Doctrine of Devils Session 23

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Doctrine of DevilsSession 23
Scientology
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Scientology
Scientology
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In the Beginning?

• This story is only revealed to Scientologist
  after they have paid a lot of money over several
  years and reached a "higher level of awareness".
• If the people in Scientology at the lower levels
  knew about this story, maybe they would question
  why they are staying on the Scientology
  treadmill.
• The story goes like this

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• 75 million years ago, there was an alien galactic
  ruler named Xenu who was in charge of 76 planets
  in our sector of the galaxy, including planet
  Earth, whose name at that time was Teegeeack.
• All of the planets Xenu controlled were
  over-populated by, on average, 178 billion
  people. Social problems dictated that Xenu rid
  his sector of the galaxy of this overpopulation
  problem, so he developed a plan.
• Xenu sent out Tax Audit demands to all these
  billions of people.

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• As each one entered the audit centers for the
  income tax inspections, the people were seized,
  held down and injected with a mixture of alcohol
  and glycol, and frozen. Then, all 13.5 trillion
  of these frozen people were put into spaceships
  that looked exactly like DC8 airplanes, except
  that the spaceships had rocket engines instead of
  propellers.
• Xenu's entire fleet of DC8-like spaceships then
  flew to planet Earth, where the frozen people
  were dumped in and around volcanoes in the Canary
  Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. When Xenu's Air
  Force had finished dumping the bodies into the
  volcanoes, hydrogen bombs were dropped into the
  volcanoes and the frozen space aliens were
  destroyed.

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• However, Xenu's plan involved setting up
  electronic traps in Teegeeack's atmosphere which
  were designed to trap the souls or spirits of the
  dead space aliens. When the 13.5 trillion spirits
  were being blown around on the nuclear winds, the
  electronic traps worked like a charm and captured
  all the souls in the electronic, sticky fly-paper
  like traps.

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• The spirits of the aliens were then taken to huge
  multiplex cinemas that Xenu had previously
  instructed his forces to build on Teegeeack. In
  these movie theaters the spirits had to spend
  many days watching special 3-D movies, the
  purpose of which was
• 1) to implant into these spirits a false reality,
  i.e. the reality that WOGS (Hubbard's derisory
  term for anyone not a Scientologists) know on
  Earth today and,
• 2) to control these spirits for all eternity so
  that they could never cause trouble for Xenu in
  this sector of the Galaxy.

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• During these films, many false pictures were
  implanted into these spirits, which resulted in
  the spirits believing in all the things that
  control mankind on Earth today, including
  religion. The concept of religion, including God,
  Christ, Mohammed, Moses etc., were all an
  implanted false reality that to this very minute
  is used to control WOGS on Earth.

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• When the films ended and the souls left the
  cinema, they started to stick together in
  clusters of a few thousand and remained that way
  until mankind began to inhabit the Earth.
• Today on Earth all the spirits of these aliens
  have attached themselves to our bodies and are
  the root cause of the false reality that all but
  Scientology's "Homo Novis" or OT 8's on earth
  experience.

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The Mission of all Scientologists

• It is the job of all Scientologists to remove
  this false reality from the world by auditing
  each and every space alien spirit and human on
  earth to CLEAR not only this planet but the
  universe.
• For those who oppose Scientology and stand in
  their way i.e. all Scientology critics,
  Scientology promises to do away with them
  "quietly and without sorrow".

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The Mission of all Scientologists

• On average, each person on planet earth has 2,209
  of these Body Thetans (BT's for short), Hubbard's
  term for the alien spirits, attached to you
  causing you and all mankind to be constrained by
  Xenu's false reality.
• The average cost for Scientology to OT 8 is a
  mere USD 360,000, meaning that each BT only
  costs USD 163 to clear. Now that is a bargain if
  there ever was one.
• Hubbard never said the overall cost to the planet
  would be cheap.

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So what became of Xenu?

• To finish the story, the Loyal Officers of the
  Marcab Confederation finally discovered how evil
  Xenu was and overthrew him. He is now locked away
  in a mountain on one of the planets and kept in
  by a force-field powered by an eternal battery.

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Testimony of Ex-Scientologists

• Some ex- Scientologists, who have left from the
  highest levels of Scientology, have revealed that
  they have sat in a room at Scientology's
  Sandcastle building in Clearwater, Florida for
  5-7 hours per day for up to 10 years, holding two
  asparagus cans together, attached to a primitive
  lie detector, talking all day to these dead space
  aliens.
• and guess what? You'll never ever finish talking
  to dead space aliens until you leave Scientology.

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Scientology Beliefs

• Scientology is a novel and eclectic religion
  drawing from Eastern philosophy, modern
  psychology, and occult practice.
• It seeks to release human potential, free the
  soul, and restore people to their original state
  as pure, immortal spirit
• (from Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest
  House, 1996)

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How does Scientology claim to work?

• Through its "counseling" procedures (termed
  "auditing"), Scientology alleges to offer the
  only final solution to mankinds problems.
• Auditing "locates" and "resolves" "engrams," or
  past traumatic experiences that allegedly inhibit
  true spiritual enlightenment.
• Scientology claims it can eventually free the
  human spirit from its bondage to the material
  world.

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Scientific evaluation of Scientology

• While the specific religious tenets of
  Scientology are incapable of scientific
  evaluation, many of its stated beliefs that are
  capable of evaluation run contrary to most basic
  data in the natural and social sciences.

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Scientology and the Occult.

• Promotes the Development of
• psychic powers
• out-of-body experiences
• and other occult practices.

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Scientology and the world illusion.

• Scientology largely teaches the rejection of the
  material world as an "illusion."

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Scientology and Christianity

• As Scientology can be shown to be an occult
  religion having specific theological beliefs
  contrary to biblical teaching, membership in the
  Church of Scientology should be prohibited for
  any Christians.

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Specific Dangers of Scientology

• 1. The acceptance of false data carries its own
  consequences
• 2. The hazards associated with occult practice
• Physical
• Psychological
• Spiritual
• 3. The psychological harm from auditing.

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• Auditing is Scientology's "counseling" or
  extensive examination of the present life and
  "past lives" of the "preclear," or initiate.

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• In one of its many definitions, Hubbard has
  described Scientology as "the Western Anglicized
  continuance of many earlier forms of wisdom.
  These include
• Vedas
• Taoism
• Buddhism
• Judaism
• Gnosticism
• Jesus
• Nietzsche
• Freud.
• According to Hubbard, "Scientology has
  accomplished the goal of religion expressed in
  all Man's written history, the freeing of the
  soul by wisdom."

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• Scientology divides the mind into two components
• the analytic (conscious or rational mind)
• the reactive (unconscious or irrational mind
• Experiences of extreme shock, pain, or
  unconsciousness cause "engrams," or sensory
  impressions, to be recorded in the reactive mind.
  
• These mental pictures are, in turn, the cause of
  our emotional and even many physical problems
  today.
• They can be dislodged only through Scientology.

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• While these memory pictures are perfectly
  recorded, they lay dormant in the brain until
  restimulated by a similar incident.
• When restimulated, they cause conditioned,
  stimulus-response behavior which is
  counterproductive to one's well-being.
• When the brain sees a similar situation to a past
  threatening experience -- even though it is not
  now a threat to survival, it responds as if it
  were, producing a form of inappropriate and
  self-defeating behavior.

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• In this sense, we are all more or less
  conditioned beings -- "machines" that simply
  respond to their operator (i.e., the reactive
  mind).
• Scientology believes this restimulation is fairly
  automatic. In other words, we are not free
  beings we are slaves of an "aberrated"
  (reactive) mind.
• Scientology maintains that through Dianetic
  and/or Scientology therapy, we can be directly
  exposed to our engrams, "erase" them, and become
  "clear," or in control of our behavior ("at
  cause") rather than at the mercy of a damaged
  reactive mind ("at effect").

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• Unfortunately, Scientology informs us, through
  reincarnation we have all been accumulating
  engrams for trillions of years.
• Thus, to resolve hidden engrams, not only must
  the initiate be mentally whisked back to
  re-experience the damaging events of this life,
  but of many past lives as well.

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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTOLOGY

• According to Scientology, each person is really a
  thetan, an immortal spirit who has been so
  damaged by engrams that he has forgotten he is
  immortal and even forgotten he is a thetan.
• Thetans have absolute control over their bodies,
  but, sadly, they think they are bodies (a
  terrible fate) and hence are bound by the MEST
  (matter, energy, space, time) universe.
• Each time a body dies, the thetan must enter
  another body, but this brings with it all its
  trillions of years' accumulation of engrams.
• Thetans thus are no longer free, but are in
  bondage to the material universe.
• Scientology claims it can free the thetan.

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

Bible says

• Pantheistic religion
• Possibly one monotheistic God
• All finite entities are within God
• Yet God is separate from them
• Is there one Supreme Being?
• Concept purposely left undefined
• Not relevant in Scientology theory or practice.
• Implied to be, or referred to as
• Nature, Infinity, "the Eighth Dynamic," "all
  Theta" (life), etc.
• Scientologists are free to interpret God in
  whatever manner he or she wishes.

• Only one sovereign and perfect Creator God from
  all eternity
• without beginning or end,
• exists in three Persons,
• is infinitely holy, just, and loving.
• Gen. 11
• Isa. 4310-11
• Acts 53-4
• Isa. 618
• Mal. 36
• 1 Tim. 25
• Titus 213
• 1 John 48-10).

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

• Man is a thetan whose fundamental nature is
  basically good and divine.
• Not morally fallen
• Simply ignorant of his own perfection.
• Mans fall was into matter, not sin.
• How did this Fall come about?
• Trillions of years ago, thetans became bored,
• they emanated mental universes to play in and
  amuse themselves.
• they became entranced in their own creation
• they were so conditioned by the manifestations of
  their own thought processes, that they lost all
  awareness of their true identity and spiritual
  nature.

• Hypnotized and trapped by MEST.
• Compounding the problem was the accumulation of
  endless engrams throughout trillions of years of
  existence.
• The final result was a pitiful creature indeed
• a materially enslaved entity existing as a mere
  stimulus-response machine.

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

Bible says

• What began as once glorious spiritual beings.
• Now in slavery to the reactive mind (physical
  body and senses)
• In Bondage to the MEST universe (material
  environment)
• The PERSON in Scientology is (and discovers
  himself to be)
• a Thetan (spiritual being)
• of infinite creative potential
• who acts in, but is not part of, the MEST
  physical universe....
• The Eternal Indestructible Self (Atman) of the
  Hindu Upanishads early foreshadowed the
  Scientology concept of the Thetan....

• Man is a creation of God, made in God's image.
• His problems do not result from engrams or
  boredom,
• but from sin and self-centeredness (Rom. 310-18
  Eph. 21-3).
• There is only one eternal God in the universe
  (Isa. 4310-11).
• He created man (body and spirit)
• as a finite creature at a point in time (Gen.
  27).
• Hence it is impossible that divine beings such as
  Scientology's thetans can exist.
• If no thetan exists, what purpose can Scientology
  possibly serve?

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

• The Thetan is the innate source of his own
  projected universe
• which overlaps the created universes of other
  Thetans
• All Theatans exist in their projected universe
• And yet share a great community of souls.
• Thus is formed the world of the senses,
  consisting of the combined projected universe or
  world of great community of souls
• in relation to which, like the Hindu "Lila," or
  "Divine Play," each Thetan plays the Game of Life
  in concert with its spiritual partners....
• As a Being descends...into Materiality,
• the manifestations of his communication become
  heavier and more dense,
• and his experience of reality deteriorates.

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

Bible says

• Of Salvation
• Through Scientology auditing,
• engrams may be neutralized
• and the thetan made increasingly self-aware or
  "enlightened."
• The initiate may eventually achieve a state of
  "clear"
• and then, by progressing through numerous levels
  of "Operating Thetan" ("OT"),
• increasingly achieve self-realization.
• (An "Operating Thetan" is one who is more and
  more aware of and "operating" according to his
  true thetan abilities.)

• Of Salvation
• is a free gift.
• One is redeemed from sin on the principle of
  grace, simply through faith in Christ's
  atonement.
• Eph. 28-9
• John 647
• Heb. 111
• 1 John 22).

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

Bible says

• Death for Scientology
• sometimes a blessing,
• it may permit the release of the soul from the
  prison of the body (i.e., the evolution of the
  thetan soul into a higher state of awareness).
• Yet Death is an event so appallingly ordinary
  (indeed, one which each person has passed through
  trillions of times)
• that it is, in effect, an irrelevant incident,
• almost inconsequential in the larger scheme of
  things.

• Death is a one-time event that carries either
• the great blessings (eternal heaven)
• or the most horrible of consequences (eternal
  hell).
• Death leads to an irreversible fate for both the
  saved and the lost
• human beings have one lifetime only to make
  their peace with God (Heb. 927 Matt. 2546
  Luke 2619-31 Rev. 2010-15).
• "For what will a man be profited if he gain the
  whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a
  man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt. 1626)
  And, "This is eternal life, to know Thee, the
  only true God and Jesus Christ, whom Thou has
  sent." (John 173)

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SCIENTOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY

• SCIENTOLOGY says

Bible says

• of the The Occult
• Thetans seek to develop
• psychic powers
• out-of-body episodes
• (as a means for the thetan to re-realize his or
  her true powers)
• This is indicative of the church's acceptance of
  the realm of the occult.
• Hubbard's own son goes so far as to affirm that
  "black magic is the inner core of Scientology.
• Hubbard himself confessed that a spirit entity
  guided him throughout his life and a number of
  scholarly researchers have verified the occult
  nature of Scientology.

• The occult is a form of idolatry and a sin
  expressly forbidden by God (Deuteronomy 189-12).
  
• In the New Testament when the gospel was
  proclaimed and received, the liberated people
  gladly burned all their occult materials (see
  Acts 1919).
• The Bible says that such deception will increase
  in "the last days" before Christ returns (1
  Timothy 41).
• But the Bible also says, "The Son of God appeared
  for this purpose, that He might destroy the works
  of the devil" (1 John 38).