Ecclesiastical Structure:
Individual Churches and their Congregations

Advanced Organizations

These Churches of Scientology that minister higher levels of training and auditing are called Saint Hills (for training) and Advanced Organizations (for auditing) and are located in centralized areas.

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Scientologists travel to them when they have reached this particular level of The Bridge and typically spend an extended period of time at the church while receiving these Scientology religious services on an intensive basis. Once these individuals complete the particular level of training or auditing, they return home and continue to participate with their local Church of Scientology.

The ministry of the advanced services of Scientology requires a far higher level of training for Church staff members. As more of these are trained and as the religion grows and more parishioners move up the levels, more advanced level organizations will be created to make these services easily accessible.

The Saint Hills are the religious colleges of Scientology. The most comprehensive auditor training course in all of Scientology is called the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. It derives its name from the original course personally ministered by Mr. Hubbard from 1961 to 1966 at his home, Saint Hill Manor, in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. This course consists of a chronological study of all of Mr. Hubbard's researches and writings on Dianetics and Scientology. It includes more than 25 books and over 12,000 pages of text contained in his Technical Bulletins which detail the exact procedures and processes used in auditing.

Additionally, Mr. Hubbard delivered more than 475 lectures to the students of the original Briefing Course. Each lecture was one to two hours long and all were recorded at the time. Today, these lectures have been reproduced on cassette tape and are listened to by students on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. The volume of materials is such that students minimally require a full year of study at 40 hours a week to attain certification. The result is a graduate who has a full philosophic command of Scientology.

While the Church still offers the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course in its original location in England, additional organizations have since been formed to minister this religious service to parishioners in different parts of the world, such as Los Angeles (for American parishioners), Sydney (for parishioners of Australia and New Zealand) and Copenhagen (for parishioners of the European Continent and Africa with multi-lingual needs).

Advanced Organizations minister the advanced levels of auditing in which one attains new heights of spiritual freedom. As with every level of Scientology, one may advance to a new level only once he or she has completed the previous level, and the same is true of these advanced levels of auditing. Very highly trained ministers minister these services, and the materials of such levels are only made available to those Scientologists who have progressed up The Bridge to the point where they can achieve the gains offered at this stage of their spiritual advancement.

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