hilosophy, L. Ron Hubbard explains, is the pursuit of wisdom. It is something we use to think with, to wonder with, to accept or reject. In what amounts to a definitive statement of Scientology’s place within that tradition comes Ron’s “Philosophy Wins After 2000 Years.” Although self-explanatory, a few incidental notes might be supplied: In referencing the Greeks—Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and Euclid, in particular— he is acknowledging those he had long viewed as legitimate predecessors of Dianetics and Scientology. That he chose to make such a statement in 1965 is especially significant; for it was through this period he commenced the mapping of the route to Operating Thetan, or that realm, as he elsewhere described it, “not even embraced by earlier literature.” Finally, we might wish to bear in mind yet another LRH word on Scientology: “It is a religious philosophy, but it is a philosophy. And that it is something you use to think with, to wonder with, to accept or reject.”
