The goal of man here on this Earth is apparently survival. And by survival is meant everything necessary to survival including honor and morals and idealism and other things which make life bearable. A man survives as long as he can in one lifetime, at the highest level he can attain in activity and happiness. When he can no longer attain to some hope of this ideal, he succumbs. And although one is chary of exciting incredulity, the fact is so easily demonstrated in so many ways with such machinelike scientific consistency, it should be known that man apparently dies in body only and gets born to live another day.

Physically, on the evolutionary chain, man is attempting a greater and greater control of his environment. The environment does not control a healthy man. He controls the environment. The surroundings of a sick man, a neurotic or insane man, have a tendency to control him. One sees this clearly as one advances, through Scientology, into happier states of mind. One’s health and ability rise directly as one asserts greater and surer control over his surroundings. Conversely, one asserts better and better control of his surroundings as he becomes healthier and happier.

Thus there is a second goal. Man is evidently surviving to attain a higher and stronger control of the physical universe. The physical universe is composed of matter, energy, space and time. The coined word for the physical universe is MEST. That is easy to remember because it is composed of the first letter in each of the four words matter, energy, space and time.

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