Scientology gives a history of Hubbard’s “original thesis,” and the several titles under which it has been published.

Dianetics: The Original Thesis was written by Ron in 1947, fifteen years after he began his studies of the mind. […]

Originally titled Scientology: A New Science, the book was retitled Abnormal Dianetics when it was offered to the medical and psychiatric profession in early 1948. The work was not utilized by these professions; it was, however, accepted broadly by the public at large. […]

The first hardcover edition, titled Dianetics: The Original Thesis was published in Wichita, Kansas in December 1951.

In 1983, the book was newly released with an updated title: The Dynamics of Life.

— L. Ron Hubbard Library © 1991 Technical Bulletins Vol. 1, p. 3

The introduction to Hubbard’s “original thesis” dishonestly omits the occult nature of his philosophic studies.

INTRODUCTION

In nineteen thirty-two an investigation was undertaken to determine the dynamic principle of existence in a workable form which might lead to the resolution of some of the problems of mankind.¹ A long research in ancient and modern philosophy culminated, in nineteen thirty-eight, in the heuristically discovered primary law. A work was written at that time which embraced man and his activities.² In the following years further research was undertaken in order to prove or disprove the axioms so established.

Certain experiences during the war made it necessary for the writer to resolve the work into applicable equations and an intensive program was begun in nineteen forty-five toward this end.³

A year later many techniques had been discovered or evolved and a nebulous form of the present work was formulated. Financed chiefly by a lump sum disability compensation, that form of Dianetics was intensively applied to volunteer subjects, and the work gradually developed to its present form.⁴

Dianetics has been under test by the writer, as here delineated, for the past three years. The last series of random volunteers, numbering twenty, were rehabilitated, twenty out of twenty, with an average number of work hours of 151.2 per subject. Dianetics offers the first anatomy of the human mind and techniques for handling the hitherto unknown reactive mind, which causes irrational and psychosomatic behavior. It has successfully removed any compulsions, repressions, neuroses and psychoses to which it has been applied.⁵
L.R.H. January, 1948

The Adeptus Exemptus Thesis

The Exempt Adept will possess a thorough knowledge of all these courses [Student Grade through Adeptus Major Grade] and present a thesis of his own, as a general Epitome of his own Attainment as reflected in the sphere of the Mind. (Curriculum, THE EQUINOX No. XI)

The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth his knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be known as a leader of a school of thought. (One Star in Sight)

This assignment is self-explanatory; but perhaps the reasons for it are not entirely clear.

Certainly there are enough practical reasons. The Exempt Adepts are “senior statesmen of the spirit,” the best trained, most learned, most advanced magicians, mystics, and philosophers of the Inner College. Furthermore, such a person will have ripened his or her own unique perspective of the Great Work. Every person has a unique point of view, and every window on the Divine gazes upon a different aspect, a different vista. Each spiritually mature expression of such a view constitutes one of the great philosophical treasures of the world.
— James A. Eshelman, The Mystical & Magical System of the A.’.A.’.

Excalibur, Dianetics: The Original Thesis, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and every Scientology text or lecture until his death were Hubbard’s knowledge of the universe and his proposals for its welfare and progress. As the founder and director of Scientology he became indeed the leader of a school of thought. He worked his damndest and got others to do their damndest to have his views accepted as not just great, but the greatest philsophical treasure the world has ever seen.

When David Miscavige announced the “Golden Age of Tech” he was really making an assertion of the completion of Hubbard’s “Great Work.”

The essential characteristic of the Grade [of Magus] is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word,⁶ which transforms the planet on which He lives by the installation of new officers to preside over its initiation. — Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA Book 4 (pp. 491-493)

Although I trained extensively in Scientology, to Class IX Auditor, at no time was I taught about Hubbard’s occult background, or the true nature of his pre-Scientology “research.”

The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be known as the leader of a school of thought.
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To attain the Grade of Magister Templi, he must perform Two Tasks: the emancipation from Thought by putting each idea against its opposite, and refusing to prefer either; and the consecration of himself as a pure vehicle for the influence of the Order to which he aspires.⁷
— Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA Book 4 (p. 493)

Entry level Scientologists learn to view the unwanted elements around the ego as “engrams” contained within the reactive mind. However, at the “confidential” levels above Clear, Scientologists come to learn that the elements are actually “body thetans,” degraded beings that require Scientology processing to eliminate by a pseudo-scientific system of exorcism.

Should [the Adept] fail, by Will or by weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is nonetheless thrust forth into the Abyss ⁸; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the Third Order, as a Babe in the womb of Our Lady BABALON, under the Night of PAN, to grow up to be Himself wholly and truly as He was not previously, he remains in the Abyss, secreting his elements round his Ego as if isolated from the Universe, and becomes what is called a “Black Brother.” Such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment, and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the Universe, despite his most desparate efforts to insulate and protect himself, and to aggrandize himself by predatory practices. — Aleister Crowley Liber ABA Book 4 (pp. 491-493)

It is a purpose of Dianetics to pass man across the abyss of irrational, solely reactive thought and enter him upon a new stage of constructive progression to the ultimate goal.
— L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Original Thesis

Hubbard was a Black Brother who sought to thrust people into the abyss with Dianetics and Scientology, and to get Scientologists shoving more and more people into the abyss.

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¹ See Bare-faced Messiah timeline .

²Excalibur The Dark Sword.

³ Hubbard was hospitalized at Oak Knoll hospital in Oakland, CA for much of 1945. He took a convalescent leave in August and visited Agape Lodge of the O.T.O. in Pasadena, CA, where he met Jack Parsons and his future wife, Sara “Betty” Northrup.

⁴ There is no record of a lump sum disability compensation. However in 1946, Hubbard ran a confidence scheme on Jack Parsons, making off with Jack’s girlfriend Betty and $10,000 of Jack’s money. See, e.g., Carter, John. Sex and Rockets, Venice, CA. Feral House 1999; Miller, Russell, Bare-faced Messiah, Chapter 7

⁵ Hubbard was an accomplished stage hypnotist and took research credit for hypnotizing Hollywood party-goers during this period. See also: www.lermanet.com/excalibur/index.html

⁶ Hubbard’s “One Word” is of course Survive, first announced in an unpublished 1938 manuscript he titled first The One Command and then Excalibur The Dark Sword, and repeated thereafter throughout his Dianetics and Scientology material. Scientology does not relate Hubbard’s research into the mind to any occult training curriculum.

⁷ Hubbard’s “emancipation from Thought by putting each idea against its opposite” is evident at the Scientology processing levels, especially at Clear and OT II, where psychological dichotomies such as “Love/Love no-” and “Create/Create no-” are desensitized.

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a·byss n.
1. An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void: “lost in the vast abysses of space and time” (Loren Eiseley).
2.
a. The primeval chaos out of which it was believed that the earth and sky were formed.
b. The abode of evil spirits; hell.
— http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=abyss

Abyss: The great gulf or void that constitutes a solution de continuité between the phenomenal world of manifestation and its noumenal source, i.e., non-manifestation.
— Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden