Ethics and The Conditions Booklet

Chap 10.
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SMaking
CIENTOLOGY
the World a Better Place
Founded and developed by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology is an applied
religious philosophy which offers an exact route through which anyone can
regain the truth and simplicity of his spiritual self.
Scientology consists of specific axioms that define the underlying causes and
principles of existence and a vast area of observations in the humanities, a
philosophic body that literally applies to the entirety of life.
This broad body of knowledge resulted in two applications of the subject:
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freedom sought by many great philosophic teachings; and, second, a great
number of fundamental principles men can use to improve their lives. In fact, in
this second application, Scientology offers nothing less than practical methods
to better every aspect of our existence—means to create new ways of life. And
from this comes the subject matter you are about to read.
Compiled from the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the data presented here is
but one of the tools which can be found in The Scientology Handbook. A
comprehensive guide, the handbook contains numerous applications of
Scientology which can be used to improve many other areas of life.
In this booklet, the editors have augmented the data with a short
introduction, practical exercises and examples of successful application.
Courses to increase your understanding and further materials to broaden
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described the first time they appear and in the glossary at the back of the booklet.
Scientology is for use. It is a practical philosophy, something one does. Using
this data, you can change conditions.
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Use what you read in these pages to help yourself and others and you will
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M an has long found ethics to be a confusing subject. In recent decades

it has become more so. How does a person know if what he is doing is
right or wrong? When he sees dishonest men hold power, criminals go
free and traditional values cast aside, maybe he feels he should take the
easy way out. “Others cheat on their taxes, why shouldn’t I?” “Other kids
shoplift, what’s the harm?” But, regardless of anything else, a person has
to live with himself. With many pressures pushing and pulling at a
person, how can he be sure his choices will be best for himself, his family
and every aspect of his life and his future?
L. Ron Hubbard achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the field of
ethics which included not only simplification and codification of the
subject, but development of a workable technology with applicability to
our daily lives, one which brings about increased happiness, prosperity
and survival.
These fundamentals, taken from Mr. Hubbard’s body of work, even
when combined with the booklet, “Integrity and Honesty,” which provides
yet more information on the subject, do not present the entirety of ethics
technology available in Scientology. However, they do provide an exact
means for an individual to gradiently raise his ethics level, increase his
survival potential in any area of life and help others do the same. Thus
ethics technology is the key tool you need to succeed in all aspects of
existence. ■
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THE BASICS OF ETHICS

hroughout the ages, man has struggled with the subjects of
right and wrong and ethics and justice.
The dictionary defines ethics as “the study of the general
nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be
made by the individual in his relationship with others.”
The same dictionary defines justice as “conformity to
moral right, or to reason, truth or fact,” or “the administration
of law.”
As you can see, these terms have become confused.
All philosophies from time immemorial have involved themselves with
these subjects. And they never solved them.
That they have been solved in Scientology is a breakthrough of magnitude.
The solution lay, first, in their separation. From there it could go forward to a
workable technology for each.
Ethics consists simply of the actions an individual takes on himself. It is a
personal thing. When one is ethical or “has his ethics in,” it is by his own
determinism and is done by himself.
Justice is the action taken on the individual by the group when he fails to
take these actions himself.
History
These subjects are, actually, the basis of all philosophy. But in any study
of the history of philosophy it is plain that they have puzzled philosophers for
a long time.
The early Greek followers of Pythagoras (Greek philosopher of the sixth
century B.C.) tried to apply their mathematical theories to the subject of
human conduct and ethics. Some time later, Socrates (Greek philosopher and
teacher, 470?–399 B.C.) tackled the subject. He demonstrated that all those
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who were claiming to show people how to live were unable to defend their
views or even define the terms they were using. He argued that we must know
what courage, and justice, law and government are before we can be brave or
good citizens or just or good rulers. This was fine, but he then refused to
provide definitions. He said that all sin was ignorance but did not take the
necessary actions to rid man of his ignorance.
Socrates’ pupil, Plato (Greek philosopher, 427?–347 B.C.) adhered to his
master’s theories but insisted that these definitions could only be defined by
pure reason. This meant that one had to isolate oneself from life in some ivory
tower and figure it all out—not very useful to the man in the street.
Aristotle (Greek philosopher, 384–322 B.C.) also got involved with ethics.
He explained unethical behavior by saying that man’s rationality became
overruled by his desire.
This chain continued down the ages. Philosopher after philosopher tried
to resolve the subjects of ethics and justice.
Unfortunately, until now, there has been no workable solution, as
evidenced by the declining ethical level of society.
So you see it is no small breakthrough that has been made in this subject.
We have defined the terms, which Socrates omitted to do, and we have a
workable technology that anyone can use to help get himself out of the mud.
The natural laws behind this subject have been found and made available for
all to use.
Ethics
Ethics is so native to the individual that when it goes off the rails he will
always seek to overcome his own lack of ethics.
He knows he has an ethics blind spot the moment he develops it. At that
moment he starts trying to put ethics in on himself, and to the degree that he
can envision long-term survival concepts, he may be successful, even though
lacking the actual tech of ethics.
All too often, however, the bank is triggered by an out-ethics situation;
and if the individual has no tech with which to handle it analytically, his
“handling” is to mock up motivators. In other words, he tends to believe or
pretend that something was done to him that prompted or justified his out-
ethics action, and at that point he starts downhill.
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It is not his attempt to get his ethics in that does him in. It is the automaticity
of the bank which kicks in on him and his use of a bank mechanism at this point
which sends him down the chute. When that happens, nobody puts him down
the chute harder, really, than he does himself.
And, once on the way down, without the basic technology of ethics, he has
no way of climbing back up the chute—he just caves himself in directly and
deliberately. And even though he has a lot of complexities in his life, and he
has other people doing him in, it all starts with his lack of knowledge of the
technology of ethics.
This, basically, is one of the primary tools he uses to dig himself out.
Basic Nature of Man

No matter how criminal an individual is, he will be trying, one way or
another, to put ethics in on himself.
This explains why Hitler invited the world to destroy Germany. He had
the whole war won before September 1939, before he declared war. The Allies
were giving him everything he wanted; he had one of the finest intelligence
organizations that ever walked; he had Germany well on the way to getting her
colonies back and the idiot declared war! And he just caved himself and
Germany right in. His brilliance was going at a mad rate in one direction and
his native sense of ethics was causing him to cave himself in at a mad rate in
the other direction.
The individual who lacks any ethics technology is unable to put in ethics
on himself and restrain himself from contrasurvival actions, so he caves
himself in. And the individual is not going to come alive unless he gets hold
of the basic tech of ethics and applies it to himself and others. He may find it
a little unpalatable at first, but when you’re dying of malaria you don’t usually
complain about the taste of the quinine: you may not like it, but you sure
drink it.
Justice
When the individual fails to put in his own ethics, the group takes action
against him and this is called justice.
I have found that man cannot be trusted with justice. The truth is, man
cannot really be trusted with “punishment.” With it he does not really seek
discipline; he wreaks injustice. He dramatizes his inability to get his own
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ethics in by trying to get others to get their ethics in: I invite you to examine
what laughingly passes for “justice” in our current society. Many governments
are so touchy about their divine rightness in judicial matters that you hardly
open your mouth before they burst into uncontrolled violence. Getting into
police hands is a catastrophe in its own right in many places, even when one
is merely the plaintiff, much less the accused. Thus, social disturbance is at
maximum in such areas.
When the technology of ethics isn’t known, justice becomes an end-all in
itself. And that just degenerates into a sadism. Governments, because they
don’t understand ethics, have “ethics committees,” but these are all worded in
the framework of justice. They are even violating the derivation of the word
ethics. They write justice over into ethics continuously with medical ethics
committees, psychological ethics committees, congressional committees, etc.
These are all on the basis of justice because they don’t really know what ethics
is. They call it ethics but they initiate justice actions and they punish people
and make it harder for them to get their own ethics in.
Proper justice is expected and has definite use. When a state of discipline
does not exist, the whole group caves in. It has been noted continually that
the failure of a group began with a lack of or loss of discipline. Without it the
group and its members die. But you must understand ethics and justice.
The individual can be trusted with ethics, and when he is taught to put his
own ethics in, justice no longer becomes the all-important subject that it is
made out to be.
Breakthrough
The breakthrough in Scientology is that we do have the basic technology
of ethics. For the first time man can learn how to put his own ethics in and
climb back up the chute.
This is a brand-new discovery; before Scientology it had never before seen
the light of day, anywhere. It marks a turning point in the history of
philosophy. The individual can learn this technology, learn to apply it to his
life and can then put his own ethics in, change conditions and start heading
upwards toward survival under his own steam.
I hope you will learn to use this technology very well for your own sake,
for the sake of those around you and for the sake of the future of this culture
as a whole.
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CONDITIONS:
STATES OF OPERATION
An organization or its parts or an individual passes through various states
of existence. These, if not handled properly, bring about shrinkage and misery
and worry and death. If handled properly they bring about stability,
expansion, influence and well-being.
These, arranged from highest to lowest, are:
Power
Power Change
Affluence
Normal Operation
Emergency
Danger
Non-Existence
Liability
Doubt
Enemy
Treason
Confusion
The formulas for these are apparently monitoring formulas for livingness
(the state of living).
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The first thing to know about them is that each step in a formula is in exact
sequence and must be done in that sequence. It is totally fatal to reverse the
order of sequence of two or more actions. Example: in Emergency economize
before you promote. If the sequence is disordered the final result is a smaller
organization or less influential person.
A key datum is that if the formulas are not known or not correctly applied,
an organism emerges from each crisis smaller.
A person can
exist in different
conditions.
Ethics is the
means by which
he can raise
himself to a
higher condition
and improve his Personal
survival. Income
Personal
Income
Personal
Income
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THE
MEASUREMENT
OF SURVIVAL:
STATISTICS
The next thing to know is that one knows what formula to apply only by
closely and continually inspecting statistics. By statistics is meant numbers of
things, measurement of volume, all relative to time. A statistic not compared
to the same type of statistic earlier will not predict any future statistic. A single
statistic is meaningless. Statistics are always worse than, the same as or better
than they were at an earlier period. Graphing and the reading of graphs is a
vital necessity then in monitoring an organization, department or person and
applying condition formulas to it.
This is much easier than it appears. If you made $20,000 last year and only
$15,000 this year, you obviously are slipping; if you made $30,000 this year
you are pretty stable; if you made $50,000 this year you are affluent—as
compared to the $20,000 you made last year.
What is the code of conduct you should use to stay healthy under these
conditions? These are the condition formulas.
The third thing to know is that one can wreck an organization or

department or person by applying the wrong condition formula. The person
is in an Emergency condition. One applies the condition of Affluence or
Power or anything but the Emergency Formula and the person will go bust.
The universe is made that way. The right condition must be applied.
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STATISTICS —WHAT THEY ARE

What is a statistic? A statistic is a number or amount compared to an earlier
number or amount of the same thing. Statistics refer to the quantity of work
done or the value of it in money.
A down statistic means that the current number is less than it was.
An up statistic means the current number is more than it was.
We operate on statistics. These show whether or not a staff member or
group is working or not working, as the work produces the statistic. If he
doesn’t work effectively, the statistic inevitably goes down. If he works
effectively, the statistic goes up.
Negative statistics—some things go up in statistic when they are bad (like
car accidents). However, we are not using negative statistics. We only use
things that mean good when they go up or mean bad when they go down.
Statistic Graphs
Definition: A graph is a line or diagram showing how one quantity depends
on, compares with or changes another. It is any pictorial device used to
display numerical relationships.
A graph is not informative if its vertical scale results in graph line changes
that are too small. It is not possible to draw the graph at all if the line changes
are too large.
If the ups and downs are not plainly visible on a graph, then those
interpreting the graph make errors. What is shown as a flat-looking line really
should be a mountain range.
By scale is meant the number of anything per vertical inch of graph.
The way to do a scale is as follows:
Scale is different for every statistic.
1. Determine the lowest amount one expects a particular statistic to go—
this is not always zero.
2. Determine the highest amount one can believe the statistic will go in the
next three months.
3. Subtract (1) from (2).
4. Proportion the vertical divisions as per (3).
Your scale will then be quite real and show up its rises and falls.
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100,000 12,000
1 DIVISION = 1,000 1 DIVISION = 100
90,000 11,000
80,000 10,000
70,000 9,000
60,000 8,000
50,000 7,000
40,000 6,000
30,000 5,000
20,000 4,000
10,000 3,000
0 2,000
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 5 12 19 26 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 5 12 19 26
Jan Feb Mar Jan Feb Mar
An incorrectly scaled graph does not show A correctly scaled graph clearly shows
changes in a statistic accurately, thus changes in a statistic, making it easier to
making the graph less useful. determine which condition to apply.
Here is an incorrect example.
We take an organization that runs at $500 per week. We proportion the
vertical marks of the graph paper of which there are 100 so each one
represents $100. This when graphed will show a low line, quite flat, no matter
what the organization income is doing and so draws no attention from
executives when it rises and dives.
This is the correct way to do it for gross income for an organization
averaging $500/week.
1. Looking over the old graphs of the past six months we find it never went
under $240. So we take $200 as the lowest point of the graph paper.
2. We estimate this organization should get up to $1,200 on occasion in
the next three months, so we take this as the top of the graph paper.
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3. We subtract $200 from $1,200 and we have $1,000.

4. We take the 100 blocks of vertical and make each one $10, starting with
$200 as the lowest mark.
Now we plot gross income as $10 per graph division.
This will look right, show falls and rises very clearly and so will be of use
to executives in interpretation.
Try to use easily computed units like 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and show the scale
itself on the graph (1 div = 25).
The element of hope can enter too strongly into a graph. One need not
figure a scale for more than one graph at a time. If you go onto a new piece of
graph paper, figure the scale all out again; and as the organization rises in
activity, sheet by sheet the scale can be accommodated. For example it took
eighteen months to get one organization’s statistics up by a factor of 5 (5 times
the income, etc.) and that’s several pieces of graph paper, so don’t let scale do
more than represent current expectancy.
On horizontal time scale, try not to exceed three months as one can get
that scale too condensed too, and also too spread out where it again looks like
a flat line and misinforms.
Correct scaling is the essence of good graphing.
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READING STATISTICS
One can determine the condition of a stat by its slant on a graph.
Steep
near vertical
down
NON-EXISTENCE
Down
DANGER
Slightly
down or
level
EMERGENCY
Slightly
up
NORMAL
Steeply
up
AFFLUENCE
Power is not judged on a one-week basis only nor by a single line on a

graph. Power is a Normal trend maintained in a high, high range. Trend means
the tendency of statistics to average out up, level, or down over several weeks
or months. Thus a Power condition must be determined by more than one line
on a graph.
Note that these slants for Non-Existence through Affluence are used to
determine the stat condition for the week.
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STATISTIC TRENDS
STAT INTERPRETATION
The closer one is to the scene of the stat, the more rapidly it can be
adjusted and the smaller the amount of time per stat needed to interpret it.
One can interpret one’s own personal statistic hour to hour.
A division head can interpret on a basis of day to day.
An Executive Secretary needs a few days’ worth of stat.
An Executive Director would use a week’s worth of stat.
A more remote governing body would use a TREND (which would be

several weeks) of divisional stats to interpret.
In short the closer one is to a statistic the easier it is to interpret it and the
easier it is to change it.
One knows he had no stat on Monday—he didn’t come to work. So

Tuesday he tries to make up for it.
At the other end of the scale, a more remote managing body would have
to use a trend of weeks to see what was going on.
A trend is an inclination toward a general course or direction.
Trends can be anything from Danger to Power, depending on the slant and
its steepness. It is also possible to have a Non-Existence trend.
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Plotted by weeks:
A Non-Existence trend would look like this:
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
Jan Feb
This would also be a Non-Existence trend:

120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
Jan Feb
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This would be a Danger trend:

120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
Jan Feb
This would be an Emergency trend:

120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
Jan Feb
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This would be a Normal trend:

120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
Jan Feb
Any slight rise above level is Normal.

This would be an Affluence trend:
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
Jan Feb
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As Power is a trend it is not judged by a single line on a graph. Power is a

Normal trend maintained in a high, high range; thus a Power condition must
be determined by more than one week’s worth of stats.
POWER
AFFLUENCE (A Normal trend
in a new high range)
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 5 12 19 26 2
Jan Feb Mar Apr
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THE CONDITIONS
FORMULAS
Here are the conditions and their formulas given in order of advance
upward:
The Condition of Non-Existence

(New Post Formula)
Every new appointee to a post begins in Non-Existence. Whether obtained
by new appointment, promotion or demotion.
He is normally under the delusion that now he is “THE ________” (new
title). He tries to start off in Power condition as he is usually very aware of his
new status or even a former status. But in actual fact he is the only one aware
of it. All others except perhaps the Personnel Officer are utterly unaware of
him as having his new status.
Therefore he begins in a state of Non-Existence. And if he does not begin
with the Non-Existence Formula as his guide, he will be using the wrong
condition and will have all kinds of trouble.
The Non-Existence Formula is:
1. Find a communication line.
2. Make yourself known.
3. Discover what is needed or wanted.
4. Do, produce and/or present it.
A new appointee taking over a going concern often thinks he had better
make himself known by changing everything, whereas he (a) is not well
enough known to do so and (b) hasn’t any idea of what is needed or wanted
yet. And so he makes havoc.
Sometimes he assumes he knows what is needed or wanted when it is only
a fixed idea with him and is only his idea and not true at all and so he fails at
his job.
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A person begins
a new job or
activity in a
condition of
Non-Existence.
Sometimes he doesn’t bother to find out what is really needed or wanted

and simply assumes it or thinks he knows when he doesn’t. He soon becomes
“unsuccessful.”
Now and then a new appointee is so “status happy” or so insecure or so
shy that even when his boss or his staff comes to him and tells him what is
needed or wanted he can’t or doesn’t even acknowledge and really does go into
Non-Existence for keeps.
Sometimes he finds that what he is told is needed or wanted needs
reappraisal or further investigation. So it is always safest for him to make his
own survey of it and operate on it when he gets his own firm reality on what
is needed or wanted.
If the formula is applied intelligently, the person can expect to get into a
zone of bypass where people are still doing his job to fill the hole his
predecessor may have left. This is a Danger condition—but it is the next one
higher than Non-Existence on the scale. If he defends his job and does his job
and applies the Danger Formula, he will come through it.
He can then expect to find himself in an Emergency condition. In this he
must follow the Emergency Formula with his post and he will come through it.
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He can now expect to be in Normal Operation, and if he follows the

formula of that, he will come to Affluence. And if he follows that formula, he
will arrive at Power. And if he applies the Power Formula, he will stay there.
So it is a long way from Power that one starts his new appointment, and if
he doesn’t go up the scale from where he really is at the start, he will of course
fail.
This applies to groups, to organizations, to countries as well as
individuals.
It also applies when a person fails at his job. He has to start again at Non-
Existence and he will build up the same way condition by condition.
Most failures on post are occasioned by failures to follow the conditions
and recognize them and apply the formula of the condition one is in when one
is in it and cease to apply it when one is out of it and in another.
This is the secret of holding a post and being successful on a job or in life.
Non-Existence Formula Expanded
Many people misapply the Non-Existence Formula and then wonder why
they seem to continue in trouble.
Executives sometimes wonder why certain staff personnel never seem to
be able to do anything right and out of exasperation wind up handling the
whole area themselves.
The answer is a misapplication of and not really doing the Non-Existence
Formula on their job.
Experience has shown that even experienced executives and staff
members have not in fact ever come out of Non-Existence. And where the
organization runs at all, it is carried on the back of one or two key seniors.
The phrase “find a communication line” is shortened down by too many
to locating somebody’s in-basket and dropping a “needed and wanted” request
in it. This is not really finding a communication line.
To handle any post you have to have information and furnish information.
Where this is not done, the person finds himself doing projects that get
rejected, projects that have to be redone, restraints put on his actions and
finds himself sinking down the conditions. He gets in bad with his seniors
because he doesn’t acquire and doesn’t furnish the vital information of what is
going on.
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It is the duty of any staff member, new on post or not, to round up the
communication lines that relate to his post, find out who needs vital information
from him and get those lines in, in, in as a continuing action.
When a person fails to do just that, he never comes out of Non-Existence.
He isn’t even up to Danger because nobody knows they are even bypassing
him. In other words, when a staff member does not do that, in the eyes of the
organization, he is simply a zero.
Orders being issued by him usually wind up cancelled when discovered by
some senior because they are not real. Joe was already handling it. Bill’s
schedule was thrown out by it. Treasury yells, “How come this wasted
expense?”
Pretty soon, when staff hears it’s so-and-so’s order they just ignore it.
The bright hopes of such a person usually wind up as hopes he will be able
to get transferred, the sooner the better. Everybody is against him.
But what really happened?
He never applied the Non-Existence Formula for real and so he stayed in
Non-Existence. His actions do not coordinate because he does not have the
lines to give or receive information.
It is really and factually not up to anyone else to round up his lines for him
any more than it is up to others to do his breathing for him. The inhale and
exhale of an organization or any activity is the take and give of vital
information and particles.
Anyone who finds himself in apparent Non-Existence or worse should
rush around and find the communication lines that apply to his activity and
post and insist that he be put on those lines.
Such a person, staff member or executive has to write down what
information he has to have to handle his post and what information others
have to have from him to do their jobs.
And then arrange communication lines so that he is an info addressee from
secretaries on those lines.
Senior executives such as division heads or heads of an organization do
have a responsibility for briefing staff. But they are usually also faced with
security problems as well as a wish to look good. And their data is general for
the whole division or organization. It does include specifics like “Mrs. Zikes
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is arriving at 1400 hours” or “the telephone company rep says the bill must be
paid by 1200 hours today or we got no phones.”
Havoc and overwork for executives occur where the bulk of the staff have
omitted to get themselves on important communication lines and keep those
lines flowing. Do not send to find why the statistics are down if 90 percent of
your staff is in Non-Existence or worse! Simply because they never really
found any communication lines.
Therefore the Expanded Non-Existence Formula is:
1. Find and get yourself on every communication line you will need in
order to give and obtain information relating to your duties and
materiel.
2. Make yourself known, along with your post title and duties, to every
person you will need for the obtaining of information and the giving of
data.
3. Discover from your seniors and fellow staff members and any public
your duties may require you to contact, what is needed and wanted
from each.
4. Do, produce and present what each needs and wants that is in
conformation with policy.
5. Maintain your communication lines that you have and expand them to
obtain other information you now find you need on a routine basis.
6. Maintain your origination lines to inform others what you are doing
exactly, but only those who actually need the information.
7. Streamline what you are doing, producing and presenting so that it is
more closely what is really needed and wanted.
8. With full information being given and received concerning your
products, do, produce and present a greatly improved product
routinely on your post.
I can guarantee that if you do this—and write your information concisely
so it is quick to grasp and get your data in a form that doesn’t jam your own
lines—you will start on up the conditions for actual and in due course arrive
in Power.
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The Condition of Danger

A Danger condition is normally assigned when:
1. An Emergency condition has continued too long.
2. A statistic plunges downward very steeply.
3. A senior executive suddenly finds himself or herself wearing the hat of
the head of the activity because it is in trouble.
To bypass someone means to “jump the proper terminal (person or post)
in a chain of command.”
If you declare a Danger condition, you of course must do the work
necessary to handle the situation that is dangerous.
This is also true backwards. If you start doing the work of another on a
bypass you will of course unwittingly bring about a Danger condition. Why?
Because you unmock the people who should be doing the work.
Further, if you habitually do the work of others on a bypass, you will of
course inherit all the work. This is the answer to the overworked executive.
He or she bypasses. It’s as simple as that. If an executive habitually bypasses,
he or she will then become overworked.
Also the condition of Non-Existence will occur.
So the more an executive bypasses, the harder he works. The harder he
works on a bypass, the more the section he is working on will disappear.
So purposely or unwittingly working on a bypass, the result is always the
same—Danger condition.
If you have to do the work on a bypass, you must get the condition declared
and follow the formula.
If you declare the condition, you must also do the work.
You must get the work being competently done by new appointment or
transfer or training of personnel. The condition is over when that portion of
the company or organization has visibly, statistically recovered.
So there are great responsibilities in declaring a Danger condition. These
are outweighed in burdensomeness by the fact that if you don’t declare one on
functions handled by those under you which go bad, it will very soon catch
up with you yourself, willy-nilly, and declared or not, you will go into a
Danger condition personally.
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When a person has

to be bypassed by
another to get his
job or activities
done, a Danger
condition exists.
There’s the frying pan—there’s the fire. The cheerful note about it is that
if the formula is applied, you have a good chance of not only rising again but
also of being bigger and better than ever.
And that’s the first time that ever happened to an executive who started
down the long slide. There’s hope!
When the formula for handling a Danger condition is not done, an
organization or activity or person cannot easily get above that condition
thereafter.
A prolonged state of Emergency or threats to viability or survival or a
prolonged single-handing will not improve unless the actual Danger Formula
is applied.
Danger Formula
The formula follows:
1. Bypass (ignore the junior or juniors normally in charge of the activity
and handle it personally).
2. Handle the situation and any danger in it.
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3. Assign the area where it had to be handled a Danger condition.

4. Assign each individual connected with the Danger condition a First
Dynamic Danger condition and enforce and ensure that they follow
the formula completely, and if they do not do so, do a full Ethics
investigation and take all actions indicated.
5. Reorganize the activity so that the situation does not repeat.
6. Recommend any firm policy that will hereafter detect and/or prevent
the condition from recurring.
The senior executive present acts and acts according to the formula above.
First Dynamic Danger Formula
The First Dynamic Danger Formula is:
1. Bypass habits or normal routines.
2. Handle the situation and any danger in it.
3. Assign self a Danger condition.
4. Get in your own personal ethics by finding what you are doing that is
out-ethics and use self-discipline to correct it and get honest and
straight.
5. Reorganize your life so that the dangerous situation is not continually
happening to you.
6. Formulate and adopt firm policy that will hereafter detect and prevent
the same situation from continuing to occur.
Here is an example of how the First Dynamic Danger Formula could be
applied.
The step “bypass habits or normal routines” means bypass doing all this
stuff you have been doing.
Let us say a fellow was accepting money from his uncle and saying he was
buying a house with it and he wasn’t. He was spending it on a blonde. Now he
is in continuous danger. His uncle might find it out at any moment and he
expects to inherit his uncle’s fortune someday. So he’s in a sort of quasi-panic;
even though he isn’t thinking about it, it’s still sitting there.
Now, “handle the situation and any danger in it” could be spotted as the
basic reason. Because he has done things he is not telling and he is connected
in some way and it’s pretty weird and he’s liable to be tripped. Well, all right,
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he’d have to quit doing that—bypass the habits or normal routines of the
thing. In other words, quit accepting that money.
But he’d also have to handle the situation and any danger in it. It would be
very dangerous to write, “Dear Uncle George: For the last year and a half, all
the money you’ve been sending me to buy a house with, I have been spending
on a blonde named Floozie.” Well, he’d have to figure out how to handle that
so that there wasn’t any danger in it. And it might take quite a bit of thinking.
If he just jumped up and said to his uncle, “Well, I’ve been lying to you,
Uncle George. I’ve been wasting all of your dough,” the possibility is that this
would come as such a shock to Uncle George that he’d disinherit him, shoot
him and so forth—he would really be in danger. So he’d have to figure out
how to handle it. It might be as simple as, “Dear Uncle George: I have been
getting processed lately with Scientology, and it’s making a more honest man
out of me. And there are many dishonest things which I have done in my life
and one of them is this. Now, you will probably shoot me for having done this,
and it is not fair to you but actually I have been using this money to live off of
and…”
Then “assign self a Danger condition” is only there because people forget
to assign it. And then you “get in your own personal ethics by finding what you
are doing that is out-ethics and use self-discipline to correct it and get honest
and straight.” Now, there might be some other “Uncle Georges” (and we’ve
still got to handle this blonde named Floozie). Even though one might have
handled the uncle there might be some more.
Then “reorganize your life so that the dangerous situation is not
continually happening to you”—well, that’s easy, in this hypothetical case of
Uncle George. Simply knock it off as far as this Floozie is concerned and
instead of being up all night every night and so forth, actually get some sleep
and do your job and amount to something. That’s a reorganization of it.
And then, “formulate and adopt firm policy that will hereafter detect and
prevent the same situation from continuing to occur.” In other words, “I’m
not going to tell lies so that I can get money,” or something like that, is all the
guy would have to decide. It’s like a New Year’s resolution. But people don’t
keep them because they didn’t get in the first five steps. That’s why New Year’s
resolutions aren’t kept. You are actually asking the guy at this point to reform.
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Junior Danger Formula

Where a Danger condition is assigned to a junior, request that he or she or
the entire activity write up his or her overts and withholds and any known
out-ethics situation and turn them in at a certain stated time on a basis that
the penalty for them will be lessened but if discovered later after the deadline
it will be doubled.
A harmful act or a transgression against the moral code of a group is
called an overt act, or an overt. When a person does something that is
contrary to the moral code he has agreed to, or when he omits to do
something that he should have done per that moral code, he has committed
an overt act. An overt act violates what was agreed upon.
An unspoken, unannounced transgression against a moral code by which
the person is bound is called a withhold. A withhold is an overt act that a
person committed that he or she is not talking about. It is something that a
person believes that if revealed will endanger his self-preservation. Any
withhold comes after an overt.
The full procedure for writing up one’s overts and withholds is given in
the, “Integrity and Honesty” booklet.
This write-up done, require that the junior and the staff that had to be
bypassed and whose work had to be done for them or continually corrected,
each one write up and fully execute the First Dynamic Danger Formula for
himself personally and turn it in.
When production has again increased, the Danger condition should be
formally ended and an Emergency condition assigned and its formula should
be followed.
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The Condition of Emergency

It is an empirical (observed and proven by observation) fact that nothing
remains exactly the same forever. This condition is foreign to this universe.
Things grow or they lessen. They cannot apparently maintain the same
equilibrium (balance) or stability.
Thus things either expand or they contract. They do not remain level in
this universe. Further, when something seeks to remain level and unchanged,
it contracts.
Thus we have three actions and only three. First is expansion, second is
the effort to remain level or unchanged and third is contraction or lessening.
As nothing in this universe can remain exactly the same, then the second
action (level) above will become the third action (lessen) if undisturbed or not
acted on by an outside force. Thus actions two and three above (level and
lessen) are similar in potential and both will lessen.
OE S
Number of FINISHED SH An unchanging or
Sh
Produced oes slightly worsening
FRIDAY
TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY condition requires
MONDAY
application of the
Emergency
Formula.
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This leaves expansion as the only positive action which tends to guarantee
survival.
To survive, then, one must expand as the only safe condition of operation.
If one remains level, one tends to contract. If one contracts, one’s chances
of survival diminish.
Therefore, there is only one chance left and that, for an organization or an
individual, is expansion.
In order to expand in such a situation, one needs to apply the formula for
a condition of Emergency.
One applies the condition of Emergency when:
1. Statistics of an organization, department or portion of an organization

or a person are seen to be declining.
2. Unchanging statistics of an organization or a portion of an organization

or a person.
The formula for the condition of Emergency is:
1. Promote. That applies to an organization. To an individual you had

better say produce. That’s the first action regardless of any other
action. Regardless of anything else, that is the first thing you have to
put attention on. The first broad, big action which you take is promote.
Exactly what is promotion? It is making things known; it is getting
things out; it is getting oneself known, getting one’s products out.
2. Change your operating basis. If for instance you went into a condition
of Emergency and then you didn’t change after you had promoted, you
didn’t make any changes in your operation, well you just head for
another condition of Emergency.
So that has to be part of it; you had better change your operating basis;
you had better do something to change the operating basis, because
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that operating basis led you into an emergency so you sure better
change it.
3. Economize.
4. Then prepare to deliver.
5. Part of the condition of Emergency contains this little line—you

have got to stiffen discipline or you have got to stiffen ethics.
Organizationally when a State of Emergency is assigned, supposing
the activity doesn’t come out of that emergency, regardless of what
caused the emergency, supposing the activity just doesn’t come out of
the emergency, in spite of the fact they have been labeled a State of
Emergency; they have been directed to follow the formula; they have
been told to snap and pop and get that thing straightened out, and they
are still found to be goofing; the statistic is going down and continues
to go down; what do you do? There is only one thing left to do and that
is discipline, because life itself is going to discipline the individual.
So the rule of the game is that if a State of Emergency is ignored and

the steps are not taken successfully, then you get an announcement
after a while that the condition has been continued, and if the condition
is continued beyond a specified period of time, why that’s it; it has to
walk forward into an ethics matter.
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The Condition
of Normal
You could call Normal a condition of stability and it probably should be
called a condition of stability except for this one little factor: This universe
does not admit of a static state. It won’t admit a no-increase, no-decrease. You
cannot have a condition in this universe where there is no increase and no
decrease. That’s a totally stable condition; there is no such thing in this
universe from one end of it to the other. There isn’t anything that always
remains the same.
Regular, steady expansion or increase means a condition of Normal Operation exists.
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The condition of Normal Operation, then, is not one of “stability”—

because it can’t be. Normal Operation must be a routine or gradual increase.
And there must be a regular, routine, gradual increase. You cannot have a
total, even state of existence which does not eventually fall on its head. The
second you get this even state in this universe, it starts to deteriorate. So a state
of stability would eventually deteriorate.
Well, to prevent a deterioration you must have an increase. That increase

doesn’t have to be spectacular but it has to be something. There has to be a bit
of an increase there.
Normal Formula:
1. The way you maintain an increase is when you are in a state of

Normal Operation you don’t change anything.
2. Ethics are very mild, the justice factor is quite mild, there are no
savage actions taken particularly.
3. When a statistic betters then look it over carefully and find out what
bettered it, and then do that without abandoning what you were doing
before.
4. Every time a statistic worsens slightly, quickly find out why and
remedy it.
And you just jockey those two factors, the statistic bettering, the statistic
worsening; repair the statistic worsening, and you will find out inevitably
some change has been made in that area where a statistic worsens. Some
change has been made; you had better get that change off the lines in a hurry.
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The Condition of Affluence

When you have a line going steeply up on a graph, that’s Affluence.
Whether it’s up steeply for one week or up steeply from its last point week
after week after week, it’s Affluence.
When you’ve got an Affluence, regardless of how you did it, the Affluence
Formula applies.
You must apply the Affluence Formula or you will be in trouble. Anyone
dealing with Affluence should be aware of the following peculiarities about it.
Affluence is the most touchy condition there is. Misname it or handle it off
formula and it can kill you! It is, strangely enough, the most dangerous of all
conditions in that if you don’t spot it and apply the formula, you spatter all
over the street! Spot and handle it right and it’s a rocket ride.
The Affluence Formula is:
1. Economize. Now the first thing you must do in Affluence is economize

and then make very, very sure that you don’t buy anything that has
any future commitment to it; don’t buy anything with any future
commitments; don’t hire anybody with any future commitments—
nothing. That is all part of that economy; clamp it down.
2. Pay every bill. Get every bill that you can possibly scrape up from
anyplace, every penny you owe anywhere under the sun, moon and
stars and pay them.
3. Invest the remainder in service facilities; make it more possible to

deliver.
4. Discover what caused the condition of Affluence and strengthen it.
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PRODUCE
HARVESTED
A steep improvement or increased abundance indicates a condition of Affluence.
Action Affluence Formula:
When an Affluence exists based on a statistic measuring one’s actions, and

disrelated to finance, this is the formula to apply.
1. Economize on needless or dispersed actions that did not contribute to
the present condition. Economize financially by knocking off all waste.
2. Make every action count and don’t engage in any useless actions.
Every new action to contribute and be of the same kind as did
contribute.
3. Consolidate all gains. Any place we have gotten a gain, we keep it.
Don’t let things relax or go downhill or roller-coaster. Any advantage
or gain we have, keep it, maintain it.
4. Discover for yourself what caused the condition of Affluence in your
immediate area and strengthen it.
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When a person has achieved a total abundance of

production that nothing can imperil, a condition
of Power exists.
The Condition of Power

A Power stat is a stat in a very high range; a brand-new range in a Normal
trend.
A Power stat is not just a stat that is steeply up for a long time. Nor is
Power simply a very high stat. Power is not a one-week thing. Power is a trend.
Definition: Power is a Normal in a stellar range so high that it is total
abundance, no doubt about it.
It is a stat that has gone up into a whole new, steeply high range and
maintained that range and now, in that new high range, is on a Normal trend.
Operating in this new range you may get a slight dip in that stat now and
then. But it is still Power.
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There is another datum that is of importance if one is to correctly

recognize and understand this condition:
Why do we call it Power?
Because there is such an abundance of production there that momentary halts
or dips can’t pull it down or imperil its survival.
And that is Power.
The question could be asked “How much work can one guy do?” Or “How
many bricks can a guy lay in a day?”
Of course, a person can only work so many hours in a day. He can only get
so much individual production in a day. But he can get enough production in
a day to support himself. He can get his production up into such abundance
that he can take some time off. That depends on his efficiency and brightness.
At a certain peak of Affluence he will hit how many bricks he can lay. By
increasing practice and efficiency he can keep that level of production going
in a Normal.
If he’s laying so many bricks that nobody is ever going to think of firing
him, why, he’s in Power. That’s a Power condition for an individual.
Power Formula:
1. The first law of a condition of Power is don’t disconnect. You can’t just
deny your connections; what you have got to do is take ownership and
responsibility for your connections.
2. The first thing you have got to do is make a record of all of its lines.
And that is the only way you will ever be able to disconnect. So on a
condition of Power the first thing you have to do is write up your whole
post. You have made it possible for the next fellow in to assume the
state of Power Change.
If you don’t write up your whole post, you are going to be stuck with a
piece of that post since time immemorial, and a year or so later
somebody will still be coming to you asking you about that post which
you occupied.
3. The responsibility is write the thing up and get it into the hands of the
guy who is going to take care of it.
4. Do all you can to make the post occupiable.
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When
taking over
a successful
position,
a condition
of Power
Change exists.
The Condition of Power Change

There are only two circumstances which require replacement, the very
successful one or the very unsuccessful one. What a song it is to inherit a
successful pair of boots; there is nothing to it; just step in the boots and don’t
bother to walk. If it was in a normal state of operation, which it normally
would have been in for anybody to have been promoted out of it, you just
don’t change anything.
So, if anybody wants anything signed that your predecessor didn’t sign,
don’t sign it. Keep your eyes open, learn the ropes and, depending on how big
the organization is, after a certain time, why, see how it is running and run it
as normal operating condition if it’s not in anything but a normal operating
condition.
Go through the exact same routine of every day that your predecessor
went through; sign nothing that he wouldn’t sign; don’t change a single order;
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look through the papers that had been issued at that period of time—these are
the orders that are extant—and get as busy as the devil just enforcing those
orders and your operation will increase and increase.
Now, the fellow who walks into the boots of somebody who has left in
disgrace—the post is in a condition of Emergency, its statistics have crashed
causing the boss to be fired—all he has to do when he inherits one in Emergency
is just apply the Emergency Formula to it, which is immediately promote!
One takes over a new post or a collapsed post in Non-Existence. But a

going concern is taken over by the Power Change Formula.
The keynote of the state of Power Change is study the organization, policy,
patterns and activity and issue no orders that are not routine—change nothing,
innovate nothing. Write up fully the post just left. Mainly observe on the post
just taken over. Learn the new post before doing anything.
The formula of the Power Change condition is:
When taking over a new post, change nothing until you are thoroughly
familiar with your new zone of power.
Violation of Power Change
A Danger condition can be brought about by a violation of the Power

Change condition.
Therefore, those who had a Power Change, must apply the Power Change
Violation Repair Formula:
1. Observe, question and draw up a list of what was previously successful

in your area or zone of control.
2. Observe and draw up a list of all those things that were unsuccessful in
your area in the past.
3. Get the successful actions IN.
4. Throw the unsuccessful actions out.
5. Knock off frantically trying to cope or defend.
6. Sensibly get back in a working structure.
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COMPLETING
CONDITIONS FORMULAS
The ethics conditions formulas flow, one to the next, with the first step of
one formula directly following the final step of the previous formula.
But what do you do if your stat graph indicates you’ve moved up a
condition before you even have a chance to finish a formula? Do you just drop
that formula and start on the next one? The answer is “no.” One completes the
formula he has begun.
Here’s an example. An executive director, in looking over his statistics, sees
that they are in Emergency. He immediately sees to it that the promote step of the
Emergency Formula is begun. Once that is well in hand he begins to change his
operating basis. He gets on-the-job training actions being done on some of his
sales staff and puts three more personnel into one of his major production areas.
But before he has a chance to do each of the remaining steps of the Emergency
Formula, the income and delivery statistics move up into Normal Operation.
What does he do? Well, he is now in a condition of Normal by statistics. But
the Normal Formula would also cause him to complete the Emergency
Formula, because in the Normal Formula you drop out what is unsuccessful and
you push what was successful; what was successful here was the Emergency
Formula. Thus, this executive director can get continued improvement on the
graph by completing the Emergency Formula, as the actions on the Emergency
Formula are what got him to Normal so quickly. So he would push them until
they were completed fully. This doesn’t mean he is still in an Emergency
condition—the statistics are now rising and the condition is Normal. It is a bit
of an oddball thing.
As another example, suppose someone is doing a Junior Danger Formula.
The person goes step by step through the procedure and writes up his or her
overts and withholds and any known out-ethics situation and starts applying
the First Dynamic Danger Formula. But before he completes the formula, his
stats rise. It would be dangerous indeed for this person to not finish the
Danger Formula (e.g., getting done the REORGANIZE YOUR LIFE and
FORMULATE AND ADOPT FIRM POLICY steps of the Danger Formula).
That one’s stats rise before completing a formula doesn’t mean he can’t go
into the higher condition his statistics now indicate. However, it would be a
grave fault not to complete the undone steps of an earlier formula. So, as in
the above examples, one has to complete the earlier formula, then complete
the next formula and continue on as his graph dictates.
Completing a formula is very vital. One doesn’t just name a formula. He
gets it completed.
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CONDITIONS BELOW
NON–EXISTENCE
There also exist operating states below Non-Existence.
The Condition of Liability

Below Non-Existence there is the condition of Liability. The being has
ceased to be simply nonexistent as a team member and has taken on the color
of an enemy.
It is assigned where careless or malicious and knowing damage is caused

to projects, organizations or activities. It is adjudicated that it is malicious and
knowing because orders have been published against it or because it is
contrary to the intentions and actions of the remainder of the team or the
purpose of the project or organization.
It is a liability to have such a person unwatched as the person may do or

continue to do things to stop or impede the forward progress of the project or
organization and such a person cannot be trusted. No discipline or the
assignment of conditions above it has been of any avail. The person has just
kept on messing it up.
The condition is usually assigned when several Dangers and Non-

Existences have been assigned or when a long unchanged pattern of conduct
has been detected.
When all others are looking for the reason mail is getting lost, such a being
would keep on losing the mail covertly.
The condition is assigned for the benefit of others so they won’t get tripped
up trusting the person in any way.
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A person is in a condition of Liability when he goes against the orders, intentions and
actions of the group and cannot be trusted.
The formula of Liability is:
1. Decide who are one’s friends.
2. Deliver an effective blow to the enemies of the group one has been
pretending to be part of despite personal danger.
3. Make up the damage one has done by personal contribution far beyond
the ordinary demands of a group member.
4. Apply for reentry to the group by asking the permission of each

member of it to rejoin and rejoining only by majority permission, and
if refused, repeating (2) and (3) and (4) until one is allowed to be a
group member again.
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The Condition of Doubt

When one cannot make up one’s mind as to an individual, a group,
organization or project, a condition of Doubt exists.
If one cannot
come to a
decision about
a situation, a
condition of
Doubt exists.
The Doubt Formula is:

1. Inform oneself honestly of the actual intentions and activities of that
group, project or organization, brushing aside all bias and rumor.
2. Examine the statistics of the individual, group, project or organization.
3. Decide on the basis of “the greatest good for the greatest number of
dynamics” whether or not it should be attacked, harmed or suppressed
or helped.
4. Evaluate oneself or one’s own group, project or organization as to
intentions and objectives.
5. Evaluate one’s own or one’s group, project or organization’s statistics.
6. Join or remain in or befriend the one which progresses toward the
greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics and announce the
fact publicly to both sides.
7. Do everything possible to improve the actions and statistics of the
person, group, project or organization one has remained in or joined.
8. Suffer on up through the conditions in the new group if one has
changed sides or the conditions of the group one has remained in if
wavering from it has lowered one’s status.
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The Condition of Enemy

When a person is an avowed and knowing enemy of an individual, a
group, project or organization, a condition of Enemy exists.
CONFIDENTIAL
Destructive actions indicate a condition of Enemy.
The formula for the condition of Enemy is just one step:
Find out who you really are.
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The Condition of Treason

Treason is defined as betrayal after trust.
The formula for Treason is very correctly and factually “Know that you
are.”
It will be found, gruesomely enough, that a person who accepts a post or
position and then doesn’t function as it, will inevitably upset or destroy some
portion of an organization.
Someone who
betrays the duties
entrusted to them
is in a condition
of Treason.
By not knowing that he is the _____________ (post name), he is

committing treason in fact.
The results of this can be found in history. A failure to be what one has the
post or position name of will result in a betrayal of the functions and purposes
of a group.
Almost all organizational upsets stem from this one fact:
A person in a group who, having accepted a post, does not know that he is
a certain assigned or designated beingness is in treason against the group.
The formula for the condition of Treason is:
Find out that you are.
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The Condition of Confusion

The lowest condition is a condition of Confusion.
In a condition of Confusion the being or area will be in a state of random
motion. There will be no real production, only disorder or confusion.
In order to get out of Confusion one has to find out where he is.
It will be seen that the progress upward would be, in Confusion, find out
where you are; in Treason, find out that you are; and for Enemy, find out who
you are.
Random, useless
activity with no ? ?
actual production
indicates a
condition of
Confusion.
?
The formula for Confusion is:
Find out where you are.
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Note: It is important that the person who is in Confusion fully understand

the definition of Confusion as given below. This is done before the formula
itself is started.
Definitions:
1. any set of factors or circumstances which do not seem to have any
immediate solution.
More broadly, a confusion in this universe is random motion. If you were
to stand in heavy traffic you would be likely to feel confused by all the motion
whizzing around you. If you were to stand in a heavy storm, with leaves and
papers flying by, you would be likely to be confused. A confusion could be
called an uncontrolled randomness.
Only those who can exert some control over that randomness can handle
confusions. Those who cannot exert control actually breed confusions.
A confusion is only a confusion so long as all particles are in motion.
A confusion is only a confusion so long as no factor is clearly defined or
understood.
Confusion is the basic cause of stupidity.
2. all a confusion is is unpatterned flow. The particles collide, bounce off
each other and stay IN the area. Thus there is no product as to have a product
something must flow OUT.
The additional formula for the condition of Confusion is:
1. Locational Processing on the area in which one is.
Locational Processing is a Scientology technique done to orient and put a
person in communication with his environment. This is done by pointing out
certain objects and telling the person to “Look at that ________ (indicated
object)” and acknowledging the person when he has done so. The objects
could include such things as a tree, a building, a street, etc. This is done until
the person is happier and has some kind of realization.
The full theory on Locational Processing is given in the “Assists for
Illnesses and Injuries” booklet.
2. Comparing where one is to other areas where one was.
3. Repeat step 1.
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CONDITIONS
APPLICATION
A vital thing to realize is that the formulas of conditions exist. They are
part and parcel of any activity in this universe and now that they are known
they must be complied with. This takes about 90 percent of chance out of
business operation or personal economics. The variables are only how well
one estimates the situation and how energetic one is in applying the formulas.
The proper application of the proper formula works. It works no matter

how stupidly it is applied only so long as the right formula is applied and the
exact sequence of steps is taken. Brilliance only shows up in the speed of
recovery or expansion. Very brilliant applications show up in overnight,
sound expansions. Dull applications, given only that they are correct, show up
in slower expansions. In other words, nobody has to be a screaming genius to
apply them or dream up the necessary ideas in them. One only has to estimate
the condition accurately and act energetically in applying its steps in exact
order. The brighter the ideas, the faster the expansion, that’s all. The
expansion or gain is itself inevitable. However, if the dullness includes adding
needless steps, then one may fail, and if one is so stupid that a wrong estimate
is made of conditions and a wrong formula is applied and applied with its
steps in wrong sequence, then one jolly well deserves to fail!
Another thing to know is that these conditions apply to a universe, a

civilization, an organization, a portion of an organization or a person alike.
The final thing to know is that knowing the formulas carries the
responsibility of using them. Otherwise one could be accused of willful
suicide! For these are the formulas. And they do work like magic.
If these formulas are not known or used, expansion is totally a matter of

chance or fate, regardless of how good one’s ideas are.■
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES
Here are exercises relating to the application of ethics. Doing these will
help increase your understanding of the subject.
Look around in your environment (your neighborhood, place of work,

1 etc.) and find at least five examples of someone who has his ethics in.
Then find five examples of someone who has his ethics out.
2 Look around your environment and locate an individual or activity

which is in each of the following conditions: Non-Existence, Danger,
Emergency, Normal, Affluence, Power. Do this until you are fully
familiar with each condition as a state of existence.
3 Look around your environment and locate an individual or activity

which is in a condition below Non-Existence. What condition is the
person or activity in?
4 Using a separate sheet of paper, work out the statistic for some area of
your life and show this on a graph. Determine what condition should be
applied to that statistic.
5 Determine the condition of some aspect of your life, such as your job,
your social life, your marriage, family life, anything. Once you have
determined the correct condition, write down on a sheet of paper what
you would do to apply each step of the formula for that condition.
6 Help someone you know determine the correct condition for a part of
his or her life. When the correct condition has been established, show
the person the formula for that condition and get the person to work out
what he or she would do to apply that formula.
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RESULTS FROM APPLICATION

Armed with the technology and tools of In Greece, a man on trial for car theft
ethics developed by Mr. Hubbard, was introduced to Scientology ethics. He
prosperity and a better life can be matters put the data to use, made a clean breast of
of certainty, not just chance or luck. his crimes and made many outstanding
contributions to the community as
The use of ethics technology by the amends for his earlier misdeeds. When
the man’s attorney presented evidence of
Director of the Juvenile Court in Greens-
ville, Alabama, to deal with the problem his reform and new value as a citizen, the
judge on the case dismissed all charges.
of rehabilitating young criminals illus-
trates its workability. Statistics show that
almost one for one, youngsters who Visiting her parents for the first time in
a number of years, a young California
embark on a life of crime remain crimi-
woman was distressed to find that they
nals their entire lives. However, through
were having problems with their marriage
use of Scientology ethics technology in and were contemplating divorce. Rather
counseling young offenders, this man than sit by and let that happen, she used
achieved the unheard-of: 90 percent of what she knew of ethics technology.
the youths he has counseled have not
returned to prison after release. More “I spent time with my father going over
than 500 testimonials have been written the different conditions and their formulas,
by those he has worked with, crediting as well as basic Scientology data on creating
ethics with having changed their lives and expanding a marriage. We established
forever. his correct condition with regard to the area
and he applied its formula with great
success. Next I spent time with my mother,
working out how she could apply ethics to
APPLICATION OF the difficulties she faced in the marriage.
ETHICS TECHNOLOGY AFTER: AFTER: She realized that she had earlier given up on
185%
Increase
162%
Increase
handling a financial problem with my father,
and determined to resolve it. Once they
This graph
shows the began applying the ethics formulas, my
results in BEFORE
parents’ troubles were sorted out and their
a group marriage became happier and more
BEFORE
which
applied ethics successful than it had been in many years.”
technology
to increase
viability and
B eing well versed in Scientology ethics,
production. a community volunteer in South Africa
was able to bring calm to an environment
VIABILITY PRODUCTIVITY
that had become turbulent after a series of
unsolved thefts.
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“I got into communication with the applying the Non-Existence Formula by the
child who was suspected of stealing. book. It was then that miracles started to
Because I made it safe for her, she told me happen. We opened up our communication
everything she had done. We worked out lines and in the second month of operation
what she could do for the community to two large loan companies offered us $50,000
make up for the harm she had done, and she in credit each. We got up into Danger and
was happy about this. Because there had applied that formula, then Emergency and
been so much upset about the thefts, I next then Normal. We continued to apply the
assembled all the children (about seventy), conditions by the book, achieving more
and the young girl stood in front of the class expansion in one year than other businesses
and told them what she had done. I told the normally experience in fifteen years or
children that after the meeting there was to more. We were even able to open a second
be no finger-pointing. They promised there store in our first year! Our expansion is
wouldn’t be any and officially forgave her. I stable through the application of the
was a little concerned about how the girl formulas.”
would feel after the meeting, but I found her
playing happily with a group of children. I
also found out that both the child’s parents
The owner of a large restaurant chain
uses Mr. Hubbard’s data on conditions
had been killed a few years earlier, and as formulas to help his employees be honest
she looked quite neglected I took measures and ethical.
to ensure she would be better looked after.
The upset in the group was handled and the
“I had one employee who stole some
girl had a chance to become a true member
money and another who allowed a great
of her group.”
deal of money to be taken. Both were
A man and his family opened a demoted, assigned the correct ethics
condition and allowed to work their way
furniture business in Los Angeles; though
they began with nothing, they achieved back to executive positions through
swift expansion by applying the application of the conditions formulas. Now
conditions formulas. one of them is a successful franchise owner
and the other is a key executive. Had it not
“We studied and applied the data on been for the conditions formulas, I would
conditions by Mr. Hubbard and began have lost two valuable people.”
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GLOSSARY
acknowledge: give (someone) an acknowl- being, of itself, easily attainable—so that finally,
edgment. See also acknowledgment in this complicated and difficult activities can be
glossary. achieved with relative ease. The term gradient
acknowledgment: something said or done to also applies to each of the steps taken in such
inform another that his statement or action has an approach.
been noted, understood and received. justice: the action taken on an individual by the
bank: reactive mind, that portion of a person’s group when he fails to take appropriate ethics
mind which works on a totally stimulus-response actions himself.
basis (given a certain stimulus it gives a certain Locational Processing: a type of process which
response), which is not under his volitional helps orient a person and puts him in
control, and which exerts force and the power communication with his environment.
of command over his awareness, purposes, motivator: an aggressive or destructive act
thoughts, body and actions. (A bank is a storage received by the person or part of life. The reason
place for information, as in early computers it is called a “motivator” is because it tends to
where data was stored on a group or series of prompt that one pays it back—it “motivates”
cards called a bank.) a new overt act.
beingness: condition or state of being; existence. overt act: a harmful act or a transgression
Beingness also refers to the assumption or against the moral code of a group. An overt act
choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is not just injuring someone or something, it
can be assumed by oneself or given to oneself is an act of omission or commission which does
or attained. Examples of beingness would be the least good for the least number of people
one’s own name, one’s profession, one’s physical or areas of life, or the most harm to the greatest
characteristics, one’s role in a game—each or number of people or areas of life.
all of these could be called one’s beingness. processing: a special form of personal
bypass: jump the proper person in a chain of counseling, unique in Scientology, which helps
command. an individual look at his own existence and
communication: an interchange of ideas across improves his ability to confront what he is and
space between two individuals. where he is. Processing is a precise, thoroughly
communication line: the route along which a codified activity with exact procedures.
communication travels from one person to reality: that which appears to be. Reality is
another. fundamentally agreement; the degree of
condition: one of the states of operation or agreement reached by people. What we agree
existence which an organization, its parts or an to be real is real.
individual passes through. Each condition has Scientology: an applied religious philosophy
an exact sequence of steps, called a formula, developed by L. Ron Hubbard. It is the study
which one can use to move from the current and handling of the spirit in relationship
condition to another higher and more survival to itself, universes and other life. The word
condition. Scientology comes from the Latin scio, which
determinism: power of choice; power of means “know” and the Greek word logos,
decision; ability to decide or determine the meaning “the word or outward form by which
course of one’s actions. the inward thought is expressed and made
ethics: the actions an individual takes on himself known.” Thus, Scientology means knowing
to correct some conduct or situation in which about knowing.
he is involved which is contrary to the ideals terminal: a person, point or position which can
and best interests of his group. It is a personal receive, relay or send a communication.
thing. When one is ethical or “has his ethics withhold: an unspoken, unannounced trans-
in,” it is by his own determinism and is done gression against a moral code by which a
by himself. person is bound; an overt act that a person
gradient: a gradual approach to something taken committed that he or she is not talking about.
step by step, level by level, each step or level Any withhold comes after an overt act.
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ABOUT
L. RON
HUBBARD
B orn in Tilden, Nebraska on March 13,
1911, his road of discovery and dedication
to the world in Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health. The first popular
to his fellows began at an early age. By the handbook on the human mind expressly
age of nineteen, he had traveled more than written for the man in the street, Dianetics
a quarter of a million miles, examining the ushered in a new era of hope for mankind
cultures of Java, Japan, India and the and a new phase of life for its author. He
Philippines. did, however, not cease his research, and as
Returning to the United States in 1929, breakthrough after breakthrough was
Ron resumed his formal education and carefully codified through late 1951, the
studied mathematics, engineering and the applied religious philosophy of Scientology
then new field of nuclear physics—all was born.
providing vital tools for continued Because Scientology explains the
research. To finance that research, Ron whole of life, there is no aspect of
embarked upon a literary career in the man’s existence that L. Ron Hubbard’s
early 1930s, and soon became one of the
subsequent work did not address. Residing
most widely read authors of popular
variously in the United States and England,
fiction. Yet never losing sight of his
primary goal, he continued his mainline his continued research brought forth
research through extensive travel and solutions to such social ills as declining
expeditions. educational standards and pandemic drug
With the advent of World War II, he abuse.
entered the United States Navy as a All told, L. Ron Hubbard’s works on
lieutenant (junior grade) and served as Scientology and Dianetics total forty
commander of antisubmarine corvettes. million words of recorded lectures, books
Left partially blind and lame from injuries and writings. Together, these constitute
sustained during combat, he was the legacy of a lifetime that ended on
diagnosed as permanently disabled by January 24, 1986. Yet the passing of L. Ron
1945. Through application of his theories Hubbard in no way constituted an end; for
on the mind, however, he was not only able with a hundred million of his books in
to help fellow servicemen, but also to circulation and millions of people daily
regain his own health. applying his technologies for betterment, it
After five more years of intensive can truly be said the world still has no
research, Ron’s discoveries were presented greater friend.■
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What are some of the principles of Scientology?

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How does Scientology aim to improve people's lives?

How does Scientology aim to improve people's lives?

Chap 10.

book Page 1 Friday, September 28, 2001 7:00 PM

M an has long found ethics to be a confusing subject. In recent decades

THE BASICS OF ETHICS

Basic Nature of Man

The third thing to know is that one can wreck an organization or

STATISTICS —WHAT THEY ARE

3. We subtract $200 from $1,200 and we have $1,000.

Power is not judged on a one-week basis only nor by a single line on a

One can interpret one’s own personal statistic hour to hour.

A division head can interpret on a basis of day to day.

An Executive Secretary needs a few days’ worth of stat.

An Executive Director would use a week’s worth of stat.

A more remote governing body would use a TREND (which would be

One knows he had no stat on Monday—he didn’t come to work. So

A trend is an inclination toward a general course or direction.

This would also be a Non-Existence trend:

This would be a Danger trend:

This would be an Emergency trend:

This would be a Normal trend:

Any slight rise above level is Normal.

As Power is a trend it is not judged by a single line on a graph. Power is a

The Condition of Non-Existence

Sometimes he doesn’t bother to find out what is really needed or wanted

He can now expect to be in Normal Operation, and if he follows the

The Condition of Danger

When a person has

3. Assign the area where it had to be handled a Danger condition.

Junior Danger Formula

The Condition of Emergency

One applies the condition of Emergency when:

1. Statistics of an organization, department or portion of an organization

2. Unchanging statistics of an organization or a portion of an organization

The formula for the condition of Emergency is:

1. Promote. That applies to an organization. To an individual you had

4. Then prepare to deliver.

5. Part of the condition of Emergency contains this little line—you

So the rule of the game is that if a State of Emergency is ignored and

Regular, steady expansion or increase means a condition of Normal Operation exists.

The condition of Normal Operation, then, is not one of “stability”—

Well, to prevent a deterioration you must have an increase. That increase

1. The way you maintain an increase is when you are in a state of

The Condition of Affluence

The Affluence Formula is:

1. Economize. Now the first thing you must do in Affluence is economize

3. Invest the remainder in service facilities; make it more possible to

4. Discover what caused the condition of Affluence and strengthen it.

A steep improvement or increased abundance indicates a condition of Affluence.

Action Affluence Formula:

When an Affluence exists based on a statistic measuring one’s actions, and

When a person has achieved a total abundance of

The Condition of Power

There is another datum that is of importance if one is to correctly

The Condition of Power Change

One takes over a new post or a collapsed post in Non-Existence. But a