17 July 2002
 

"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

 
 

From the lecture "Responsibility"

microbe: a microscopic organism, especially one that transmits a disease.

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