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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 DECEMBER 1968
Remimeo
(Note: This data is turned out as an HCOB and a Pol Ltr [issued as each
one] as may
apply very broadly in both the OEC and Level IV or above Courses.)
THE THIRD PARTY LAW
I have for a very long time studied the causes of violence and conflict
amongst
individuals and nations.
If Chaldea could vanish, if Babylon turn to dust, if Egypt could become
a
badlands, if Sicily could have 160 prosperous cities and be a looted ruin
before the
year zero and a near desert ever since-and all this in SPITE of all the
work and wisdom
and good wishes and intent of human beings, then it must follow as the dark
follows
sunset that something must be unknown to Man concerning all his works and
ways.
And that this something must be so deadly and so pervasive as to destroy
all his
ambitions and his chances long before their time.
Such a thing would have to be some natural law unguessed at by himself.
And there is such a law, apparently, that answers these conditions of
being
deadly, unknown and embracing all activities.
The law would seem to be:
A THIRD PARTY MUST BE PRESENT AND UNKNOWN IN EVERY
QUARREL FOR A CONFLICT TO EXIST.
or
FOR A QUARREL TO OCCUR, AN UNKNOWN THIRD PARTY MUST BE
ACTIVE IN PRODUCING IT BETWEEN TWO POTENTIAL OPPONENTS.
or
WHILE IT IS COMMONLY BELIEVED TO TAKE TWO TO MAKE A FIGHT, A
THIRD PARTY MUST EXIST AND MUST DEVELOP IT FOR ACTUAL
CONFLICT TO OCCUR.
It is very easy to see that two in conflict are fighting. They are very
visible. What
is harder to see or suspect is that a third party existed and actively
promoted the
quarrel.
The usually unsuspected and "reasonable" third party, the bystander who
denies
any part of it is the one that brought the conflict into existence in the
first place.
The hidden third party, seeming at times to be a supporter of only one
side, is to
be found as the instigator.
This is a useful law on many dynamics.
It is the cause of war.
One sees two fellows shouting bad names at each other, sees them come to
blows.
No one else is around. So they, of course, "caused the fight". But there
was a third
party.
Tracing these down, one comes upon incredible data. That is the trouble.
The
incredible is too easily rejected. One way to hide things is to make them
incredible.
Clerk A and Messenger B have been arguing. They blaze into direct
conflict. Each
blames the other. NEITHER ONE IS CORRECT AND SO THE QUARREL DOES
NOT RESOLVE SINCE ITS TRUE CAUSE IS NOT ESTABLISHED.
One looks into such a case THOROUGHLY. He finds the incredible. The wife
of
Clerk A has been sleeping with Messenger B and complaining alike to both
about the
other.
Farmer J and Rancher K have been tearing each other to pieces for years
in
continual conflict. There are obvious, logical reasons for the fight. Yet
it continues and
does not resolve. A close search finds Banker L who, due to their losses in
the fighting,