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After endless millennia of ignorance about himself, his mind and the
Universe, a breakthrough has been made for Man.
Other efforts Man has made have been surpassed.
The combined truths of fifty Thousand years of thinking men,
distilled and amplified by new discoveries about Man, have made for this
success.
We welcome you to Scientology. We only expect of you your help in
achieving our aims and helping others. We expect you to be helped.
Scientology is the most vital movement on Earth today.
In a turbulent world, the job is not easy. But then, if it were, we
wouldn't have to be doing it.
We respect Man and believe he is worthy of help. We respect you and
believe you, too, can help.
Scientology does not owe its help. We have done nothing to cause us
to propitiate. Had we done so, we would not now be bright enough to do
what we are doing.
Man suspects all offers of help. He has often been betrayed, his
confidence shattered. Too frequently he has given his trust and been
betrayed. We may err, for we build a world with broken straws. But we
will never betray your faith in us so long as you are one of us.
The sun never sets on Scientology.
And may a new day dawn on you, for those you love and for Man.
Our aims are simple, if great.
And we will succeed, and are succeeding at each new revolution of
the Earth.
Your help is acceptable to us.
Our help is yours.
-- L. Ron Hubbard Founder
Similarly, in the next bulletin the newcomer to Scientology will
read, called My Philosophy, he or she receives the message that
the Founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, is a Good and Wise Man:
The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for
anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and
king alike and should never be regarded with awe....
The second principle of my own philosophy is that it must be capable
of being applied....
The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only
valuable or true if it works....
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be crammed
down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for
him. And that is Scientology.
Know Thyself ... and the truth shall set you free....
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life
to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days....
I have seen much human misery. As a very young man I wandered
through Asia and saw the agony and misery of overpopulated and
underdeveloped lands. I have seen people uncaring and stepping over
dying men in the streets. I have seen children less than rags and bones.
And amongst this poverty and degradation I found holy places where
wisdom was great, but where it was carefully hidden and given out only
as superstition. Later, in Western universities, I saw Man obsessed with
materiality and with all his cunning, I saw him hide what little wisdom
he really had in forbidding halls and make it inaccessible to the common
and less favored man. I have been through a terrible war and saw its
terror and pain uneased by a single word of decency or humanity.
I have lived no cloistered life and hold in contempt the wise man
who has not lived and the scholar who will not share.
There have been many wiser men than I, but few have traveled as much
road.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it
looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
But I have never seen wisdom do any good kept to oneself, and as I
like to see others happy, and as I find the vast majority of the people
can and do understand, I will keep on writing and
working and teaching so long as I exist.
For I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this
universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and
others.
If things were a little better known and understood, we would all
lead happier lives.
And there is a way to know them and there is a way to freedom.
The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by
truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails.
-- L. Ron Hubbard
In all of the propaganda of Scientology, four lessons predominate:
- That there is a problem.
- That there is a solution to the problem.
- That the solution can only be found in Scientology.
- What will happen if the problem is not solved.
The first problem posed by Hubbard is the imminent danger of nuclear
war. And it is only Scientology that has the potential to thwart this
danger:
We are the only people and the only organizations on Earth
which have the technology and the ambition to attempt a clarification of
situations which in other hands are considered entirely out of control,
to wit, the atomic bomb and the decay and confusion of central
governments.
-- from Purpose, by L. Ron Hubbard
The use or neglect of this material (Scientology) may well determine
the use or neglect of the atomic bomb by Man.... In the same period in
history, two of the most sweeping forces Man has known have come to