On Getting to Know Ourselves: Article based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard

“In the beginning was the Word,” but what was the word? What fundamental principle did it outline? What understanding would one have if he knew it?

An ancient Persian king once made a great effort to know this word. He tried to discover it by having his sages boil down all the knowledge of the world.

At his orders, every book written which could be obtained was collected together in an enormous library. Books were brought to that ancient city by the caravan load. And the wise men of the time worked for years condensing every piece of knowledge which was known into a single volume.

But the king wanted a better statement of the fundamental word. And he made his sages reduce that volume to a single page. And he made them reduce it again to a sentence. And then, after many more years of study, his philosophers finally obtained that single word, the formula which would solve all riddles.