The Five Conditions (SHSBC 650525)

Series: Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC)

Date: 25 May 1965

Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard

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What’s the date? Audience: twenty – five. Twenty – five May AD 15, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.

A meter with a gray face. Isn’t that interesting looking meter. All right, I have a little bulletin – bulletin to give you, a couple of bulletins.

And one of those bulletins is that Mary Sue is late today. Now, there’s a rumor going about that if you’re being processed in the HGC as a stu- dent, you can’t come to lectures or something like that. That’s false.

Let me give you a clue – this is the little bulletin you have. I’ll give you a clue on the way we have to operate in Scientology: If it isn’t written, it isn’t true. And you just put that down and you’ll get along fine in organizations and everyplace else.

If it isn’t written, it isn’t true. Somebody says this, that and the other thing; you say, “Well, have you got it in writ- ing?” And they say, “Well, no, as a matter of fact, (something).” Well, then it isn’t true and that’s that. This, by the way, had to come into being.

The first place I know of it was when we were down at 2600 Hoover in Los Angeles in 1950, and people used to walk in off the street and say, “Ron said to give me fifty hours of processing,” or something like that, and by George, they would. There’s very often some misunderstood statement or a rumor line or something like this is passed on verbally. And frankly it – even if it was uttered verbally it should have been in writing.

So once more, if it isn’t written, it isn’t true. You find out that when things are moving very fast, a whole bunch of verbal orders will get mixed up in the thing that other people aren’t aware of and suddenly, why, nobody in the organization can agree with anybody else because the verbal orders are standing in the road of THE FIVE CONDITIONS 2 everything, and it just all breaks down. So you have to have that rule, and you have to make it stick.

Now, the other one is that Saint Hill had to be declared in a condition. Now, a declara- tion of a condition is something new, and you will soon find it applying to the course. And the bulletins are all practically written – the policy letters are all practically written on this, but I haven’t had a chance to finish them up or sign them or something of the sort.

But we’ve been using this, nevertheless, for some little time and that is, strictly, a condition is an operating state. Organizationally, it’s an operating state. And oddly enough in the MEST universe there are several formulas connected with these operating states.

And if for instance, England, the British government, knew these or the United States government knew these, they wouldn’t get into very much trouble. But as it is, they don’t know them and they get into a great deal of trouble. There are apparently certain formulas which have to be followed in this universe or you go appetite over tin cup.

I’ll give you an idea of the Emergency Formula – the Emergency Formula… Of course, we’re more accustomed to being in a state of Emergency on this planet than we are in any other state. And nevertheless, there is a certain way that you handle an emergency. And an Emer- gency status is declared simply and only by a down statistic; that is to say, the statistics went down.

And it doesn’t matter what statistics; if they were supposed to go up and they went down, why, that’s an Emergency. Now, the reverse can take place. The reverse can take place.

Let’s take the number of students in a unit. Let’s say it keeps going up and it kept going up and it doesn’t go down. Do you see?

Then, obviously, the students aren’t being graduated from the unit at the same rate they’re being put into the unit, so there must be a slowdown in that unit of some kind or an- other. So that will create a State of Emergency too. So it’s the desirable statistic has not been attained.

And the statistic which should go down goes up or the statistic which should goes up goes down. Now, let’s take the gross income of an organization at large. That has to do with a, let us say, a drop.

And it’s a consistent drop: One week, we don’t pay any attention to it; two weeks, we start paying an attention to; three weeks, why, and then we jolly well pay an atten- tion to it. Don’t you see? And if it consistently does this in an organization and shows down, down, down for four consecutive weeks we declare them in a State of Emergency.

Now, the declaration is issued by Secretarial Executive Director, which is a positive or- der. In other words, it’s a written, posted order; people are not left in the dark concerning this State of Emergency. You just had a unit on this course go into a State of Emergency.

Now, there are several policy letters connected with this which I won’t particularly bother to deline- THE FIVE CONDITIONS 3 ate. But there are certain actions which one has to undertake when a State of Emergency is de- clared. The first of these actions is, well, you can say promote – that applies to an organiza- tion.

To an individual you’d better be – say produce. That’s the first action. Regardless of any other action, regardless of anything else, why, that is the first thing they have to put their at- tention on.

Very often you will find out that the moment that the emergency was noticed… Well, let’s take you: You find your money is going downhill at a great rate, and you’re not getting as much money in as you should have been getting in and there’s less and less money and so forth. Well, you actually are in a State of Emergency. Now, the proper thing to do, according to Mr.

Wilson, a thetan that wandered in from someplace… Well, he did. He had an ambition to end Britain. And that’s libel and slander so we’ll have to cut it off the tape.

But anyway, he really made this statement: He says England should be a fourth – class power. And he’s making his postulate. You didn’t know that he said that?

Oh yes, man. That’s a matter of publicized public statement, made right after leaving the United States before he was elected. Anyhow, he’s making it.

But now, you see, he finds the organization called the gov- ernment in a poor state economically, so he economizes. The United States government does this all the time. As soon as they find out that their treasury balance doesn’t equal their squidawoof and the ideas of the secretary of the treasury that he just got from the first cell of the Communist Party or wherever it is – or wherever they get their ideas.

The United States government, you know, runs its economics today straight off Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. If you don’t believe it, read Das Kapital, if you can. Now, that sounds awfully rabble – rouse and very extreme, but it happens to be a very banal statement.

It’s even been noticed by the Wall Street Journal. The formula of economics in Das Kapital is “From each according to his ability to pay and to each according to his need.” Socialism. That’s the formula of taxation contained in Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, written about 1879, something like that.

See? And the governments of the world are following this today. And these capitalistic governments are having a ball with this.

Well now, supposing when they find that they’re going broke they economize. Sup- posing they take that as their first step. Ahhhhh.

Every time they recover from an emergency they will be smaller and less able. If that’s all they do. Do you follow?

They have violated this actual formula of Emergency. There is an actual formula of Emergency. It does exist in this uni- verse.

It’s in the woof and warp of the universe itself. And its first line is – its first line is – the first broad, big action which you take is promote.