Scientology is a method of thinking about things and is just as true as it
is workable, and no truer. It is not in itself an arbitrary fascistic
police force to make sure that we all think right thoughts. It's a servant
of the mind, a servo-mechanism of the mind. It is not a master of the
mind. (1952, Formative State of Scientology: Definition of
Logic, Lecture: 5212C06B, PDC-20)
We wanted Clears in 1950. We still want Clears. We
now have the way to make them, the way to make them stable, and the way to
make anybody you process far more able. The by-word on this is not to
address specific errors or difficulties, but to validate abilities and
process immediately toward the acquisition of further and higher
abilities.
We are not in there to pay attention to all the bad things in the world,
since these are composed only of the imaginings of the individual. Let us
increase the ability of the individual to create, to be, to perceive, and
increase his ability to associate all along the dynamics. If we could do
this, it would be a far, far better world. (1955, Dianetics 55!)
Scientology is an effort to study and understand life from its highest possible
causation, origin, destination. It's a bigger study. Dianetics is a mental therapy.
Scientology necessarily, taking in the remaining four
Dynamics,
has to be a religion because the world of Man considers that those last
two Dynamics belong exclusively in the field of religion. (1954, Route I - Step 4,
Lecture: 5410C08, PIP-1)
The 8th
Dynamic is merely an infinity, 8 turned on its side gives you an
infinity. You have there "beingness of all." It has no other
codification. It doesn't say that "all" is good, bad or
indifferent. It just says it's all, an infinity of beingness. (1952,
ARC - Relation to Infinity, Beingness along the Dynamics, Lecture: 5205C19, T80-1A)
There is no thought or statement that any one of
these 8 Dynamics is more important than the others. They are categories of
the broad game of life, not necessarily equal to each other. Each person
stresses one of the Dynamics or a combination of Dynamics as more
important than others.
Originally, the Dynamics read "the urge
toward survival AS....." As the science developed, it became apparent
that survival was only an apparency and only one facet of existence. The
cycle of action and the three conditions of existence belong in each Dynamic.
No one of these Dynamics from 1 to 7 is more important than any other one
in terms of orienting the individual. The ability of an individual to
assume the beingness, doingness and havingness of each Dynamic is an index
to his ability to live. (PAB 83: The Conditions of Existence)
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