The following quote is from Time Magazine December 22, 1952:

"Everyone has a "theta being," which represents his essential thought-energy and becomes associated with a 'MEST" body (another Hubword made from the initials of matter, energy, space, time)."

Read the whole article at: http://www.xenu.net/archive/fifties/e521222.htm I claim L. Ron Hubbard did a lot of reading and from this ripped a lot of his ideas - hence his imaginative mind (which we all do, but Hubbard is presented as the Source by the cult so the claim is worth checkin). Dianetics and Scientology are IMO mainly a hotchpot of recirculated works and ideas of others. It is a tedious job to walk backwards in the steps of L. Ron Hubbard to put all the pieces together, but it is interesting and a lot can be learned about his mind and his authorship in the process. I got a copy here of the book "Carmen Ariza" by Charles Francis Stocking. It was published in 1915. My copy is the fortieth edition printed in Chicago by The Maestro Co. in 1925. Reading it makes me wonder if L. Ron Hubbard also had this in his collection. I guess he did. "Carmen Ariza" is sort of a Christian science book, or novel following the life of Carmen with a lot of discussions around subjects like God, science, life and the Universe. This quote caught my attention (book 4 page 58):

"Yes," returned Hitt, "I feel certain of it. Let us consider of what the universe consists. For many months I have been pondering this topic incessantly. I find that I can agree, in a measure, with those scientists who regard the physical universe as composed of only a few elementary constituents, namely, matter, energy, space and time--"

"Each one of these elements is mental," interrupted Carmen.

"Exactly!" replied Hitt. "And the physical universe, even from the human standpoint, is, therefor, wholly mental."

"Well, but we see it!" ejaculated Haynerd. "And we feel and hear it! And I'm sure we smell it!"

Hitt laughed. "Do we?" he asked.

"No," interposed Father Waite; "we see only our mental concept of a universe, for seeing is wholly a mental process. Our comprehension of anything is entirely mental."

"We must remember," he said, "in conjunction with what we have deduced regarding the infinite creative mind and its manifestations, that we mortals in our daily mundane existence deal only and always with phenomena, with appearances, with effects, and never with ultimate causes. And so all our material knowledge is a knowledge of appearances only. Of the ultimate essence of things, the human mind knows nothing. All of its knowledge is relative. A phenomenon may be so-and-so with regard to another; but that either is absolute truth we can not affirm. And yet -- mark this well -- as Spencer says. 'Every one of the arguments by which the relatively of our knowledge is demonstrated distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative.'"

Book 4 page 113:

"[...] My one thought is this: Am I doing that which will result in the greatest good to the greatest number?"

Book 2 chapter 30 page 290-291, Carmen (then only fifteen) speaks:

"The problem with you, Padre," the girl resumed, after some moments of reflection, "is that you -- you see everything -- well, you see everything as a person, or a thing."

"You mean that I always associate thought with personality?" he suggested.

"That's it! But you have got to learn to deal with thoughts and ideas by themselves, apart from any person or thing. You have got to learn to deal with facts and their opposite entirely apart from places, or things, or people. Now if I say that Life is eternal, I have stated a mental thing. That is the fact. Its opposite, that is, the opposite of Life, is death. One opposes the other. But God is Life. Is God also death? He can't be. Life is the fact. Then death must be the illusion. That being so, Life is the reality, and death is the unreality. Very well, what makes death seem real? It is just because the false thought of death comes into the human mind, and is held there as a reality, as something that has got to happen. And that strong belief becomes externalized in what mortals call death. Don't you see? Is there a person in the whole world who doesn't think that some time he has got to die? No, not one! But now suppose every person held the belief that death was an illusion, a part of the big lie about God, just as Jesus said it was. Well, wouldn't we get rid of death in a hurry? I should think so! And is there a person in the whole world who wouldn't say Anita's babe was blind? No, not one! They would look at the human thought of blindness, instead of God's real idea of sight, and so they would make and keep the babe blind. Don't you understand me, Padre dear? Don't you? I know you do, for you really see as God sees!"

She stopped for breath. Her eyes glistened, and her whole body seemed to radiate the light of knowledge divine. Then she went hurriedly on:

"Padre, everything is mental. You know that, for you told me so, long since. Well, that being so, we have got to face the truth and every mental fact seems to have an opposite, or a lot of opposites, also seemingly mental. The opposite of a fact is an illusion. The opposite of truth is a lie. Well, God is the great fact. Infinite mind is the infinite fact. The so-called opposite of this infinite fact is the human mind, the many so-called minds of mankind -- a kind of man. But everything is still mental. Now, an illusion, or a lie, does not really exist. If I tell you that two and two are seven, that lie does not exist. Is it in what we call my mind, or yours? No. Even if you say you believe it, that doesn't make it real. Nor does it show that it has real existence in your mind. Not a bit of it! But -- if you hold it, and cling to it -- allow it to stay with you and influence you -- why, padre dear, everything in your whole life will be changed!

"Let me take your pencil -- and a piece of paper. Look now," drawing a line down through the paper. "On one side, Padre, is the infinite mind, God, and all His thoughts and ideas, all good, perfect and eternal. On the other side is the lie about it all. That is still mental; but it is illusion, falsity. it includes all sin, all sickness, all murder, all evil, accidents, loss, failure, bad ambition, and death. These are all parts of the thoughts that come to the human mind. Where do they come from? From nowhere. The human mind looks at them, tastes them, feels them, holds them; and then they become its beliefs. After a while the human mind looks at nothing but these beliefs. It believes them to be real. And, finally, it comes to believe that God made them and sent them to His children. Isn't it awful, Padre! And aren't you glad that you know about it? And aren't you going to learn how to keep the good on one side of that line and the illusion on the other?"

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