During the war it was often stated that “a loose lip could sink a ship”. Today this applies to Saint Hill. Irresponsible statements in East Grinstead concerning Saint Hill could injure our relations with the town.

Here are some facts we would be happy to let anyone know:

Saint Hill releases into East Grinstead some £2,000 every month in new money through merchants and in wages as well as other ways. All of this money comes from outside England and the economy of East Grinstead receives the full benefit of it. If the status of Saint Hill were altered this machine would be denied East Grinstead and its people.

There are no unpaid bills.

After you have achieved a high level of ability you will be the first to insist upon your rights to live with honest people.

No person who did his job well and who caused no trouble has been dismissed at Saint Hill The staff turnover in the garden and the house has been incidental to any new establishment seeking to settle down with the best possible staff. My basic staff policy is responsible for the turnover. I will not compromise with poor work and I will not drive bad workers into working. I ease them off or they leave.

When you know the technology of the mind you know that it is a mistake to use “individual rights” and “freedom” as arguments to protect those who would only destroy.

Some discoveries of considerable interest to horticulture have been made at Saint Hill. All this research is private and its findings are given away without charge. Several of our experiments have now been repeated and accepted by U.S. laboratories.

Individual rights were not originated to protect criminals but to bring freedom to honest men. Into this area of protection then dived those who needed “freedom” and “individual liberty” to cover their own questionable activities.

Several advances in the understanding of the human mind have been made at Saint Hill. Saint Hill has been on National Television several times.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is in his own trap. When his own deeds cannot be disclosed then he is a prisoner; he must withhold himself from his fellows and he is a slave to his own conscience. Freedom must be deserved before there is any freedom possible.

Sometime this year outside lighting of the Manor House will be installed.

To protect dishonest people is to condemn them to their own hells. By making “individual rights” a synonym for “protect the criminal” one helps to bring about a slave state for all; for where “individual liberty” is abused, an impatience with it arises which at length sweeps us all away. The targets of all disciplinary laws are the few who err. Such laws unfortunately also injure and restrict those who do not err. If all were honest there would be no disciplinary threats.

Saint Hill Manor is the best example of Sussex sandstone structure in existence. It was completed in 1733.

There is only one way out for a dishonest person – facing up to his responsibilities in the society and putting himself back into communication with his fellow man, his family, the world at large. By seeking to invoke his “individual rights” to protect himself from an examination of his deeds, he reduces just that much the future of individual liberty, for he himself is not free. Yet he infects others who are honest by using their rights to freedom to protect himself.

Saint Hill has only had a half dozen owners in all that time. It will be continued in its original status as a Manor House. Amongst the owners are:

Uneasy lies the head that wears a guilty conscience.

The Crawfords (the Sussex iron family who built it),

And it will lie no more easily by seeking to protect misdeeds by pleas of “freedom means that you must never look at me”. The right of a person to survive is directly related to his honesty.

Doctor Cruikshank (who did the more recent work on the grounds and pool), Mr. Lasky (once the richest man in England),

Freedom for man does not mean freedom to injure man. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to harm by lies.

Mrs. Biddle, the wife of the American Ambassador (who had the monkey room done and who modernized the baths),

Man cannot be free while there are those amongst him who are slaves to their own terrors.

The Maharajah of Jaipur who bought it for his wife (whose bell call boards we have left up).

The mission of a techno-space society is to subordinate the individual and control him, by economic and political duress. The only casualty in a machine age is the individual and his freedom.

Saint Hill has sent several members to parliament. We are currently putting tropical controlled climates into the glass houses.

To preserve that freedom one must not permit men to hide their evil intentions under the protection of that freedom. To be free a man must be honest with himself and with his fellows.

We will complete the swimming pool this spring.

If a man uses his own honesty to protect the unmasking of dishonesty, then that man is an enemy of his own freedom.

We can stand in the sun only so long as we don’t let the deeds of others bring the darkness.

Freedom is for honest men. Individual liberty exists only for those who have the ability to be free.

Today in Scientology we know the gaoler – the person himself. And we can restore the right to stand in the sun by eradicating the evil men do to themselves.

So do not say that the investigation of a person or the past is a step forward to slavery. For in Scientology such a step is the first step toward freeing a man from the guilt of self.

Were it the intention of the Scientologist to punish the guilty, then and only then would a look into the past of another be wrong.

But we are not the police. Our look is the first step toward unlocking the doors – for they are all barred from within.

Who would punish when he could salvage?

Only a madman would break a wanted object he could repair – and we are not mad.

The individual must not die in this machine age – rights or no rights. The criminal and the madman must not triumph with their new-found tools of destruction.

The least free person is the person who cannot reveal his own acts and who protests the revelation of the improper acts of others. On such people will be built a future political slavery where we all have numbers – and our guilt – unless we act.

It is fascinating that blackmail and punishment are the keynotes of all dark operations. What would happen if these two commodities no longer existed? What would happen if all men were free enough to speak? Then and only then would you have freedom.

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.

Don’t stand in the road of that freedom. Be free, yourself.