While Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought was originally published
as a résumé of Scientology for use in translations into non-English
tongues, the book itself is of inestimable value to the beginner or advanced student
of the mind and life.
Containing much material new to Scientologists, the book forms a compact but
broad survey of the subject. Equipped with this book alone the student of the
mind could begin a practice and perform seeming miracles in changing the states
of health, ability and intelligence of people.
No such knowledge has ever before existed and no such results have ever before
been attainable by man as those which can be reached by a study of this brief
volume.
Give this book to a man or a woman in trouble, a man or a woman with an inquiring
nature, a man or a woman with associates who need a better life and let that man
or woman study this volume carefully and apply it. Change and a better life will
result.
This thin book is a summation, if brief, of the results of fifty thousand years
of thinking men. Their materials researched and capped by a quarter of a century
of original search by L. Ron Hubbard has brought the humanities, so long
outdistanced by the "exact sciences into a state of equality, if not superiority,
to physics, chemistry and mathematics."
What has been attempted by a thousand universities and foundations at a cost
of billions has been completed quietly here.
This is how life works. This is how you change men and women
and children for the better.
The use or neglect of this material may well determine the use or neglect of
the atomic bomb by man. Scientology is already winning in this field. In the same
period in history, two of the most sweeping forces man has known have come to
fruition: a knowledge of himself and others with Scientology, a means of destroying
himself and all others by atomic fission. Which force wins depends in a large
measure on your use of Scientology.
Scientology is today around the world, represented on every continent on Earth.
As you read this, this very book is being translated into many non-English tongues
and is being distributed to nations whose thronging multimillions have never before
been touched by Anglo-American thought.
"Scientology and Scientologists are not revolutionaries. They are evolutionaries.
They do not stand for overthrow. They stand for the improvement of what we have.
"Scientology is not political. When the fires of ideology threaten to
consume us all, it is time to forget politics and seek reason.
"The mission of Scientology is not conquestit is civilization. It
is a war upon stupidity, the stupidity which leads us toward the Last War of All.
"To a Scientologist, the real barbarism of Earth is stupidity. Only in
the black muck of ignorance can the irrational conflicts of ideologies germinate.
"Government, to a Scientologist, is a thing of reason and all problems
of government can be resolved by reason.
"Perhaps in yesterday one could afford the exploitation of ignorance for
the sake of fancied gain. Perhaps in yesterday the study of the mind and reason
was something for a summer afternoon. Perhaps in that same yesterday one amongst
us could afford his irresponsibility and hate.
"But that was yesterday. Today exploited ignorance, a dilettante attitude
toward existing knowledge, a refusal to assume one's role as a responsible member
of the human race may be punished in the searing thunderclap of H-bombs released
by men whose intelligence and statecraft were incapable of a better solution.
Ignorant people elect ignorant rulers. And only ignorant rulers lead to warand
this time will lead to a war which will bring silence forever after to Earth.
"As your associates, their homes, their children, their possessions and
all their future lie ending in a radioactive street, there won 't be time for
us to wish we 'd worked harder, been less easily dissuaded from pressing our arguments.
The copies of this book you did not distribute will lie there too.
"Some say they have no fear of death until the midnight of their dying
is at hand. They say different, then.
"Those who strike at this work out of some black well of ideological misorientation,
some antisocial cravenness, strike at the heart of manfor man has been a
long time on the track to reason and Scientology can take him there.
"There is not much Earth time. We must work.
"The criminal is ignorant and stupid. Ignorance and stupidity may therefore
be called criminal.
"Cause man to lay aside his hates and listen. Freedom from Ignorance is
at hand. Perhaps that was the Kingdom of Heaven.
"There is not much Earth time in which to distribute this knowledge. This
is the solution to our barbarism out of which we would lose all. Scientology works.
We must work, all of usnot to harangue man toward impossible freedoms, but
to make man civilized enough to be worthy of his freedom.
"It is time man grew up. That is what we have in mind. For there can be
but weeping in the night where ignorance, factionalism, hatred and exploitation
are served by the most ferocious and final weapon of allthe H-bomb.
"Change no man's religion, change no man's politics, interrupt the sovereignty
of no nation. Instead teach man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual
creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first
time.
"And so we work."
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