbert Strafello, Carole Yeager, Frank Silver, Tam Owen, Dr. Allan, Warren Collins, George Seidler, Evelyn McGee, Alfred Kozak, Howard Hamilton, Ester Gill, Charles Brown, Irene Kale, Marianna Adams, Anne Pfanner, Melvin Wells, Ethel Esthole, Herbert Williams, Mrs. Harriet Basista, Arthur Kainalika.

Carol Hadley, leader -- Jan Halpern, Lynn Lamoreaux, Harold Snell, Dale Kathary, Harry Ralph, Ruth Roderick, Lee Burgess, Dr. Daphalouis, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Allan, Walter Pearson, Jennie Movitt, Dr. J. Burton Farber, Mary Majiske, Carroll Hennick, Tom Lovejoy, Inga Dake, Jean Struckmeyer, Ed McCormick, Robert Tolman, Clem Johnson, A. B. Marshall, Anne Mandell.

Bob Sutton, leader -- Mrs. Wayne Dunbar, Laura Webster, David Murray, August Vogt, Thomas Carnahan, Ester Matthews, Rick Walker, Harry Crass, James Kile, Fred Frank, Nell Barton, Ruth Wynne, Jesse Pierce, Mrs. Warren Amster, Al Stecker, Arthur McGlinskey, Osborne Cahon, Jeanette Barieau, Leo Stauter, Bud Eubanks, Bob Shannon, Grant Pool, Dodie Schaffer, Mrs. George Montgomery.

Ken Barrett, leader -- John Cooley, Edna Klatzko, Pedro Gotay, Al Duval, Mrs. Robert Nichols, Mrs. Ted Best, Richard Ferg, James Workman, John Farrell, Bob Churchill, Gilbert Bentley, Maxine Savant, Ellen Beall, Pearl Hennick, Fernando Estrada, Gordon Gill, Sandra Kellogg, Betty Young, Nile Adams, Margie McCormick, Estella Castenada, Duch Johnson, Inez Graf, Frank English, Adele Mazurek.

(Note -- The ABERREE assumes no responsibility for those who told wives or husbands they were present, and weren't -- or for names that are misspelled. Alas, we had to interpret Henrietta Hubbard's writing, and our own scribbling after we got home.)

Californians Set Up Auditing "Bank"

An auditing "bank", in which auditors may make arrangements for a package of 5, 10, or 20 hours' processing, has been set up by the California Association of Dianetic Auditors. In return, each member of the bank agrees to give as many hours of processing to another member of the bank as he receives.

Several auditors, some of whom are rated tops in their class, already have subscribed to the bank. Associates also are listed whose activities are limited to reading Self-Analysis to a preclear.

According to the rules, the auditor can transfer his "credits" to another member of his family.

We Did It To Ourselves -- Nobody Did It for Us | Out of the West - CAME the DAWN

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

September 1954

The ABERREE

SEPTEMBER 1954

published at Enid, Okla., U.S.A. Volume 1, Number 5

We Did It To Ourselves -- Nobody Did It for Us

By TRAH NIKA

(A nom de plume in Scientology is a name you use to write about yourself when you don't want your readers to know you're writing about yourself.)

Some say Alphia Hart is stubborn. If they are kinder, or want something from him, they say he's persistent.

About 24 1/2 years ago, the Rev. Hart bought the idea that everyone has at least ONE novel in his system. So he wrote a novel. Editors were of one mind; if there was a novel in Dr. Hart (then Mr.)

(It's all on Pg. 6)

Out of the West - CAME the DAWN

"An Invitation to Freedom" has been sent to 5,000 homes in the Phoenix area as the opening shot in "Operation Phoenix", a direct mail campaign with the aim of expanding knowledge of and promoting Scientology.

The "Invitation", which is made up in the form of a magazine called THE GOLDEN DAWN, stresses the religious angle of Scientology, and assures the reader

(Go West -- to Pg. 13.)

How ESPY Is a Clear? a 'Black V?'

Results of an extrasensory perception test, made of delegates to the June Congress in Phoenix, show an average of 1.875, slightly under the national average of 2.0, according to figures released by Fred Frank HDA, who made the test.

Frank, who used a machine with the standard ESP cards, sees no significance in the delegates' failure to exceed, or even equal, the average. "I would say there were an awful lot of resisters," Frank said. "I don't mean resistive V's, but

(To Those with No ESP, You Can LOOK on Pg. 5)

If You 'Know HOW to Know,' What of 'WHAT You Know'?

By RICHARD DEMILLE

Scientology, the science of knowing how to know, oddly enough, is not much concerned with what is known. It is concerned with methods for improving the quality of knowing.

Each of us has a universe which is filled chock full of old facsimiles and which contains a big lump of trouble which is our experience of the real universe. Historians may take an interest in these old facsimiles; geographers, physicists, and astronomers may take an interest in that big lump; but Scientologists take an interest in something more pervading and more technical.

In the universe of each of us, much of the content is in a condition known as occlusion and unresponsibility. The individual has a mind full

(To learn what the mind is full of, see Page 4.)

How Well Is Scientology Defined?

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

September 1954

The ABERREE

Published in the Dark of the Moon -- 6 to 12 moons a year -- at 207 N. Washington, Enid, Okla.

Editor: The Rev. Mr. Dr. ALPHIA OMEGA HART, D.Scn., F.Scn., B.Scn., D.D., H.C.A., H.D.A.

Publisher: AGNES JOHNSON HART, HCA, WFE., SEC., H.Kpr., ETC.

POLICY -- Don't take it so damn' seriously.

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Vol. 1, No. 5 September, 1954

HOW WELL IS SCIENTOLOGY DEFINED?

"Scientology," L. Ron Hubbard has said repeatedly, "is the science of knowing how to know". And parrot-like every writer since has repeated this original definition.

The science of knowing how to know what?

Apparently, that depends on whose universe is being used as a point of reference -- your own, the other fellows', or the MEST universe.

There is a MEST universes because we -- far back on the Time Track -- agreed there would be, and by now, it's pretty much the same for all of us, depending on our place on the Tone Scale.

We know the earth isn't solid that a bar of iron is merely mocked-up atoms whirling about in mocked-up points of dimension. Yet, despite our "knowing how to know", we can be as badly bruised by bumping into this bar of iron as the person who "knows" that "there ain't no space in a bar of iron -- it's solid".

Our own universe is the certainty we have at any given moment, which is the result of training, environment, immediate stimuli, and the trillions of years of experience behind us. Much of that experience is occluded to us, yet the postulates and decisions we've made along the Track and apparently forgotten have much to do with what we think we should know.

Maybe the key to why Scientologists can't do all they should be able to do is hidden in the broadness of this definition of Scientology itself. If Scientology is actually KNOWING HOW TO KNOW, what would happen if any one of us ever should become a Scientologist?

There probably are a thousand -- more or less -- adherents to Scientology in the world, yet no two of them can reach complete agreement on the subject of Scientology. Mr. Hubbard said -- in lectures before the June Congress in Phoenix -- that he was amazed at the stupidity of the Clinical Course students -- yet he had carefully selected from applicants for the course some of the best auditors in Scientology. In other words, these auditors, with three to four years' training behind them, neither KNEW nor did they know HOW TO KNOW.

Most of us have experienced violent shifts in viewpoint over periods of time -- sometimes years or maybe within days or minutes. We are positive in our convictions. Today, if we remember or are told of our convictions of yesterday, we shrug it off, or invalidate it as a mirage.

When do you know? And what do you have to know to know that what you now know is what you should know? If John Jones KNOWS that "God is in his heaven and all's right with the world", and Henry Smith KNOWS that "God" is a mere mock-up we use to control, or to escape responsibility for our own actions, which one KNOWS? You'll

The Eighth Dynamic - An Insoluble Solvent

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

September 1954

THE EIGHTH DYNAMIC - AN INSOLUBLE SOLVENT

Scientology's entrance recently into processing on the Third Dynamic brings up again the Dianetic-old question: Which Dynamic, if any, is the most important?

Sigmund Freud -- although he had his own terminology -- apparently gave most altitude to the Second Dynamic. Early in Dianetics, with much of the "field" stressing self-determinism as the end-goal, the First Dynamic dominated.

In the Doctorate Course, L. Ron Hubbard says the eight dynamics apply only to this universe. Outside this universe are the Dynamics of "aesthetics" and "ethics".

Reverting to Ron's revised theta-MEST theory (as given at the June Congress in Phoenix) that "MEST is a problem to be solved and theta is a solver of problems", then, apparently, the eight dynamics are MEST -- and a thetan's self-imposed problems. Since the Eighth Dynamic is infinity, it also would be the only one of the dynamics that could apply outside the MEST universe as well as in.

According to this path of logic, there actually can be nothing outside the Eighth Dynamic, if the Eighth Dynamic is true infinity. In the accompanying sketch, we have theta as a Figure "8" operating in the MEST universe through the First Dynamic. Appended to the First Dynamic are the intermediate six: Sex, or Family; Group; Mankind; Life Forms; Material Universe; Thought Forms. None of these is important except where they concern the "problem".

You mocked up the problem -- and the problem is MEST. Therefore, when you realize that the problem is yours and you have the solution, good-bye MEST. And good-bye, too, to most of the dynamics.

You are your own mystery. Any of you little enigmas want to try explaining yourselves?

find both "philosophies" practicing Scientology.

Any ten of us can be posted on a street corner where an accident will occur, yet no two will come away with identical versions of what happened during that brief interval of time. And the science of semantics is such that one who hadn't seen the accident wouldn't "see" the same picture being given him by any one who had been present. By the very act of telling and interpreting, a new version of what had "happened" would be injected into the test.

Scientology is the science of knowing HOW to know -- not knowing how to KNOW. At this stage of its development -- the Third Dynamic -- we are tapping the fringes -- finding out that within us is a power of knowingness that can't be measured or analyzed. However, with this knowledge, comes the danger that we will accept for fact the aberrated mockups that come to the uncleared and partly cleared.

When we reach a state of absolute knowingness -- where there is incontroversial proof that what we then know is absolute and positive -- we'll no longer be part of this universe.

Mr. Hubbard said in June -- in revising his theta-MEST theory -- that MEST is problem to be solved, and theta is a solver of problems. If we KNOW, we no longer have a problem. And if MEST is a problem, and we no longer have a problem, then we no longer have MEST.

MAYBE that's why we know all there is to know about money. But there must be something wrong with our theory somewhere, because money still is a problem to us.

As far as that goes, so is Scientology.

What of 'WHAT You Know?" | New Definition Proposed

Kristi — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:57 +0000

September 1954

What of 'WHAT You Know?

(Off Page 1. You still with us?)

of things he cannot see or control. Scientology offers methods for altering that condition. It offers theory, procedure and drills for the application of attention to one's universe, in order to change it to something more acceptable.

If this were carried to the ultimate point, the individual would be absolutely clear, needing no universe at all, and particularly no real universe. Knowing would be with a capital K, and there would be nothing to know. Such a being would have no more use for a science of knowing than a ghost would have for a medical doctor. We are reasonably sure that none of the Scientology community has reached this pinnacle. Some, however, have unoccluded and taken responsibility for their universes to a degree which permits considerable rearrangement of the content and, through this, of the real world around them. This is an admirable effect: all by itself, it makes Scientology worth while for these people.

Others, instead of applying the methods of Scientology to their own universes, to improve them, have forsaken their own universes and have moved into a special universe created by L. Ron Hubbard as an experimental laboratory for the development of Scientology. Here, they worship the god 0. T., play ceremonial tapes, and set out to conquer a "real" universe which is real only in their special laboratory universe.

Scientology contains methods for solving problems, but it will not solve these problems unless it is applied to them. It cannot be applied in a vacuum. It cannot be applied with any result in a false-front universe. Rote exercises, for example, are good, as rifle practice is good: they teach one to load, aim, and fire. But there will be nothing in the pot unless we bring the rifle to bear upon an edible target. "Knowing how to know -- what?" is another way of saying, "Shooting at what?"

Mock-up and no-mock-up drills, by sheer volume and variety, bring the rifle to bear upon many targets, but the confirmed neurotic can always keep the prime target, his main activated delusion, out of range. Only when his goal to have that delusion changes will he allow the sights to swing over. Many of those who attend session after session of group processing are working on their courage to let the sights swing over. Eventually, some of them may make it. The drills help in this by cutting away minor problems and by educating the individual into a more

New Definition Proposed

Some people ask too many questions. For example, when we told a questioner that Scientology was "the science of knowing how to know", he, only 13, asked "Knowing how to know what?"

We pondered that a bit, wrote an Auditorial (see Page 2), and when that failed to satisfy us, we wrote Richard deMille, asking him the same question. Dick, wh wrote the 50 Professional Course Booklets under the name of D. Folgere, the popular "Introduction to Scientology", and has been publicly rated by L. Ron Hubbard as one of the top auditors, proposed a new definition:

"SCIENTOLOGY: A study and theory of being which provides methods for the application of attention to one's own universe (one's mind) for the purpose of re-ordering and impoving that universe."

Dick added that he wasn't too pleased with the new definition, but thought it better than the old.

Also, he wrote the accompanying article for The ABERREE. You might as well read it; it costs nothing extra, and you might get a good idea or two from it.

We Did It to Ourselves | Road Show Ends Tour of West; Soon to Go Abroad

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September 1954

We Did It to Ourselves --

(Page 1 Was So-o-o-o Short.)

it still was there.

The first draft was 45,321 words. After it had gathered dust a few years, Writer Hart added a few thousand words and came out with a second draft. This, too, cost postage two ways.

In the intervening years, the novel has been rewritten a dozen times. It got new chapters, new characters, new incidents. It got kind words from friends and publishers. But no covers.

Dr. Hart, we repeat, is a stubborn, persistent theta carrier. He was determined that his book would be printed, even though it no longer was the book he'd first written. And as a result, his postage bill got so large that Uncle Sam was able to build 179 atomic bombs and American Railway Express had enough money to buy out Wells-Fargo.

A writer friend of his borrowed the bound carbon copy of the first draft, and was so hilariously amused that the Rev. Hart took up Dianetics to run out his injuries. Instead, auditors pick-axed his Time Track, and discovered there had been a time when his was a name in the writing world to be reckoned with.

Dr. Hart, as we've said once or twice before, is a stubborn man. He's also persistent. And when he audited himself up to self-determinism, there was only one outcome possible: He'd publish the novel himself. And he did.

Harnessing his bride to a typewriter and a mimeograph, he waded in ink, stencils, and paper until SCRUB OAKS was no longer a dog-eared manuscript. There were 93,538 -- plus or minus -- words, and with all the decorations and doodads of publishing, there were 336 pages to be fed through that balky duplicator. After printing, they had to be checked, folded, collated, and the sections assembled. But we won, Maw, and now his weary wife can sit down and admire her successful writer-husband because he's had a book published. Now, the Rev. Mr. Dr. Writer Etc. Hart says, if he can only sell the blamed things, maybe they can pay off the mortgage and buy some cornmeal. His favorite food, he insists, is fried mush.

And that's what he'll have -- come Hades or flood -- because he's a stubborn man.

Road Show Ends Tour of West; Soon to Go Abroad

Taking its cue from the old-time "medicine show", Scientology has gone on the road.

Missing only is the bed of a truck, the gasoline torch, and the bottles of colored liquid "that will heal any ailment of man or beast" that are passed through the crowd.

The Scientology Road Show, which got its inception shortly after the June Conference in Phoenix, has just completed a successful test tour through Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and San Diego. Made up of five auditors, the audience (which isn't corralled from passers-by on the street attracted by the noise) is given brief explanations of what Scientology is how it works, and group processing. A light, humorous slant is stressed to make the two-hour session entertaining as well as helpful and informative. Group or personal auditing can be arranged for those wanting to learn more or wanting help.

According to John Farrell, business manager for the group, not only are they stirring up interest among the general public but some Dianeticists and Scientologists are having their confidence and enthusiasm restored.

The group left Phoenix on August 9 for New York, booking appearances en route. According to the schedule, they are due in Enid on September 1 and in Wichita, Kas., the day following. After New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., they will take the Road Show to England and South Africa.

Members of the group, in addition to Farrell, are Lee Burgess, Ted Otteson, Tam Owen Otteson, and Margaret Scholtze.