Scientology 0-8 1952 Chapter 4

Chapter 4

A wave length is a characteristic of motion. Many motions are too random, too chaotic to have orderly wave lengths. An orderly wave length is a flow of motion. It has a regular repeated distance between its crests. Take a rope or a garden hose and give it a flip. You will see a wave travel along it. Energy, whether electrical, light, or sound, has some such pattern.

This is a smooth flowing wave. Its length is between crests. It is measured in units of length such as centimeters or inches or feet.

A flow can have many patterns.

These still have wave length. We are not much interested here in patterns or characteristics. We are interested in lengths.

Here are some rough estimates of wave lengths which produce reactions on the mind, a tone scale of wave lengths. (Accurate lengths not given here. )

Tone	Concept	Wavelength
Θ		∞ or 0.0
39.0	Aesthetics	0.00000000000000000000000002 cm.
8.0	Analytical Thought	0.0000002 cm.
1.5	Emotion	0.024 cm.

Note how gross is emotion, how tiny is the wave producing aesthetics (art).

A wave length is not the power of a wave. A small length, given enough volume, is deadlier or stronger than a gross wave.

Now we see that a facsimile can have a mirrored set of wave lengths which match any wave in the physical universe. Actually, theta can create waves. Thus a facsimile can contain heavy effort or emotion and throw that back at the preclear. A facsimile, restimulated by the preclear’s attention units, can contain enough force to bow his back out of shape, scar his flesh, give him actual electrical shocks, or make him hot enough to run a fever, to say nothing of changing his ideas.

Theta can be forced to have a facsimile it did not create. Hit a man, operate on him, beat him, give him a shock—he then will have a facsimile which can reactivate when his attention units, later on, accidentally sweep over it.

However, theta, to be made to have and hold any facsimile, must be “built down”.

The only reason theta will hold to a facsimile, the only mechanical way it can hold any facsimile, is by having it attached to theta itself.

We can see that facsimiles are unnecessary, restrictive, and in short, are control mechanisms. To control anyone, it is necessary to do one of two things:

(1) Give him a basic facsimile strong enough to put him in pain if he fails to obey it;

(2) Build on such heavy facsimiles.

For example, a dog is beaten for barking and told to be quiet. Afterwards it is only necessary to tell him to be quiet. This is both operations in one.

In the case of a man—much sturdier stuff than a dog—it requires a very heavy facsimile as a basic, and facsimiles such as operations, accidents, beatings have to have as a basic facsimiles so strong their counterpart cannot as yet be duplicated on Earth. The basic facsimile must answer a very important condition: its wave lengths must have, at least in part, a near approximation of theta itself.

What wave most closely approximates theta? It would be one of nearly infinite smallness, and that wave is found to be aesthetic, the wave length of the arts.

Reason, analytical waves, are too coarse to attain theta’s zero or infinity “wave length”. Art alone may do so.

The proof of all this is its workability. And it works. We have, then:

Aesthetics Reason Emotion Effort

To make theta hold a facsimile of emotion or effort, or even reason, the facsimile itself must contain an aesthetic wave. The last alone can hold the recordings of pain, grief, exhaustion, aberration and force in upon theta.

If we had to take the emotion, effort, and reason or mis-reason off the whole track, we would have a long task. If we remove the compulsions toward aesthetics, we have cut away the only bridge by which heavy facsimiles can be appended to theta. Theta manufactures aesthetics. Implanted aesthetic waves, then, if strong enough, could obsess theta into acting on enforced aesthetics.

This does not say aesthetics are bad. It says enforced aesthetics are bad. You can’t beat a woman into being beautiful. You could beat her into being obsessed about beauty.

That which you see as beautiful of your free will gladdens you. Out of an obsessive aberration, all beauty becomes hideous even when the aberree cries out how lovely it is.

Just as we have enforced and inhibited ARC, we have enforced and inhibited aesthetics. These, processed, drop off the heavy facsimiles which are thus tied to theta. Process aesthetics and occlusions vanish and current life can be cleared in a few hours.

But what manner of incident is held by an aesthetic wave and how is it processed? It is so simple.