We take great care in Scientology to know where and when LRH said something. We do this as a way of enforcing our agreement that Ron is Source, and that the Tech should be applied in an unaltered fashion in order to be fully effective.

The fact is that every major religion on this planet has been altered substantially from its original intent. All of them started as unwritten oral traditions which were only later written down. As the centuries marched forward, parts were left out, changed or altered in emphasis. Languages prevalent when the originally events occurred were ultimately lost to history. Even the words and idioms of the original languages often changed so much as to be unrecognizable. Imagine how Shakespeare's English will be treated a thousand or two thousand years from now. The result of all this is that the ideas of each religion have been altered to such an extent that its original practitioners probably wouldn't recognize it today.

Scientology, by contrast, was started only a little more than 50 years ago, and retains more or less the full text of its original ideas as laid down by L. Ron Hubbard. Along with the idea that we don't want this applied religious philosophy altered as others have been, it was discovered by Ron that Scientology did not yield optimum results unless it was applied unaltered. This made exact duplication of its concepts and exact application even more critically important.

As a way of ensuring our application remains true to the Tech LRH developed, we generally try to exactly quote him and include the exact location of the original quote.

Unfortunately, particularly among the less-well-trained, this can lead to the idea that the Tech doesn't belong to us, but to LRH. Nothing could be further from the truth.

LRH always stipulated that wisdom belongs to anyone and everyone.