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What we are doing with this data is new. The way this material is organized is new. The technologies with which we can bring about a new state of being in man are new. But the basic idea, the basic hope of man as it appears today in Scientology, is thousands of years old.
And when we call Scientology a religion, we are calling it a religion out of a much deeper well than only the last two thousand years. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and in Western civilization.
Scientology treats the livingness and beingness of man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom. (By “livingness” we mean the activity of going along a certain course, driven by a purpose and with some place to arrive. And by “beingness” we mean the assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Examples of beingness would be a person’s name or his profession.)
Scientology is an organization of the pertinences which are mutually held true by all men in all times and the development of technologies which demonstrate the existence of new phenomena not hitherto known, which are useful in creating states of beingness considered more desirable by man.
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