Artist Blueprint - Be-Do-Have - January 9th 2024

The Conditions of Existence
THERE ARE THREE CONDITIONS-OF-EXISTENCE. These three conditions comprise (make up, constitute) life.Show more

They are BE, DO and HAVE.

The first condition of existence is BEING.

Being is defined as “the assumption (choosing) of a category of identity.” It could be said to be the role in a game.

An example of beingness could be one’s own name. Another example would be one’s profession. Another example would be one’s physical characteristics. Each or all of these things could be called one’s beingness.

Beingness is assumed by oneself, or given to oneself, or is attained.

For example, in the playing of a game each player has his own beingness.

The second condition of existence is DOING.

By doing we mean “action, function, accomplishment, the attainment of goals, the fulfilling of purpose, or any change of position in space.”

The third condition of existence is HAVINGNESS.

By havingness we mean “owning, possessing, being capable of commanding, positioning, taking charge of objects, energies or spaces.” The essential definition of having is “to be able to touch, or permeate, or to direct the disposition of.”

The game of life demands that one assumes a beingness in order to accomplish a doingness in the direction of havingness.

These three conditions are given in an order of seniority (importance) where life is concerned. The ability to be is more important than the ability to do. The ability to do is more important than the ability to have. In most people all three conditions are sufficiently confused that they are best understood in reverse order. When one has clarified the idea of havingness (or possession), one can then proceed to clarify doingness (or general activity) and when this is done one understands beingness (or identity).

It is essential to a successful existence that each of these three conditions be clarified and understood. The ability to assume or to grant (give, allow) beingness is probably the highest of human virtues. It is even more important to be able to permit other people to have beingness than to be able, oneself, to assume it. L Ron Hubbard
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