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------------ ^ N one thing; We didn’t care lhether APRIL, 1957 Recusant Voice of "The we published again or not. One Vol. IV, No. 1 Infinites" for Earth, Mars, was enough. We had other plans Saturn,-'Pluto, Venus, and that did not include meeting a . Zydokumzruskehen. j continual deadline, or trying to be funny (We’d used up all our ! published monthly, except for the combined January-February and July- humor in the first issue), or fa­ | August issues, at 207 North Washington, Enid, Oklahoma, U. S. A. cetious, or sarcastic. Mail Address: Postoffice Box 528, Enid, Okla., U.S. A. No one believed us. The ABER­ Subscription price: $2.00 a year. Single copies, 25<f REE was a legitimate, if prema­ ture, “something" that we oould- Application pending for Second Class entry under C.F. R. 34.64 n’t drown. Not in Aridzonia, any­ Editor: The Rev. Mr. Or. ALPHIA OMEGA HART. 1*2, D.D., D.Scn., F.Scn., way. B.Scn.. HDA, HCA, e t al ad infinitum ad nauseum. To keep a long story short publisher: ALICE AGNES HART, 1-1, HCA, SEC., WFE., H.Kpr, ETC.________ (Who wants to? We’re trying to POLICY: Don't take it so damn’ seriously. The infiniteness of Man is fill a page), we became one of not reduced to a "split infinity” by wars, taxes, or “experts" the 22 graduate “theta clears" who offer to sell him what he already has. from this super-duper "Get thee Sub-Policy: We reserve the rig h t to change our minds from issue to behind me, thetan” class. But we issue, or even from page to page, i f we desire. weren’t behind our head. Exter­ Sub-Sub-Pol icy: Each man has the inherent right to be his own and only iorization to us was about as _____“Authority”._____________________________ ____________________ real as claims there’s gold bur­ Advertising Rates: $1 a column inch, if you get results; double if you ied in Fort Knox. If it were pos­ don’t. Payable in advance. Copy must be in office 30 days prior sible, we’d flunked. If it wasn’t to date of publication. possible, we’d been gypped. And being of a modest nature, we ac­ THIRD CANDLE FOR THE ABERREE cons of the subject for several cepted the invalidation. Three years old! How last the volumes seconds. Were we to be a party to Since we still were in the Gather on the shell of time. this covert vengeance against the mood to believe everything (well, Untold retms of nice, white pcper medicos? Were we to lie to our almost everything) our instructor Smeared with hope, and help, and friends, and tell them no such had told us, we also accepted the crime. plan existed, so that someone ukase that *74o one who is unable Unbound tiles ot printed pages might garner a few $50,000s in a to exteriorize can audit a pre­ Streaked with dirt, and ini, and surprise suit or two for inter­ clear successfully’’. le hadn’t grime. fering with a man’s right to com­ exteriorized. Therefore, rather Up until March of 1954. the pete legitimately with soul-sav­ than throw more good money after world of philosophy, ology, ism, ers? This may sound fantastic, bad, maybe we’d better hie our­ ics, and anity was pretty safe. but it was on such a basis that a selves to the area of our juvenile It was a serious business. No one great decision was made. We would delinquencies, where we could hide knew better than everybody how publish a magazineI We would call our failure and shame among un­ dangerous it was to live without it (of all things) The ABERREE! derstanding boyhood friends and preparing to die. And then, out And we would “scoop” the world on relatives. of the ashes of false hopes, high- the gigantic metamorphosis of the pressure eome-on, and self-quali­ basilisk from its Dianetic cocoon. We confess that oar resistance thing by nothing bat a thread, fied Messiahs, rose — not another As the plaudits ol oar readers buzzard but a phoenix to out-phoe­ lbs like sugar on oar bread. nix all phoenixes: The ABERREE! It was easier to publish For our 983,271 readers not Than to be behind our head. fortunate enough to get the first With Issue 2, we went up to few issues, let us reminisce a $1 .68, and when even this did not bit. SCIENTOLOGY ACTS TO frighten away success. The ABER­ We were in phoenix, taking the LEGALIZE AS RELIGION REE took a full breath. But it Third Clinical course, the latest hasn’t been without a gasp now super - duper teaching offered a and then, which many readers will “select few” capable of carrying remember. There was the open at­ on the higher echelons of Scien­ tack on us by The GHOST— and has tology. The Maestro (instructor, anyone seen a GHOST lately? Also, ISIBDTA, etc.) had just announced there was a threatened suit be­ to his applauding near-graduates cause we printed Volney Math!son’s that Scientology was immunizing advertising, which we still do. itself from prbsecution and per­ And ex-communication by the CECS, secution— that it was donning the of which we’ve heard little since robes of a religion, and hence­ its abortive attempt to force all forth would operate under the practitioners to sign $25,000 protection of a Federal Constitu­ pay-on-demand notes for the -right tion that was set up to guarantee When the urge to start creating to practice. freedom of worship. But, it was Knocked upon our trailer door, And thru it all. The ABERREE to be a well-guarded secret--and There was not a whit ot warning hasn’t lost a single horn. But we the fact would become known only Ol what luture was in store. think it’s about time we quit when an auditor, going about his But the bug kept pounding, pounding, tooting them for this issue. business of making the world safe With a knock like mighty Thor. for more and better bridges, was Since we wanted The ABERREE to skidded into the clink for rob­ be different from the dozen or so bing the American Medical Associ­ mimeographed publications avail­ ation of its monopoly on keeping able, we decided on a facetious their patients safe as a source approach. In fact, we Intended for more pretentious homes and for The ABERREE to be so dog-goned newer and shinier Cadillacs. facetious that no one would be­ Scientologists being persons lieve anything we said. Including who study how to get out of their ourselves. heads, some the tan must have The first issue was more of a broadcast a few beans during some success than we had planned. In­ unguarded moment, and the secret quiries came in for copies. Sub­ leaked. We were deluged with let­ scriptions, at the ridiculous rate ters asking us if it were true of $1.67 a year with no guarantee that Scientology was abandoning we’d print another issue, stuffed psychotherapy for the cross. Hav­ our mails. It seemed that half of ing spent most of our ready funds Scientology still had $1.67 left as tuition and not being able to after buying books and courses afford a battery of secretaries that they didn’t much care wheth­ to answer the queries being re­ er they got anything for or not. ceived, we discussed the pros and But we had been serious about Chapter 1— MAN TALKS TO HIMSELF knows aught of face, smile, or teeth; cer­ ROM THE moment man first shapes his tainly long before he knows the words for thoughts in words, he talks to himself. those items. He considers her hair. He is He listens to himself in the silent aware of her warmth, of the fragrance of places of his heart. Possibly as a her body, of the ridges which form her lap babe, fresh from the Unknown, he talks in which he snuggles so surely, so secure­ to himself without words. This may havely. His world enlarges when his sister beenF what Jesus meant when he said that man takes him on her knees, or jiggles him, or should become as a little child to enter in, rattles strange items before his eyes. His that is, to understand, the Kingdom. For world enlarges when his father takes him, man learns, if only he listens to himself, and he is afraid, being so early made aware that the more perfectly he thinks without of awkwardness, knowing so soon the fath­ words, the more nearly he knows the King­ er's unsureness. dom, the more nearly the Kingdom is his The man-child, the girl-child— ana there Native Country. is forever from the beginning an incompre­ Man’s first urge, as a babe, is to feast. hensible difference between them--sleeps He murmurs comfortable nothings to the after feeding, and changing, and the lulla­ breast and the bottle. He kicks his feet in by, or the jiggling on the knees; and no his booties for small reasons of his own. human being--not even the child perhaps— He palms the breasts of his mother or knows whither the child journeys in its clings to his bottle with hands and feet. seemingly endless sleep. And yet, does the He looks about him at his small world. In child not know? Does the child, so fresh his heart he asks himself, without words: from the Unknown, return there in sleep for “Who and what is this which provides me further instructions and explanations about with warmth and food?” the world in which he must again and again He hears the words of his mother, his awaken? The child does not remember or, re­ father, and the noises have a meaning which membering, cannot o r will not tell.

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