Tetragrammaton became As-Is-ness, Alter-Is-ness, Is-ness , and Not Is-ness

Veda

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Aleister Crowley's 1904 Naples Arrangement is the precursor of Hubbard's 1952 The Factors.

The Point's idea of Bliss (Ananda) became Affinity.

The Point's idea of Knowledge (Chit) became Reality.

The Point's idea of Being (Sat) became Communication.

Affinity, Reality, Communication appear in Hubbard's The Factors in the same place as do Bliss, Knowledge, Being in the Naples Arrangement.

"These idea of Bliss (
Affinity), Thought/knowledge (Reality), and Being (Communication) constitute the minimum possible qualities which a point must possess if it is to have sensible experience of itself."

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'The Factors' are a re-write of material from Aleister Crowley, who drew from earlier sources.

Relevant passages from Crowley are in his 'Book of Thoth', and in his Second Lecture from the book 'Yoga for Yellow bellies', and also in his 'Little Essays Towards Truth' in the chapter 'Man', and other works.

Lots of the stuff, about which Scientologists swoon with appreciative awe, comes from this guy:

 

Ed8

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Aleister Crowley's 1904 Naples Arrangement is the precursor of Hubbard's 1952 The Factors.

The Point's idea of Bliss (Ananda) became Affinity.

The Point's idea of Knowledge (Chit) became Reality.

The Point's idea of Being (Sat) became Communication.

Affinity, Reality, Communication appear in Hubbard's The Factors in the same place as do Bliss, Knowledge, Being in the Naples Arrangement.

"These idea of Bliss (
Affinity), Thought/knowledge (Reality), and Being (Communication) constitute the minimum possible qualities which a point must possess if it is to have sensible experience of itself."

*​

'The Factors' are a re-write of material from Aleister Crowley, who drew from earlier sources.

Relevant passages from Crowley are in his 'Book of Thoth', and in his Second Lecture from the book 'Yoga for Yellow bellies', and also in his 'Little Essays Towards Truth' in the chapter 'Man', and other works.

Lots of the stuff, about which Scientologists swoon with appreciative awe, comes from this guy:

Ananda-chit-sat is not the template or format behind triangles, including your example the ARC triangle. For one thing, 'sat' is the verb to be. So 'sat' translates to mean a Being or any existence when a noun (satva) and equivalent to 'is' in English as a verb. The correct template for triangles in Hindu knowledge is the three gunas: satva-rajas-tamas.
Ed
 

Veda

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Ananda-chit-sat is not the template or format behind triangles, including your example the ARC triangle. For one thing, 'sat' is the verb to be. So 'sat' translates to mean a Being or any existence when a noun (satva) and equivalent to 'is' in English as a verb. The correct template for triangles in Hindu knowledge is the three gunas: satva-rajas-tamas.
Ed
Your argument is with Hubbard, not me. It is he who lifted The Factors from Crowley's earlier statements.

I think it's in a PAB (Professional Auditors Bulletin) but Hubbard described Being as communication.

When I first saw it, long ago, it seemed odd, since Scientologists think of "communication" this way:



What can I tell you? Spend a few years reading Crowley and then re-study Hubbard.

:scratch:
 

Zertel

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Thanks for the MU (joke)

from wiki: The Tetragrammaton (/ˌtɛtrəˈɡræmətɒn/) or Tetragram (from Greek τετραγράμματον, meaning "[consisting of] four letters") is the four-letter Hebrew word יהוה‎ (transliterated as YHWH), the name of the national god of Israel.[1] The four letters, read from right to left, are yodh, he, waw, and he.[2] While there is no consensus about the structure and etymology of the name, the form Yahweh is now accepted almost universally.[3]

from dictionary.com: tetragram - a word of four letters.
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I don't see how "god" relates to Is-ness or ARC unless you're talking about thetans being gods or godlike. ARCU (Understaning) would be a "word" of four letters. In other words I don't understand what thread title is about.

Also, what happened to "I think therefore I am"? (being a bit facetious)

To me Is-ness and ARC are worthwhile concepts but I never paid much attention to Elron's more metaphysical stuff like the axioms, factors, maxims and so on but other people did and still do. I was happy if myself and the people I audited got out of session with an f/n, cog, vgis - floating needle, cognition, very good indicators. haha
 
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Zertel

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On the scn blogs people occasionally get into discussions about Elron's descriptions and sources for "the true nature of creation, existence and being" and have trashed some of his descriptions as being incorrect. One time on Rathbun's blog there was a debate about whether or not a thetan has "a tiny bit if mass".
 
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Zertel

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"These idea of Bliss (Affinity), Thought/knowledge (Reality), and Being (Communication) constitute the minimum possible qualities which a point must possess if it is to have sensible experience of itself."
Okay. I reread that and it makes some sense.

I was thinking out loud and blowing through some confusion. The topic mentions Is-ness and then the first comment switches to ARC. No big deal. Somewhere on the forum there is an extensive thread about Crowley's philosophy and practice.
 
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La La Lou Lou

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Aleister Crowley's 1904 Naples Arrangement is the precursor of Hubbard's 1952 The Factors.

The Point's idea of Bliss (Ananda) became Affinity.

The Point's idea of Knowledge (Chit) became Reality.

The Point's idea of Being (Sat) became Communication.

Affinity, Reality, Communication appear in Hubbard's The Factors in the same place as do Bliss, Knowledge, Being in the Naples Arrangement.

"These idea of Bliss (
Affinity), Thought/knowledge (Reality), and Being (Communication) constitute the minimum possible qualities which a point must possess if it is to have sensible experience of itself."

*​

'The Factors' are a re-write of material from Aleister Crowley, who drew from earlier sources.

Relevant passages from Crowley are in his 'Book of Thoth', and in his Second Lecture from the book 'Yoga for Yellow bellies', and also in his 'Little Essays Towards Truth' in the chapter 'Man', and other works.

Lots of the stuff, about which Scientologists swoon with appreciative awe, comes from this guy:

I think he stole a lot from a lot of places including Crowley, but I don't see ARC and bliss thought and being, only thing I see in common is there being three things. However bliss and Love are similarish.

I went to a Hare Krishna temple, once. Hare Krishnas get into bucket loads of bliss when they do their chanting and singing with music, it's very nice, dancing to ever faster rhythms is so ecstatically blissful, love flying all over the place, then the love bombing increased, then the handsome guru chap with the lovely smile told confusingly unbelievable stories about gods in supermarkets and asked for money. He was good at the cult thing, but I've been caught before. Bliss is something I never had from my years in scn, a little bit of affinity from a reg isn't bliss.

The fat ginger one did say he got start change and stop from three Hindu gods, sometimes he was honest about where he stole from.
 

Veda

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I think he stole a lot from a lot of places including Crowley, but I don't see ARC and bliss thought and being, only thing I see in common is there being three things. However bliss and Love are similarish.

I went to a Hare Krishna temple, once. Hare Krishnas get into bucket loads of bliss when they do their chanting and singing with music, it's very nice, dancing to ever faster rhythms is so ecstatically blissful, love flying all over the place, then the love bombing increased, then the handsome guru chap with the lovely smile told confusingly unbelievable stories about gods in supermarkets and asked for money. He was good at the cult thing, but I've been caught before. Bliss is something I never had from my years in scn, a little bit of affinity from a reg isn't bliss.

The fat ginger one did say he got start change and stop from three Hindu gods, sometimes he was honest about where he stole from.
Your argument is with Hubbard, and maybe with Crowley.

Crowley wrote on these topics over many years and expressed himself in many ways. Hubbard, deep into Crowley in '52, 1953, and into 1954, created the "basics" of Scientology during that time.

Could be substituted for does not necessarily mean corresponds with, and corresponds with does not necessarily mean equates with.

Hubbard, often sloppily, off the top of his head, threw this stuff out there, and Scientologists agreed, and once they agreed, it became really real to them. Solid. And the Scientology parade began.

Sometimes it's helpful to trace back to where this stuff originated. It tends to loosen the glue that holds a person to Scientology, especially if the person is in a state of intense appreciative awe towards the subject, or parts of it.

Okay. I reread that and it makes some sense.

I was thinking out loud and blowing through some confusion. The topic mentions Is-ness and then the first comment switches to ARC. No big deal. Somewhere on the forum there is an extensive thread about Crowley's philosophy and practice.
I should have been more clear, and not try to cram so much into a tiny space.

The Four Conditions of Existence is Hubbard's extrapolation/expression of Crowley's explanation of the four basic and successive postulations/emanations of the/a life force, which was an extrapolation/expression of the tetragrammaton.

In Scientologese, Hubbard "squirreled" Crowley and Crowley "squirreled" the Kabbalah.

Sometimes very general and vague names are given for things, and it can be perplexing. Examining correspondences can be useful - but, of course, it can also be misleading at times.

It's interesting that the Hebrew system is about a WHO (God, who is considered to be a person) and it goes up and down.



The ancient Chinese system is about a WHAT (a principle, or perhaps even a kind of energy), and goes round and round.



Yet there are correspondences. Whoever created these systems appears to have been looking at (imagining?) the same thing, yet seeing it (imagining it?) through different lenses.

"Through a glass darkly," etc.

The book Master Therion, also titled Magick in Theory and Practice,
was actually recommended by Hubbard (very unusual) during a lecture in late 1952.
In the book, Aleister Crowley placed Alice Through the Looking Glass on his recommended reading list for "serious students," and described it as "Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah." But that's straying from the topic at hand.




At the bottom are the eight hexagrams of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, above these are the four bi-grams, which correspond with the tetragrammaton, and with Hubbard's Four Conditions of Existence.



This is a diagram by Crowley showing correspondences
between the ancient Hebrew Tree of Life and the ancient Chinese Book of Changes.



The correspondences are similarities not necessarily exact equivalents, although they may be.

For example, the Scientology symbol of Knowledge, Responsibility, Control above Affinity, Reality, Communication




is a restatement o f Crowley's Love is the Law, Love under Will.
Crowley regarded "love," not as sentimentality, but as a phenomenon comparable to gravitation, chemical affinity, and electrical potential.

So words, at first glance, can mislead.

Unfortunately, who wants to spend years studying Crowley? So Scientology's (actual) antecedents (not the for-display antecedents used in PR) go unrecognized.
 

Ed8

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Your argument is with Hubbard, not me. It is he who lifted The Factors from Crowley's earlier statements.

I think it's in a PAB (Professional Auditors Bulletin) but Hubbard described Being as communication.

When I first saw it, long ago, it seemed odd, since Scientologists think of "communication" this way:



What can I tell you? Spend a few years reading Crowley and then re-study Hubbard.

:scratch:
I'm not arguing with you. :) It's not personal. The above was for informational purposes.
Ed
 

Zertel

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Now I get it - I think - lol
You're making a comparison to the Hebrew word for God to the nature of existence expressed otherwise.

from www.dictionary.com
Tetragrammaton
[ te-truh-gram-uh-ton ]SHOW IPA

noun
the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
 
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Veda

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Now I get it - I think - lol
You're making a comparison to the Hebrew word for God to the nature of existence expressed otherwise.

from www.dictionary.com
Tetragrammaton
[ te-truh-gram-uh-ton ]SHOW IPA

noun
the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
Tetragrammaton is really the word for the manifestation of God or whatever passes for God - the four basic and successive postulations of the (a) life source. (Both Crowley and Hubbard expounded on the idea of the multiplicity of infinite minds, which would be considered the worst kind of blasphemy by any Rabbi.)

This is stuff than came out of Crowley's interpretation, and sometimes reinvention, of the Kabbalah and, then, filtered through Hubbard.

Also, "correspond with" does necessarily mean "equates to."

Examining earlier sources can help loosen the glue that might stick a person to Scientology.

These earlier sources are kind of "airy."
 

Cat's Squirrel

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Ananda-chit-sat is not the template or format behind triangles, including your example the ARC triangle. For one thing, 'sat' is the verb to be. So 'sat' translates to mean a Being or any existence when a noun (satva) and equivalent to 'is' in English as a verb. The correct template for triangles in Hindu knowledge is the three gunas: satva-rajas-tamas.
Ed
I would dispute that Ed. Sattvas, rajas and tamas are not a triangle in the Scientology sense IMO because they are ranked in order of energy level; sattvas is higher than rajas, and rajas than tamas. If you have a triangle, the elements all have to be on the same plane so that they can interlock.
 

Veda

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I would dispute that Ed. Sattvas, rajas and tamas are not a triangle in the Scientology sense IMO because they are ranked in order of energy level; sattvas is higher than rajas, and rajas than tamas. If you have a triangle, the elements all have to be on the same plane so that they can interlock.
It doesn't matter.

This is about Crowley's interpretation and reinvention, and then Hubbard reinterpretation and reinvention.
 

pineapple

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To me Is-ness and ARC are worthwhile concepts but I never paid much attention to Elron's more metaphysical stuff like the axioms, factors, maxims and so on but other people did and still do. I was happy if myself and the people I audited got out of session with an f/n, cog, vgis - floating needle, cognition, very good indicators. haha
Same here. I thought the axioms and the factors were just a bunch of pretentious blather designed to impress upon us that Hubbard was one of the great minds of human history. You certainly couldn't say that, though.
On the scn blogs people occasionally get into discussions about Elron's descriptions and sources for "the true nature of creation, existence and being" and have trashed some of his descriptions as being incorrect. One time on Rathbun's blog there was a debate about whether or not a thetan has "a tiny bit if mass".
Yes! It drove me crazy when I first read that. Up 'til that point I thought scn actually made sense, but that did not. I dutifully went looking for my MU's, maybe looked up a few words, came back to it, and it still didn't make sense. How could something that isn't even a thing in the physical universe have mass?

And this statement also seemed completely gratuitous: it added nothing to what he was saying. Hubbard just threw it in, seemingly out of nowhere and said nothing to clarify it. I finally let it go, figuring it wasn't that important and maybe I'd understand it some day -- after I was clear and OT, maybe. :no:

I now think Hubbard deliberately threw in these thing to try to confuse us, like his weird pronunciations of galaxy (ga-LAX-y) and libido (LIBBY-dough). Who pronounces those words like that? Nobody!
At the bottom are the eight hexagrams of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, above these are the four bi-grams, which correspond with the tetragrammaton, and with Hubbard's Four Conditions of Existence.

I know it's just a typo @Veda, but those are the eight trigrams (八卦) at the bottom.
 
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Veda

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Same here. I thought the axioms and the factors were just a bunch of pretentious blather designed to impress upon us that Hubbard was one of the great minds of human history. You certainly couldn't say that, though.

Yes! It drove me crazy when I first read that. Up 'til that point I thought scn actually made sense, but that did not. I dutifully went looking for my MU's, maybe looked up a few words, came back to it, and it still didn't make sense. How could something that isn't even a thing in the physical universe have mass?

And this statement also seemed completely gratuitous: it added nothing to what he was saying. Hubbard just threw it in, seemingly out of nowhere and said nothing to clarify it. I finally let it go, figuring it wasn't that important and maybe I'd understand it some day -- after I was clear and OT, maybe. :no:

I now think Hubbard deliberately threw in these thing to try to confuse us, like his weird pronunciations of galaxy (ga-LAX-y) and libido (LIBBY-dough). Who pronounces those words like that? Nobody!
Thanks for spotting the typo.

For the sake of being complete, here are the sixty four hexagrams.

 

Barile

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the sixty four hexagrams
oh yes. I was first introduced to the I Ching in 1968?9 by Chester Anderson, Editor in Chief of Crawdaddy! magazine in NYC. I was there for an interview and he pulled out the book, handed me the three coins and asked me to cast them 6 times. I did, he looked up the hexagram, read the prophesy silently and said, "oh this is good. this is very good. you're hired." I subsequently ran out and bought a copy of the Wilhelm/Baines edition of the I Ching and got to exploring it. I still have it and whip it out now and then when the feeling arises. This is the edition with the forward by Carl Jung. Among the conversations at the office about the I Ching, I recall Philip K. Dick, Paul Williams and Peter Stampfel ( Holy Modal Rounders ), Tuli Kuperberg ( The Fugs ), and staff photographer Linda Eastman ( McCartney) were all aficionados. How I miss cultural anarchy....
 

Veda

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oh yes. I was first introduced to the I Ching in 1968?9 by Chester Anderson, Editor in Chief of Crawdaddy! magazine in NYC. I was there for an interview and he pulled out the book, handed me the three coins and asked me to cast them 6 times. I did, he looked up the hexagram, read the prophesy silently and said, "oh this is good. this is very good. you're hired." I subsequently ran out and bought a copy of the Wilhelm/Baines edition of the I Ching and got to exploring it. I still have it and whip it out now and then when the feeling arises. This is the edition with the forward by Carl Jung. Among the conversations at the office about the I Ching, I recall Philip K. Dick, Paul Williams and Peter Stampfel ( Holy Modal Rounders ), Tuli Kuperberg ( The Fugs ), and staff photographer Linda Eastman ( McCartney) were all aficionados. How I miss cultural anarchy....
Sung by Tuli Kuperberg




 
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