Lecture: Axioms and Fundamentals About Data
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1950, 11 November
Document title: Axioms and Fundamentals About Data
Document type: lecture transcript
Event: Professional Course
Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey
Document ID: 5011C11B
Description: Hubbard lectures on the perspective of ancient magicians toward God. Taught that the symbols of God and the devil are data of comparable magnitude; symbols of a pair of opposites.
There are lots of explanations for the devil. They say he is the little god, and the new god coming in always supplants the old religion’s god and calls him the devil. Unfortunately these two data happen to be of comparable magnitude.
We go back to the early days of the magician and look over his data. He had lots of valuable data. He didn’t quite know what to do with a lot of it but it certainly was interesting. This is not the stage prestidigitator; he is merely the debased successor. The early magicians were philosophers.
They said every angel has two faces, a white one and a black one. The white face is good and the black face is evil, and any time a god or a man is set upon an eminence he always has two faces—a white one and a black one. It is all right to say “God is good,”but then somebody immediately says, “I am the god of vengeance,”and you have the white face and the black face again. So, there’s “God is good”and then there’s the devil.
Just because they say hell is below is no reason to say it is not a datum of comparable magnitude. It isn’t a creative magnitude; it is a destructive magnitude. And we get the principle on which these things have been operating satisfactorily for man for a long time: construction and destruction— good and evil—right and wrong. God is the symbol of survival forever. The devil is the symbol of succumb.
We have got these two data now and we can understand one to the other. If we had about five more data in the same rank, we would be able to understand the subject a lot better. So the best thing to do is to go up the level two or three steps and then come down the level again and predict down the level about three more data, and then we would be able to understand it. We won’t be able to understand the new pair very well except against each other, but with them we may be able to predict a wider spread down below and so get our five on the good-bad/God-devil equation.
Hubbard, L. R. (1950, 11 November). Axioms and Fundamentals About Data. Professional Course, (5011C11B). Lecture conducted from Elizabeth, New Jersey.