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"Now, I don't know of very many more routes of understanding that were punitively followed or pursued, beyond mysticism, magic. Magic, by the way, is a very precise study. Most people think of magic in terms of stage magicians or something of the sort. It's not. Magic is not. It is a method of producing effects by using, for cause, the supernatural. And there's spiritualism, as something which is not mysticism. These are routes, routes, routes.

"And what are all these people studying, and where are they trying to go, and what are they trying to get? They're trying to get the source of man and trying to discover the extent of, and recover the use of, all of his latent powers of personality. And that, actually, is the complete goal in this search. Not necessarily to uncover the gods and shake them by the right hand. Let's recover man and find out if man ever was a god. And if he was, why did he stop being a god?"


—L. Ron Hubbard

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

 
 

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 different—a 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. Almost—poor 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 and—in 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 Brazilians—Brazilian engineers—were 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 by—in 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 Panama—one 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 war—during 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 day—to 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 that—it'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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