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

And the city died in war and the word was lost.

But what was it? Certainly its value, since it would make an understanding of man possible, exceeded the riches of Persia. Two thousand years later, out of the studies of atomic and molecular phenomena, we can again postulate what that word was. And use it. Use it to know ourselves. And to predict the actions of other men.

The dynamic principle of existence is: Survival!

At first glance that may seem too basic. It may seem too simple. But when we examine this word, we find some things about it which make it possible for us to do tricks with it. And to know things which were never known before.