CHAPTER 1 - CREATION
THE PRELOGICS
There is a series, numbering about five, above the level of logic and above the level of axiom. I've been calling these things the Qs (cues).
Q can be defined this way:
it is the level from which we are now viewing, which is a common denominator
to all experience which we can now view. This level acts as a common denominator
to all this experience, and the Q is the highest level from which we are
operating. This data then, these Qs, would stand behind everything else
that we do.
Q is the noble level of
definition of theta. Here we have something - that's theta - it has no
wave length, it has no position in space, any space, it has no position
in time. It hasn't any form, it hasn't any shape, but it has an individuality
for the individual and it has its own ability to be its own beingness and
it can locate things in space and time. It could not only do that, but
it can create space and time, in order to create energy and matter. Therefore
our Q is a potential. You could call it a capability.
The highest activity which
we now reach is self-determinism, in these terms: Self-determinism of theta
is the ability to locate in space and time, energy and matter; and to create
space and time with which to create and locate energy and matter.
That's number one: "Q1 -
Theta has no wave length in it, no position in time and space, has no mass,
no duration, but it has the potential or capability of locating in space
and time, energy and matter, and creating space in which to create energy
and matter." And that's all there is to it.
Someday I'll find a higher
Q or you will or somebody else will. They can do something out and beyond
and broader than that. And when that is attained, why, we'll have another
big surge forward in capabilities.
Maybe it has many more goals,
but the goals of theta which we can observe are to locate energy and matter
in space and time, and to create space that you can locate energy and matter
in.
That becomes then the high-level
function in processing, because the effort and thought of your preclear
is to attain self-determinism, and self-determinism could be said to be
an effort to attain the goal of theta.
We have then, this as our
highest level of attack. This is above the level of survival; it is above
the level of beingness; it is way above the level of action.
What we have scouted in
Scientology, what we've looked over, is the MEST universe parade of agreement
stemming from the first capability, the first Q that we can discover which
describes the capabilities of theta, as we can view them from this point.
Q1 is a truth probably a
little bit senior to any necessary for this universe, because this universe
has immediately omitted creation of space as a capability of theta.
The thetan in this universe
doesn't recognize his capability of creating space. You start to ask most
thetans, "Let's create space. Let's put out a couple of anchor points.
Now, let's swap them around." "No, no."
Here we have Q1 moving in with a vengeance into Operating Procedure. The mission, goal, activity of theta: location in space of particles and energy.
POSTULATES
The highest level cause is
a postulate. It needs no reason for existence and doesn't have to be articulated.
A postulate is a statement of condition of being. It could be more, up
to and including the materialization of objects. Postulates are a statement
of states of being which then go into effect, or don't go into effect,
as the case may be. And proceeding from postulates are bodies of knowledge
and data. In postulates, there are various abstract computations. Actually,
everything above the level of action (20.0 on the Tone Scale) - would be
in terms of abstracts.
A high theta level postulate
would be a postulate made without regard to evaluations, conclusions or
time. Postulates from a theta level do not have any order of precedence
because of a time stream. Time ceases to exist for the thetan to the degree
that he separates himself from contact with space and energy.
He can just make a postulate
and then he doesn't have to say that postulate's no longer in existence.
He just makes another one.
Postulates don't depend
upon the past. You actually don't have to change a past postulate. It's
good enough to get a new postulate. A fellow who has to address the past
is addressing energy. Time depends upon havingness and havingness depends
upon energy and space.
However, in Homo sapiens
a postulate is accompanied by evaluations and conclusions of data. In Homo
sapiens postulates are made on a time stream. He makes a postulate today
and then tomorrow he is the effect of it. This is then cause and effect
strung
out on a time stream.
He says to the garage attendant,
"Well, that jack looks pretty dangerous. I'll probably go home and jack
up that car and that jack will fall out from under and smash my hand just
as sure as shooting." He does so, and two hours later he smashes his hand
in just that fashion. Probably took a lot of arranging.
We make a postulate, and
travel along the time track with everything monitored by this postulate.
The fellow says, "I will never get rich." He never does. He says, "My health
is sort of poor." So it is. He's tailor-made himself a frame of existence
with the stimulus-response postulates born out of actually MEST universe
impressions against him.
A theta level postulate is
always senior to an associative stimulus-response postulate. A phrase can
be an enforced command, which an individual then takes as a superior command
or as his own postulate. Any decision or statement on a condition of being
can be effective on an individual.
If you're strong and tough
enough you would simply postulate that it was going to happen, and, whatever
it was, it would occur. Down scale from that you would have to go into
action and make it happen - and it would occur. Down scale from that you
would say, "I wish it would happen" - and it wouldn't occur. And down scale
from that you'd say, "Well, somebody ought to ... ".
Is there a level where the
person merely says, "Stone, move!" and the stone moves? Yes, I'm afraid
there is. But he's not there. And his soaring down the line from a state
of sublimity and efficiency into the state of being homo sapiens is the
curve of disobedience on the part of the MEST universe.
A postulate has nothing to
do with space or energy. It sits above all force, all space and all energy.
And he goes on much better if he's just handling postulates.
What refinements you get
in the techniques are the refinements of getting him up to what we already
know to be the highest level of beingness, which is in terms of postulates.
Our highest level of livingness
before space, before energy, before objects, certainly, is the postulate.
The fellow lives by making postulates.
CHANGING POSTULATES
If you make a postulate out
of no motion, no space, no geographical location, or any other influence,
why sure, you can make any postulate you please. But after you've made
a hundred thousand million postulates and you've got yourself nicely stacked
around with cycles of action and MEST and agreements and responsibilities
and subject to forces and you own this and somebody else has you, to say,
"I'm just going to sneak over here covertly and I'm holding on to all that,
but I'm going to say that I'm now self-determined as an individual, and
then I'm going to make that stick". Well, you're just invalidating yourself.
A person can't change his
postulates because they're bogged into energy. He's making them inside
of created energy, he's actually operating in a more or less solid area
when he's thinking, he's pushing particles around, so he can't change his
postulates.
So he gets something solid
that doesn't change and which is a mock-up - a symbol for the future.
When he's high up there
on the Tone Scale and can see well into the future, there's no energy.
There isn't any energy there used to think, and a person postulates, a
person decides. There is no higher decision than just saying so. You say
so and it's going to be true, therefore you say so.
When a person gets up to
a point where he starts to think with no energy, boy, things really start
to get smooth, and he starts to enjoy things in a calm, beautiful way and
he can introduce all kings of randomity, his interest level is very high,
and he does't have much liability for anything.
It is symbolical, that line
in the Bible, which says: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was
with God and the Word was God." The day when you state a postulate to begin
a universe, you are creating a god as well. And it is the god of that universe.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Freedom is lots of space
and ability to use it. Complete freedom is above the level of needing space,
and not even having to agree. That is cause itself. And you never saw cause
itself ever being worried.
Responsibility is willingness
to own or act or use or be. Cause is higher than responsibility. But when
you look at this universe, you're examining cause and effect upon a time
stream. And so you have cause being succeeded by an effect - apparently.
If every postulate the thetan has ever made is still in effect and all he can do is slightly modify the limits, you'll find him getting into a narrower and narrower sphere of action.
"There must have been a reason
or you wouldn't have done such a thing." Oh boy, that's really taking away
power out of a person's hand. You don't have to have a reason to do anything.
The "reason why" goes backward
on the time stream, cause to effect goes forward. In order to make a noise,
I drop this book here. Now a little time elapses and the book drops. (Thump!)
It becomes very evident that cause is in the past and we're the effect
of a past cause. The truth of the matter is, the cause was in the future.
Why? There's the desire to have the magazine drop, and we've got a future
drop there which is making a present cause.
I have to be an effect to
some degree in order to have a cause in the future. (Remark: in order to
have a postulate come true on a time stream).
All of your work for instance
is motivated by the future. You want to eat tomorrow, why, you work today.
So the cause is eat tomorrow and the effect is work today.
This universe has an interesting
law. It says: you cannot make an effect out of the past. The day you can
change the Roman Empire in the past by making a cause in the future, why,
you're doing all right. That would be a reversal of the whole proceedings.
We'll know much more about this when we get onto time. But just let me
say this at the moment: There isn't any past, there isn't any future.
THE MAGICIAN: A PARADIGM IN CAUSE AND EFFECT
Regarding cause and effect,
and according to Crowley's work, a magician postulates what his goal will
be before he starts to accomplish what he is doing. He would very carefully
postulate what effect he was trying to achieve before he would be cause
for that effect. He would make a statement of what he was trying to do,
and would just then initiate the steps necessary to accomplish it.
Cause and effect are handled
according to a ritual, and that ritual is what you do in order to accomplish
this goal. Each ritual is a cycle of some sort or another.
If one did not do this, one
would inevitably fall into this trap: he would become the effect of his
own cause, because what he had eventually accomplished would seem surprising
to him. And might seem desirable as an effect upon him. So he carefully
stayed out of that rat race; he had nothing further to do with it and he
would say, "You see, I achieved that effect." You start out being at cause,
and the only way you can wind up being an effect is forget that you started
this effect over here. You did it. Nobody else did it. As long as you know
you did it, you are all right.
Do not suddently pretend
that you didn't have anything to do with bringing about what you have now
found yourself surrounded with. That gives you time, and the upset of cause
and effect buries time. But the use of cause and effect brings it into
being.
Your preclear didn't postulate
what he was trying to do in the first place, so you're picking him up where
he sits, as a sort of a pawn.
UNIVERSES
1. Introduction
Universes are not necessarily parallels to the MEST universe - that's why I've never defined the word "universe". Some universes don't even have action in them. They have something else. I know of three frames positively outside this universe. They're not necessarily getting thinner or more unsubstantial but they don't run according to the same laws. "E = mc squared" won't work in them. That is not a native characteristic of energy. It just happens to be.
Every preclear is an adventure. They all have their differences, some of them are wilder than others, some of them more interesting than others. But in every one of them you are examining, first, a member of a universe in which you are also an inhabitant and, primarily, you are looking at a universe. And that universe itself might be very strangely constructed. You're not interested in how that universe is really constructed, only insofar as how that structure has been knocked to pieces and its functions disrupted by an agreement level of which you have a very adequate track.
This MEST universe is the inevitable average of agreement, the inevitable average of illusion. But I've already seen enough of universes to know that they don't run on the same laws. Every individual is perfectly capable of making one, not just a little tiny one that you keep in a jewel box - but probably pretty big. How many universes could exist? Of course the number is infinity.
2. The Own Universe
Available to you right now,
you have the MEST universe and your own universe. You also have somebody
else's universe available. The most important universe is your own, because
you can be certain of it. Mostly because you can be 100 % in control of
it. And if you start working up towards that, these other two universes
fall into line as a category.
Just start out from scratch
and train people to view things differently than they are viewing them
and they would get a different universe.
In your universe, you can
do independent thinking for a number of objects at the same time as long
as you have yourself free of a time stream.
You give them a time stream
and you move in and out of it at will.
There's a hooker in creating your own universe. You've got to be so high tone scale and so terribly self-sufficient that you are perfectly willing to be the only one that enjoys it. Otherwise you're going to go into ARC and if you go into ARC you're done. So it's the cross between the desirability of having your own universe and the desirability of having an audience.
Over on your own universe,
what you're trying to attain in creation (of a mock-up) is the following:
you want it to be able to
survive;
it should be right;
it should take full responsibility
for what it's doing and you take full responsibility for it;
you should be able to own
all;
you should be able to make
anything that approximates anything;
you should be able to make
it continue on an 'Always' basis, or have 'Always' there; in other words,
all kinds of time;
you should have things which
are motion sources in there;
the level of truth of that
universe ought to be good.
You would BE faith in that
universe; or, as far as faith is concerned, you would probably rely on
a mock-up a heck of a lot quicker than you'd ever rely on a piece of MEST.
You'd just rely on the mock-ups.
Now the level of knowingness.
You would know what the beingness and other things were of this universe
- your universe, your creations.
You could make a mock-up
that knows or you would know everything that was about the mock-up.
You would be cause, you
wouldn't be effect.
Or you could make a mock-up
that was cause for a lot of things.
You would have reached 'I
am' - full beingness, and you would be able to win. The easiest way to
win is to be both sides.
You'd be able to start things,
terrific differentiation, a very good state of being.
You had to be able to make
all the space you wanted.
That's just your goals of individuality of your creations and their character and quality.
2. The MEST universe
The MEST universe could be
said to be about 74 to 76 trillion years old, although this term year is
very deceptive.
Homo sapiens here on the
planet Earth in the Solar System at this end of the galaxy is found to
be about 74 - 76 trillion years old as a thetan.
What exactly they're computing
as a year, I do not know, but you simply say "year" and you get an immediate
response on the E-meter. It could mean that, as plotted arbitrarily, they
are referring to some planetary swing. But this all boils down to so many
units of havingness. A year is a unit of havingness. That's why it gets
to be a unit of time.
A thetan came in here to
the MEST universe over a bridge sort of built of agreement. The fellow
agreed that there was something terribly desirable, or in some cases, there
was just a sudden big boom, and their universe caved in, which is a very
startling thing to have happen. Somebody could pick up its wavelength,
its chain of agreements, find out what its laws were and blow it up.
It's a big theta bop on
the E-meter. Still trying to hold on to that. And you'll run this as an
explosion sometimes, or as a persuasion, always as something that shouldn't
have happened. It's regretted and the fellow is still staying with it.
That bridge, then, led over
into the MEST universe and the fellow suddenly found himself agreeing that
this was a flock of space which had its origin at point unknown, and he
is part of that organization now, and he has volunteered. He has agreed.
It's done by hypnosis, it's done in various other ways. He's gotten into
the game called the MEST universe which is set up to need a lot of recruits.
One cannot have in this MEST universe what is completely one's own, because the only thing which is one's own is that which he himself created or helped to create. That's all that one can own. Created and helped to create - you only get a shadow of that in this universe, by taking MEST universe materials and building them into a form, no matter how clumsily these materials handle, which is the individual's own. In order to have something completely one's own one would also have to create the materials with which it's made, wouldn't he?
3. The MEST universe versus the Home Universe
The average person is operating
under a delusion. He has never differentiated one single, interesting point.
And that is, the MEST universe is not his own universe. But he believes
that his universe and the MEST universe are identical.
His home universe became
"devoured" so fast, at such an impact of shock to him that when he next
looked around, he thought he was still in his own universe, but it had
changed. And he's still under the basic postulate that he's running his
own universe.
In his own universe, he'd
create something, start it in motion, change it, let it dwindle down a
spiral maybe and then destroy it. That was his power. And he all of a sudden
finds himself in the MEST universe, mistaking it obviously for his own
universe. And he starts something and then he follows through the next
step, kind of doggedly. And he says, "Now, we'll change it." Oh, no. Inertia
and things like that set in. Like he fires a cannonball and he decides
when it's halfway in flight it shouldn't land. And the damn cannonball
goes right straight on through and it hits the target. Boom! That's very
disgusting. You start some action and it goes off and then all of a sudden
it isn't going in the direction that you intended it to go, so you reach
out with everything you've got and try to right that action and change
it into a better course, and it doesn't change.
And that we call failure.
That is the anatomy of failure - the inability to handle that which has
been started. Inability to handle it after a course of action has been
entered.
Every time this individual
has been placed in bad condition, it was by a force which convinced him.
And how did it convince him? By taking over the space he was occupying.
One gets convinced the MEST
universe exists at the moment it collides with the Home Universe and takes
over the space of the Home Universe - one is then convinced of the existence
of the MEST universe. More powerful space, of course.
If he couldn't have space
that solid, then anybody else could come along and demonstrate that their
space was solid and his wasn't.
4. Running a Universe
Man, or the thetan who has come down here, and the thetans out in the universe are actually at a point of concentration which is appalling. They think they can only do one thing at a time. Some people have got this so bad, they think they can only listen or only look and so on.
Well, of course a fellow
couldn't run a universe of his own without introducing some factor of automaticity.
He starts a planet going
around and he says, "This planet hereinafter shall go around. Here it goes."
And he just walks off more or less and leaves it with a confidence that
it will continue to run. Well, that is entering into the first stages of
automaticity and only becomes bad when he starts to play the following
game, that spins him in very quick. He comes back the next day and he starts
pretending for his own interest and enthusiasm, "Isn't this a nice planet,
I wonder who made it?" The second that he starts splitting up and saying
to himself, "I didn't do it," he's got a planet or a piece of woods or
whatever it is for randomity and all you have to do to produce randomity
is to fail to take responsibility for something, or just deny having done
something. And the end of that curve is lots of randomity.
There is, however, no slightest
doubt about this fact: A man can think in twelve different spheres of action
and dictate twelve separate and not even related actions simultaneously.
In the first place, there isn't any such thing as time. One of the easiest
ways to do this would be to rig up a time track for - let's say we are
running twelve dogs.
One right after the other
and then we could just take those time tracks and put them all in parallel
and have them all run off simultaneously and have the dogs act on those
postulates simultaneously. And they would do so. But that is dictated action
and that is a step down from the desirable state of being able simply to
postulate the actions of twelve dogs simultaneously.
An absolute's unobtainable here; if you had an absolute right, you would get the end of the universe. An absolute right would be a right on all eight dynamics, and if all eight dynamics were right, you would pass instantly into a static, and the universe would not be here anymore. And if you had an absolute wrong, then all eight dynamics would be wrong and you would have the death of everything in the whole universe to have an absolute wrong.
When you look around in the
MEST universe, at these great big solid trucks, and you look at these great
big solid walls, and you say, "Boy, it sure is prettied up, isn't it? Looks
practically real!" But it's not.
It's something like walking
into one end of a tunnel, and suddenly coming out the other end of the
tunnel. You can walk in that tunnel for so long you don't know you've been
in a tunnel. And you say, "Well, it sure is pretty in this place, it sure
is pretty in this great, big tunnel."
'Tunnel', that's the name
for 'universe'. That's what you call a tunnel. Well, maybe the tunnel goes
up to infinity. Yeah, and there's lights, and suns, and stars, and everything
in the tunnel. Then someday you're standing outside something and it hasn't
got anything to do with the tunnel. And you say, "Holy Cow! What's all
this stuff out here? It's space - what do you know!"
Then remember that there
was a time when you weren't in a tunnel.
5. Application in Therapy
Your Q produces universes
along very definite lines, such as the MEST universe. Or it produces universes
of completely ephemeral lines, or it doesn't produce a universe at all
- self-determinism. But in order to produce a universe you first would
have to be able to pretty well handle a universe.
Everybody in this universe
is trying to act as though he made it. But he didn't make this universe,
he just kinda helped add to it. He adds to it all the time by perceiving
it. And he agrees to it all the time by perceiving it.
And he never suddenly said,
"I had a universe once which I monitored completely and this universe,
somehow or other got left; and I found myself in a universe which I wasn't
monitoring." He's never crossed that bridge.
You don't have to convince
him that he has to cross that bridge. All you have to do is take him and
show him that he has a universe. It's just as simple as that.
It's quite shocking for a person the moment they find out in Creative Processing that they have some inability along the line of creativeness. So you give them mock-up processing and you let them reassume the ability to create and control their own universe. When you do that, they get right back in to what they were doing at the time when they got blown out of their orbit.
In Creative Processing, you
are undoing his agreement that makes him a part of the natural law which
became the MEST universe.
We start studying natural
law and we wind up studying the agreement which made natural law. And then
it's inevitable that we would start studying that being which is capable
of making an agreement which then becomes natural law, which then could
build a whole universe.
When you're building in contest
with the MEST universe, you've got to build senior to, and that's always
a good process.
Way back on the track, you've
had terrific experience with this. It's just lost, because you kept putting
them into competition with the MEST universe and then agreeing with the
MEST universe that another's mock-up was better or more beautiful.
Then there's a feeling about
something you haven't made yourself, that furnishes interest. You have
to have something somebody else has.
Untangling the MEST universe
was nothing very special, except for the difficulties of discovering what
had been agreed to, from a point in the universe where that agreement was
a reality but the rules had been hidden. No anatomy of this agreement was
there at all. You had to look around and find out everything that had been
agreed to in the universe, and then you could trace back and actually pull
somebody out of it.
Or somebody who wanted it
could actually turn around and master the universe. This anatomy is the
anatomy of agreement and it's always a gradient scale.
TRUTH AND NATURAL LAW
We had two truths we were
working with. The possibility of there being an infinite truth, but which
to us at this time is not definable and so is itself just a possibility.
And another kind of truth, just a workable truth. Therefore anything is
true which is workable.
Workability is the capability
of starting, changing and stopping. And the degree of capability of starting,
changing and stopping would demonstrate for this universe workability.
It really applies to anything in this universe. This universe is built
almost wholly upon the principle of start, change and stop.
Outside of a cycle of action, the workability of a truth would be the workability of a postulate. A true static, no motion, no wave length, nothing, could theoretically postulate anything and have it become a truth - for him. It's true for the individual who makes the postulate. Oddly enough, a fellow has to be in pretty good condition in order to make a postulate and have it be true for him.
Another level of truth is
the truth called MEST universe. This truth is composited out of a series
of agreements.
This fellow gets ahold of
a few friends and they all agree that such and such is going to take place,
and that when so-and-so makes a postulate and when they all agree upon
it, then this postulate is there and is going to become common to all of
them. And they think that's grand, that's a good game and they can play
this game with impunity. Well, they can play it just so long, and then
the randomity starts to set up.
The postulate then is losing
its value as single truth and becomes relative to those agreements which
have been made amongst them.
This fellow one day says,
"I'll now postulate that I'm going to have a new palace." And the others
say, "That's out of agreement. We have a labor union, and you need a quarry,
and a trucking license to carry the stones, and masons. And you don't have
any chips."
You get a cycle going in
which the postulate is actually as valid as it is related to the agreed
subject. And after a while his postulate gets very week indeed.
And this big agreement becomes natural law or truth. What is truth for this land? They have a standing army and trade unions and all the rest of this. That's truth.
An engineer comes along and
he decides, in this land, to build a bridge. His study becomes a study
of, then, what has been agreed, although most of that has been lost. And
so he does it by test. And he says, "There is the coefficient of expansion,
there's friction, there's all these weights and stress analysis of structure,
torsion and tension and all these things. And these things don't vary -
all bridges build according to the same laws. we're right here in the midst
of a method of building bridges, and we have agreed with natural law thoroughly
and completely, and we can keep on building beautiful bridges so long as
we keep on agreeing." He then has a hatful of the most beautiful worked-out
technology, the only thoroughly tested technology which agrees with natural
law.
He should never, however,
make the mistake of thinking that that is (the ultimate) reality. It is
agreement with the agreement which is the reality of that universe. It
would be with a horrible shock that he would suddenly find himself in another
universe starting to build a bridge which used the coefficient of expansion,
etc. and find out that bridge went down - Brrooom!
When you get a ritual which works spontaneously without education in it, you've got natural law. That's really the action definition of natural law.
A few gimmick-a-hoojits in physics seem to be disobeying natural law. You might say they're disobeying a grosser manifestation of a law. They're not disobeying a finer law. There's a law that undoes the bigger or grosser law every time.
Fortunately, there is never a hundred percent agreement. There's always a hole in the natural law - a hole in the atom, a hole in the structure.
A truth is something which would exist without much contest, something which is triumphant. A champion who stand up aftera battle with bloodied shield and sword and yet has won is himself truth in the force universe. A datum which itself sweeps all data before it, in another universe, is truth. It is that which works. And that which works most broadly to that which it is applied.
And if you ever built yourself a universe, go park the truth on which it is built on the first piece of structure that you may build, and engrave it well, and don't make it mysterious. Because the only way to make your universe survive forever and last forever, and be there and be at last in command of you, is to invent the truth that started it and then hide that truth. If you were to do that, then neither you nor any inhabitant in the universe would be able to undo the universe or alter it in any way. But it would simply go out on an inevitable average proceeding from that truth.
THE FILECLERK'S GUIDE TO THE PDC
CHAPTER 1