Reference: SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008
This paper presents Section 36 from the book SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 by
L.
RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original
publication of this book by The Church of Scientology (1952).
The paragraphs of the original material
(in black) are accompanied by brief comments (in color) based on the present
understanding. Feedback on these comments is appreciated.
The heading below is linked to
the original materials.
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Epistemology
has long been the senior study of philosophy; Scientology is itself the science
of knowing how to know.
Scientology acknowledges Buddhism and Vedas as its oldest ancestors.
The
study of knowledge is, in essence, in the MEST universe, a study of data. Data
in the MEST universe are usually recorded in facsimiles. Thus one can go in two
directions toward knowledge. The first is knowing what one is, and the second
is knowing what has happened to one in the MEST universe and searching for
identity in the MEST universe.
All perceptions are broken down into their elements and
assimilated into a mental matrix to minimize duplication. This matrix then
provides memories as facsimiles through a recombination of these elements in
real time. It also provides conclusions and answers in the form of ideas. The description
of this matrix structure is one level of knowledge. The output of facsimiles from
this matrix structure is another level of knowledge.
There
is no more tragic track than the sordid ransacking of facsimiles to discover
TRUTH for all one discovers is what is true for the MEST universe. This
wandering and endless trail is bleak with the bones of lost beingness. Earlier
explorers have, almost without exception, destroyed themselves in this search
for TRUTH in the MEST universe, for all they discovered was further and further
agreement and more and more facsimiles and all they achieved as individuals
were the traps and snake-pits of implants on the whole track.
Searching for an identity and tracing back its history in this
universe simply sinks one into the morass of facsimiles. The truth of what one
is does not exist at this level of knowledge.
To
stand at last near the heights of discovered beingness has withered the sadness
of standing on other men’s bitter and, until now, probably unrewarded search.
It was necessary to ransack the facsimiles, which are themselves one’s sole
inheritance for travail in the MEST universe, to discover the common
denominators of facsimiles and to discover that they were only facsimiles, how
they were created and how experience was impressed upon the individual. One
might well have the feeling of having narrowly escaped a terrible tragedy when
he views the thinness on which he stood to view this brink of oblivion, for it
was obviously never intended that anyone should recover from participation or
even spectatorship in or of the game called MEST universe. Dante’s inscription
above the portals of Hell might very well be written best on the gates of
entrance into this universe.
But the discovery of the matrix structure of perceptual elements
as the underlying level of knowledge has been worth it. That is closer to what
one is.
The
common denominator of all difficulty an individual has in the MEST universe may
be summed up under the heading “facsimiles.” Originally, in his own universe,
he used the mechanism of energy creation to make objects. In the MEST universe
this ability reduces to the use of energy solely for the recording of data
about the MEST universe so that one can agree with that data. And in this
process lies death, not only as a body periodically but as a thetan.
A study of this matrix structure tells us that non-assimilated perceptions
exist by themselves as unassimilated nodes. The content of these nodes is not available
to the awareness of assimilated matrix. Thus there are holes in awareness.
These holes lead to never ending speculations. This is the common denominator
of all difficulties.
What
has commonly been mistaken for knowledge has been the MEST universe track of
seeking agreement with the MEST universe by discovering all possible data about
what one should do in order to agree with the MEST universe. The more data one
achieved, the more facsimiles he had; the more facsimiles he had, the more MEST
he was. It was necessary to win through this trap in order to recognize,
isolate and evaluate the common denominators of facsimiles, and to discover
that self-created energy has been utilized to enforce agreement upon oneself so
as to enslave one’s beingness and lead it to its final destruction.
Discovering of the matrix structure of the mind is similar to a physicist wading through tremendous amount of physical phenomena to come up with physical principles that enable us to fly through air, etc. The level of knowledge based on facsimiles need to be assimilated to come up with the level of knowledge required to understand the mind.
So the two levels of knowledge are: (a) raw unassimilated facsimiles, and (b) assimilated knowledge. When raw unassimilated facsimiles enter unawares into one’s computation, all kinds of difficulties are generated. Unassimilated facsimiles enter computationswhen accidents, shocks and injuries exist as unassimilated nodes.
No
adventure in the MEST universe can exceed the adventure of making orderly
anatomy from the chaos of commingled matter, energy and space which comprise
the planets, galaxies and island universes of this Black Beyond which awaited
to devour the universe self-constructed of any thetan or group of thetans. The
slaying of a roaring beast of fire held in it, in olden times, less action and
danger.
These
lines are not written from any self-congratulatory motive, for fame is a rock.
But by these lines the auditor may be impressed by the actuality of what he
handles, and so that he can appreciate his own gallantry in fronting an,
adversary of such insentient brutality.
It is true that the mental research is much trickier than the
physical research.
The
road to knowledge led through the anatomy of the space and energy masses called
the MEST universe. The data did not lie in the MEST universe. The ransacking of
facsimiles for data about one’s identity, about one’s “past history” in the
MEST universe, should be tolerated by the auditor only insofar as it gives him
materials for creative processing. He should never directly begin the direct
processing of facsimiles, whether engrams or secondaries, save only in the case
of an assist. He needs only to know so much of a preclear’s beingness on the
whole track to know what to mock up for the preclear’s running.
The universe is made up of substance and motion. This substance
is dense and rigid at material level and its motion follows the laws of
mechanics. The substance sheds away much of its density and rigidity at the quantum
level and the laws of quantum mechanics become much more complicated. Such
research has yet to be done systematically for the thought level. The thought
facsimiles must be assimilated to yield the laws of thought mechanics. The
auditing of the mind should never focus on raw facsimiles.
The
difficulty the preclear is having is not so much the content of various
facsimiles but, on this high echelon of Scientology on which we are now
operating, the fact that he has
facsimiles. The path of better techniques is the path toward permitting the
preclear to step away from all his facsimiles.
The path of better techniques is the path toward permitting the
person to assimilate these facsimiles more rapidly.
The
track to knowledge, then, has two directions. It is possible at this time to
take the better path. The essence of true knowledge is the essence of existing
so that one can create beingnesses and data to know. All other data are junior
to this.
The essence of true knowledge is assimilating the raw data into
a consistent and cohesive understanding.
A
control operation of some magnitude was once perpetrated in the late 18th
century. It was stated with great authority that anything worth knowing would
always be beyond the bounds of human experience. This sought, knowingly or
unknowingly, further to block the search for beingness. It should never be
considered by anyone or under any circumstances that anything which can affect
him could be beyond his ability to know the full nature of what he is
experiencing. If any lesson is contained in Scientology, it is the lesson that
the gates to all knowingness are open.
It is not true that anything worth knowing would always be
beyond the bounds of human experience
One
should have the knowledge of the composition of the MEST universe as a fox
might have use for the knowledge of a trap. It is cruelty to make a theta clear
without at the same time educating him so as to permit him to avoid those
pitfalls which brought him where he is found—in a MEST body on a planet named
Earth (Solar System, Galaxy 13, MEST Universe).
If you want to understand the MEST universe then study Physics
and start subject clearing it. Scientology does not provide that knowledge.
Top-scale
knowing would be top-scale ability to create beingness. The identity assigned
to one by others and the data contained in facsimiles are knowingness not worth
having.
The true beingness shall come from a consistent and cohesive
understanding of the universal reality.
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FINAL COMMENTS
One knows fully only when one is looking from a universal viewpoint.
Any lesser viewpoint adds subjectivity. When one is subjective one may think he
knows but he doesn’t.
True knowledge is acquired through assimilation of data. As long as there are inconsistencies, the data associated with those inconsistencies is not assimilated and one doesn’t know fully.
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