Hope of Man

Introduction: The Hope of Man as it appears today in Scientology is thousands of years old. Our work does not represent a revolt. All it represents is the hope that Man again can find his own feet, that he can find himself…

Over the past 100 years, we have repeatedly been told that without religions there would have been no wars, or far fewer wars. This is a frequently repeated lie.

There are also hardly any wars fought over water, oil, or other resources.

There is only one reason why we have wars: psychopaths^*. Period.

Human beings are born with ARC and they live ARC. Psychopaths merely pretend to have ARC.

Below, the excerpt of “The Hope of Man” by L. Ron Hubbard from Ability magazine, Issue 5, mid-June 1955.

"This individual, you, is today threatened by one of the greatest cataclysms Man has been called upon to face. He is threatened by a lot of bodies running around evidently on total automatic doing and planning interesting things for the demise of the race. And the next few years are going to be nerve-racking years.

"If we understand what we know (and it's interesting that you have to understand what you know), we can go a long way in mitigating the effect and onslaught on a society of weapons which exceed the imagination of any of us in their destructive power, and which are going to cause, on every hand, a decline of the state of Man unless some of us know what we are talking about. And fortunately right now we do know what we're talking about." – L. Ron Hubbard

It needs more auditors who audit.

The Ron’s Org is there for you.

Much love,

Max Hauri

^* According to Robert D. Hare, there is a concentration of psychopaths in the following fields: corporate leadership/top management, politics, the legal system, media and entertainment, and in special units of the military and police.

Hare writes that approximately 2% of the population are psychopaths. Ron writes that 2½% of people are Suppressive Persons (SPs).

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The Hope of Man

Extract of Ability 5, Mid June 1955

When we consider that a great deal of what we now know with great exactness was already known and lost thousands of years age, we begin to see that we are not dealing with something new when we are dealing with Scientology. It is not something new.

What we are doing with this data is new. The way this material is organized is new. The technologies with which we can bring about a new state of being in Man are new. But the basic idea, the basic hope of Man as it appears today in Scientology is thousands of years old.

When we call Scientology a religion, we are calling it a religion out of a much deeper well than the last two thousand years.

The great spiritual leaders of the past handed along enough tradition to make us aware of the fact that there was a spiritual side to Man, These great spiritual leaders have been hanged, reviled, misinterpreted, badly quoted and have not been comprehended at all.

These great religious leaders begin with a monk, a legendary mythical monk whose name was probably not but is said to be Dharma. That word has meant "wisdom" ever since.

Many thousands of years ago in the highlands of India he handed on information which was taken up and carried forward by someone who might never have existed, just as they say Christ might never have existed. That person was Krishna.

We go forward from there and we get Lao-Tse, who in his Tao again handed on knowledge and said there was a spiritual side to life.

Another one of these great leaders is Gautama Buddha, who never pretended to be a god.

He pretended to be nothing but what he was, a man inspired with the wisdom which he had gained and which he taught.

An enormous amount of what we call religion in the Western Hemisphere today was given to us by Gautama Buddha. It was filtered through the Middle East "Love thy neighbor" was one of the first lessons he taught, and it is that lesson which we have received from the Middle East.

These people handed on a torch of wisdom, of information, generation to generation. It was handed along geographical routes, and one of those routes was the Middle East. And one of the people who handed it on was Moses. And again it was handed on to a man named Christ. And he handed it on. And even the Arab nation benefitted from this through their own prophet, Mohammed.

These men I consider great spiritual leaders, because they gave to Man, on down through the years, the hope that life could go on, that there was a spiritual side to existence. Without that hope, I do not think Man could have survived this far down the track.

It is a fantastic thing that today, in this twentieth century, thousands of years of belief in the field of religion have materialized into an actuality which can be put into effect rather easily by the average individual.

We have at least brought this material into the category of practical. The oldest material Man had – hope, the spirit – has come into a culmination of being intensely practical.

Let me say something about this word religion. Religion has a great many meanings. Where the public at large turns away from religion, they are turning away from its impracticality, and that's all they're turning away from.

Scientology is knowledge. That's all Scientology is. The word Scientology means knowledge. Scio means "knowing in the fullest sense of the word" This is the same word as Dharma, which means "knowledge", Tao, which means "the way to knowledge" and Buddhism, which means "the way to spiritual knowledge." It's an old word, a very old word. But it contains in itself something else. It contains a positive direction, a positive goal and the goal is simply a greater freedom for the individual. And when we say "an individual", we're talking about something as precise as an apple. We are not talking about a collection of behavior patterns which we learned about from studying rats. We're not talking about the color of your hair or the length of your feet. We're talking about you, and we know what we're talking about when we talk about you. And therefore a greater freedom is indicated for the individual you.

Why? Because this individual you is today threatened by one of the greatest cataclysms Man has been called upon to face. He is threatened by a lot of bodies running around evidently on total automatic doing and planning interesting things for the demise of the race. And the next few years are going to be nerve-racking years.

If we understand what we know (and it's interesting that you have to understand what you know), we can go a long way in mitigating the effect and onslaught on a society of weapons which exceed the imagination of any of us in their destructive power, and which are going to cause, on every hand, a decline of the state of Man unless some of us know what we are talking about. And fortunately right now we do know what we're talking about.

Our work does not represent a revolt. All it represents is the hope that Man again can find his own feet, that he can find himself in a very confused, mechanistic society, and can recover to himself some of the happiness, some of the sincerity, some of the love and kindness with which he was created. And if Man can do this, and if we can help in any way to accomplish this, then all the years of my life and all the years of yours will have been well paid for, and none of us will have lived in vain.

We have a practical religion. And before you say, "Religion – grrr!" think of that – it's a practical religion. And religion is the oldest heritage Man has.

Many, many of us are ministers. The fact is that we do not fit at all or influence or have any real contact with medicine, certainly not with psychiatry. We do not exist in the tradition of psychology. We can only exist in the field of religion.

It is up to us to make religion into a much better thing than it has been and to use it to help our fellow man.

L. Ron Hubbard