Mr. David Miscavige stood before Scientologists gathered from around the world for the much-heralded occasion. He announced that what he was about to describe was nothing less than “the recovery of Dianetics and Scientology”—an event that would “change the world of Scientology forever.” Over the next several hours, he recounted the complete story to an audience of thousands gathered in Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall.

Mr. Miscavige first described the five-year, two-million-man-hour research project to ensure the purity of all Scientology Scripture, found in the writings and recorded lectures of L. Ron Hubbard. The task had been to locate the original manuscripts and dictation tapes of Mr. Hubbard’s books—verifying existing texts against those originals, correcting any errors or deviations and returning them to their original unadulterated form. Deviations from the original manuscripts were immediately discovered to be far more extensive than imagined: transcription and punctuation errors of every variety, chapters bound in wrong sequence or even in the middle of another chapter—not to mention the “handiwork” of a publisher who removed paragraph breaks to reduce page count. “Now let’s add the ‘editor,’” Mr. Miscavige explained, “who, instead of now correcting it, decides to add his own ‘clarifying’ footnotes to explain what LRH really meant.”

Mr. Miscavige recounted a notable instance of the project to recover the technology. When the page count of a book did not match up to the number of dictation recordings to hand, researchers again searched through the archives and found three long-ignored wax dictation disks marked “UNK” for “Unknown.” Locating equally long-obsolete replay equipment, they found the recordings were nothing less than two additional chapters of Mr. Hubbard’s 1948 manuscript for Dianetics: The Original Thesis. The dictation also showed that other chapters had been printed in the wrong sequence since first published. The entire manuscript was then corrected and completed. Today it stands as the first and most basic statement on the actual nature and function of the mind and is available for all to read.

In the ensuing years, every word and line in every L. Ron Hubbard book was researched, verified or corrected to ensure absolute purity. The standard set by Mr. Miscavige was perfection, the only standard suitable for the works of Mr. Hubbard.

Following that prodigious editorial undertaking, each book was meticulously designed, typeset, printed and bound to achieve the highest level of readability, comprehension, quality and durability—not to mention sheer aesthetic beauty. Thus came into existence only the pure and perfect Scientology Scriptures as authored by Mr. Hubbard.