~ THE MONTI-fL Y JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY TH_E THJRD PARTY LAW HCO Policy Letter of 26th December, 1968 ) ( HCO Bulletin of 26th December, 1968 By L. RON HUBBARD L. RON HUBBARD 1I HAVE for a very long time studied suspect is that a third· party existed official state papers were captured the whole history of the marriage 1 the causes of violence and conflict and actively promoted the quarrel. in World War II was it revealed several, but only one al a time. amongst individuals and nations. that Germany had promoted the revolt The usually unsuspected and Quarrels between an individual and financed LENIN to spark it off, "reasonable" third party, the and an organization are nearly always If Chaldea could vanish, if Babylon even sending him into Russia in a bystander who denies any part of it caused by an individual third party turn to dust, if Egypt could become blacked out train! a badlands, if Sicily could have 160 is the one that brought the conflict or a third group. The organization into existence in the first place. and · the individual should get prosperous cities and be a looted One looks over "personal" quarrels together · and isolate the third party ruin before the year zero and a near The hidden third party, seeming ai group conflicts, national battles and by displaying to each other all 1the desert ever since - and all this in times to be a supporter of only one and one finds, if he searches, the data they each have been fed. SPITE of all the work and wisdom side, is to be found as the instigator. third party, unsuspected by both and good wishes and intent of human This is a useful law on many combatants or if suspected at all, Rioters and governments alike could beings, then it must follow as the dynamics. brushed off as "fantastic". Yet be brought back to agreement could dark follows sunset that something one get representatives of both to It is the ·cause of war. careful documentation finally affirms it. must be unknown to Man concerning give each other what they have been This datum is fabulously useful. all his works and ways. And that this One sees two fellows shouting bad told by whom. something must be so deadly and so names at each other, sees them come pervasive as to destroy all his ambi­ SUCH CONFERENCES HAVE to blows. No one else is around. So TENDED TO DEAL ONLY IN RECRI­ tions and his chances long before their In marital quarrels the · correct they, of course, "caused the fight". MINATIONS OR CONDITIONS OR time. approach of anyone counseling, is But there was a third party. ABUSES. THEY MUST DEAL IN to get both parties to carefully search BEINGS ONLY IN ORDER TO Such a thing would have to be Tracing these down, one comes out the third party. They may come to SUCCEED. some natural law unguessed at by upon incredible data. That is many reasons at first. These reasons himself. the trouble.· The incredible is too are not beings. One is looking for This theory might be thought to easily rejected. One way to hide a third party, an actual being. When assert also that there are no bad con­ And there is such a law, apparently, things is to make them incredible. both find the third party and estab­ ditions that cause conflict. There are. that answers these conditions of being lish proof, that will be the end of the But these are usually REMEDIAL deadly, unknown and embracing all Clerk A and Messenger B have quarrel. BY CONFERENCE UNLESS A THIRD these acti viti es. been arguing. They blaze into direct conflict. Each blames the other. PARTY IS PROMOTING CONFLICT. Sometimes two parties, quarreling, NEITHER ONEISCORRECT AND SO The law would seem to be: suddenly decide to elect a being to In history we have a very foul THE QUARREL DOES NOT blame. This stops the quarrel. Some­ opinion of the past because it is RESOLVE SINCE ITS TRUE CAUSE times it is not the right being and related by recriminations of two A THIRD PARTY MUST BE PRESENT IS NOT ESTABLISHED. AND UNKNOWN IN EVERY more quarrels thereafter occur. opponents and has not spotted the QUARREL FOR A CONFLICT TO One looks into such a case third party. THOROUGHLY. He finds the in­ Two nations at each others throats EXIST. should each seek conference with "Underlying causes" of war should credible. The wife of Clerk · A has read "hidden promoters". or been sleeping with Messenger B and the other to sift out and locate the complaining alike to both about the actual third party. They will always There are no conflicts which cannot other. find one if they look, and they can be resolved unless the true promoters FOR A QUARREL TO OCCUR, AN fmd the right one. As it will be of them remain hidden. Farmer J and Rancher K have been UNKNOWN THIRD PARTY MUST BE found to exist in fact. tearing each other to pieces for years ACTIVE IN PRODUCING IT This is the natural law the ancients in continual conflict. There are BETWEEN TWO POTENTIAL and moderns alike did not know. obvious, logical reasons for the fight. OPPONENTS. Yet it continues and does mot resolve. There are probably many technical And not knowing it, being led off or A close search finds Banker L who, approaches one could develop and into "reasons" whole civilizations ' due to their losses in the fighting, outline in this matter. have died. is able to loan each side money, WHILE IT IS COMMONLY BE­ There are many odd phenomena It is worth knowing. while keeping the quarrel ,going, and LIEVED TO TAKE TWO TO MAKE connected with it. An accurately It is worth working with in any who will get their lands completely A FIGHT, A THIRD PARTY MUST spotted third party is usually not situation where one is trying to bring if both lose. EXIST AND MUST DEVELOP IT fought at all by either party but only peace. FOR ACTUAL CONFLICT TO shunned. It goes larger. The revolutionary OCCUR. forces and the Russian government Marital conflicts are common. Mar- _:2_~ It is very easy to see that two in were in conflict in 1917. The reasons riages can be saved by both parties _// conflict are fighting. 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