Basic Principles of Scientology Religious Beliefs

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A Modern Day Cult





Theology is “The STUDY of God” Scientology DESCRIBES deity in three ways

a) SUPREME BEINGb) GODc) GODS

Scientologists are FREE to chose their concept of God In the Scientology Catechism it states, “What is the

Scientology concept of God? We have no DOGMA inScientology and each person’s concept is different… Eachperson attains his OWN certainty as to who God is and exactly

what God means to him. The author of the Universe exists.How this is symbolized is dictated by your early training andconscience.” ( Staff of Scientology, “The Scientology Catechism,” What is Scientology? [Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California, 1979], 200.)



“Although the existence of the Supreme being isaffirmed in Scientology, His precise nature is NOTEXPLAINED, since the Church holds that each personmust seek and know the Divine Nature in and forhimself” (Ibid., 197-200).

“Believing that Man’s best evidence of God is the GODHE FINDS WITHIN HIMSELF… the Church of Scientology is formed to espouse such evidence of theSupreme being and Spirit as may be knowable to Men.”(Articles of Incorporation [California, 1954, section2.h])



Hubbard says in his Phoenix Lectures, “Let us take up what amounts to probably ten thousand years of study on the part of Man, on the identity of God or Gods”(Hubbard, Phoenix Lectures, 3).

“There are gods ABOVE ALL other Gods,” he wrote.“There is not argument here against the existence of aSupreme being or any devaluation intended. It is thatamongst the gods, there are many false gods elected toPOWER AND POSITION… There are gods aboveother gods, and gods beyond the gods of the universes”(Ibid, 3).



Hubbard REJECTS the Christian Doctrine of the Godhead(Father, Son, Holy Spirit).a) “The Christian God is actually much better characterized in the

VEDIC HYMNS (Hinduism) than in any subsequent publication,including the Old Testament” (Hubbard, Phoenix Lectures, 31).

b) “ The God the Christians worshipped is certainly not the HebrewGod. He looks much more like the one talked about in the VEDA ”(Ibid, 67).

c) “For a long while, some people have been cross with me for my lack of cooperation in believing in a Christian heaven, God, andChrist. I have never said I didn’t disbelieve in a Big Thetan but

there was certainly something very CORNY about heaven et al .”(Hubbard, “Heaven,” Hubbard communication office Bulletin(hereafter HCOB) (May 11, 1963), one page, as quoted by Kevin

Anderson, Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology (Melbourne: Australia Parliament Government Printer, 1965), 150.



I. There are MANY God(s)II. There are God’s who exists OVER other God’s III. There are God’s in OTHER UniversesIV. Man can find God WITHIN himself

a) Scientologists are taught that man is part God and can attaina “GODLIKE” nature b) He wrote, “A pre-clear is a precise thing, part animal, part

pictures, PART GOD” (Hubbard, Scientology ClearProcedure, Issue one [Los Angeles: ASHO, 1968],21.)

c) In Hubbard’s evolutionary development of Homo sapiens, he

teaches that man will evolve in a “HOMO NOVIS ,” describedas “very high and god-like” (Hubbard, History of Man, [Los Angeles: ASHO, 1968], 38).

V. There is a supreme being who is likened to that of HINDUISM



I. He MISTAKENLY assumed the Hindu “Triad” is thebasis for the Christian Godhead

II. Scripture DENIES the possibility of other gods besidesthe true God

III. There is but ONE God (Deut. 6:4; Isaiah 43:10; Mark12:32; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Timothy 2:5; James 2:19)

IV. The bible presents a sharp distinction between GOD AND MAN

I. Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie.” II. Hosea 11:9 “I am God, and not a man, the Holy One in the

midst of thee.”

V. Hubbard fails to cite and understand God’sI. OMNIPOTENCEII. OMNIPRESENCEIII. OMNISCIENCE(1 Samuel 2:3; 1 Kings 8:27; Job 42:2; Jeremiah 23:24; Romans

11:33)

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