From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 9 - November 1992 Philosophical Considerations (4th article on the three kingdoms)By Todde Salén, SwedenBuddhism & 2nd EmpireThe seeds for the first Empire was according to buddhist tradition planted by the 3rd Great Buddha (Dharma). Each great Buddha performed his work using several human bodies. We have no history books from the times of the third great Buddha. Thus we know no invidual names of any of the bodies the third great buddha occupied. But there are religious traces of his work. In the great religions of the Orient you will find the name Dharma all over the place (the root word for Dharma in the indo-European language is -dher-, which has the meaning "to hold firm" and the word Dharma is used for fundamental law or basic laws of life. In Scn we would call it stable data).The religious principle of the dharma is to give to mankind the laws of life to study and learn and with those laws create great civilisations. Thus the great 1st Empire civilisations are founded on the principles of Dharma.As more men were organised into 1st Empire civilisations a foundation was created for planting seeds of the 2nd Empire. The teachings of Guautama Siddhartha, Socrates, Jesus Christ and hundres of others disseminated messages like "Love your fellow man", "Do onto others..." etc., that are the basic building blocks of the 2nd Empire. It was only when the American and French revolutions established a new kind of civilisation based on human understanding and human rights (the ARC-triangle civilisations) in the 18th century that we got a real live 2nd Empire civilisation based on the principles taught by Gautama, Socrates and Christ. And that is the kind of civilisation we call the 2nd kingdom (of course we also had the ancient Greek Democracy, but it actually ceased to exist until it was given new birth with the renaissance).Theta/mind/body/productLRH taught us that all cycles of action can be looked at in terms of "theta-mind-body-product". Each of the 3 empires can be looked at in this way. When you study the roots of the 2nd Empire you will notice that the theta part did make itself noticed in the history of the old Egyptian civilisation already some 3.500 years ago under pharaoh Echnaton (whose name orginally was Echnamon, but was changed in honour of the new "only God", whose religion he tried to introduce to a people, who was not yet mature for it). If you are interested in this subject I would recommend the book "Sinue" by Mika Waltari about this very interesting period in the history of ancient Egypt.Pharaoh Echnaton failed in erecting a 2nd Empire civilisation in Egypt. As soon as he died the 1st Empire of ancient Egypt reestablished itself. It is interesting to notice that the Israelians under Moses left Egypt around that time period.The analytical mindThe next effort to plant the seeds of the 2nd Empire, that has left traces in the history books and which also was more successful was when Gautama Siddhartha reformed the religious thinking in India and introduced Buddhism. What Gautama successfully managed to do was to teach his fellow man to use their analytical minds. The early monks of buddhism were trained to use their minds for analytical thought. And they spread this way of thinking across the then known world in the centuries that followed.Socrates in ancient Greece used very similar methods of training the philosophers in the schools of Athens (Academies). And in Greece we had the first system of democracy used to govern a country.When Jesus Christ later used his even more successful approach to the problem he used a more mystical method of teaching. It did nevertheless in the two thousand years that followed, change the world from being basically run by 1st empire civilisations into a world run by 2nd Empire civilisations. Actually all the various earlier efforts to erect a 2nd Empire Civilisation joined hands when the American and French revolutions created the modern western 2nd Empire civilisation.The process of creating men who think with an analytical mind is not yet over. The vast majority of men on this planet today are in their thinking process governed by one or two-valued logics, even if the number of analytical minds operating on our planet is steadily growing. The great purpose of the the 2nd Empire civilisation however is not only to make human beings learn to use their analytical minds for 3-ways logics, but also to continue the development into gradient scale logics (3rd Empire mind level).This dream of having people around you who think in gradient scales and thus act on reason instead of on impulse or emotional outbursts, is the dream that makes old Scn's and analytical people of all kinds of schools and religions hope for a better future for all of us - the thousand year empire.To lay the foundation for the 3rd kingdom we have to train thousands of human beings in gradient scale thinking as well as organise such beings into true groups that are able to take control over the planet and by their knowledge and abilities rise the level of civilisation to the heights of the KRC-triangle.2nd empireThe first seeds for this second kingdom was planted by the 4th great Buddha (using bodies of men like Gautama, Socrates, Christ etc.) and as they have grown a new kind of mind has been created for man. This is the mind Hubbard called the analytical mind or the ARC-mind which thinks in higher logics than 2-valued logic. It goes from three valued logic (Yes-Maybe-No) to multiple valued logic which finally end in "logics in gradient scales" (infinity valued logic).Our modern western civilisation with it's schooling system that develops analytical thought and self-determinism in the human being, is a 2nd Empire civilisation. It is based on the principles of the ARC triangle.The human mind of the 2nd Empire (analytical mind or ARC-mind) is very different from the human minds of tribe morals and 1st Empire slave mentality. The ARC-mind is based on logic and analytical thought, while the more animal mind of the 1st Empire is based on emotionalism and symbolism.Everybody who has an analytical mind has some awareness of how the ARC-mind works. But neither the ARC-minds or lower levels of mind are aware of how the Picture mind of the 1st Empire works. The easiest way to explain to a standard ARC-mind how a picture mind works is to make him think how his own mind works on the subject of sex and eatingness. In those areas we use the picture mind (even if we often add ARC and even higher levels into them to turn those games into better games).Picture-mindsYet "tribe-moral-minds" human beings and 1st Empire minds human beings still exist and create 3rd dynamics within our present modern western civilisation. In criminal groups, who steal from the society without concern for the greater 3D or 4D we have human beings governed by tribe-moral minds that think in black and white logic.In bureaucratic organisations where each individual adjusts to his senior and commands his junior we have 1st Empire civilisation minds in operation. It is the hierarchical system at work. The individual in such an organisation is always willing to sacrifice his self-determinism and honour for the sake of the organisation. It is not the way the minds of members of the 2nd Empire function. When human beings are building the second Empire, they do it by delegating responsibility to each individual in the organisation and trusting their fellow man.However if there is a lack of trustworthy induviduals, you will not get a working 2nd Empire civilisation only by delegating responsibility or trusting your fellow man. Instead you will get corruption and criminality. I.e. as is today happening in Russia, where the effort to create a 2nd Empire civilisation is failing as long as there is a lack of individuals with ARC-minds available.Seeds for KRCOur philosophy of life can use the modern western civilisation to plant seeds for the 3rd Empire. We can use the society to recruit individuals who sit around in bureaucratic organisations or other organisations. If such individuals happen to have a working ARC-mind as well as enough self-determinism to break away from their "flock" and start in on the project of developing their KRC-mind by the system of our philosophy of life we can add another brick to the foundation of the thousand years empire.The human beings that are members of a 1st Empire bureaucracy or some other 3D in our second kingdom are not very self-determind. They are more or less caught in a trap created by their material needs and demands from their bodies. They will not break away from their positions in the 2nd Empire with out reason. Thus their ARC-minds have to be developed into KRC minds before they will start to assist in creating the 3rd Empire. For some individuals it takes a long time to take the step out of the safety of big organisations and into the adventure of building the 3rd Empire. This is all governed by the karma of each individual. We can change this karma by our processes of meditation (or auditing), but it is the individual himself that has to do the changing of his own karma, even when we assist him.As an individual learns to think more sanely by developing his ARC-mind into a KRC-mind, we are getting a recruit for the 3rd Empire. As the number of such recruits increase the foundation for the 3rd Empire is steadily getting more agreed upon and thus becomming a reality on this planet.Genes & MenesModern science has discovered the genes that control the development of bodies. Modern science also has looked into the subject of language and memory. Here they find no genes carrying the meaning of words or culture from one generation to another, yet that does take place. Lacking words for the spiritual transformation of data from one generation to another and even between cultures they have invented a new word to explain what is going on. The transformation of the blue prints for building bodies are called genes. In the same way the transformation of ideas and data from the 3rd and 4th dynamic minds through time is supposed to be done by -menes- (-me-mory ge-nes-). Using Hubbard technology we could probably call the genes "Genetic entity somatic mind" and the menes would then be "4th dynamic somatic mind programs". In any case the menes would be something of a higher order than bodies and 1st dynamic minds. They would be of the same level as those 4th dynamic minds that change the genes of mankind to slowly give the human race larger hands, shorter legs, longer arms, smaller toes and fewer wisdom teeth among newer generations. The menes are in the 4th dynamic mind and not in the 1st or 2nd dynamic minds of human beings.Analytical minds are menesThe process of building up the analytical minds of human beings is going on right now. As each new generation has replaced the older one for the last few thousand years there have been more and more human beings equipped with analytical minds. And as the number of human beings who can think better and better in terms of higher logics than 2-valued logics increase, we have more stable democratic societies on the planet. These 2nd Empire civilisations are our stepping stone onto the next and final step in the evolution of man and in the purpose of life and mankind here on planet Earth .The purpose behind all this is to create a system (civilisation) that can drag degraded thetans out of the swamp of ignorance they have gotten themselves trapped in by their own actions (karma). Once they are getting back on their theta feet, so they can stand firm and now help others, who have had the same bad fate, they can get themselves organised into a theta group (7th Dynamic) that can help thetans in other parts of the universe to get dug out of their misery.The ARC-triangle civilisation can equip human beings with ARC-minds. It can help mankind move closer to full understaning (Knowledge) of the laws of life (Dharma). When you have reached such a level of understanding you are a Bohdi in that area. When the state of Bohdi has been reached by very many people and they can join themselves together into a true group, that can civilize the world, we have erected the 3rd Empire, the 1,000 year kingdom that all the great religions of the world have predicted. This is what Christ said would happen when the holy spirit of truth was active in the midst of men.That is the subject of the next article in this series.PS. Of course a few short article like these on such a vast subject cannot ever aspire to give all the data about the transformation from hunting pack minds to 1st and 2nd Empire civilisations minds. Hopefully it will give you an idea of how deeply the trapped thetans of planet Earth have fallen into the swamp of ignorance. Even so those thetans who have occupied bodies on this planet since civilisation begun here some 10,000 years ago, are the thetans that have their anchor-points best out in todays 2nd Empire.Considering that only a few hundred million human beings have existed as total population on the planet until the 18th century (when population increased above one billion for the first time in history), this means we have at the most a few million human beings alive on the planet who really have their anchor-points out in the 4th dynamic at all. Of couse a vast majority of these are still limited to two-valued logic in their thinking process.