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| − | + | = Red and Green Volumes = | |
| − | + | L. Ron Hubbard was keen to have all stages of his research recorded for future use. He did this mainly orally with taped lectures, and textually. This article concerns the history of his textual writings with the exception of the printed and bound books. The majority of what he wrote, apart from printed books, was recorded in what he called Policy Letters and Bulletins and these were compiled into what we colloquially call the Red and Green Volumes. | |
| − | + | [[File:RedandGreenVols1970s.JPG|800px|thumb|left|Pre-Miscavige Red (technical) and Green (policy) Volumes. The Blue Volumes were transcripts of Hubbard's recorded lectures.]] | |
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| + | '''Loads more to do.''' | ||
| − | + | Note: see TEXT STORAGE Naveed | |
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| + | == First Saint Hill East Grinstead years == | ||
| − | + | === Experiences of Antony Phillips === | |
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| − | + | I ([[User:AntPhillips|Antony A Phillips]] ([[User talk:AntPhillips|talk]]) 13:38, May 29, 2016 (CDT)) joined Saint Hill staff in August 1964, replacing Joe Breeden who went back to USA. At that time there were about 10 Scientologists on staff, the gardeners, housekeeper, chauffeur, Ron's secretary, and the menu typist who I worked with were not Scientologists. I worked in a basement room handling addresses and central files. In this same room Joan Watson ("jw" on the lower left of all issues) worked part-time. She duplicated the bulletins and policy letters which Ron Hubbard wrote. He worked at night and when we came in at 9 o'clock in the morning there was a pile of handwritten papers on her desk (red ballpoint for bulletins, green ball point for policy letters) which was a policy letters and bulletins Ron had written in the night. She worked speedily making stencils, either typing directly on the stencil (for non-remimeo issues), or for remimeo issues typing on a sheet of paper and then making (I guess) five or six stencils on a rotary machine which burnt the stencils. She ran off copies for all Saint Hill staff, and in the case of non-remimeo issues she ran off three copies for each central org. | |
| − | + | I left this post (many interesting things happened irrelevant here!). And perhaps 18 months later I found myself in "charge" of Mimeo (duplicating) in a much enlarged Saint Hill. I was put there after being ComEved off a recruiting post (i.e.disgraced). The area was a mess. The previous incumbent was not there. I was alone. There were some three thousand stencils, representing some thousand issues. The previous incumbent(s) had not filed stencils in an orderly manner after use and thus it was practically impossible to keep the stocks of issues up to date, let alone supply the Saint Hill Briefing Course with issues for new students. In fact students would been given a checksheet with a list of bulletins and policy letters to study and check out on, and were being allowed to leave the course with a checksheet marked against some items "not available". | |
| − | + | This was a serious condition with its roots in my area (which was in Division II) and with its effects in training in Division IV. Scientology organisation at that (and other times) was very hierarchical. In this case the LRH communicator of the Saint Hill org, who had authority in the name of Ron over everything (!) was Ken Delderfield, and he declared both Mimeo and Tech Services (in Division IV) in a condition of danger and that enabled him to bypass all the seniors between him and them. He therefore came my area and in the Text Services area in division two (which was Maria Trelawney, later Maria Maloney) to find out what could be done about it and offer help. He offered to give both of us additional helpers. I refuse that, having had too much experience of enthusiastic and incompetent people going into areas which said nothing about, so I managed somehow to get the whole thing sorted out. The name Ken Delderfield comes up later in this story of LRH nonbook issues. | |
| − | + | So apparently I sorted the Mimeo out single-handed! I must admit I cannot remember it now (50 years later). | |
| − | + | Saint Hill expanded fast in those years. I got an assistant Saed Mirza, an Indian and I cannot remember what became of him. A very pleasant bloke. | |
| − | + | I got added up to 5 staff including Rosemary Delderfield, a very excellent typist whom we will hear of again later, Graham Lawrence, and two or three others. | |
| − | + | Ron established the beginning of the Sea Org, a ship out at sea, whereabouts unknown. They sent missions to Saint Hugh which apparently were very unpleasant, but we in Mimeo knew nothing about it. We had our own emergency to deal with caused by the fact that an order came through from the new Sea Org that Mimeo was to provide them immediately with an enormous quantity of Policy Letters (painstakingly stencil duplicated) made up into 25 sets of packs, for they were going to run an executive briefing course for their personnel. '''And That Had High Priority'''. We were given every facility we needed, and an expensive stapling machine was bought for stapling the packs (which even then were clumsy to read as they did not open out flat like a book). We could do almost we liked, so far as schedules was concerned, so long as we worked like niggers. So we worked our own schedule, going home occasionally to sleep. The connection to the rest of Saint Hugh was nearly nothing, so we learn nothing at that time about the Sea Org missions (in fact it is only over the last five years, researching material that is coming out and trying to get some of it more available, that I have heard of of the severity of those missions. Actually the only connection we had with the rest of Saint Hill was that we each still had a basket in the Com Centre and received Bulletins and Policy Letters that came out. I remember my shock when I received a single page quarto Policy Letter with penalties for low conditions. I was shocked to see things like not being allowed to have a bath. Before suppressing the thing in my mental universe I speculated as to whether Ron was having a joke, but knowing how serious he took Bulletins and Policy Letters I could not really imagine him making a joke on those. | |
| − | + | Rosemary was invaluable, as stencils were not immortal; they wore out and got torn, and the only thing to do then was to retype a new stencil and that Rosemary did admirably. The disadvantages of this stencil duplicating method of propagating Ron's issues were very apparent, not only in the production but also in the storage and distribution. Staff would need specific Policy Letters or Bulletins, send a dispatch to Mimeo asking for it, and someone in Mimeo would then spend time getting it from the files and sending it back again. My poor memory tells me that there were at least ten large four drawer filing cabinets filled with Policy Letters and Bulletins and these had to be refilled. The issues were either quarto or folio, according to their size and some issues went over three or four or more pages. | |
| − | + | == Pubs Org == | |
| − | + | ''Created 1st of January 1968 - brief account including attempts prior to the red and Green volumes | |
| − | == | + | === Antony's experience with the red and green volumes === |
| + | Experience with typesetting Scientology 0 – 8 | ||
| − | + | Athena Publications, working on green volumes, | |
| − | + | Experience doing index for red volumes | |
| − | + | Russell W email:<br /> | |
| + | And one more point on those initials, just for your info and interest: in preparing the red volumes (green ones too) for their release in '91 or whenever it was, it was decided (by COB, mainly) that all that initials stuff would not appear in the volumes - only on mimeoed issues. I don't know what the "reasoning" was, for sure, but I think it had something to do with reducing people's mystery (and questions and protests) concerning the actual authorship of issues and revisions. | ||
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| − | + | ''Possible material on the intervening period between the above and the following. | |
| − | + | == Endeavours in the Free Zone/ FriScientology == | |
| − | + | ''possible introductory material | |
| − | + | === Red and Green Volumes searchable PDF === | |
| − | + | ''Description of these. | |
| − | + | ''Hopefully an account of the history of these. | |
| − | + | ''Links for downloading them. | |
| + | ---- | ||
| + | These are the notes I have on it: | ||
| − | + | User:AntPhillips/sandbox1 | |
| + | < User:AntPhillips | ||
| + | User:AntPhillips/sandbox1 | ||
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| + | Article on the admin history of LRH written tech (excluding books) At first very random, including early magazines (titles here) | ||
| + | |||
| + | Color flash of ink introduced - tech red on white, highest priority on admin lines. With the Seven Division Organisation Board colour flash for paper used was introduced for each division, executive division being white (including Policy Letters and Bulletins), HCO Division being goldenrod and thus, ethics being in HCO, ethics orders came out on goldenrod. | ||
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| + | Note on typist policy in standard office work in the age of typewriters (at first manual) and secretaries/typists. Note on typist/ author initial at bottom left of last page. | ||
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| + | Electric typewriters with two fonts and introduction of different font for amendments when an issue was re-issued with new stuff and alterations. | ||
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| + | Old red volumes have typists and authors initial. New tech volumes do not. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:02, August 8, 2016
Contents
Red and Green Volumes
L. Ron Hubbard was keen to have all stages of his research recorded for future use. He did this mainly orally with taped lectures, and textually. This article concerns the history of his textual writings with the exception of the printed and bound books. The majority of what he wrote, apart from printed books, was recorded in what he called Policy Letters and Bulletins and these were compiled into what we colloquially call the Red and Green Volumes.
Loads more to do.
Note: see TEXT STORAGE Naveed
First Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)
East Grinstead years
Experiences of Antony Phillips
I (Antony A Phillips (talk) 13:38, May 29, 2016 (CDT)) joined Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) staff in August 1964, replacing Joe Breeden who went back to USA. At that time there were about 10 Scientologists on staff, the gardeners, housekeeper, chauffeur, Ron's secretary, and the menu typist who I worked with were not Scientologists. I worked in a basement room handling addresses and central filesA collection of files, one for every person who has ever bought something from an organization, gathered together in the one location in the organization. (BPL 17 May 69R). In this same room Joan Watson ("jw" on the lower left of all issues) worked part-time. She duplicated the bulletins and policy letters which Ron Hubbard wrote. He worked at night and when we came in at 9 o'clock in the morning there was a pile of handwritten papers on her desk (red ballpoint for bulletins, green ball point for policy letters) which was a policy letters and bulletins Ron had written in the night. She worked speedily making stencils, either typing directly on the stencil (for non-remimeo issues), or for remimeo issues typing on a sheet of paper and then making (I guess) five or six stencils on a rotary machine which burnt the stencils. She ran off copies for all Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) staff, and in the casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) of non-remimeo issues she ran off three copies for each central orgShort for organization. (HCO PL 8 Sept 69).
I left this postA position from which a terminal operates in an org, where one knows that somebody is at. (FO 2200) (many interesting things happened irrelevant here!). And perhaps 18 months later I found myself in "charge1. harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there to affect the individual. (Scn AD)..more" of Mimeo (duplicating) in a much enlarged Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R). I was put there after being ComEved off a recruiting postA position from which a terminal operates in an org, where one knows that somebody is at. (FO 2200) (i.e.disgraced). The area was a mess. The previous incumbent was not there. I was alone. There were some three thousand stencils, representing some thousand issues. The previous incumbent(s) had not filed stencils in an orderly manner after use and thus it was practically impossible to keep the stocks of issues up to date, let alone supply the Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) Briefing Course with issues for new students. In fact students would been given a checksheetA list of materials, often divided into sections, that give the theory and practical steps which, when completed, give one a study completion...More with a list of bulletins and policy letters to study and check out on, and were being allowed to leave the course with a checksheetA list of materials, often divided into sections, that give the theory and practical steps which, when completed, give one a study completion...More marked against some items "not available".
This was a serious conditionA condition is an operating state. (SH Spec 62, 6505C25) with its roots in my area (which was in Division II) and with its effects in training in Division IV. Scientology organisation at that (and other times) was very hierarchical. In this casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) the LRHL. Ron Hubbard communicator of the Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) orgShort for organization. (HCO PL 8 Sept 69), who had authority in the name of Ron over everything (!) was Ken Delderfield, and he declared both Mimeo and Tech Services (in Division IV) in a conditionA condition is an operating state. (SH Spec 62, 6505C25) of danger and that enabled him to bypass all the seniors between him and them. He therefore came my area and in the Text Services area in division two (which was Maria Trelawney, later Maria Maloney) to find out what could be done about it and offer help. He offered to give both of us additional helpers. I refuse that, having had too much experience of enthusiastic and incompetent people going into areas which said nothing about, so I managed somehow to get the whole thing sorted out. The name Ken Delderfield comes up later in this story of LRHL. Ron Hubbard nonbook issues.
So apparently I sorted the Mimeo out single-handed! I must admit I cannot remember it now (50 years later).
Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) expanded fast in those years. I got an assistant Saed Mirza, an Indian and I cannot remember what became of him. A very pleasant bloke.
I got added up to 5 staff including Rosemary Delderfield, a very excellent typist whom we will hear of again later, Graham Lawrence, and two or three others.
Ron established the beginning of the Sea OrgAbbreviation for Sea Organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976)., a ship out at sea, whereabouts unknown. They sent missions to Saint Hugh which apparently were very unpleasant, but we in Mimeo knew nothing about it. We had our own emergency to deal with caused by the fact that an order came through from the new Sea OrgAbbreviation for Sea Organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). that Mimeo was to provide them immediately with an enormous quantity of Policy Letters (painstakingly stencil duplicated) made up into 25 sets of packs, for they were going to runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) an executive briefing course for their personnel. And That Had High Priority. We were given every facility we needed, and an expensive stapling machine was bought for stapling the packs (which even then were clumsy to read as they did not open out flat like a book). We could do almost we liked, so far as schedules was concerned, so long as we worked like niggers. So we worked our own schedule, going home occasionally to sleep. The connection to the rest of Saint Hugh was nearly nothing, so we learn nothing at that time about the Sea OrgAbbreviation for Sea Organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). missions (in fact it is only over the last five years, researching material that is coming out and trying to get some of it more available, that I have heard of of the severity of those missions. Actually the only connection we had with the rest of Saint HillThe name of LRH's home in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) was that we each still had a basket in the Com Centre and received Bulletins and Policy Letters that came out. I remember my shock when I received a single page quarto Policy Letter with penalties for low conditions. I was shocked to see things like not being allowed to have a bath. Before suppressing the thing in my mental universe I speculated as to whether Ron was having a joke, but knowing how serious he took Bulletins and Policy Letters I could not really imagine him making a joke on those.
Rosemary was invaluable, as stencils were not immortal; they wore out and got torn, and the only thing to do then was to retype a new stencil and that Rosemary did admirably. The disadvantages of this stencil duplicating method of propagating Ron's issues were very apparent, not only in the production but also in the storage and distribution. Staff would need specific Policy Letters or Bulletins, send a dispatch to Mimeo asking for it, and someone in Mimeo would then spend time getting it from the files and sending it back again. My poor memory tells me that there were at least ten large four drawer filing cabinets filled with Policy Letters and Bulletins and these had to be refilled. The issues were either quarto or folio, according to their size and some issues went over three or four or more pages.
Pubs Org
Created 1st of January 1968 - brief account including attempts prior to the red and Green volumes
Antony's experience with the red and green volumes
Experience with typesetting Scientology 0 – 8
Athena Publications, working on green volumes,
Experience doing index for red volumes
Russell W email:
And one more point on those initials, just for your info and interest: in preparing the red volumes (green ones too) for their release in '91 or whenever it was, it was decided (by COB, mainly) that all that initials stuff would not appear in the volumes - only on mimeoed issues. I don't know what the "reasoning" was, for sure, but I think it had something to do with reducing people's mystery (and questions and protests) concerning the actual authorship of issues and revisions.
Possible material on the intervening period between the above and the following.
Endeavours in the Free Zone/ FriScientology
possible introductory material
Red and Green Volumes searchable PDF
Description of these.
Hopefully an account of the history of these.
Links for downloading them.
These are the notes I have on it:
User:AntPhillips/sandbox1 < User:AntPhillips User:AntPhillips/sandbox1
Article on the adminA contraction or shortening of the word administration, admin is used as a noun to denote the actions involved in administrating an organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). history of LRHL. Ron Hubbard written techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) (excluding books) At first very random, including early magazines (titles here)
Color flash of ink introduced - techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) red on white, highest priority on adminA contraction or shortening of the word administration, admin is used as a noun to denote the actions involved in administrating an organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976). lines. With the Seven Division Organisation Board colour flash for paper used was introduced for each division, executive division being white (including Policy Letters and Bulletins), HCO Division being goldenrod and thus, ethics1. The rules or standards governing the conduct of the members of a profession. (HCO PL 3 May 72). 2. A system of removing the counter-effort to the forward push. (6711C18SO) being in HCOHubbard Communications Office (HCO PL 7 Jul 71), ethics1. The rules or standards governing the conduct of the members of a profession. (HCO PL 3 May 72). 2. A system of removing the counter-effort to the forward push. (6711C18SO) orders came out on goldenrod.
Note on typist policy in standard office work in the age of typewriters (at first manual) and secretaries/typists. Note on typist/ author initial at bottom left of last page.
Electric typewriters with two fonts and introduction of different font for amendments when an issue was re-issued with new stuff and alterations.
Old red volumes have typists and authors initial. New techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) volumes do not.
