HCOPL: Expansion Theory of Policy
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1966, 4 December
Document title: Expansion Theory of Policy
Document type: Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter
Book title: Organization Executive Course
Edition: 1991
Page(s): 124-131
Location: Los Angeles
Publisher: Bridge Publications, Inc.
Description: Hubbard analyzes the "history" of the Roman Catholic Church, and of Buddhism.
The Roman Catholic Church once had a healing product, by actual treatment and by relics and miracles and was in great demand by the public and eventually even the barbarians. But she began to fight progress in science and knowledge and her product turned into exported ignorance backed by autos-da-fe (burning heretics) and thus ceased to expand and today is rapidly shrinking.
Buddhism, earlier than that, expanded continuously as it never sought new extension of territory other than that of learning. Buddhism failed in India alone because its monks became licentious, ceased to deliver true teachings and were swept up, most likely, in India alone, by the Muslim conquest of that unhappy country sometime around the seventh century.
Hubbard, L. R. (1966, 4 December) Expansion Theory of Policy (Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter). The Organization Executive Course (1991 ed., Vol. 0, pp. 124-131). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc.