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L. Ron Hubbard wrote and issued The Code of Honor in 1954. It is appropriate only when there is no fixation on self, and one is willing to sacrifice oneself to uphold the Principle of Oneness.

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Introduction

Hubbard introduces the code as follows:

“No one expects the Code of Honor to be closely and tightly followed.

“An ethical code cannot be enforced. Any effort to enforce the Code of Honor would bring it into the level of a moral code. It cannot be enforced simply because it is a way of life which can exist as a way of life only as long as it is not enforced. Any other use but self-determined use of the Code of Honor would, as any Scientologist could quickly see, produce a considerable deterioration in a person. Therefore its use is a luxury use, and which is done solely on self-determined action, providing one sees eye to eye with the Code of Honor.”

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Code of Honor

1. Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.

2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.

3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.

4. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.

5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy.

6. Never compromise with your own reality.

7. Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.

8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself desire it.

9. Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than your immediate life.

10. Your integrity to yourself is more important than your body.

11. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.

13. Don’t desire to be liked or admired.

14. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your own decisions.

15. Be true to your own goals.

This is the ethical code of Scientology, the code one uses not because he has to but because he can afford such a luxury.

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Reference: The Book of Scientology

In Scientology, the tone scale deals with beingness as thetan. Beyond the tone scale there is simply theta as the ability to postulate and become aware. The individuality (as thetan) comes about when there is identification of theta (awareness) with postulates (thought). Now there is a tone scale. 

At the top of the tone scale, the identification occurs in passing and it is never permanent. As fixation enters the picture, the beingness starts to acquire a permanence and descends down the tone scale. Thus we get the tone-scale of affinity.

The ideal state of beingness occurs at the top of tone scale that contains no fixation. But Hubbard postulates a fixation when he considers the thetan to be eternal. When a person believes that he is, or has, a soul that lives forever, he is fixated on self in some manner. This fixation makes him subject to the laws of MEST. 

Hubbard’s Scientology addresses the fixation of the body; but it disregards the fixation on self. In fact, Scientology ends up reinforcing the fixation on self. Hubbard ends up railing against the MEST universe, without ever resolving it because of his own fixation on self.

Viewpoint comes about with the postulation of dimension points. In other words, all knowingness comes about through postulation only. How the postulation occurs in the first place is unknowable. When a beingness is postulated and made the source of postulates, we have an identification of the viewpoint with the dimension point. This is the beginning of self. Fixation comes about as the self starts to think itself to be permanent.

This fixation starts to resolve as one starts to see that the postulates have a oneness of continuity, consistency and harmony. Any violation of oneness cuts across the sense of ultimate freedom. A postulate cannot stand alone arbitrarily, such as, the idea of an eternal thetan. The ultimate freedom shall consist of the freedom to have or not have a beingness.

Doingness naturally accompanies beinginess. Doingness is the changing of dimension points. At the level of thought, doingness means reasoning. At the level of energy, doingness means communicating. And, at the level of matter, doingness means working and moving physical objects around.  

Havingness naturally accompanies doingness. Havingness is the resulting arrangement of dimension points. At the level of thought, havingness means arriving at a conclusion. At the level of energy, havingness means arriving at an understanding. And, at the level of matter, havingness means having the fruits of one’s labor.  

Havingness is the goal that is aimed at. At the accomplishment of the goal the doingness ceases. Therefore, some stability and duration is associated with havingness. Here the concept of time becomes very obvious. Hubbard considers time to be an arbitrary, but, like everything else, time derives its value from the equation of oneness.

Where the doingness towards a certain havingness is forcefully interrupted, we have a ridge that lasts until it is resolved. This is a fixation of attention, which is different from a satisfied sense of havingness. All human aberrations result from the fixation of attention and not from havingness.

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Summary

To postulate is to generate thought that has substance, extents and duration. The extents are seen as space and the duration is seen as time. Hubbard erroneously believes that space exists by itself without substance. 

Furthermore, to have beingness is to identify with postulates. Hubbard erroneously believes that the beingness exists by itself without postulates or thought.

Such anomalous beliefs come about when a person thinks he knows when he doesn’t. This is the case with Scientology, It pretends to know when it doesn’t. This is because Scientology lacks the concept of the Unknowable.

How the postulates come about, we don’t know. Because all that we know is through postulates only.

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