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Subject: DATA RE: THE RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OF SCIENTOLOGY
Date: 1 Nov 1996 04:52:56 GMT
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Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding several aspects
of the religion of Scientology have been observed on ars.
The purpose of this message is to give you a sample of the true data
from the book 'What is Scientology?' and show you where you can look
to get the full contents of this book.

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For all the mystery surrounding himself, one of the first things
man has innately known was that he was more than merely another beast
of the forest, more than mere muscle and bone, but that he was somehow
endowed with a spark of the divine, a spiritual being.

Such wisdom formed the basis of the first great civilization the
Egyptian, whose culture endured for twenty-seven centuries. As the
earliest people to conquer man's deep-rooted fear of ancestral spirits,
they were also among the first to propose that each man must provide
for his own happy afterlife.

Despite considerable advances in the physical sciences, their gift
of organization and their monumental art and architecture, the Egyptians
still lacked the means to reverse the internal decay of their society.
Beset with immorality and decadence, they were soon too enfeebled
to resist the onslaught of Rome.


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          http://www.scientology.org
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          http://www.dianetics.org

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