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.
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