he basic hope of man, as it appears today in Scientology, is thousands of years old.

We honor the great spiritual leader of the past, since these people handed along enough tradition to make us aware of the fact that there was a spiritual side to man. These great spiritual leaders have been hanged, reviled, misinterpreted, badly quoted, have not been at all comprehended, but, nevertheless, they are the hands through which a torch has been handed through the centuries so that we could culminate with a greater ability for man and some hope for his future.