Southern Arizona, 1954: At the seventeenth-century Spanish Mission Church of Tumacacori, where Ron unearthed the sandstone cast of a unique “sunburst” cross from which he modeled the first Scientology cross
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The Birth of Dianetics & Scientology
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A first broad announcement of the Scientology religion from late 1954
The Scientology cross, with four short points between four long points to represent the eight dynamics of existence
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L. Ron Hubbard
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