Questionable Roots of Scientology

I chose the word "questionable" to be in the thread title for a reason. It's because I am not making any certain pronouncements. I actually do not know with any one hundred percent certainty the true foundation for Scientology, or of any other influence on it. I have just seen enough information to have questions. I'd love for this to be a dynamic, debate filled, informational sharing thread. We'll see....

The first thing I've got is a mid to late 19th century gentleman named Stephen Pearl Andrews and a book that he wrote:



Quotes from the book:

Scientology is therefore Universology developed in the spirit of the Exact Sciences, and is wholly new in kind. It is the Core or Centre and the most distinctive Department of Universology… (page 37)


Scientology will re-assert and vindicate… Spiritualistic Realities and Tendencies…
(page 146)


It will be the supreme triumph of Scientology, the Exact Branch of this new Universal Science, to exhibit in Diagram, and by illustrative object-teaching, all the Root-thoughts of which the Human Mind is capable… (page 165)

Questionable Roots of Scientology