#8
In the next to last chapter of the first book of SOS, there is the oft quoted "quietly and without sorrow" (p.183) passage. The thoughts found here run to the extreme of the many seemingly unconsidered strong statements that are found peppered throughout the first book of SOS.
Throughout SOS, one can read descriptions that reveal LRH's obsession with people he considered 1.1 on the Tone Scale; an obsession which apparently continued to the end of his life what with the recurrent witch hunts for SPs.
The vile notion of "...sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lowest bands of the Tone Scale" has been used to make the case that "Ron Is Evil". This is just the flip side of the "Ron Is Source" coin.
It is my consideration that if one really wants to be iconoclastic towards this cult idolatry, it would be to hold to the idea that LRH was just an ordinary person. As we all do, he seemed to run the gamut from Devil Incarnate to Saint, depending on time and circumstance.
I never met the man. The closest was in 1978. I woke up to find the whole Cedars-Sinai complex in an uproar. It was as if someone had hit an anthill with a stick. Apparently LRH showed up in the middle of the night and pitched a huge fit (a common phenomenon at that time, from what I have read) because the renovation of the complex was going so slowly.
This event made me re-evaluate LRH at that time. He seemed less the great man that was such common coin in CoS and more a tantruming infant god or an ordinary man who had been given too much altitude.
