So...I found the pdf for The Original Thesis. In this book Hubbard has a quote dated January, 1948.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................1
PRIMARY AXIOMS....................................................................................2
AN ANALOGY OF THE MIND.......................................................................6
THE DYNAMICS........................................................................................8
THE BASIC INDIVIDUAL ............................................................................10
ABERRATIONS.........................................................................................17
THE TONE SCALE .....................................................................................19
THE CHARACTER OF ENGRAMS..................................................................20
DRAMATIZATION......................................................................................24
THE AUDITOR’S CODE...............................................................................26
AUDITING...............................................................................................27
DIAGNOSIS..............................................................................................29
EXHAUSTION OF ENGRAMS.......................................................................32
ENGRAM CHAINS.....................................................................................35
PRENATAL, BIRTH AND INFANT ENGRAMS..................................................37
THE “LAWS” OF RETURNING......................................................................40
CASE HISTORIES......................................................................................45
GLOSSARY..............................................................................................48
.c.THE TONE SCALE
The tone scale denotes numerically, first the status of an engram in the reactive mind,
next its erasure or reduction, and provides a measure for sanity in an individual.
The derivation of this scale is clinical and is based upon observation of engrams being
worked. When an engram is located and developed, the extreme range it can follow begins with
apathy, develops into anger (or the various facets of antagonism), proceeds into boredom, and
arrives at last in cheerfulness or vanishes utterly.
The tone scale is essentially an assignation of numerical value by which individuals can
be numerically classified. It is not arbitrary but will be found to approximate some actual
governing law in nature.
Zero is equivalent to death. An individual with a zero tone would be dead.
Ranging upwards from zero to one then is that emotional bracket which may be denoted
as apathy along its graduated scale from death to the beginnings of apathetic resentment.
From one to two is the range of antagonism, including suspicion, resentment, and anger.
Boredom and its equivalents, by which is denoted minor annoyance, begin at two and
end at three.
From three to four are the emotions which range from carelessness to cheerfulness.
The term tone four denotes a person who has achieved rationality and cheerfulness.
Each engram residual in the reactive mind has its own independent tonal value. Serious
engrams will be found in the apathy range. Dangerous engrams will be found in the anger range.
Above two point five an engram could not be considered to have any great power to affect the
analytical mind. Each engram in the reactive mind then can be said to possess a tone value. The
composite sum of these engrams will give, if added, a numerical value to the reactive mind.
Engrams can be computed as they lie along the dynamics, and to each dynamic may be
assigned a tone. The sum of the tones of the dynamics, divided by the number of the dynamics,
will give a potential numerical value for an individual. This, of course, is variable depending on
the existence of restimulators in his environment to reactivate the engrams.
The probable average of mankind at this writing may be in the vicinity of 3.0. Complete
rationality depends upon exhaustion of the reactive mind and complete rationality is invariably the
result of reaching tone four.
The initial diagnosis is done by the assignation of a general tone to denote the condition
of an individual’s reactlve mind. His methods of meeting life, his emotional reaction to the
problems in his environment, can be evaluated by the use of the tone scale.
In auditing, as will be covered later, an engram normally can be expected to run from its
initial value in the apathy or anger range to tone four. Very shortly after it reaches tone four it
should vanish. If it vanishes without attaining the laughter of tone four it can be assumed that the
individual’s basic engram has not been erased.
The tone scale has value in auditing and should be thoroughly understood.
From there the book covers how the Tone Scale shows up in Engrams and Dramatizations.
It's peppered throughout the chapters of
DIAGNOSIS..............................................................................................29
EXHAUSTION OF ENGRAMS.......................................................................32
ENGRAM CHAINS.....................................................................................35
PRENATAL, BIRTH AND INFANT ENGRAMS.
The Tone Scale, likewise, plays a major role throughout Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It also plays a part through the Theta/MEST theory and if one were to read the Research and Discovery series you'll see the development of the Tone 40 to minus 40 scale and it has zero and nothing to do with Mathison.
Hubbard didn't develop that to compete or from inspiration of Mathison.
The expanded Tone Scale is Scientology and is about the Thetan.
Here's the scoop...when criticizing Scientology and Hubbard people have a tendency to reduce and eliminate anything from Scientology. I've seen people claim that it does nothing and there's nothing there...yadda...yadda...yadda. In this vein people tend to make nothing of anything "Hubbard".
Here's the problem with that. It's not true. With Scientologists sitting on the fence they need to have an accurate description and criticism of Scientology and Hubbard. Veda is a master of this.
This doesn't give credence to the viability of Scientology or anything but it does allow Scientologists to maintain engagement. When I was on the fence I would read things about Scientology and Hubbard that I knew was not true and all this would do would reinforce the crap Hubbard told us about Chaos Merchants, etc. It would reinforce my dedication to Scientology. It did just the opposite of what the presumed goal was from the storyteller.
There's many, many, many things that Hubbard plagiarized, lied about and did that display the dishonesty so there's never a reason to inflate the badness or to make things look worse than they are.
Just tell it as it is.
