Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 25 JUNE 1970 Revised and Reissued 17 July 1970 (Cancels HCO PL 6 Apr ’70 Issue II Scientology Release Attestation Form which referred to cancelled HCO PL 14 Mar ’68.) | Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 25 JUNE 1970 Revised and Reissued 17 July 1970 (Cancels HCO PL 6 Apr ’70 Issue II Scientology Release Attestation Form which referred to cancelled HCO PL 14 Mar ’68.) |
EXPANDED LOWER GRADES | EXPANDED LOWER GRADES |
This chart is used by the examiner when a pc is sent for “Declare?” on a grade. | This chart is used by the examiner when a pc is sent for “Declare?” on a grade. |
The examiner first checks the pc’s auditing folder to see that every process of a Grade being attested to has been run to true End Phenomena for each process. | The examiner first checks the pc’s auditing folder to see that every process of a Grade being attested to has been run to true End Phenomena for each process. |
He then puts the pc on the meter noting TA and needle behaviour. | He then puts the pc on the meter noting TA and needle behaviour. |
The pc then makes a statement to the examiner which indicates that the pc actually made the end result of a Grade. | The pc then makes a statement to the examiner which indicates that the pc actually made the end result of a Grade. |
The examiner gets the pc to state the ability he has attained: the exact wording of flows 1, 2 and 3 of the Grade as given below. The pc may give the exact meaning in his | The examiner gets the pc to state the ability he has attained: the exact wording of flows 1, 2 and 3 of the Grade as given below. The pc may give the exact meaning in his |
own words, expressed as an ability gained or an inability lost for that Grade. | own words, expressed as an ability gained or an inability lost for that Grade. |
ABILITY GAINED - INABILITY LOST | ABILITY GAINED - INABILITY LOST |
GROUP PROCESSES | GROUP PROCESSES |
Awareness that change is available. - Freedom from unawareness. | Awareness that change is available. - Freedom from unawareness. |
LIFE REPAIR | LIFE REPAIR |
Awareness of truth and the way to personal freedom. - Freedom from no hope for change or future. | Awareness of truth and the way to personal freedom. - Freedom from no hope for change or future. |
ARC STRAIGHTWIRE | ARC STRAIGHTWIRE |
Knows he/she won’t get any worse. - Freedom from deterioration. | Knows he/she won’t get any worse. - Freedom from deterioration. |
DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION | DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION |
Well and happy human being. - Freedom from physical pain and mis-emotion. | Well and happy human being. - Freedom from physical pain and mis-emotion. |
GRADE 0, COMMUNICATIONS RELEASE | GRADE 0, COMMUNICATIONS RELEASE |
F1: Ability to communicate freely with anyone on any subject. Likes to outflow. - F1: Freedom from, or no longer bothered by communication difficulties. No longer withdrawn and reticent. | F1: Ability to communicate freely with anyone on any subject. Likes to outflow. - F1: Freedom from, or no longer bothered by communication difficulties. No longer withdrawn and reticent. |
F2: Willing for others to communicate to him freely on any subject. - F2: Lost any resistance to others communicating to him on unpleasant and unwanted subjects. | F2: Willing for others to communicate to him freely on any subject. - F2: Lost any resistance to others communicating to him on unpleasant and unwanted subjects. |
F3: Will permit others to communicate about anything to others. - F3: Loss of reaction to others communicating to others. | F3: Will permit others to communicate about anything to others. - F3: Loss of reaction to others communicating to others. |
GRADE I, PROBLEMS RELEASE | GRADE I, PROBLEMS RELEASE |
F1: Ability to recognise the source of problems and make them vanish. - F1: Has no problems. | F1: Ability to recognise the source of problems and make them vanish. - F1: Has no problems. |
F2: Feels free about any problems others have with him and can recognise source of them. - F2: No longer worried about the problems he has been to others. | F2: Feels free about any problems others have with him and can recognise source of them. - F2: No longer worried about the problems he has been to others. |
F3: Free about others problems with or about others and can recognise source of them. - F3: Loss of inability to have others having problems with others. | F3: Free about others problems with or about others and can recognise source of them. - F3: Loss of inability to have others having problems with others. |
GRADE II, RELIEF RELEASE | GRADE II, RELIEF RELEASE |
F1: Ability to be cause without fear of hurting others. - F1: Relief from the hostilities and sufferings of Life. | F1: Ability to be cause without fear of hurting others. - F1: Relief from the hostilities and sufferings of Life. |
F2: Is willing for others to be cause over him. - F2: Freedom from things others have done to him in the past. | F2: Is willing for others to be cause over him. - F2: Freedom from things others have done to him in the past. |
F3: Is willing for others to be cause over others without feeling the need to intervene. - F3: Loss of need to protect another from actions of others for fear of them doing harm. | F3: Is willing for others to be cause over others without feeling the need to intervene. - F3: Loss of need to protect another from actions of others for fear of them doing harm. |
GRADE III, FREEDOM RELEASE | GRADE III, FREEDOM RELEASE |
F1: Ability to face the future. Ability to experience sudden changes without getting upset. - F1: Freedom from the upsets of the past. | F1: Ability to face the future. Ability to experience sudden changes without getting upset. - F1: Freedom from the upsets of the past. |
F2: Allows others the beingness to be the way they are and choose their own future; can also cause changes in another’s life without ill effect. - F2: No longer feels he has to change people to make them more acceptable. | F2: Allows others the beingness to be the way they are and choose their own future; can also cause changes in another’s life without ill effect. - F2: No longer feels he has to change people to make them more acceptable. |
F3: Is willing for change and interplay to occur between others. - F3: Loses the need to try and prevent change occurring among others. | F3: Is willing for change and interplay to occur between others. - F3: Loses the need to try and prevent change occurring among others. |
GRADE IV, ABILITY RELEASE | GRADE IV, ABILITY RELEASE |
F1: Ability to do new things. Ability to face life without need to justify own actions, defend self from others. Can be right or wrong. - F1: Moving out of fixed conditions. Loss of make guilty mechanisms, selfinvalidation, and demand for sympathy. | F1: Ability to do new things. Ability to face life without need to justify own actions, defend self from others. Can be right or wrong. - F1: Moving out of fixed conditions. Loss of make guilty mechanisms, selfinvalidation, and demand for sympathy. |
F2: Can tolerate the fixed ideas and habits of others towards self and does not feel the need to respond in a like manner. - F2: Freedom from others’ fixed ideas, justifications and make-guilty on self. Is not intolerant of the habits of others as they affect him. | F2: Can tolerate the fixed ideas and habits of others towards self and does not feel the need to respond in a like manner. - F2: Freedom from others’ fixed ideas, justifications and make-guilty on self. Is not intolerant of the habits of others as they affect him. |
F3: Can tolerate fixed conditions amongst others and does not get involved by others’ efforts to justify, dominate or be defensive about their actions against others. - F3: Loss of resistance to another making others guilty, asserting self or justifying own overts. | F3: Can tolerate fixed conditions amongst others and does not get involved by others’ efforts to justify, dominate or be defensive about their actions against others. - F3: Loss of resistance to another making others guilty, asserting self or justifying own overts. |
EXPANDED RELEASE | EXPANDED RELEASE |
Knowledge of having fully made Lower Grades. - Freedom from cruel impulses and from being Humanoid. | Knowledge of having fully made Lower Grades. - Freedom from cruel impulses and from being Humanoid. |
L. RON HUBBARD Founder | L. RON HUBBARD Founder |
[Note: This revision changed the third paragraph by deleting “He then does a meter check for false completion of the Grade being attested” and replaced it with “He then puts the pc on the meter noting TA and needle behaviour.”) | [Note: This revision changed the third paragraph by deleting “He then does a meter check for false completion of the Grade being attested” and replaced it with “He then puts the pc on the meter noting TA and needle behaviour.”) |