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From: lippard@Primenet.Com (James J. Lippard)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Source on Religious Trade Secrets
Date: 8 Oct 1995 19:36:52 GMT
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L. Ron Hubbard had the following to say about the religious "trade
secret" issue, in a taped lecture in 1955:

   Now if we were to sit down and try to monopolize every piece of
   information which we ever collected ... and we were to take this
   information and carefully say, "Now look!  This piece of information
   is absolutely sacred, and it's not to be distributed to anybody!
   And it's not to be given to _anybody_, and _only_ those people who
   have a pink cross on the right shoulder will be able to read this
   information"--we would go into a mysterious sort of cult.

(Quoted in Bent Corydon, _L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?_, 1992
revised edition, Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, p. 356.)

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