HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 28 MAY 1960
BPI
MA
BY THEIR ACTIONS …
By their actions you shall know them, whether bad or good, whether on another side or ours.
And what in their actions gives us the keenest insight? Their ability to help.
Some think that help cannot be done. Shun them. Some think that help is always an effort to betray. Process them for here you have the criminals of Earth. Some people cannot help. They can only injure and destroy. And if in the name of help they only injure and destroy then know them carefully for they are criminals.
What is a criminal? One who thinks help cannot be on any dynamic or uses help on anyone to injure and destroy.
Who are these men with covert ways who bring Earth its pain? They are the men who cannot help. Who are the women who must be helped but who can only maim? They say, these men and women, that they’ll help and then they make a thorough shambles of it all.
From where did Earth conceive her traps and aspects that are grim? Earth would be a lovely place if all men helped to help, not to destroy.
Think heavily on this point. Judge men from what they think of help. Judge women too and find the good ones from the bad.
The good can help. The bad will not or if they do, they “help” only to betray.
The good of Earth comes from above the point of make and break where help is help and honestly. The pain of Earth comes from the tones where help does not exist or where it’s used to pull us into agony.
Know your friends. It’s strange that those who argue with us against our goals and Scientology cannot conceive of honest help. Discuss help with them and you’ll find their tone and whether they are worth a lot as friends.
This is the test that you can use to separate the good from bad and then clear-eyed begin to make a world in which all life can live.
L. Ron Hubbard
Founder
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November 12, 2010 at 12:52 am
RJ
Words of wisdom Marty.
I won’t make any comment about you know who’s ability to help.
November 12, 2010 at 2:52 am
Scott Campbell
Marty,
You’ve certainly exemplified this most accurate “rule of thumb”. Your ability to help and actual products have created significant improvements in the world. Your accomplishments in rehabilitating beings is nothing short of astonishing. Excellent job.
Thank you for your tenacity, persistence and ability to help, my very good friend.
Scott
November 12, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Hallelujah
Great HCOB! Sorry to detract but what does “MA” stand for in the distribution, right under “BPI?” Thanks.
November 13, 2010 at 5:02 pm
martyrathbun09
I believe that was Master At Arms (the E/O).
November 13, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Hallelujah
Thanks very much! Hallelujah
November 14, 2010 at 8:44 am
Fellow Traveller
MA, designation on HCO Policy Letters and HCO Bulletins indicates dissemination and restriction as follows: Magazine Article. To go into any and all official magazines. (HCO PL 22 May 59)
Glad to be of service.
Bruce
November 14, 2010 at 3:28 pm
mosey
Oops. Of course.
November 12, 2010 at 7:47 pm
sarge
Marty, Thank you for the great quote. Help has always been a big button for me. I always feel the need to help. Makes me feel good and I feel bad when I don’t. Problem is I have a hard time asking for help. Love
November 13, 2010 at 5:01 pm
martyrathbun09
I know, and its driving me crazy.
November 14, 2010 at 8:50 am
Felicitas Foster
Sarge,
I fully agree on this statement. I guess that’s the most prominent trait of a true Scientologist – the need to help and to get your joy from it.
November 13, 2010 at 1:46 am
WindWalker
Marty
Ahhh yes.
Excellent post.
A very good yardstick indeed.
Curiously, yesterday I was looking for a reference for something on a posting on the other blog and I happened across this very HCOB. Theta works in wondrous ways.
WW
November 13, 2010 at 5:27 am
Tara
Awesome indeed. I have helped and about the lowliest I’ve ever felt is when I felt I could NOT help. I found new avenues to help through and revitalized that purpose but I’ll tell you, NOTHING is as gratifying as helping another being regain their life force…NOTHING. The physical universe is moving into place exactly as I conceived it should be these days so that I can again audit! Amazing!! And no doubt a group postulate in play here, no doubt at all!
November 13, 2010 at 5:34 am
Tara
Marty, an aside. Did you know Albert Lipschutz, an older OT on the Freewinds in the early 1990s until 1992?
November 13, 2010 at 5:00 pm
martyrathbun09
Tara, no I did not.
November 13, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Scott Campbell
Tara,
I knew Albert. What about him?
Scott
November 13, 2010 at 9:01 am
atcause
Good article by LRH.
Yes, Help is an interesting subject matter and a good way of telling those one should associate with and those one should not.
This is what sets the Independents apart.
We believe that people can still be helped and truly want to help others not injure them or exploit them financially or for labor.
November 14, 2010 at 8:58 am
Concerned Citizen
This is one reference that has factually saved my life at least a good 5 times along with the Chart of Human Evaluation. There were times I ignored both these references and paid dearly every time. If all anyone ever studied and understood of Scientology were these 2 references, the world would be a much better place.
Conversely, one can work on increasing self’s and others ability to help and thereby increasing the world’s survival potential. – On an infinity value scale the survival potential can raise well above live or die to optimum survival
I also find that these are two very key tools for dissemination, the concepts are very real to people and most are in urgent need of that data. I have never yet found someone who disagrees with these concepts.
I realized yesterday that just freely practicing Scientology is not enough, it is a great and very important thing for all independents to do, but we also need to start disseminating- I do not mean the COS Inc’s loony – got to turn every person you meet into a “Scientologist” I just mean using it’s tools to help the world at large heal itself one person at the time.
Interesting that I was mid composing a post about this very topic. Theta does work in interesting ways. The topic of course was using Scientology to help people around you – the most effective method of dissemination I have ever used, and making it impossible for pseudo-Scientology to “loose the tech” I reason that the safest place for the tech is in the hands of the general populace. This is also where it rightfully belongs.
Yes, there will be those who actually try to destroy it or alter it, but so long as the original tech is available and within reach, majority will be safe since Scientology even if poorly applied works to better conditions, it is only when it is used suppressive that it becomes destructive. As people use it and increase their awareness, so will their ability to apply and use it and sooner than that, we would have done pour part to help create a better world.
November 14, 2010 at 3:27 pm
mosey
sweet
November 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Hallelujah
Concerned Citizen –
You wrote: “… so long as the original tech is available and within reach, [the] majority will be safe since Scientology even if poorly applied works to better conditions …”
What a seemingly simple but, in effect, powerful statement!!
It is so true … Hallelujah!
November 14, 2010 at 8:58 am
Felicitas Foster
This is off the subject – if you do not want to publish it, Marty, as it distracts, feel free not to post it.
To All,
I am looking for a sermon which was published in the new Background and Ceremonies book. I believe the title was “Friendlyness” and I believe it was from a tape. Does anyone know what I am talking about and which tape that was? (LRH talks about one considering to be harsh or should have acted harsh in a situation and that that is not the right way but to use affinity.)
Thanks, Feli
November 14, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Fellow Traveller
Yup. I remember a Sunday Service where this was the sermon or whatever the Source part is called. I recall there being a question of retrospect on handling an individual — could I have been nicer?
Lemme see what I can did up for you.
Bruce
November 15, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Felicitas Foster
Cool, that would be awesome. I think you have the right one in mind.
November 14, 2010 at 8:58 pm
sarge
Marty, You know what a bonehead I can be about help. I’m not sure just where to post this but its a very special win that I would like to share. It has to do with help. Many may know that I have been sick. Two years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It wasn’t aggressive so the doctors and I decided to just watch it. Well, my kidneys failed and I spent some time in the hospital. I was very sick. Marty wanted to come save me. Well, I kept saying no and then finally in July he came to see me and brought his meter. Marty insisted. I was so sick when he came and I really felt bad cause I wanted to entertain but had trouble just climbing stairs. After twenty plus years of NO auditing Marty audited me on NOTs. WOW!
By the time Marty left I was a different man! Again WOW! This last Monday I had 18 biopsies done on my prostate. My doctor called on my birthday and said they could find NO CANCER! Double WOW! Who says the tech doesn’t work. Not me. God bless LRH and Marty Rathbun! Love, Sargio
November 15, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Felicitas Foster
Hi Sarge,
thanks for sharing this win with us – it’s sooo cool!! I am really glad that Marty insisted to help you.
Love,
Feli
November 16, 2010 at 2:46 am
Scott Campbell
Wow Sarge! Wow Marty!
I would say that this win qualifies as a bona-fide miracle by way of standard application of Scientology by a Scientologist. Fantastic.
Sarge – Now that’s what I call a great story!
L, Scott
November 16, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Hallelujah
Sarge — Thanks for sharing your win. This is huge! I’m sure many readers are acknowledging your win, even if only to themselves. Really nice work applying Source, Marty! Now, how about another Creston story? Hallelujah
November 16, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Peter Frigo
Sarge,
That is so cool. Thanks for sharing your win. That’s the Scientology I remember and want again in my life. Miracles as a way of life.
Marty,
You must feel awesome! What a special privilege it is that we have what LRH so freely gave us. To be able to give true help to our fellow man.
Thanks you guys,
Peter
November 15, 2010 at 2:53 am
2wolves
Good reference! Looking forward to more!
November 16, 2010 at 7:31 pm
gato rojo
It is soooooooooo good to have some of the early writings brought out to read. This is why I started in Scientology, and joined staff, and joined the SO and stayed there for so long.
Unfortunately for myself I didn’t apply the information about the price of freedom….something like “Constant alertness, (or vigilance?) and willingness to fight back,”and started to really lose freedoms along with many others. This was never what LRH intended, running a crew out of fear and even terror vs. having them learn, create, grow as a team and accomplish really great and sometimes unbelievable things.
Thank you Marty for creating this blog to get us back to the things that really count despite all the commotion that needs to be dealt with.