The data which was left in India about 8,200 years ago
and which lay dormant, and which was figured out this way and confused that way and was relatively unanalyzed. It was from that body of data that Christianity came; it was from that body of data that many other things occurred. But it was a tremendously valuable mass of material. It lay there unevaluated and, of course, was a field of tremendous richness… an awful lot of men have fallen on their faces in the last century trying to hit this track. Amongst themwere Nietzsche, and with him the German nation. Amongst them were Schopenhauer;amongst them were
Aleister Crowley
.So here was that big body of data; and all of a sudden we ran into it with electronicmaterial and Western logic… And I knew these two fields. I don't know anybody else inthis century or the end of the last one who had these two backgrounds: background inmysticism and occultism, metaphysics, theology, hocus-pocus, voodoo, mumbo jumbo,magic, spiritualism and so on; who took a rigorous course of Western orientation. You study civil engineering and it is about the roughest discipline there is…So these two things crossed: this tremendous body of information in the Eastern,Oriental, sphere and this tremendous body of collected information in… the Western,world. And those two bodies of information had never been studied, one to the other.
LRH book The Phoenix Lectures -
…there is a set of hymns which as I recall were
introduced into the societies of earth
inabout 8212 BC.
These were religious hymns and they are our earliest debt inScientology. Our earliest debt, because
the very early hymns contain much that weknow today
and which checks against what we have rediscovered,
or what we have followed back to, and this material included such a common thing as the cycle of the physical universe, known to you in Scientology as the Cycle of Action.
Furthermore, we find, in that same set of hymns, the theory of evolution which wasbrought forward in the west only a hundred years ago… by Charles Darwin. In fact, aswe look at these hymns, we discover almost any information you want to discover later.Whether you call it science or what you wish,
here is a tremendous body of knowledge.
They are supposed to have come forward in spoken tradition, memorized, from generation to generation, and finally to have been set down. I can tell you that today these hymns are still in existence. They are very hard to acquirein the western world.
You have to find the specialized translations of them
… we do not know what sciences would suddenly open their doors should someone sit down and beginto study the Veda. But information seems to have leaked from that direction into theMiddle East and into Europe rather constantly over the thousands of years. And we find Scientology's earliest certainly known ancestor in the Veda. It is a religion.
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