From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 7 - August 1992 Four Points to the Triangle By Terry E. Scott, England LRH's discovery of Affinity, Reality, Communication (ARC) was brilliant and valuable. He also found that a product of ARC is Understanding. Today, we can add further data. Although Theta, in truth, has no divisions, it has created games and universes through conception and manifestation of sub-divisions. These include duality, which can be expressed in many ways - such as creator and perceiver, originator and responder and, important here, intention and understanding. In terms of the ARC triangle, A, R, C are three components, and there is a fourth. It is Intention, when the yang (male, creative) side of the duality is involved; Understanding or, more accurately, Duplication when yin (female, responsive and receptive) is emphasised. We end up with IARC, Intention, Affinity (emotion and admiration), Actualities, Reach (communication), plus UARC, Understanding (duplication), Affinity (aesthetics, emotion), reality (agreement), communication (and thought as distinct from thinkingness). Astrology These data have long been extant in astrology, where they are known in vague form as fire (intention/duplication), earth (reality), air (communication), water (affinity). It takes a knowledge of the Tech to really sort out astrology. Theta is One. It can consider itself to be dualities - such as Cause (yang, manifesting as masculinity on a mest level) and Receipt point, responder (yin, feminine spiritual qualities). The duality then is expressed in terms of four aspects: IARC and UARC. Since I and U are aspects of knowingness, one could say KARC. In universes, there are levels of manifestation. Theta can also express KARC as product: energy, space, matter and time, respectively. Theta is Three ... Beingness (as identity), doingness, havingness. These, too, are found in astrology, as Cardinal, Mutable and Fixed. Be-Do-Have are the tools by which the thetan runs a game, and also work out as create (start), maintain (change), complete (stop). By deciding to continue a moment in the ever-changing present, goal and game are begun. Otherwise, one would have "Walked on" in the present, moment by moment: continuous as-is-ness, without altering any moment to create a goal. Identity Astrologically, invoking be-do-have creates an identity (seen in the horoscope) and, if it is a game of being-human, a lifetime. The point of such be-do-have can be a specific goal. Or it can be a state of havingness that offers a benefit. One could say that the MEST universe is a continuing benefit and havingness, not an end goal. A benefit can also be a continuing accumulation that, when in time its maximum capacity is reached, may be discharged. Like feeding mest electricity into a capacitor for several seconds, then discharging that energy through a tube, in a millisecond - as in an electronic flashgun for a camera. KARC can be applied to the Tech broadly. For example, in relation to the trio processes, "Recall a time when you felt affinity for someone", "Recall a time that was really real", "Recall a time when you were in good communication with someone". We can add the fourth component - something like: "Recall a time when you had clear intention" + "Recall a time when you understood". Or, as a single line: "Recall a time when you knew". One can handle hung-up goals, purposes and benefits by locating the alter-is moment that gave them birth, running it simply. If the thing does not unmock, look for an earlier, similar alteration - same subject matter. This is not engram running, so look for an event containing alteration, initiation, intention, duplication as the vital factor(s). Example: the antique vase the preclear cannot forget. He saw it on show, postulated "I must have that vase", worked extra hard to make the money needed, bought it, and was happy (havingness, benefit) until it was lost or damaged or became dust. For this preclear, the vase is an aesthetic on a chain of earlier/similar aesthetics. The Tech we have inherited extends into much complexity of case, but the thetan is Simple in a grand sense. But the most powerful tech is a simplicity that can be applied remarkably low down in the case yet works powerfully at high levels. Case Case is built upon goals and benefits concerning specific identities, which comprise particular beingness, doingness and havingness. The confusion of benefits and liabilities in identities individually and in series are the things to resolve in the preclear. Astrological connection More on the astrology of all this - and, to avoid misunderstoods, either look up the terms I shall use in a good basic book on astrology (otherwise this article would stretch on somewhat) or skip the next few paragraphs altogether. The three inner planets can be associated with beingness, Sun stands for viewpoints and intention/understanding, and astrologically is of the element Fire. Mercury represents communication, reach, thinkingness, connectedness (thus logic), and can be linked with the element Air. Venus symbolizes affinity, emotion, aesthetics, and its element is Water. And Earth, the one the astrologers overlook, stands for reality, actuality, agreement - element earth (coincidentally). The next set of planets are Mars, "Aster" (in this system, just the asteroids), Jupiter, Saturn - associated respectively with intention/understanding, communication, affinity, reality, but this time in terms of doingness. Then come the "havingness planets", Uranus (I/U), Neptune (C), Pluto (A), and a hypothetical "Zee" (R). The level one can call real astrology is an interface between theta and mest, a sort of paraphysics. I have been studying it for 35 years, and it is a long way from the sort of rubbish one gets in newspapers and women's magazines.