LRH lecture 4 March 1952 HCL Spec 4 - Discovery of Facsimile One

"Well, I studied and I thought and I studied and I thought and figured and figured and ... You know, the first thing I knew, I saw the machine dive on "before time." It says, "before time." "Has anything ever happened before time?" - wondering whether or not somebody might not be pre-aberrated. And the machine just started going crazy. "Before time."

"Did something happen before time? Did somebody aberrate us before time?" And all of a sudden you get this horrible picture, this horrible idea of maybe this is hell and once we lived in heaven, and somebody came along and picked us up and said, "Mmm. You're a bad 'un!" took us before a tribunal or a council and then dumped us on the chute and we arrived here on Earth. Crash. Well, this is not very solid. But the lady went off the top of the dial on running the first part of it. The first time I've ever seen anybody go off a psychometer, all the way up, off the top. And we only ran just a little bit of it."

 

LRH lecture 15 April 1952 HCL-23 Theta Bodies

"So, the second manifestation is longer - more or less the same thing, but longer and more erratic. And that is sort of way-back-on-the-track aliveness! Of the aliveness associated with the early days of life in the MEST universe or just before the MEST universe, because there was another universe once. And we are older, much older as a race, than the MEST universe. The MEST universe is only about 3.4 (something like that) billion years old, and anybody here is older than that. Alright."

"So I'm not quite sure who wanted us to have this body. That's a lie; I am EXACTLY sure at this point, but I'm not going to tell you right now. (laughter)"

 

LRH lecture HCL-21 Anatomy of the Theta Body

“Now, I'm not talking now in terms of all the incidents there are. You see, each one of these has had an experience before it joins up as this first composite, and we'll call this first composite a personality, something of the sort.

Now, here you have, then, the basic unit of two. Back of that these two have broken away from the main body of theta, two or three minor incidents have occurred, and we get down to this basic unit of two. That's joiner one.

Usually one faces forward and one faces back. They are put together face to face. Now, these are outside of any universe that we know about; they begin outside of any universe that we know about. And they have the potentialities of goals. And each one probably has a slightly different goal than the other one, so that you get a good balance between the two. They have agreed on what their goals are, and they've also agreed that their goals are different - some slight degree.

We come down the line a little bit further and we get joiner one, which is the first possibility of a body and this is another universe than the MEST universe again, usually. And I am now describing an average line, a line which you might find varying considerably from preclear to preclear. But your added three permit the first two to have a body. And this body, possibly, has many descriptions - you can get it variously described - but it doesn't have perceptions, really, as we know perceptions, because you still have theta body awareness of immortality and continuance and perceiving.

Now, on the entrance into the MEST universe, there is an additional addition.”

LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-27 How To Search For Incidents on the Track, Part I

“The cycle of lives is itself used as a control factor. One of these ten cycles here, any one of them, was primarily interested in controlling the individual so as to make him apply force in a body toward some work being accomplished. Now, those cycles in control gradually got to a point where they found out a new method of control. They say, "Well, you only live one life, and you forget every other life that you ever lived." And as a result, you have to survive.”

“Now here, when we entered the MEST universe, we got "survive." Right there. At that point of entrance, one was told he had to survive. But this was survive as a consecutive body line or survive because of a purpose. And we get way, way down here close in to present time, something of the sort, and we got survive - this is the lowest order of being - survive as a present time body for the sake of the body.

Now, there are your states of being on a Tone Scale. There at the top, you belong, individuate and decide to be. Then, as you come into the MEST universe, you decide to survive over a long period of line toward certain things or cause certain survivals. And then away down here you get survival as a present time body just for the sake of that body. Now, that's really decayed.”

“And your first is your individuation. Sometimes there's an individuation of one and then an individuation of another one and its unition: they unite with different goals to do something, and the next thing you know, they decide to be and they go into home universe, a creative thing, and they're all very fine. And one day out of curiosity, adventurousness or something of the sort - or by getting sort of pulled out of it - they all of a sudden wind up in the MEST universe.

And we all seem to have more or less entered the MEST universe, thetawise, through the same hole. But then there's a distinct possibility that there are MEST universe people who are older than this level or formed differently than this. That distinct possibility faces you.”

 

LRH lecture 6 November 1952 Methods of Research - The Thetan as an Energy Unit

“Now, let's look at the basic condition of our thetan and let's follow, very rapidly here, right straight through what he probably does. He's sitting there and he's part of (quote) "the main body of theta," and for some reason or other he starts setting up his own universe. We're not quite sure why. Maybe there is no reason. Maybe he just sets up his own universe. Maybe he got set up and then he set up his own universe. Lord knows what. And the universe which he set up was set up with an unlimited - no arbitraries, except those which he imposed upon it himself and well knew that he imposed upon it. So he set up this universe.”

“All right. We take a universe with no sound in it - very interesting; how would you communicate? Well, all right, let's communicate with light beams.

Let's don't just interchange ideas or flows or something of the sort; let's have communication in that universe, only let's have light beams and people imagine a screen and imagine the light on the screen and the light plays back and forth across the screen and that communicates ideas. But, gee, do you know what that means? That means the people of that universe would have to have the power of creating energy! Oh, and to a craven, cowardly, sort of a stupid - not even a craven, cowardly fellow, but just a dull, stupid kind of a fellow, like the kind of a fellow that'd create the MEST universe - that would be unthinkable! Because that's probably his highest trick.”

“Well, that's kind of like the MEST universe. The guy who thought this one up, thought this one up this wise: "Let's see, I can't think up anything but this one thing - that's force. Force. I've got a pretty good idea that there are other universes around, and if this force suddenly goes through my time and I keep changing the time of the force, it'll pick up all these other universes and blow these good ideas into this universe, because every time this force connects with any universe, of course it'll explode it or something." He'd think of this one trick, this one stupid trick that anybody could think of, you see. Force. That's the easy one. That's the easiest idea to think of.”

“And all of a sudden, one day, you were sitting there in your own universe and it went kapow! Gee, it'd startle you. And it would probably contain sound and electrical explosion.

And that's the common denominator of fear: force wave with sound. If you want to scare anybody, use a force wave with sound and you've got it.

People are very troubled about sound - much more troubled than they are about light. That tells them they couldn't handle sound. So maybe they held on to this and they decided they'd study what this blast was. And they might be holding on to it ever since. They might be trying to protect their own universe from the blast. The last fleeting moment of "It was all theirs," and they never got the moment of transition. And then they thought the blast had changed their universe around; they were in another universe.”

“There's separation from theta, you get a bop - home universe - or you get a little rise and everything was very fine. And then all of a sudden, there was the MEST universe - the home universe was gone. And you'll get him thinking, "Oh, my, my. I wonder if I - I wish I... wish I knew what the secret of the MEST universe was." There isn't any secret to the MEST universe: that was its secret. The secret of the MEST universe is you can create a MEST universe any time you want to. But if you held on to and tried to grab hold of and stop the encroachment of the MEST universe, not just change your wavelength - if it happened in your time-space suddenly enough - you're here. And if you let it go on by and to hell with it and just shifted over in another time span, you've got your own universe someplace else and you're not here. The essence, the very essence of simplicity.”

“There's no secret. What's the secret of the MEST universe? That there's no secret, of course! That would be right there in the groove with the MEST universe, that would be the MEST universe's best trick. It makes the obvious and hides it, because it's a crude, relatively unworkable, solid, rather onerous sort of a dopehead's dream, who wasn't too bright.”