Duplicate bodies on the
same theta line...
An article by L. Ron Hubbard,
from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures
The
only conflict here is the fact that you're
accustomed in the MEST universe to arithmetic.
And of course when you're dealing with something
which is out beyond the MEST universe, you
are not dealing with arithmetic. Arithmetic
is based on the MEST universe. Mathematics
apply to this universe and nothing else.
Now,
here you have this operation: this body
line then, may go out as two bodies. You
could actually track somebody back and find
him living twice through the same age period.
You can find him living twice in the past,
through the same years. But more importantly,
more important to you as an auditor, you
can find a preclear living in four or six
or ten entities right here on this universe
at this moment. And you can demonstrate
it in any way you want to demonstrate it,
and even write letters to the other identities,
if you want to go that far, and tell them
what they had for breakfast.
For
instance, every once in a while you'll find
a preclear who will sit around and listen
to advice from somebody. He will. He'll
sit around and he'll get inspirations or
he'll get something from somebody else or
something else, and what he's doing there
is about the same equivalent, but much differenta
mind-reading act, sort of. He's over on
the other side taking tips from what somebody
else knows. And he says, "This is inspiration.
This is my intuition at work."
And
here's some other fellow sitting over someplace,
working like mad, working something out
and figuring something out. Well, that's
where he's getting the data.
What's
quite remarkable about all of the research
in which I have been engaged is it hasn't
flashed up anyplace else. And that's remarkable!
It has not come up anyplace else on Earth.
On Earth.
But
this jealousy of identities was such, actually,
that in the early days when I was working
on this I was experiencing a terrific anxiety.
I knew the next five minutes somebody was
going to appear on the stands with this
first book I wrote on the subject. You see,
I knew somebody else knew. I knew somebody
else was working on it too. And they were.
But not here on Earth. Anyway
There
are probably as many as four or five fellows
on Earth that are almost my duplicate, for
instance, physiologically. Almostpoor
fellows. Now, one of these fellows used
to get me in trouble all the time.
I
walked up the steps of the Cuban Embassy
one day andin Washington, DC, and
there was a Spaniard coming down the steps
and he said, "Ay, Pedrito, cómo
está?" And I said, "I'm
very sorry, I'm afraid I don't know you."
And
"Oh, that's all right, Pedrito. I won't
tell anybody you're here."
And
I said, "Well, that's fine."
He
said, "Well, you can even pretend you
don't remember me. It's still all right,
Pedrito, I'm your friend" and so forth
and "I hope everything comes out all
right."
And
I said, "Well, thank you," and
went on into the embassy.
I
forgot about it until one time I was in
Puerto Rico, and I was trotting down a trail
and three BraziliansBrazilian engineerswere
coming up the trail on horses. They took
one look at me and they said, "Ay,
Pedrito, cómo está?"
and threw their horses across my path. And
they wouldn't let me go anyplace. And then
this stuff"You can tell us. We
won't write anybody. We won't let anybody
know we saw you"a big routine.
And they finally had me cornered so tightly
that nothing would do but what I went over
and drank brandy with them and played chess,
and they sure figured out I was putting
on a good act.
To
this day, none of those fellows would do
anything but claim that I was putting on
a good act.
Well,
a little more time went byin another
place down in Latin America, and a fellow
walked up to me. I was sitting in a bar.
He reached in his hip pocket, and if I hadn't
kicked hard at his shins, I probably would
have been a dead man.
They
threw him out promptly, and I scratched
my head and I said, "I'm not in trouble
with anybody down here that I can think
of." Till all of a sudden I remembered,
"By golly! I bet that fellow would
have jumped if I had said I was Pedrito."
Well,
fine, fine. Until one time in Panamaone
time in Panama, a girl took one look at
me (the most scathing, scorching
look you ever saw) in the street, sniffed,
put her nose very high in the air and crossed
the street diagonally. So I said, "Pedro's
been here."
I
finally found out who Pedro was. He'd undoubtedly
run into me, too. I finally found out who
he was. He was the son of a rich Brazilian
family and he had the wrong political color.
And he had gone bad in an awful hurry down
in Brazil, and he was being looked for by
the police of about five or six countries,
as well as the parents of several girls.
And
during the warduring the war, I got
a report that I had reported in at a place
where I hadn't been. And my ears went up
like a foxhound's, ha-ha-ha-ha, because
Pedrito was a Nazi. And my picture was on
file with the Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale as an international pilot,
and those were in France. And full records
of me were captured when the Germans took
Paris. And, of course, all they had done
was backtrack me, look me up, take ahold
of Pedrito and cross orders.
I
don't know what happened to Pedrito. I often
wondered what would have happened if I'd
ever met Pedrito in the line of duty during
the war.
I
am sure, though, to this dayto this
day, that there is more there than just
a physiological resemblance.
Now,
possibly many of you have had this experience.
You've probably seen people who looked like
you or who acted like you or something of
the sort.
Oddly
enough, when you meet them you are apt to
be a little bit cross about it. It is almost
a byword that people who have the same name
will be hostile to each other. People who
have the same looks may be hostile to each
other if they meet themselves accidentally.
And it is just in that wise thatit's
just in that wise that people who have or
are operating from the same theta line become
jealous of each other. They will actually
flick across and louse each other up.
I
am sorry to have to report that, because
all should be sweetness and light. But you,
every once in a while, will run into somebody
on the theta line through the preclear.
And if I didn't tell you this could happen,
then I would not be doing well by you at
all. I would be hiding something which you
might need to have.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture
HISTORY OF THE THETA LINE
Excerpted
from the
Scientology: Milestone One lectures
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