Galactic Confederacy
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The Galactic Confederacy's history is not revealed to Scientologists until they reach the level of OT III. Once achieving this level, one is informed that Xenu's Galactic Confederacy ruled a broad swath of the galaxy, and lasted for "eighty trillion years". ("The ITSA Line") 75 million years ago, at the time of Xenu's mass murder, the Galactic Confederacy comprised 26 stars and 76 planets, including Earth (then called Teegeeack).
As Hubbard tells it, Earth's inhabitants "were walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute. And the cars they drove looked exactly the same and the trains they ran looked the same and the boats they had looked the same. Circa 1950, 1960." ("Assists") Modern civilization closely resembles that of the Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago because of an unconscious re-enactment of Xenu's "R6 implants".
The Church of Scientology consciously models itself on aspects of the Galactic Confederacy. The Sea Org, an elite grouping within the Church of Scientology, has a laurel wreath logo said by Hubbard to be based on the symbol of the "Loyal Officers", an anti-Xenu faction within the Galactic Confederacy. Each of the leaves on the laurel wreath is said to represent one of the Galactic Confederacy's stars. According to the Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary, "the Sea Org symbol, adopted and used as the symbol of a Galactic Confederacy far back in the history of this sector, derives much of its power and authority from that association."
The Church of Scientology's own organizational structure is said to be based on that of the Galactic Confederacy: the Church's "org board" is "a refined board of an old galactic civilization. We applied Scientology to it and found why it eventually failed. It lacked a couple of departments and that was enough to mess it all up. They lasted 80 trillion [years]." ("Org Board and Livingness")
After the Xenu/Galactic Confederacy story became fully revealed to the public in a court document called the Fishman Affidavit, the Church has sought to keep the information suppressed by claiming any mention of it to be a violation of their copyrighted trade secret.
In the ensuing controversy, the Church has objected to Scientology being painted as a science fiction fantasy [link]. However, Hubbard claimed that the modern-day science fiction genre of space opera is actually our vestigial memories of true past-life events, such as Xenu's mass murder, that allegedly happened millions of years ago. Space opera is defined in the Official Scientology and Dianetics Glossary as:
"of or relating to time periods … millions of years ago which concerned activities in this and other galaxies. Space opera has space travel, spaceships, spacemen, intergalactic travel, wars, conflicts, other beings, civilizations and societies, and other planets and galaxies. It is not fiction and concerns actual incidents and things that occurred on the [whole] track. [in the past] ([Official Scientology and Dianetics Glossary])
External links
- [OT III Released] (Church of Scientology)
- [OT III original scans] (with [legality statement])
- [OT III Scholarship Page] (David S. Touretzky; includes page scans, commentary, audio files)
- [Revolt In The Stars summary] (Grady Ward)
- [Xenu Leaflet] (Roland Rashleigh-Berry)
- [The Fishman Affidavit: OT III] (extracts and synopsis by Karin Spaink)
- [A Scientific scrutiny of OT III] (Peter Forde, June 1996)
- [The Story of OTIII]: A RealPlayer animation that takes a humorous yet accurate look at the Xenu doctrine. From the BBC Panorama documentary "The Road to Total Freedom?"
- [Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology]
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