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"We have—in this universe, space has a peculiarly. And there are three kinds of space. [marking on blackboard] Three kinds of space: there's "was space," "is space" and "will be space." There's three kinds of space.

And how is this space formed? By postulating it exists. Very tough mechanistically. I mean, you're either going to worry over this and worry over this—but how does space get there? It's because you say it's there. And the fellow can't admit that he has this much power, because if he admitted he had this much power then he could change the future. And his mind, running on a stimulus-response mechanism, and not under control and can't be trusted, might destroy his future. So he can't permit anything to be postulated in the present, so he says, "I couldn't possibly postulate space. Space must have an actual entity—must be in existence."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from The Command of Theta lectures.

 
 

The secrets behind a declining civilization
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Command of Theta lectures

Oh, yes, it could happen! The greatest empire on the face of the earth went by the boards—the greatest empire earth had known went by the boards—because of the miracles produced by thirteen men.* Now remember that. And, boy, it caved in quick. But it caved in because it was a vile and vicious empire and all it took was an injection of hope into the multitude. That's all it took. "Something can happen for us. We are not pinned here forever. We don't have to be in apathy."

And you know what they learned? They learned a very interesting fact and that interesting datum was this. They knew this inherently, and they learned this, then, by religious teaching: "We can't die. We don't die; there is life after death." That's what they learned.

And therefore, you could fly in the teeth of any unreasonable force because you couldn't be punished simply by having your body cut up to pieces. Now, we've gone on the opposite side of insanity. They had a body that could die so they were spared the other, and they learned all of a sudden that the machine guns of a large and vicious state—it wasn't machine guns in those days, they did it with arenas and crucifixes—were powerless, because all they could do was kill them. That's all that could happen to them. They could just be killed.

And, boy, that state which reduced into slavery almost two thirds of its population—two thirds of its populating was living in kennels the like of which you wouldn't keep a London pet in—and they suddenly said, "You're through, boys," and Roman Empire was through.

Now, I'm not saying at any moment that there's any great empire to be overthrown. At the present time, there isn't. We haven't got an empire in this world today. We just don't have one. There is an anarchy of nations. The family of nations on earth today live in anarchy, and they go to war because the people are afraid. You can make a populace afraid so long as the populace believes it can die. And you can make it so afraid of dying that they will enter into the enterprise of killing and dying to just throw in the sponge finally and say, "Well, that's all." That's a fantastic thing, but if you took some of the pressure off, just took some of the pressure off internationally, it would be very, very difficult for anybody to get people hot enough so that we would have another war.

If just the people in this room did their job well and spotted their target where the target should be—and you don't have to go out and stand on soapboxes or anything else. All you have to do is apply some techniques, that's all, and they're easy techniques to apply. And all of a sudden a bunch of "can't" cases suddenly "can." And people say, "Hey, what's happening!" You don't have to have it in the newspapers; the devil with* the newspapers. The only publicity there is that's worth anything is just word of mouth. It's Uncle Joe* getting helped and Aunt Agatha hearing about it. And it looks slow at first and it creeps at first, but then it goes a little faster and a little faster and a little faster, and with Theta Clearing, they know—nobody has to tell them again—they know they can't be killed. Now, that's fascinating, isn't it?

You actually can carry a message to the people of the world to the effect that man is immortal, and that takes all the international pressure off—just that little fact all by itself.

And let's take a much more important project than insanity—infinitely more important than insanity. Let's take one, just one: criminals, criminals.

Supposing all the time in the past the psychotherapists have been putting in on insane people, they put in on criminals. The criminal is kind of bad off, but he's a criminal because he's in revolt against the society and because he is degraded. And he's easy to patch up. And the best way to patch up the criminal is to get the young criminal; and the young criminal is so easy to process, you'd ashamed of yourself for ever thinking for two seconds that you couldn't handle these techniques.

You get ahold of some young juvenile delinquent and you say, "Just be a yard back of your head." Bang! You say, "All right, change the postulate about how you have to get even with everybody," Bang! "Okay, step back inside. That's fine, Johnny. Next." You'd be ashamed of yourself. If you were to learn how easy it was to process out of existence the criminal, and you had spent a thousand hours of auditing time curing up somebody's aunt who believes that the goblins are going to get her, and curing up Mr. Blow, the notorious alcoholic just because his family had money, you'd have a feeling of shame and a bad time investment.

All of a sudden you walk into this big problem, which is a big problem in the world today. You know why nations go mad? They go mad because of police. And why do you have to have police? Because you have criminals. And why do they go mad because of police? Because the police exist as the interconnecting link between the honest, forthright and constructive citizen and the criminal element of the society. They carry plague.

You take a police sergeant who has had to be in the midst of criminals for four or five or six months and you turn him loose amongst a bunch of good citizens, and he takes days and days to reorient. He has a terrible time reorienting. Awful! Gosh! It's a very amusing thing. They've found in most police forces now that you have to take people off the criminal division and put them in the traffic division regularly every three or six months. And what do they do the first few days that they are in the traffic division? "Pull over to the curb! Where do you think you're going? A fire? Well, here's a ticket. We're going to show you!" A few weeks later the fellow said, "What's the matter, you in an awful hurry? Well, that's all right, only just don't take it so fast, don't take it so fast—other people on the road, too. Okay, next. Let's go." Fantastic.

If you don't think the criminal actually is in an aberrated area! But the only reason it's terrifically aberrated, and terrifically aberrative, is because the police are applying force to it. Oh, you'd be amazed at how much force the police force exerts against the criminal. And when that much violence and when that much lawlessness can exist in a society, that society can be oppressed down the Tone Scale. The best man in it eventually is no longer free. And was results when freedom goes.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.

Excerpted from The Command of Theta lectures.

 
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