RECISION KNOWLEDGE: NECESSITY TO KNOW TERMINOLOGY AND LAW

A lecture given on 12 November 1952

All right. We add all this information together, we do get a
control of human beings. You have a worse thing than that. You
actually have, inherent in this subject, ways and means of making
a human being into an abject slave -- insidiously true. That is
one of the reasons why the material never could have been released
in its primitive form without very adequate methods of undoing
what it could do.

The discovery that narcosynthesis, no matter how deep, yet was
implantable as hypnotism -- that a person was commanded by and
would obey commands given to him when in the deepest state of
unconsciousness -- opened up the doors to the greatest black
operation that ever could have appeared on the face of this
earth.

What would have happened? Mr. Blow goes out for an evening's
conference. He walks out of his house, he gets into his car...
And he wakes up the next morning -- and he knows he went to the
conference -- and he says, "You know, it's a funny thing, but
I've been thinking it over and I think that I'm no longer in
favor of the Labor Party; I'm really in favor today of, oh,
Digism. It's something new and it's something I ought to do,"
and so forth.

Or worse than that, he comes home one night and his wife looks a
little bit pale but no different otherwise. "Did anything happen,
dear?"

"No, nothing's ever happened, dear."

She starts to sell him on the idea of Digism, or why he should
suddenly blow up the morgue, or the darnedest things. Because
she's a woman and he has to obey women or something, he does.

What happened? What happened in the blank moments? That's all.
Just a pocket handkerchief around the guy's neck, pressure
against the two nerve centers in his throat, or even so far as a
shot in the arm, lost consciousness, pain in the head -- twist
his ear or something -- and say, "You will now do so-and-so and
so-and-so and so-and-so. And any time in the future that you hear
such and such, and such and such, you will do so-and-so and so-
and-so. And you know this is the truth and you do not know where
you heard this and you do not know who said this to you and you
have no idea. And you will now go in the house and you will lie
down on your bed and you'll be there. You wake up the next
morning, you will not know anything happened to you at all."
There he goes -- black magic.

Why, a certain one of these techniques controlled all of Asia
once. The Sharif Mohammedan cult -- hashshashin (from which we
get the word assassin -- controlled Asia by simply taking young
men, knocking them out with hashish, making them wake up in a
garden where there was milk, honey and a lot of beautiful
damsels, and then telling them that they couldn't come back there
again unless they performed a certain deed and act. "You really
do want to come back there. This is paradise," they're told.
"This is the only way you can go to heaven."

Out they go with hashish; the person wakes up and finds himself
in far-off Baghdad. He knows what he's got to do: All he's got to
do is walk up to Prince Ali Bullah and slip a shiv in his guts;
that's all he got to do. Just as crude and as blunt as that, and
he'll wind up in paradise. How can anybody stop an assassin who
doesn't care if he's killed, but who wants to get killed?

And all hashshashin's -- all that whole cult had to do, for three
hundred years, was simply to write a note to any such Prince Ali
Bull, anyplace in Asia, and say, "We would like to have forty-
five camel loads of silk, eighteen trained dancing girls, one
carload lot of ivory, F.O.B. your town. Signed ______." And it
came. Boy, it didn't come slow! It came on high-speed camel
freight with runners going along before saying, "It's coming!
It's coming! No, no. It's coming, really!"

Three hundred years that went on and all of Asia was monitored by
a small group of people who sat in a mighty citadel. That citadel
was not reduced until one day in sport a fellow said, "What?
There's a castle that hasn't been pulled down?" So he went over
and pulled it to pieces. He didn't even know about what they did
over there -- force being as idiotic as the other force.

When you have an unknown phenomenon loose in a society, this is
what it can do. So don't know this stuff poorly; know it very
well. Because a lot of it depends on you figuring out what it can
do.

If you could make a man well, believe me, you can make him sick.
And if here we have the techniques to make people well and also
the techniques exist to make those people sick, you, and the few
publications which are around, are the only single bulwark that
stands between a completely controlled society of man and a free
man! So it isn't unimportant that you learn these things well.
It's not even vaguely unimportant.