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"Failure is merely the gradient scale of death. If a person fails too many times, he's going to die, that's certain — because this society will deny him food, clothing and shelter. If he fails too many times, he will die. It's all right to cut your finger, but don't cut your throat. Cutting the finger is a little bit of dying. If you cut your finger too hard and too solidly, you could kill yourself. In other words, this is the way people look at this. That's their gradient scale of failure, the gradient scale of defeat. And they regard life seriously just to the degree that they regard death seriously, and they regard failure and defeat seriously just to the degree that they will regard the whole computation of survival.

"How serious is it that you live? Well, if you're going to die, it becomes very serious that you live — becomes serious business. And a person, actually, is situated on the Tone Scale to the degree that they are serious about living. They are also effective in inverse ratio to their seriousness. You can show me any person who is taking it very, very, very seriously and I'll show you a long chain of failures. A person gets most serious about living when he is dying."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.

 
 

Incidents before earth
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures

You sit here on Earth today, not as a race of people who go back down an evolutionary track on Earth, but as an evolutionary race — or a race which goes back into the depths of this galaxy.

Now, it would be very well if you'd always lived on Earth; it would be fine. But your organism is adapted to Earth, or you have adapted this organism to Earth.

The possibilities are high that you have, actually, an evolutionary line here on Earth — that your organism did an evolution here on Earth. But this in no wise means that you, as a theta individual, are that evolutionary line. Because, you see, that is a protoplasm line. That is what we're calling the genetic line: protoplasm. And its cycle is preconception, conception, birth, procreation; preconception and so on. In other words, it just keeps going up the line, up the line, as an unending stream of protoplasm going through Earth time. And that unending stream of protoplasm goes through Earth time. Give good attention to that. It goes through Earth time. And it has on it various stages of evolution.

Now, evidently you went through these very rapidly because you were quite knowledgeable. And I don't think you have too much in common with the animals of Earth. That again is open somewhat to question. But you really don't have anything in common with a tiger or a jackal or even the monkeys in the zoo.

You'll notice that the whole public came up and screamed like banshees the second that Darwin came in with monkeys.

Well, there was a good reason to: You've gone through a not-unlike-a-monkey form, but you've never been monkeys. And you probably went up through this span very rapidly, and probably you weren't even in the organism at the time it came up that line. You get the idea?

Well, you can follow that protoplasm line back. You can even follow a semblance of a theta line back on that protoplasm line. You get the idea?

GENETIC BACKGROUND

The organism which you inhabit, then, has a background. It has a background which is a genetic background, which is even paralleled by a spur theta line background which yet is not you but which can influence you.

So when you start running somebody back down the time track, back through the evolutionary ages, you actually depart from a moment when he was he — and where that point is I don't know — but you depart from that and you go straight on back through some rapid stages of evolution here on Earth.

In other words, you've got a whole theta line. Now, this line does not come down to Earth carrying any body. There isn't a protoplasm line extended onto Earth to parallel that line, but back here there is. There's a line that ends there.

And this line is what you'd call your MEST body line, and it probably will be found to have interruptions. In other words, there isn't an unending stream of protoplasm that matches you as an individual, but there are probably many streams of protoplasm that match you as an individual. You see, maybe you went through a whole cycle back here sometime or other and chopped the protoplasm line and migrated or went someplace else, and then, after a lapse started another protoplasm line or dubbed into another protoplasm line and then finished that line and so forth.

And here on Earth — you'll find here you are arriving on Earth, protoplasm line ends there — you arrive as a theta-I* line and dub in on the Earth theta line and the protoplasm line on Earth, which was already continuing. You follow that?

You should know this pretty well, because this is a track you're going to put your preclears back down. And I'm not telling you for the sake of fancy theory; I'm telling you to keep from getting into trouble with your preclear.

HISTORY OF THE THETA LINE

The history which can be roughly sketched at this time is more or less as follows. And what we're going to follow now is just the theta body line that goes back — and here is theta-E* plus theta-I. Theta-E plus theta-I, and this is present time, and this is theta body line and this is Earth. This is the spot where it joins Earth. Earth. And then we come back from here and we go through a cycle here which may have points on it, and undoubtedly does, which we've not determined. And it comes all the way back here.

And here is "O," origin. This origin, at some unimaginable length of time in the past, certainly in terms of millions of years, perhaps in terms of hundreds of millions of years, perhaps even in terms of thousands of millions of years (which would be billions), and perhaps even in terms of other-universe years, as distinct from this universe and its planets — way back here at origin, you get the first separation from theta. And that actually would be incident one — incident one. Now, there are many other incidents follow that.

There is, by the way, a little bit of grief on that, and you can run that on preclears. You can run it on any of your preclears. You'll find incident one, there's a little grief on that separation.

Now, you should be able to recognize incident one as distinctly different from the other incidents which I'm going to point out to you. Incident one, just sort of separates from theta and sort of joins in on a universe. And there is that moment of separation and there's a little bit of down Tone Scale, of course, because naturally it has joined into something resembling MEST, if not MEST itself. And it's joined MEST, so immediately that the theta joins MEST you get a drop on the Tone Scale. So naturally there's an emotional curve on it. And you can run that incident. You can find that incident in practically any preclear you lay your hands on — incident one. Incident one, then, is separation from theta.

Now we come up the track and we find what is actually Heavy Facsimile One. I'm calling it Facsimile One in these talks — its term would be called Heavy Facsimile One. The facsimiles or the incidents which occurred prior to Heavy Facsimile One are very light compared to Facsimile One, according to our present knowledge.

You understand that by Facsimile One I don't mean that's the first time a person took a recording. And the reason that's called Heavy Facsimile One or Service Facsimile One is it is basic on the service facsimile chain. This is basic on the service facsimile chain. You don't have to have this one to run this one. You don't have to have incident one to run Heavy Facsimile One. But this is the beginning on the service facsimile chain.

FACSIMILE ONE AND THE INVADER RACE

Now, it's a very simple incident, but very difficult to run. It's very patterned, and you can run it without much trouble. It simply consists of this: The race, with its bodies and so forth, inhabiting a place in this universe, a planet in this universe, was hit by, infiltrated by, an incoming race.

Now, the race to which we are native — the theta line to which we are native — was actually highly mystic. It was capable of a lot of things — telepathy, teleportation, odds and ends, stuff — and concentrated rather heavily in that.

This invader race came in and says — with a lot of electronics and said, "Boys, all you've got to do is take this little jim-dandy whizzer*, and you know, you will be twice as 'thetesque' as before."

They sold you all a bill of goods, and evidently we didn't penetrate their minds, their thoughts or their intentions. Because one right after the other — bang, bang, bang, bang, bang — they knocked us off. They knocked us off with a very simple apparatus, and that simple apparatus consisted of something that went around your head and across the top of your head and under your chin — under your throat — and back of your head. And everything pointed at the pineal. They turned on the juice and something came in the middle of the head toward the pineal, three points on the top of the head toward the pineal, from under the throat up at the pineal, from the back of the head into the pineal and from the sides of the jaws into the pineal. In other words, every point of entrance toward the pineal was hit suddenly and hard and very excruciatingly.

The net result: the pineal gland, which at that time occupied what you had as a skull and was practically all the skull there was, practically folded up. And your mystic powers more or less went by the boards.

BEFORE EARTH INCIDENT

Then you went ahead and dramatized it, and there are a lot of overt acts on it. And pretty soon you got so bad as a race that — perhaps you were elsewhere by this time — you were hauled up — oh, some long, long, long, long time later, maybe even a million years later — you eventually wound up before another crew. And this other crew said, "We don't want you around anymore, and we're going to send you to jail." And so they packaged you up and shipped you off, and that is an incident we call Before Earth — B.E. That's Before Earth. And they shipped you off and you wound up here. And all they did was transport your theta line here, and you joined in on the MEST body line here.

I don't know too much about the modus operandi that worked at that time, but they evidently had it in mind. It contains, by the way, sort of being put in an ice cube state. It's quite nice. And by the way, the early Christian hell was painted up as a hot hell and a cold hell. And you see the early Christian paintings have guys up to the — ice cube up to the neck. Now, that's two hundred — about two hundred A.D., you find them doing this.

Now, when you got down here to earth, there's probably a join-up line, and then there is a series-probably, there's some overt acts here on earth, and overt act facsimiles, and then there's present time.

But the incidents you're trying to run on a case are actually Heavy Facsimile One and B.E. as the principal incidents, really. And don't get them mixed up here, because there's B.T., Before Time — and you can reach this on a preclear by asking "before time" — and there's Facsimile One, which is back here someplace (it's about a million years ago or a million, two hundred thousand years ago; it varies from person to person, but it's in the order of magnitude of a million years), and then there's rejection, B.E., being kicked off onto earth. And earth is hell and you're here, I guess, until you get reformed.

But there's a race existing right now out in outer space, and this race is not very interested in you — not very interested. And some of you, by the way, without much trouble, can do a contact across, because some of your theta line stayed out there.

But there are the incidents which you will find of principal interest in the preclear, and these are the incidents which you will have to run out of the preclear if you're going to take somebody off the top of the dial.

I'm sorry if it stretches your credulity. I do hope, however, that it doesn't stretch it to the point where you won't operate on it.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture PRINCIPLE INCIDENTS ON THE THETA LINE

*Whizzer: (slang) something or someone extraordinary or wonderful.
*Theta-I: theta individual
*Theta-E: theta Earth

Excerpted from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.

 
OT Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Scientology: Milestone One lectures
Select the correct answer to the questions below:

1. The black enchantment...

    Has destroyed every facsimile you owned for the last 76 trillion.
    Was laid across man so they did not realize it.
    Is a force that was not recognized until now.

2. Can Facsimile One ruin your "film" (facsimiles)?
    It can utterly destroy everything that it is attached to.
    Facsimile One will aberrate the film to the point where it is unrecoverable.
    Nothing destroys the film.
3. What are you?
    A complete bundle of counter-efforts.
    You are made up of electronic particle ridges from the backtrack.
    The thetan is a 50% stimulus response energy postulating mechanism.
4. What happens the more something becomes aberrated?
    It starts causing more trouble.
    It individuates.
    It's counter-efforts key in.
5. An unknown datum can:
    Generate developed traffic.
    Create a complete indecision and stall the case.
    Produce aberration.
6. Why shouldn't you talk about space opera?

    It's always entheta incidents.
    They won't believe it.
    It scares people.

7. What's the purpose of daydreams?

    Keep one amused so that one will stay in motion.
    A thetan trying to keep himself busy.
    To resolve the problems.

8. What is worrying?

    Whole track facsimile keying in.
    Estimation of counter-efforts.
    Introversion on the dynamics.

9. What does Facsimile One tell you?

    You're not supposed to know.
    You can't succeed in life.
    You're nothing but mud.

10. Show me a good mystery and I'll show you:

    an invalidation from the Facsimile One machine.
    a conquest of earth.
    an unknown counter-effort.


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