ABSTRACT

This chapter argues that Dianetics Auditing fulfills a vital function in the evolution of the Nation of Islam (NOI), and brings Louis Farrakhan's vision of the end-times closer to realization. The NOI concept of "Knowledge of Self" will be examined and contrasted with the self-knowledge sought in Dianetics Auditing. Farrakhan has supplemented the NOI's "Knowledge of Self" with the self-knowledge offered by Dianetics Auditing, but this is hardly a conversion. The chapter shows that Farrakhan should be taken at his word and that the technology of Dianetics Auditing provides a means for the fulfillment of NOI eschatology. The awakening of the Lost-Founds of North America to "Knowledge of Self" forms an essential moment in the eschatology of the NOI—in fact, it is the "last step." Anticipation of the inevitable race war, and the subsequent deliverance of the Lost-Founds at the hands of the Mother Wheel, forms the core of NOI eschatology.