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Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

Scientology provides the following definition for STATIC.

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Scientology Technical Dictionary

“STATIC, 1. a static is something without mass, without wavelength, without time, and actually without position. That’s a static and that is the definition of zero.”

A static has no physical attributes. It is zero in terms of MEST. But it has qualitative attributes. 

“STATIC, 2. a static by definition, is something that is in a complete equilibrium. It isn’t moving and that’s why we’ve used the word static. Not in an engineering sense but in its absolute dictionary sense.”

Static has no motion. It is in complete equilibrium in an absolute sense.

“STATIC, 3. an actuality of no mass, no wave-length, no position in space or relation in time, but with the quality of creating or destroying mass or energy, locating itself or creating space, and of re-relating time.”

Static is not MEST but it has the ability to postulate MEST and manipulate it.

“STATIC, 4 . something which has no motion. The word is from the Latin, sto meaning stand. No part of mest can be static, but theta is static. Theta has no motion. Even when the mest it controls is moving in space and time, theta is not moving, since theta is not in space or time.”

In Scientology, theta is the mathematical symbol assigned to Static. Hubbard is setting up Static (theta) as an absolute that has no motion, but which controls all motion.

“STATIC, 5. has no motion, it has no width, length, breadth, depth; it is not held in suspension by an equilibrium of forces; it does not have mass; it does not contain wave-lengths; it has no situation in time or space.”

Motion is the property of MEST. Static is not MEST and it has no motion, but it controls all motion of MEST.

STATIC, 6. the simplest thing there is is a static, but a static is not nothingness. These are not synonyms. We speak of it carelessly as a nothingness. That’s because we say nothingness in relationship to the space and objects of the material universe. Life has a quality. It has an ability. When we say nothingness we simply mean it has no quantity. There is no quantitative factor.

Static represents quality and ability.

“STATIC, 7. a static, in physics, is called something which is ‘an equilibrium of forces.’” 

Physics deals with the material and physical aspects of the universe. In physics, a material object is considered “static” only when it is not accelerating. In other words, there is no net force acting on the object because all external and internal forces are in equilibrium.  

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Subject Clearing

“Static” is a postulate of Hubbard on which the subject of Scientology rests. Static has no motion or quantitative attributes. It represents qualitative attribute of pure ability. This makes Static something knowable relative to the Unknowable. Therefore, to call Static an absolute is an anomaly. This anomaly is resolved by the concept of Unknowable.

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The Unknowable

What religions generally refer to as “God” is actually unknowable, because neither the cause nor the beginning of this universe is knowable. Religions only make postulates in an effort to know the Unknowable, but we end up knowing the postulates only. Any quality or attribute of the Unknowable is a postulate.

The Unknowable forms the background. In this background the knowable appears as postulates. The knowable expands as postulates are followed by reasoning. But, no matter how much we know, there is always something more to know. There is an unbridgeable division between the Knowable and the Unknowable. The Unknowable is the absolute. See The KHTK Factors.

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