A Scientology Sunday Service: Scientology is open to people of any religious belief because it clarifies all spiritual knowledge and offers tools for anyone to attain the certainty of his own immortality and freedom.

More than a system of belief, Scientology is an applied religion. It gives man a religious practice — a technology — to advance to higher states of spiritual ability.

Traditionally, religion has been the civilising force which has sought to enable man to understand himself and his relationship to God. Yet never has religion’s role in society been more sorely tested than it is today.

Changes in society have resulted from advances in technology that, while providing a better quality of life, have done little to enable Man to solve the problems of Man. Science has given us the ability to genetically manipulate life at its earliest stages in the womb, but provided no satisfactory answers to the difficult moral questions posed by theologians opposed to such activities.

At the heart of this dilemma lies an even more fundamental problem — the advance of science has not been matched by commensurate progress in the fields of the humanities. War continues unabated in many parts of the world. Terrorism threatens every nation. More is spent annually on drugs than on food. Millions across the world are functionally illiterate.

It is not easy to live with purpose, dignity and happiness in a world so engrossed in materialism and so utterly blind to man’s spiritual needs. Half an hour’s walk through any urban landscape would convince virtually anyone that life could be a happier proposition.

If man had a real grasp of the factors which governed his existence, if he had a greater understanding of himself and his fellows, he would be able to improve conditions and thus live a happier life. This, then, is the function of the Scientology religion: to enable man to improve his lot through understanding.

Scientology does this by providing workable methods of application which make it possible for man to reach the ancient goal he has been striving toward for thousands of years: to know himself and, in knowing himself, to know and understand other people and, ultimately, all life.

Scientology holds in common many of the beliefs of other religions and philosophies, and considers man to be a spiritual being, with more to him than flesh and blood. Scientology addresses man directly, as a spirit, with the goal of increased awareness and ability as a spiritual being and the full realisation of his immortal nature.

Scientology is open to people of any religious belief because it clarifies all spiritual knowledge and offers tools for anyone to attain the certainty of his own immortality and freedom. And it can achieve this in the here and now.

At the heart of Scientology lie axioms that precisely define the fundamental laws and truths of life, including who we are, what we are capable of and, most importantly, how we might realise our native spiritual abilities. These axioms form the foundation of a vast body of wisdom that applies to the entirety of all life, and enables one to solve his own problems.