"Of all the peoples of Earth, of all the groups of Earth,
the one least likely to mess somebody up because they found
out something about him was a Dianeticist or Scientologist.
These people have my confidence and have had my confidence for
ten years. So therefore, it must have been pretty bad if he
couldn't even tell us about it. It must have been pretty bad!
"But a lot of these things are like the microbe seen
through a number of magnifying lenses. And the fellow said, 'I
did so-and-so,' and then he puts a big lens over the top of it
and he looks at it — 'My God! That microbe looks big!'
"And then he thinks, 'Well, I actually shouldn't tell
anybody, really, about this, and somehow or another I will get
along without having done so, and that will be smart of me
because I will get by — I will get by anyway, and then someday
I will be Clear enough maybe to just as-is the whole thing.'
Swsh-swsh.
"And the moment that he did that, he took another great
big magnifying glass and put it on top of the stack. And
now he looked at this microbe, you know? Microbe is about that
long by now, you know? Has hair, teeth. And he said, 'Well,
I'm a pretty bad fellow, but I'll fool them all. I'll fool
them all, and I'll get auditing in spite of this and I'll go
on and do good. And I will do enough good that it
won't matter!'
"And of course, by that time you got this great big
magnifying glass put over here—clank. And the microbe was now
much bigger than he was. Everywhere he looked, he could see
the microbe.
"And one of these fine days you're going to get hold of
that fellow, you're going to take this little microbe hunter,
this E-Meter, you're going to put him on the cans and you're
going to find that microbe that diseased his character.
"He's going to say, 'Oh, no, there's nothing there! No, no,
no, no, no. That's me breathing. I can very often control the
needle because I'm really OT. And whenever you say 'women' and
it dives, that's emotional response because I like them!
"But you're not going to be fooled now. You're going to
reach under all these magnifying glasses, you're going to pull
this thing out and dump it in the carbolic acid. And that'll
be the end of that man's case and he won't blow sessions
anymore. He'll just sit there and go right on straight through
till Clear. And that's the way it is."
— L. Ron Hubbard State of Man Congress |