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The reference that best explains the difference between
these two routes is the Classification, Gradation and
Awareness Chart.
On the right side of the chart there are various steps a
person moves through as he receives auditing. Each grade
listed has a column for "Ability Gained" that describes
the increasing levels of awareness and ability achieved
at each stage. In auditing, one is working toward
improving himself and regaining recognition of and
rehabilitating his spiritual nature and abilities. This
is done on a gradient (a gradual approach to something,
taken step by step), so those states of being which are
seemingly "too high above one" can be achieved with
relative ease.
The left-hand side of the chart describes the gradient
steps of training on which one gains the knowledge and
abilities necessary to audit another on each level. Each
course listed includes a description of the subject
matter that is taught at that level. In training, one is
learning about the various facets of life with a view to
helping others.
These two different paths parallel each other. Optimally,
a person follows both paths. The chart is a guide for the
individual from the point he first enters Scientology,
and shows him the basic sequence in which he will receive
his auditing and training.
12.2 Do all the people on staff in Scientology receive auditing
as well as training?
Yes, auditing and training of staff members is part of
the exchange for their work in Scientology organizations.
12.3 Why does one have to wait six weeks for auditing if one
has been habitually using drugs?
Research has shown that it takes at least that long for
the effect of drugs to wear off. Quite simply, auditing
is not as effective while drugs are in the system because
a person on drugs is less alert and may even be rendered
stupid, blank, forgetful, delusive or irresponsible.
12.4 Will antibiotics prevent me from getting auditing?
No. Antibiotics work differently than drugs. If the
preclear has a doctor's prescription for antibiotics and
is taking these to handle an infection, he should be sure
to let his Director of Processing know, but this will not
prevent him from receiving auditing. Many people claim
that antibiotics work more rapidly and effectively if one
is receiving auditing at the same time.
12.5 Is it okay to take any sort of drugs when you are in
Scientology?
Except for antibiotics or prescribed medical drugs by a
medical doctor, no.
If one has a medical or dental condition requiring
treatment and wishes to take some medical drug other than
antibiotics, he should inform his Director of Processing.
A medical or dental consultation will be advised and a
handling worked out in liaison with the Director of
Processing to best accommodate one's progress in
Scientology.
Any other drug use, such as the use of street drugs or
psychiatric mind-altering drugs, is forbidden.
Drugs are usually taken to escape from unwanted emotions,
pains or sensations. In Scientology, the real reasons for
these unwanted conditions get handled and people have no
need or desire for drugs. Drugs dull people and make them
less aware. Scientology's aim is to make people brighter
and more aware.
Drugs are essentially poisons. Small amounts may act as
a stimulant or as a sedative, but larger amounts act as
poisons and can kill one.
Drugs dull one's senses and affect the reactive mind so
that the person becomes less in control and more the
effect of his reactive mind, a very undesirable state.
Despite the claims of psychiatrists that drugs are a
"cure-all," at best they cover up what is really wrong,
and at worst, actually harm one. The real answer is to
handle the source of one's troubles -- and that is done
with Scientology.
12.6 How many hours of auditing a day do people receive?
This depends upon one's particular auditing program. Some
receive longer or shorter hours of auditing than others,
but an average would be 2.5 hours a day. Auditing is best
done intensively, at least 12.5 hours a week. The more
intensively one is audited, the more rapid progress he
makes as he is not bogged down by current life upsets.
Therefore it is best to arrange for many hours of
consecutive auditing, i.e. 50 to 100 hours at 12.5 hours
a week minimum.
Of course, one is not always receiving auditing so when
one is, his best chance of making rapid progress is
intensively.
12.7 Has the technology of auditing changed since the early
days of Scientology?
The basics of auditing have not changed, but there have
been considerable advances and refinements in auditing
processes over the years. L. Ron Hubbard continued his
research and development of Scientology auditing
technology throughout his life, and completed it before
he passed away. All of his technology is now available
and laid out in an exact sequence of gradient steps in
which it should be used.
12.8 What will I get out of auditing?
Scientology auditing is delivered in a specific sequence
which handles the major barriers people encounter when
trying to achieve their goals. After receiving auditing,
you will start to recognize for yourself that you are
changing, that your outlook on life is improving and that
you are becoming more able. In Scientology, you will not
be told when you have completed an auditing level -- you
will know for yourself, as only you can know exactly what
you are experiencing. This gives you the certainty that
you have attained what you want to attain from each
level.
There will also no doubt be some outwardly demonstrable
or visible changes that occur: Your IQ may increase, you
might look healthier and happier, and may well have
people comment on how calm or cheerful you look or, for
instance, how you are doing better on your job.
Results like these are the products of auditing. Each
person knows when he has achieved them.
12.9 Does auditing really work in all cases?
Dianetics and Scientology technologies are very exact and
well-tested procedures that work in 100 percent of the
cases in which they are applied standardly.
The only proviso is that the preclear must be there on
his own determinism and must abide by the rules for
preclears during his auditing to ensure optimum results.
The Church makes no guarantee of results as auditing is
something which requires the active participation of the
individual. Auditing is not something done *to* an
individual -- it is something done in which he is the
active participant.
12.10 What auditing handles physical pain or discomfort?
Dianetics auditing is used to help handle physical pains
or discomfort stemming from the reactive mind.
12.11 What can auditing cure?
Scientology is not in the business of curing things in
the traditional sense of the word. Auditing is not done
to fix the body or to heal anything physical, and the
E-Meter cures nothing. However, in the process of
becoming happier, more able and more aware as a spiritual
being through auditing, illnesses that are psychosomatic
in origin (meaning the mind making the body ill) often
disappear.
12.12 Can one go exterior (be separate from the body) in
auditing?
Exteriorization is the state of the thetan, the
individual himself, being outside his body with or
without full perception, but still able to control and
handle the body.
Exteriorization is a personal matter for each individual.
Many Scientologists have been known to go exterior, so it
would not be at all surprising if you do too at some
point during your auditing.
This can happen at any time in auditing. When a person
goes exterior, he achieves a certainty that he is himself
and not his body.
13. THE STATE OF CLEAR
13.1 What is Clear?
'Clear' is the name of a specific state achieved through
auditing, or a person who has achieved this state. A
Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind,
and therefore suffers none of the ill effects the
reactive mind can cause.
13.2 How does one go Clear?
Simply by taking one's first step in Scientology, or by
taking the next step as shown on the Classification,
Gradation and Awareness Chart and then continuing up the
levels as laid out on this chart.
13.3 How long does it take to go Clear?
It varies from person to person, but it takes an average
of anywhere from one year to two years to go from the
bottom of the Grade Chart through Clear, depending on how
much time one spends each week on his auditing. Those who
get intensive auditing and do not stop along the way
progress the fastest.
13.4 If one goes Clear, will he lose his emotions?
No, on the contrary, a Clear is able to use and
experience any emotion. Only the painful, reactive,
uncontrolled emotions are gone from his life. Clears are
very responsive beings. When one is Clear, he is more
himself. The only loss is a negative -- the reactive mind
-- which was preventing the individual from being
himself.
13.5 What can you do when you are Clear?
A Clear is able to deal causatively with life rather than
react to it. A Clear is rational in that he forms the
best possible solutions he can with the data he has and
from his own viewpoint. A Clear gets things done and
accomplishes more than he could before he became Clear.
Whatever your level of ability before you go Clear, it
will be greatly increased after you go Clear.
13.6 Are Clears perfect?
No, they are not perfect. Being a Clear does not mean a
person who has had no education, for example, suddenly
becomes educated. It does mean that all the abilities of
the individual can be brought to bear on the problems he
encounters and that all the data in his analytical memory
banks is available for solution to those problems.
A Clear has become the basic individual through auditing.
The basic individual is not a buried, unknown or a
different person, but an intensity of all that is best
and most able in the person.
13.7 Do Clears eat food and sleep?
Most definitely.
13.8 Do Clears get colds and get sick?
A Clear can still get sick, but this occurs much less
often than before he became Clear. In other words, a
Clear still has a body and bodies are susceptible at
times to various illnesses. However, no longer having his
reactive mind, he is much more at cause and is not
adversely affected by, many of the things that would have
caused psychosomatic illness before he went Clear.
To measure a Clear only by his health, however, would be
a mistake because this state has to do with the
individual himself, not his body.
13.9 If Clears no longer have a reactive mind, why do they
still need to get auditing?
There are many more states of awareness and ability that
can be achieved above the state of Clear as he is only
Clear on the first dynamic. Once Clear, an individual
wants to continue his auditing to achieve these higher
states.
14. THE STATE OF OPERATING THETAN
14.1 What is meant by Operating Thetan (OT)?
Operating Thetan is a state of beingness above Clear.
'Thetan' refers to the spiritual being, and 'operating'
means here "able to operate without dependency on
things." An Operating Thetan (OT) is able to control
matter, energy, space and time rather than being
controlled by these things. As a result, an OT is able to
be at cause over life.
There are numerous auditing steps on the Bridge called OT
levels. People on these levels are progressing to the
state of full OT and becoming more and more OT along the
way.
14.2 How would you describe the state of Operating Thetan?
OT (Operating Thetan) is a state of spiritual awareness
in which an individual is able to control himself and his
environment. An OT is someone who knows that he knows and
can create positive and prosurvival effects on all of his
dynamics. He has been fully refamiliarized with his
capabilities as a thetan and can willingly and knowingly
be at cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and
time.
As a being becomes more and more OT, he becomes more
powerful, stable and responsible.
14.3 Why are the OT materials confidential?
Because understanding of and ability to apply the OT
materials are dependent upon having fully attained the
earlier states of awareness and abilities per the
Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart. Thus,
these materials are released on a gradient, only to those
who have honestly attained all earlier states.
15. A SCIENTOLOGY CAREER
15.1 Can one audit as a career?
Yes. There are many Scientology ministers who audit full
time as their life's work. Auditing provides a rewarding
career as it is one in which you are always helping
people and constantly seeing miraculous results on your
preclears. It is very satisfying to know that you are
making people's lives happier and saner. Auditors are
very valuable and in great demand. L. Ron Hubbard's
opinion of auditors is well known: "I think of an auditor
as a person with enough guts to *do something about it*.
This quality is rare and this quality is courageous in
the extreme. It is my opinion and knowledge that auditors
are amongst the upper tenth of the upper twentieth of
intelligent human beings. Their will to do, their
motives, their ability to grasp and to use are superior
to that of any other profession."
15.2 Of what value would it be to have my child trained as an
auditor?
First of all, it would provide a young person with
certainty and knowledge in dealing with every possible
type of human problem, be it interpersonal, familial,
organizational, ethical, moral or religious.
Secondly, it would provide a career of fulfillment in
aiding people from all walks of life to gain greater
awareness and respect for themselves and others.
Auditors are in demand in every church of Scientology and
mission throughout the world. Therefore, your child would
be fulfilling a great demand and contributing greatly to
making this world a saner place by getting trained as an
auditor.
15.3 Can one make Scientology a career in some other way than
by being a minister?
Yes, there are thousands of professional Scientologists
who work full time in churches and missions throughout
the world as executives or administrative staff. There
are also those who further the dissemination of
Scientology on a one-to-one basis or through the
dissemination of Scientology materials and books, those
who hold jobs in the Church's social reform groups and
those who work in the Office of Special Affairs involved
in community betterment or legal work. All of these
provide rewarding careers as each forwards the expansion
of Scientology and thereby makes it possible for more and
more people to benefit from its technology.
16. SCIENTOLOGY IN SOCIETY
16.1 I've heard that Scientologists are doing good things for
society? What are some specific examples?
These activities would fill a book in themselves, and are
covered in more detail in Part 5 of [_What is
Scientology?_], but here are just a few examples that are
typical of the things that Scientologists are doing
around the world.
Scientologists regularly hold blood drives to get
donations of blood for hospitals, the Red Cross and other
similar organizations. As Scientologists do not use
harmful drugs, these donations of drug-free blood are
welcomed by those in charge of health care.
Scientologists regularly hold drives to get donations of
toys, food and clothing to make life happier for those in
need.
During the annual holiday season, Scientologists are
particularly active in this sphere. In downtown
Hollywood, California [USA], for example, Scientologists
build a "Winter Wonderland" scene each Christmas,
complete with a large Christmas tree, Santa Claus and
even "snow," creating a traditional Christmas setting for
children who otherwise might never see one.
In Canada, a group of Scientologists spends many weeks
each year raising funds to sponsor visits to summer camps
by underprivileged children.
Church members utilize their artistic talents to bring
new experiences and joy to children by performing puppet
shows in orphanages, schools and shopping malls, and
magic shows for children in foster homes.
Scientologists can also be found in many communities
contributing to the care of the elderly. They visit
old-age homes and provide entertainment, draw sketches or
just drop by and talk with senior citizens.
You will find Scientologists helping with "community
cleanup" campaigns and assistance to the injured at
Veteran's Administration hospitals.
Scientologists have taken a leading role fighting drug
abuse, actively educating community officials and groups
on the dangers of drugs and solutions to the problems.
There are many groups utilizing L. Ron Hubbard's
technology and freeing people from the detrimental
effects of drugs.
L. Ron Hubbard's technology on how to study has been used
by Scientologists around the world to help students and
teachers alike. One place where this technology has made
major inroads combating illiteracy is in South Africa,
where well over a million native Africans have improved
their ability to study.
Another important area of activity for Scientologists is
raising moral standards in society. Scientologists all
around the world have distributed tens of millions of
copies of the nonreligious moral code called "The Way to
Happiness," now available in more than fifteen different
languages. Its use has led to a revitalization of purpose
for people of all ages who apply its simple truths to
their lives and to the environment around them.
The Church and many of its members are also engaged in
interfaith activities, the main thrust of which has been
to work with leaders of other faiths in the areas of
interreligious dialogue, religious freedom,
constitutional law and "religion in society" issues -
all aimed toward protecting and forwarding the freedom of
religion for everyone.
Another prevalent activity for Scientologists is to
expose and eradicate the violations of human rights
perpetrated by psychiatry. Many Scientologists do this as
members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights
(CCHR), a reform group which was established by the
Church in 1969.
They actively investigate psychiatric abuses and bring
these to the attention of the media, legislators and
other groups concerned with protecting people from brutal
psychiatric techniques. Such practices as psychosurgery,
electroshock treatment and the administration of
dangerous psychiatric drugs have destroyed the minds and
lives of millions of individuals. Through the efforts of
Scientologists working for CCHR, public awareness of the
disastrous results of psychiatric methods has been raised
and major steps taken to outlaw such practices.
16.2 Is Scientology active in Black communities and countries?
Definitely. By the Creed of the Church, "All men of
whatever race, color or creed were created with equal
rights." Thus, there are no limitations placed on who can
receive and benefit from Scientology services.
There are Scientologists of all races, colors and
religious backgrounds. For example, there are Dianetics
and/or Scientology organizations in Ghana, Zaire,
Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone, among other
countries, and Black Scientologists are applying
Scientology technology in their communities wherever
possible. The Church maintains a Department of Ethnic
Affairs specifically to interact and work with
minorities.
16.3 Do doctors, schools, social workers, businessmen and other
professional people use Scientology?
Yes, they do. There are members of all of these
professions who use Scientology technology to improve the
results being obtained in their fields of endeavor.
Schools and universities in many countries apply L. Ron
Hubbard's study methods to improve literacy and teaching
success, drug rehabilitation groups use his drug
rehabilitation technology to successfully get people off
drugs, doctors observe basic Dianetics principles to
speed up the recovery of their patients, businessmen
apply L. Ron Hubbard's administrative procedures to
create thriving businesses.
Scientology applies to all spheres of life and uniformly
gets results when standardly used. Therefore, there is
hardly an area of social or community concern where you
will not find people using some aspect of L. Ron
Hubbard's technology.
16.4 Why has Scientology sometimes been considered
controversial?
Like all new ideas, Scientology has come under attack by
the uninformed and those who feel their vested interests
are threatened.
As Scientologists have openly and effectively advocated
social reform causes, they have become the target of
attacks.
For those vested interests who cling to a status quo that
is decimating society, Scientology's technology of making
the able more able poses a serious threat. Attacks follow
as an attempt to stop application of Scientology
technology.
When the Church steps in to handle the attack, the
conflict grabs the attention of the press, which lives on
controversy. Regardless of the unfounded nature of the
attackers' claims, reporters freely promote the
controversy. Those seeking to stop Scientology then join
the media in regurgitating and regenerating the created
controversy.
Scientology has always flourished and prospered in the
face of attacks. In every case where public disputes have
been manufactured, intentional and blatant false reports
about Scientology and its founder have been discovered to
be the common denominator. As the falsehoods are proven
lies, the controversy quickly fades, and the truth about
Scientology, what the Church really is and what its
members do replaces it. The source of these attacks and
the controversy they have generated is detailed in
Chapter 31 of [_What is Scientology?_].
16.5 Why has Scientology been to court a lot of times?
The Church has gone to court in many countries to uphold
the right to freedom of religion. In Australia, as one
example, legal actions by the Church brought about a
landmark victory which greatly expanded religious freedom
throughout that country.
In the United States, the Church's use of the Freedom of
Information Act, taking government agencies to court and
holding them accountable to release vital documents to
the public on a variety of subjects, has been heralded as
a vital action to ensure honesty in government.
In certain cases, the Church has used the courts to
protect its copyrighted materials, or to ensure its
rights and the rights of its members are safeguarded.
During the history of the Church, a few unscrupulous
individuals, lusting for money, have observed how
Scientology is prospering and rapidly expanding, and have
abused the legal system to try to line their own pockets.
In the handful of cases where such attempts have
occurred, they have uniformly failed.
16.6 Are there any laws against the practice of Scientology?
Has it been banned?
Of course not.
In fact, the Church has received numerous recognitions,
citations and validations from various governments for
contributions to society in the fields of education, drug
and alcohol rehabilitation, crime reduction, human
rights, raising moral values and a host of other fields.
16.7 How does Scientology view deprogrammers and groups that
attempt to force people to denounce their chosen religion?
These so-called "deprogrammers," better described as
psychiatric depersonalizers, are money-motivated
individuals who kidnap others for profit. Their methods
include brainwashing, imprisonment, food and sleep
deprivation and various forms of torture.
Such activities are clearly against the principles held
by Scientologists -- and have been proven to be against
the law as well. Psychiatric depersonalizers in many
countries have gone to jail for their violent and illegal
practices.
Situations in which families have expressed concern over
family members' involvement in various religions can
generally be handled with communication. No one need
resort to violence and mercenaries to resolve the upset.
The Church does not condone the use of violence and
advocates that each person has an inalienable right to
their own beliefs.
16.8 Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
As the stepchildren of the German dictator Bismarck and
later Hitler and the Nazis, psychiatry and psychology
formed the philosophical basis for the wholesale
slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II.
Psychiatry uses electric shock, brain-mutilating
psychosurgery, and mind-damaging drugs to destroy a
person and make him "docile and quiet" in the name of
"treatment."
Psychiatric methods involving the butchering of human
beings and their sanity are condemned by the Church.
Scientologists are trying to create a world without war,
insanity and criminality. Psychiatry is seeking to create
a world where man is reduced to a robotized or drugged,
vegetable-like state so that he can be controlled.
A primary difference between Scientology and psychiatry
is that psychiatrists routinely tell their patients what
they think is wrong with them. This interjects lies or
ideas which are not true for the individual himself, and
thus psychiatric "therapy" violates the basic integrity
of the individual.
On the other hand, Scientology technology enables a
person to find out for himself the source of his troubles
and gives him the ability to improve conditions in his
own life and environment. The underlying difference is
the fact that Scientology recognizes that man is a
spiritual being, while psychiatrists view man as an
animal. Scientology is a religion. Psychiatry is strongly
opposed to all religions as it does not even recognize
that man is a spiritual being. Scientologists strongly
disagree with the enforced and harmful psychiatric
methods of involuntary commitment, forced and heavy
drugging, electroconvulsive shock treatment, lobotomy and
other psychosurgical operations.
By the Creed of the Church of Scientology, the healing of
mentally caused ills should not be condoned in
nonreligious fields.The reason for this is that violent
psychiatric therapies cause spiritual traumas.
At best, psychiatry suppresses life's problems; at worst,
it causes severe damage, irreversible setbacks in a
person's life and even death.
16.9 Why do some people oppose Scientology?
There are certain characteristics and mental attitudes
that cause a percentage of the population to oppose
violently any betterment activity or group. This small
percentage of society (roughly 2.5 percent) cannot stand
the fact that Scientology is successful at improving
conditions around the world. This same 2.5 percent is
opposed to any self-betterment activity.
The reason they so rabidly oppose Scientology is because
it is doing more to help society than any other group.
Those who are upset by seeing man get better are small in
number compared to the millions who have embraced
Scientology and its efforts to create a sane civilization
and more freedom for the individual.
16.10 Is Scientology trying to rule the world?
No. Scientology's aim, as expressed by L. Ron Hubbard, is
that of creating "a civilization without insanity,
without criminals and without war, where the able can
prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man
is free to rise to greater heights. . . ."
"We seek no revolution. We seek only evolution to higher
states of being for the individual and for society."
Scientology does want to improve and reform societal
ills, and Scientologists believe there can be a better
world by doing so.
It is not Scientology's mission to save the world. It is
Scientology's mission to free *you*.
16.11 Can Scientology do anything to improve the world
situation?
Yes, and it does so every single day.
By making the able individual in society more able and
more certain of his abilities, and by continuing the
Church's expansion and social reform programs throughout
the world, the world can become a better place.
It is possible to bring people to higher levels of
communication with the environment and those around them.
And as one raises the level of communication, one raises
also the ability to observe and change conditions and
thereby create a better world and a better civilization.
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End of "A SCIENTOLOGY CATECHISM"
[Part 3 of 3]
Part Nine of _What is Scientology?_ Copyright (c) 1992 Church of Scientology International, All Rights Reserved
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard.
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--------------< FAQ: Codes and Creeds of Scientology >---------------
The following Codes and Creeds of the Church of Scientology, were taken from the book _What is Scientology?_ (Church of Scientology International, 1992) along with the introductory paragraphs before each code and creed.
[Grateful acknowledgement is made to the L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard.]
This file contains:
The Creed of the Church of Scientology
The Auditor's Code
The Code of Honor
The Code of a Scientologist
The Supervisor's Code
The Credo of a True Group Member
The Credo of a Good and Skilled Manager
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The Creed of the Church of Scientology
The Creed of the Church of Scientology was written by L. Ron Hubbard shortly after the Church was formed in Los Angeles on February 18, 1954. After he issued this creed from his office in Phoenix, Arizona, the Church of Scientology adopted it as official because it succinctly states what Scientologists believe.
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We of the Church believe:
That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with
equal rights;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious
practices and their performance;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;
That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist
or support their own organizations, churches and governments;
That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk
freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter
or write upon the opinions of others;
That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own
kind;
That the souls of men have the rights of men;
That the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills
should not be alienated from religion or condoned in non-religious
fields;
And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set
aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
And we of the Church believe:
That man is basically good;
That he is seeking to survive;
That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and
his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.
And we of the Church believe that the laws of God forbid man:
To destroy his own kind;
To destroy the sanity of another;
To destroy or enslave another's soul;
To destroy or reduce the survival of one's companions or one's
group.
And we of the Church believe that the spirit can be saved and that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.
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The Auditor's Code
This code first appeared as a chapter in the book _Dianetics: The Original Thesis_ (later retitled _The Dynamics of Life_) written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1947 and eventually published in 1951.
The ensuing years saw a great deal of auditing done by auditors other than Mr. Hubbard and from these experiences he was able to refine the Code and thus improve the discipline of auditing.
The Auditor's Code was revised in 1954, appearing in Professional Auditor's Bulletins 38 and 39.
Over the next four years, several additions were made to the 1954 Code, one of which appeared in the book _Dianetics 55!_. Another was released in Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin of 1 July 1957, ADDITIONS TO THE AUDITOR'S CODE, and two more items were added when the Auditor's Code of 1958 was published.
The Auditor's Code 1968, released in October of that year, was issued as a Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter. It was released in celebration of the 100 percent gains attainable by standard tech.
Hubbard Communciations Office Policy Letter 2 November 1968, AUDITOR'S CODE, added three more clauses to the Code.
The final version of the Code was published by Mr. Hubbard on 19 June 1980.
The Auditor's Code is a fundamental tool of not only auditing but of life. As L. Ron Hubbard wrote in _Dianetics_, "The Auditor's Code outlines the *survival conduct pattern* of man. The Clear operates more or less automatically on this code." Because the basic axioms of Dianetics and Scientology comprise the fundamentals of thought itself, what works in auditing also works in life.
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I hereby promise as an auditor to follow the Auditor's Code.
1. I promise not to evaluate for the preclear or tell him what he
should think about his case in session.
2. I promise not to invalidate the preclear's case or gains in or
out of session.
3. I promise to administer only standard tech to a preclear in the
standard way.
4. I promise to keep all auditing appointments once made.
5. I promise not to process a preclear who has not had sufficient
rest and who is physically tired.
6. I promise not to process a preclear who is improperly fed or
hungry.
7. I promise not to permit a frequent change of auditors.
8. I promise not to sympathize with a preclear but to be effective.
9. I promise not to let the preclear end session on his own
determinism but to finish off those cycles I have begun.
10. I promise never to walk off from a preclear in session.
11. I promise never to get angry with a preclear in session.
12. I promise to run every major case action to a floating needle.
13. I promise never to run any one action beyond its floating needle.
14. I promise to grant beingness to the preclear in session.
15. I promise not to mix the processes of Scientology with other
practices except when the preclear is physically ill and only
medical means will serve.
16. I promise to maintain communication with the preclear and not to
cut his communication or permit him to overrun in session.
17. I promise not to enter comments, expressions or enturbulence into
a session that distract a preclear from his case.
18. I promise to continue to give the preclear the process or
auditing command when needed in the session.
19. I promise not to let a preclear run a wrongly understood command.
20. I promise not to explain, justify or make excuses in session for
any auditor mistakes whether real or imagined.
21. I promise to estimate the current case state of a preclear only
by standard case supervision data and not to diverge because of
some imagined difference in the case.
22. I promise never to use the secrets of a preclear divulged in
session for punishment or personal gain.
23. I promise to never falsify worksheets of sessions.
24. I promise to see that any fee received for processing is refunded,
following the policies of the Claims Verification Board, if the
preclear is dissatisfied and demands it within three months after
the processing, the only condition being that he may not again be
processed or trained.
25. I promise not to advocate Dianetics or Scientology only to cure
illness or only to treat the insane, knowing well they were
intended for spiritual gain.
26. I promise to cooperate fully with the authorized organizations of
Dianetics and Scientology in safeguarding the ethical use and
practice of those subjects.
27. I promise to refuse to permit any being to be physically injured,
violently damaged, operated on or killed in the name of "mental
treatment."
28. I promise not to permit sexual liberties or violations of
patients.
29. I promise to refuse to admit to the ranks of practitioners any
being who is insane.
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The Code of Honor
The Code of Honor first appeared in Professional Auditor's Bulletin 40 on 26 November 1954. As Mr. Hubbard himself explained:
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"No one expects the Code of Honor to be closely and tightly
followed.
"An ethical code cannot be enforced. Any effort to enforce the
Code of Honor would bring it to the level of a moral code. It cannot
be enforced simply because it is a way of life only as long as it is
not enforced. Any other use but self-determined use of the Code of
Honor would, as any Scientologist could quickly see, produce a
considerable deterioration in a person. Therefore its use is a luxury
use, and which is done solely on self-determined action, providing one
sees eye to eye with the Code of Honor.
"If you believed man was worthy enough to be granted by you
sufficient stature so as to permit you to exercise gladly the Code of
Honor, I can guarantee that you would be a happy person. And if you
found an occasional miscreant falling away from the best standards you
have developed, you yet did not turn away from the rest of man, and if
you discovered yourself betrayed by those you were seeking to defend
and yet did not then experience a complete reversal of opinion about
all your fellow men, there would be no dwindling spiral for you."
"The only difference between paradise on Earth and hell on Earth is
whether or not you believe your fellow man worthy of receiving from
you the friendship and devotion called for in this Code of Honor."
1. Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.
2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.
3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.
4. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.
5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy.
6. Never compromise with your own reality.
7. Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.
8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself
desire it.
9. Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than
your immediate life.
10. Your integrity to yourself is more important than your body.
11. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make
your tomorrow.
12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.
13. Don't desire to be liked or admired.
14. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your
own decisions.
15. Be true to your own goals.
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The Code of a Scientologist
The Code of a Scientologist was first issued as Professional Auditor's Bulletin 41 in 1954. In it, L. Ron Hubbard provides a Scientologist with guidelines in dealing with the press and in fighting for human rights and justice through social reform. It is a vital code for any Scientologist active in the community. The code was reissued in 1956 in the book _Creation of Human Ability_. Revised in 1969 and again in 1973, the code is given here in its final version.
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As a Scientologist, I pledge myself to the Code of Scientology for the good of all:
1. To keep Scientologists, the public and the press accurately informed
concerning Scientology, the world of mental health and society.
2. To use the best I know of Scientology to the best of my ability to
help my family, friends, groups and the world.
these two routes is the Classification, Gradation and
Awareness Chart.
On the right side of the chart there are various steps a
person moves through as he receives auditing. Each grade
listed has a column for "Ability Gained" that describes
the increasing levels of awareness and ability achieved
at each stage. In auditing, one is working toward
improving himself and regaining recognition of and
rehabilitating his spiritual nature and abilities. This
is done on a gradient (a gradual approach to something,
taken step by step), so those states of being which are
seemingly "too high above one" can be achieved with
relative ease.
The left-hand side of the chart describes the gradient
steps of training on which one gains the knowledge and
abilities necessary to audit another on each level. Each
course listed includes a description of the subject
matter that is taught at that level. In training, one is
learning about the various facets of life with a view to
helping others.
These two different paths parallel each other. Optimally,
a person follows both paths. The chart is a guide for the
individual from the point he first enters Scientology,
and shows him the basic sequence in which he will receive
his auditing and training.
12.2 Do all the people on staff in Scientology receive auditing
as well as training?
Yes, auditing and training of staff members is part of
the exchange for their work in Scientology organizations.
12.3 Why does one have to wait six weeks for auditing if one
has been habitually using drugs?
Research has shown that it takes at least that long for
the effect of drugs to wear off. Quite simply, auditing
is not as effective while drugs are in the system because
a person on drugs is less alert and may even be rendered
stupid, blank, forgetful, delusive or irresponsible.
12.4 Will antibiotics prevent me from getting auditing?
No. Antibiotics work differently than drugs. If the
preclear has a doctor's prescription for antibiotics and
is taking these to handle an infection, he should be sure
to let his Director of Processing know, but this will not
prevent him from receiving auditing. Many people claim
that antibiotics work more rapidly and effectively if one
is receiving auditing at the same time.
12.5 Is it okay to take any sort of drugs when you are in
Scientology?
Except for antibiotics or prescribed medical drugs by a
medical doctor, no.
If one has a medical or dental condition requiring
treatment and wishes to take some medical drug other than
antibiotics, he should inform his Director of Processing.
A medical or dental consultation will be advised and a
handling worked out in liaison with the Director of
Processing to best accommodate one's progress in
Scientology.
Any other drug use, such as the use of street drugs or
psychiatric mind-altering drugs, is forbidden.
Drugs are usually taken to escape from unwanted emotions,
pains or sensations. In Scientology, the real reasons for
these unwanted conditions get handled and people have no
need or desire for drugs. Drugs dull people and make them
less aware. Scientology's aim is to make people brighter
and more aware.
Drugs are essentially poisons. Small amounts may act as
a stimulant or as a sedative, but larger amounts act as
poisons and can kill one.
Drugs dull one's senses and affect the reactive mind so
that the person becomes less in control and more the
effect of his reactive mind, a very undesirable state.
Despite the claims of psychiatrists that drugs are a
"cure-all," at best they cover up what is really wrong,
and at worst, actually harm one. The real answer is to
handle the source of one's troubles -- and that is done
with Scientology.
12.6 How many hours of auditing a day do people receive?
This depends upon one's particular auditing program. Some
receive longer or shorter hours of auditing than others,
but an average would be 2.5 hours a day. Auditing is best
done intensively, at least 12.5 hours a week. The more
intensively one is audited, the more rapid progress he
makes as he is not bogged down by current life upsets.
Therefore it is best to arrange for many hours of
consecutive auditing, i.e. 50 to 100 hours at 12.5 hours
a week minimum.
Of course, one is not always receiving auditing so when
one is, his best chance of making rapid progress is
intensively.
12.7 Has the technology of auditing changed since the early
days of Scientology?
The basics of auditing have not changed, but there have
been considerable advances and refinements in auditing
processes over the years. L. Ron Hubbard continued his
research and development of Scientology auditing
technology throughout his life, and completed it before
he passed away. All of his technology is now available
and laid out in an exact sequence of gradient steps in
which it should be used.
12.8 What will I get out of auditing?
Scientology auditing is delivered in a specific sequence
which handles the major barriers people encounter when
trying to achieve their goals. After receiving auditing,
you will start to recognize for yourself that you are
changing, that your outlook on life is improving and that
you are becoming more able. In Scientology, you will not
be told when you have completed an auditing level -- you
will know for yourself, as only you can know exactly what
you are experiencing. This gives you the certainty that
you have attained what you want to attain from each
level.
There will also no doubt be some outwardly demonstrable
or visible changes that occur: Your IQ may increase, you
might look healthier and happier, and may well have
people comment on how calm or cheerful you look or, for
instance, how you are doing better on your job.
Results like these are the products of auditing. Each
person knows when he has achieved them.
12.9 Does auditing really work in all cases?
Dianetics and Scientology technologies are very exact and
well-tested procedures that work in 100 percent of the
cases in which they are applied standardly.
The only proviso is that the preclear must be there on
his own determinism and must abide by the rules for
preclears during his auditing to ensure optimum results.
The Church makes no guarantee of results as auditing is
something which requires the active participation of the
individual. Auditing is not something done *to* an
individual -- it is something done in which he is the
active participant.
12.10 What auditing handles physical pain or discomfort?
Dianetics auditing is used to help handle physical pains
or discomfort stemming from the reactive mind.
12.11 What can auditing cure?
Scientology is not in the business of curing things in
the traditional sense of the word. Auditing is not done
to fix the body or to heal anything physical, and the
E-Meter cures nothing. However, in the process of
becoming happier, more able and more aware as a spiritual
being through auditing, illnesses that are psychosomatic
in origin (meaning the mind making the body ill) often
disappear.
12.12 Can one go exterior (be separate from the body) in
auditing?
Exteriorization is the state of the thetan, the
individual himself, being outside his body with or
without full perception, but still able to control and
handle the body.
Exteriorization is a personal matter for each individual.
Many Scientologists have been known to go exterior, so it
would not be at all surprising if you do too at some
point during your auditing.
This can happen at any time in auditing. When a person
goes exterior, he achieves a certainty that he is himself
and not his body.
13. THE STATE OF CLEAR
13.1 What is Clear?
'Clear' is the name of a specific state achieved through
auditing, or a person who has achieved this state. A
Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind,
and therefore suffers none of the ill effects the
reactive mind can cause.
13.2 How does one go Clear?
Simply by taking one's first step in Scientology, or by
taking the next step as shown on the Classification,
Gradation and Awareness Chart and then continuing up the
levels as laid out on this chart.
13.3 How long does it take to go Clear?
It varies from person to person, but it takes an average
of anywhere from one year to two years to go from the
bottom of the Grade Chart through Clear, depending on how
much time one spends each week on his auditing. Those who
get intensive auditing and do not stop along the way
progress the fastest.
13.4 If one goes Clear, will he lose his emotions?
No, on the contrary, a Clear is able to use and
experience any emotion. Only the painful, reactive,
uncontrolled emotions are gone from his life. Clears are
very responsive beings. When one is Clear, he is more
himself. The only loss is a negative -- the reactive mind
-- which was preventing the individual from being
himself.
13.5 What can you do when you are Clear?
A Clear is able to deal causatively with life rather than
react to it. A Clear is rational in that he forms the
best possible solutions he can with the data he has and
from his own viewpoint. A Clear gets things done and
accomplishes more than he could before he became Clear.
Whatever your level of ability before you go Clear, it
will be greatly increased after you go Clear.
13.6 Are Clears perfect?
No, they are not perfect. Being a Clear does not mean a
person who has had no education, for example, suddenly
becomes educated. It does mean that all the abilities of
the individual can be brought to bear on the problems he
encounters and that all the data in his analytical memory
banks is available for solution to those problems.
A Clear has become the basic individual through auditing.
The basic individual is not a buried, unknown or a
different person, but an intensity of all that is best
and most able in the person.
13.7 Do Clears eat food and sleep?
Most definitely.
13.8 Do Clears get colds and get sick?
A Clear can still get sick, but this occurs much less
often than before he became Clear. In other words, a
Clear still has a body and bodies are susceptible at
times to various illnesses. However, no longer having his
reactive mind, he is much more at cause and is not
adversely affected by, many of the things that would have
caused psychosomatic illness before he went Clear.
To measure a Clear only by his health, however, would be
a mistake because this state has to do with the
individual himself, not his body.
13.9 If Clears no longer have a reactive mind, why do they
still need to get auditing?
There are many more states of awareness and ability that
can be achieved above the state of Clear as he is only
Clear on the first dynamic. Once Clear, an individual
wants to continue his auditing to achieve these higher
states.
14. THE STATE OF OPERATING THETAN
14.1 What is meant by Operating Thetan (OT)?
Operating Thetan is a state of beingness above Clear.
'Thetan' refers to the spiritual being, and 'operating'
means here "able to operate without dependency on
things." An Operating Thetan (OT) is able to control
matter, energy, space and time rather than being
controlled by these things. As a result, an OT is able to
be at cause over life.
There are numerous auditing steps on the Bridge called OT
levels. People on these levels are progressing to the
state of full OT and becoming more and more OT along the
way.
14.2 How would you describe the state of Operating Thetan?
OT (Operating Thetan) is a state of spiritual awareness
in which an individual is able to control himself and his
environment. An OT is someone who knows that he knows and
can create positive and prosurvival effects on all of his
dynamics. He has been fully refamiliarized with his
capabilities as a thetan and can willingly and knowingly
be at cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and
time.
As a being becomes more and more OT, he becomes more
powerful, stable and responsible.
14.3 Why are the OT materials confidential?
Because understanding of and ability to apply the OT
materials are dependent upon having fully attained the
earlier states of awareness and abilities per the
Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart. Thus,
these materials are released on a gradient, only to those
who have honestly attained all earlier states.
15. A SCIENTOLOGY CAREER
15.1 Can one audit as a career?
Yes. There are many Scientology ministers who audit full
time as their life's work. Auditing provides a rewarding
career as it is one in which you are always helping
people and constantly seeing miraculous results on your
preclears. It is very satisfying to know that you are
making people's lives happier and saner. Auditors are
very valuable and in great demand. L. Ron Hubbard's
opinion of auditors is well known: "I think of an auditor
as a person with enough guts to *do something about it*.
This quality is rare and this quality is courageous in
the extreme. It is my opinion and knowledge that auditors
are amongst the upper tenth of the upper twentieth of
intelligent human beings. Their will to do, their
motives, their ability to grasp and to use are superior
to that of any other profession."
15.2 Of what value would it be to have my child trained as an
auditor?
First of all, it would provide a young person with
certainty and knowledge in dealing with every possible
type of human problem, be it interpersonal, familial,
organizational, ethical, moral or religious.
Secondly, it would provide a career of fulfillment in
aiding people from all walks of life to gain greater
awareness and respect for themselves and others.
Auditors are in demand in every church of Scientology and
mission throughout the world. Therefore, your child would
be fulfilling a great demand and contributing greatly to
making this world a saner place by getting trained as an
auditor.
15.3 Can one make Scientology a career in some other way than
by being a minister?
Yes, there are thousands of professional Scientologists
who work full time in churches and missions throughout
the world as executives or administrative staff. There
are also those who further the dissemination of
Scientology on a one-to-one basis or through the
dissemination of Scientology materials and books, those
who hold jobs in the Church's social reform groups and
those who work in the Office of Special Affairs involved
in community betterment or legal work. All of these
provide rewarding careers as each forwards the expansion
of Scientology and thereby makes it possible for more and
more people to benefit from its technology.
16. SCIENTOLOGY IN SOCIETY
16.1 I've heard that Scientologists are doing good things for
society? What are some specific examples?
These activities would fill a book in themselves, and are
covered in more detail in Part 5 of [_What is
Scientology?_], but here are just a few examples that are
typical of the things that Scientologists are doing
around the world.
Scientologists regularly hold blood drives to get
donations of blood for hospitals, the Red Cross and other
similar organizations. As Scientologists do not use
harmful drugs, these donations of drug-free blood are
welcomed by those in charge of health care.
Scientologists regularly hold drives to get donations of
toys, food and clothing to make life happier for those in
need.
During the annual holiday season, Scientologists are
particularly active in this sphere. In downtown
Hollywood, California [USA], for example, Scientologists
build a "Winter Wonderland" scene each Christmas,
complete with a large Christmas tree, Santa Claus and
even "snow," creating a traditional Christmas setting for
children who otherwise might never see one.
In Canada, a group of Scientologists spends many weeks
each year raising funds to sponsor visits to summer camps
by underprivileged children.
Church members utilize their artistic talents to bring
new experiences and joy to children by performing puppet
shows in orphanages, schools and shopping malls, and
magic shows for children in foster homes.
Scientologists can also be found in many communities
contributing to the care of the elderly. They visit
old-age homes and provide entertainment, draw sketches or
just drop by and talk with senior citizens.
You will find Scientologists helping with "community
cleanup" campaigns and assistance to the injured at
Veteran's Administration hospitals.
Scientologists have taken a leading role fighting drug
abuse, actively educating community officials and groups
on the dangers of drugs and solutions to the problems.
There are many groups utilizing L. Ron Hubbard's
technology and freeing people from the detrimental
effects of drugs.
L. Ron Hubbard's technology on how to study has been used
by Scientologists around the world to help students and
teachers alike. One place where this technology has made
major inroads combating illiteracy is in South Africa,
where well over a million native Africans have improved
their ability to study.
Another important area of activity for Scientologists is
raising moral standards in society. Scientologists all
around the world have distributed tens of millions of
copies of the nonreligious moral code called "The Way to
Happiness," now available in more than fifteen different
languages. Its use has led to a revitalization of purpose
for people of all ages who apply its simple truths to
their lives and to the environment around them.
The Church and many of its members are also engaged in
interfaith activities, the main thrust of which has been
to work with leaders of other faiths in the areas of
interreligious dialogue, religious freedom,
constitutional law and "religion in society" issues -
all aimed toward protecting and forwarding the freedom of
religion for everyone.
Another prevalent activity for Scientologists is to
expose and eradicate the violations of human rights
perpetrated by psychiatry. Many Scientologists do this as
members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights
(CCHR), a reform group which was established by the
Church in 1969.
They actively investigate psychiatric abuses and bring
these to the attention of the media, legislators and
other groups concerned with protecting people from brutal
psychiatric techniques. Such practices as psychosurgery,
electroshock treatment and the administration of
dangerous psychiatric drugs have destroyed the minds and
lives of millions of individuals. Through the efforts of
Scientologists working for CCHR, public awareness of the
disastrous results of psychiatric methods has been raised
and major steps taken to outlaw such practices.
16.2 Is Scientology active in Black communities and countries?
Definitely. By the Creed of the Church, "All men of
whatever race, color or creed were created with equal
rights." Thus, there are no limitations placed on who can
receive and benefit from Scientology services.
There are Scientologists of all races, colors and
religious backgrounds. For example, there are Dianetics
and/or Scientology organizations in Ghana, Zaire,
Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone, among other
countries, and Black Scientologists are applying
Scientology technology in their communities wherever
possible. The Church maintains a Department of Ethnic
Affairs specifically to interact and work with
minorities.
16.3 Do doctors, schools, social workers, businessmen and other
professional people use Scientology?
Yes, they do. There are members of all of these
professions who use Scientology technology to improve the
results being obtained in their fields of endeavor.
Schools and universities in many countries apply L. Ron
Hubbard's study methods to improve literacy and teaching
success, drug rehabilitation groups use his drug
rehabilitation technology to successfully get people off
drugs, doctors observe basic Dianetics principles to
speed up the recovery of their patients, businessmen
apply L. Ron Hubbard's administrative procedures to
create thriving businesses.
Scientology applies to all spheres of life and uniformly
gets results when standardly used. Therefore, there is
hardly an area of social or community concern where you
will not find people using some aspect of L. Ron
Hubbard's technology.
16.4 Why has Scientology sometimes been considered
controversial?
Like all new ideas, Scientology has come under attack by
the uninformed and those who feel their vested interests
are threatened.
As Scientologists have openly and effectively advocated
social reform causes, they have become the target of
attacks.
For those vested interests who cling to a status quo that
is decimating society, Scientology's technology of making
the able more able poses a serious threat. Attacks follow
as an attempt to stop application of Scientology
technology.
When the Church steps in to handle the attack, the
conflict grabs the attention of the press, which lives on
controversy. Regardless of the unfounded nature of the
attackers' claims, reporters freely promote the
controversy. Those seeking to stop Scientology then join
the media in regurgitating and regenerating the created
controversy.
Scientology has always flourished and prospered in the
face of attacks. In every case where public disputes have
been manufactured, intentional and blatant false reports
about Scientology and its founder have been discovered to
be the common denominator. As the falsehoods are proven
lies, the controversy quickly fades, and the truth about
Scientology, what the Church really is and what its
members do replaces it. The source of these attacks and
the controversy they have generated is detailed in
Chapter 31 of [_What is Scientology?_].
16.5 Why has Scientology been to court a lot of times?
The Church has gone to court in many countries to uphold
the right to freedom of religion. In Australia, as one
example, legal actions by the Church brought about a
landmark victory which greatly expanded religious freedom
throughout that country.
In the United States, the Church's use of the Freedom of
Information Act, taking government agencies to court and
holding them accountable to release vital documents to
the public on a variety of subjects, has been heralded as
a vital action to ensure honesty in government.
In certain cases, the Church has used the courts to
protect its copyrighted materials, or to ensure its
rights and the rights of its members are safeguarded.
During the history of the Church, a few unscrupulous
individuals, lusting for money, have observed how
Scientology is prospering and rapidly expanding, and have
abused the legal system to try to line their own pockets.
In the handful of cases where such attempts have
occurred, they have uniformly failed.
16.6 Are there any laws against the practice of Scientology?
Has it been banned?
Of course not.
In fact, the Church has received numerous recognitions,
citations and validations from various governments for
contributions to society in the fields of education, drug
and alcohol rehabilitation, crime reduction, human
rights, raising moral values and a host of other fields.
16.7 How does Scientology view deprogrammers and groups that
attempt to force people to denounce their chosen religion?
These so-called "deprogrammers," better described as
psychiatric depersonalizers, are money-motivated
individuals who kidnap others for profit. Their methods
include brainwashing, imprisonment, food and sleep
deprivation and various forms of torture.
Such activities are clearly against the principles held
by Scientologists -- and have been proven to be against
the law as well. Psychiatric depersonalizers in many
countries have gone to jail for their violent and illegal
practices.
Situations in which families have expressed concern over
family members' involvement in various religions can
generally be handled with communication. No one need
resort to violence and mercenaries to resolve the upset.
The Church does not condone the use of violence and
advocates that each person has an inalienable right to
their own beliefs.
16.8 Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
As the stepchildren of the German dictator Bismarck and
later Hitler and the Nazis, psychiatry and psychology
formed the philosophical basis for the wholesale
slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II.
Psychiatry uses electric shock, brain-mutilating
psychosurgery, and mind-damaging drugs to destroy a
person and make him "docile and quiet" in the name of
"treatment."
Psychiatric methods involving the butchering of human
beings and their sanity are condemned by the Church.
Scientologists are trying to create a world without war,
insanity and criminality. Psychiatry is seeking to create
a world where man is reduced to a robotized or drugged,
vegetable-like state so that he can be controlled.
A primary difference between Scientology and psychiatry
is that psychiatrists routinely tell their patients what
they think is wrong with them. This interjects lies or
ideas which are not true for the individual himself, and
thus psychiatric "therapy" violates the basic integrity
of the individual.
On the other hand, Scientology technology enables a
person to find out for himself the source of his troubles
and gives him the ability to improve conditions in his
own life and environment. The underlying difference is
the fact that Scientology recognizes that man is a
spiritual being, while psychiatrists view man as an
animal. Scientology is a religion. Psychiatry is strongly
opposed to all religions as it does not even recognize
that man is a spiritual being. Scientologists strongly
disagree with the enforced and harmful psychiatric
methods of involuntary commitment, forced and heavy
drugging, electroconvulsive shock treatment, lobotomy and
other psychosurgical operations.
By the Creed of the Church of Scientology, the healing of
mentally caused ills should not be condoned in
nonreligious fields.The reason for this is that violent
psychiatric therapies cause spiritual traumas.
At best, psychiatry suppresses life's problems; at worst,
it causes severe damage, irreversible setbacks in a
person's life and even death.
16.9 Why do some people oppose Scientology?
There are certain characteristics and mental attitudes
that cause a percentage of the population to oppose
violently any betterment activity or group. This small
percentage of society (roughly 2.5 percent) cannot stand
the fact that Scientology is successful at improving
conditions around the world. This same 2.5 percent is
opposed to any self-betterment activity.
The reason they so rabidly oppose Scientology is because
it is doing more to help society than any other group.
Those who are upset by seeing man get better are small in
number compared to the millions who have embraced
Scientology and its efforts to create a sane civilization
and more freedom for the individual.
16.10 Is Scientology trying to rule the world?
No. Scientology's aim, as expressed by L. Ron Hubbard, is
that of creating "a civilization without insanity,
without criminals and without war, where the able can
prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man
is free to rise to greater heights. . . ."
"We seek no revolution. We seek only evolution to higher
states of being for the individual and for society."
Scientology does want to improve and reform societal
ills, and Scientologists believe there can be a better
world by doing so.
It is not Scientology's mission to save the world. It is
Scientology's mission to free *you*.
16.11 Can Scientology do anything to improve the world
situation?
Yes, and it does so every single day.
By making the able individual in society more able and
more certain of his abilities, and by continuing the
Church's expansion and social reform programs throughout
the world, the world can become a better place.
It is possible to bring people to higher levels of
communication with the environment and those around them.
And as one raises the level of communication, one raises
also the ability to observe and change conditions and
thereby create a better world and a better civilization.
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End of "A SCIENTOLOGY CATECHISM"
[Part 3 of 3]
Part Nine of _What is Scientology?_ Copyright (c) 1992 Church of Scientology International, All Rights Reserved
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The following Codes and Creeds of the Church of Scientology, were taken from the book _What is Scientology?_ (Church of Scientology International, 1992) along with the introductory paragraphs before each code and creed.
[Grateful acknowledgement is made to the L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard.]
This file contains:
The Creed of the Church of Scientology
The Auditor's Code
The Code of Honor
The Code of a Scientologist
The Supervisor's Code
The Credo of a True Group Member
The Credo of a Good and Skilled Manager
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The Creed of the Church of Scientology
The Creed of the Church of Scientology was written by L. Ron Hubbard shortly after the Church was formed in Los Angeles on February 18, 1954. After he issued this creed from his office in Phoenix, Arizona, the Church of Scientology adopted it as official because it succinctly states what Scientologists believe.
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We of the Church believe:
That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with
equal rights;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious
practices and their performance;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;
That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist
or support their own organizations, churches and governments;
That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk
freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter
or write upon the opinions of others;
That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own
kind;
That the souls of men have the rights of men;
That the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills
should not be alienated from religion or condoned in non-religious
fields;
And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set
aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
And we of the Church believe:
That man is basically good;
That he is seeking to survive;
That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and
his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.
And we of the Church believe that the laws of God forbid man:
To destroy his own kind;
To destroy the sanity of another;
To destroy or enslave another's soul;
To destroy or reduce the survival of one's companions or one's
group.
And we of the Church believe that the spirit can be saved and that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.
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The Auditor's Code
This code first appeared as a chapter in the book _Dianetics: The Original Thesis_ (later retitled _The Dynamics of Life_) written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1947 and eventually published in 1951.
The ensuing years saw a great deal of auditing done by auditors other than Mr. Hubbard and from these experiences he was able to refine the Code and thus improve the discipline of auditing.
The Auditor's Code was revised in 1954, appearing in Professional Auditor's Bulletins 38 and 39.
Over the next four years, several additions were made to the 1954 Code, one of which appeared in the book _Dianetics 55!_. Another was released in Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin of 1 July 1957, ADDITIONS TO THE AUDITOR'S CODE, and two more items were added when the Auditor's Code of 1958 was published.
The Auditor's Code 1968, released in October of that year, was issued as a Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter. It was released in celebration of the 100 percent gains attainable by standard tech.
Hubbard Communciations Office Policy Letter 2 November 1968, AUDITOR'S CODE, added three more clauses to the Code.
The final version of the Code was published by Mr. Hubbard on 19 June 1980.
The Auditor's Code is a fundamental tool of not only auditing but of life. As L. Ron Hubbard wrote in _Dianetics_, "The Auditor's Code outlines the *survival conduct pattern* of man. The Clear operates more or less automatically on this code." Because the basic axioms of Dianetics and Scientology comprise the fundamentals of thought itself, what works in auditing also works in life.
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I hereby promise as an auditor to follow the Auditor's Code.
1. I promise not to evaluate for the preclear or tell him what he
should think about his case in session.
2. I promise not to invalidate the preclear's case or gains in or
out of session.
3. I promise to administer only standard tech to a preclear in the
standard way.
4. I promise to keep all auditing appointments once made.
5. I promise not to process a preclear who has not had sufficient
rest and who is physically tired.
6. I promise not to process a preclear who is improperly fed or
hungry.
7. I promise not to permit a frequent change of auditors.
8. I promise not to sympathize with a preclear but to be effective.
9. I promise not to let the preclear end session on his own
determinism but to finish off those cycles I have begun.
10. I promise never to walk off from a preclear in session.
11. I promise never to get angry with a preclear in session.
12. I promise to run every major case action to a floating needle.
13. I promise never to run any one action beyond its floating needle.
14. I promise to grant beingness to the preclear in session.
15. I promise not to mix the processes of Scientology with other
practices except when the preclear is physically ill and only
medical means will serve.
16. I promise to maintain communication with the preclear and not to
cut his communication or permit him to overrun in session.
17. I promise not to enter comments, expressions or enturbulence into
a session that distract a preclear from his case.
18. I promise to continue to give the preclear the process or
auditing command when needed in the session.
19. I promise not to let a preclear run a wrongly understood command.
20. I promise not to explain, justify or make excuses in session for
any auditor mistakes whether real or imagined.
21. I promise to estimate the current case state of a preclear only
by standard case supervision data and not to diverge because of
some imagined difference in the case.
22. I promise never to use the secrets of a preclear divulged in
session for punishment or personal gain.
23. I promise to never falsify worksheets of sessions.
24. I promise to see that any fee received for processing is refunded,
following the policies of the Claims Verification Board, if the
preclear is dissatisfied and demands it within three months after
the processing, the only condition being that he may not again be
processed or trained.
25. I promise not to advocate Dianetics or Scientology only to cure
illness or only to treat the insane, knowing well they were
intended for spiritual gain.
26. I promise to cooperate fully with the authorized organizations of
Dianetics and Scientology in safeguarding the ethical use and
practice of those subjects.
27. I promise to refuse to permit any being to be physically injured,
violently damaged, operated on or killed in the name of "mental
treatment."
28. I promise not to permit sexual liberties or violations of
patients.
29. I promise to refuse to admit to the ranks of practitioners any
being who is insane.
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The Code of Honor
The Code of Honor first appeared in Professional Auditor's Bulletin 40 on 26 November 1954. As Mr. Hubbard himself explained:
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"No one expects the Code of Honor to be closely and tightly
followed.
"An ethical code cannot be enforced. Any effort to enforce the
Code of Honor would bring it to the level of a moral code. It cannot
be enforced simply because it is a way of life only as long as it is
not enforced. Any other use but self-determined use of the Code of
Honor would, as any Scientologist could quickly see, produce a
considerable deterioration in a person. Therefore its use is a luxury
use, and which is done solely on self-determined action, providing one
sees eye to eye with the Code of Honor.
"If you believed man was worthy enough to be granted by you
sufficient stature so as to permit you to exercise gladly the Code of
Honor, I can guarantee that you would be a happy person. And if you
found an occasional miscreant falling away from the best standards you
have developed, you yet did not turn away from the rest of man, and if
you discovered yourself betrayed by those you were seeking to defend
and yet did not then experience a complete reversal of opinion about
all your fellow men, there would be no dwindling spiral for you."
"The only difference between paradise on Earth and hell on Earth is
whether or not you believe your fellow man worthy of receiving from
you the friendship and devotion called for in this Code of Honor."
1. Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.
2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.
3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.
4. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.
5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy.
6. Never compromise with your own reality.
7. Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.
8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself
desire it.
9. Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than
your immediate life.
10. Your integrity to yourself is more important than your body.
11. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make
your tomorrow.
12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.
13. Don't desire to be liked or admired.
14. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your
own decisions.
15. Be true to your own goals.
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The Code of a Scientologist
The Code of a Scientologist was first issued as Professional Auditor's Bulletin 41 in 1954. In it, L. Ron Hubbard provides a Scientologist with guidelines in dealing with the press and in fighting for human rights and justice through social reform. It is a vital code for any Scientologist active in the community. The code was reissued in 1956 in the book _Creation of Human Ability_. Revised in 1969 and again in 1973, the code is given here in its final version.
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As a Scientologist, I pledge myself to the Code of Scientology for the good of all:
1. To keep Scientologists, the public and the press accurately informed
concerning Scientology, the world of mental health and society.
2. To use the best I know of Scientology to the best of my ability to
help my family, friends, groups and the world.