Blog: Scientology's Power Doctrine - 2014-01-23
Scientology's Power Doctrine January 23, 2014,
From Chapter 12, Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior:
The seventh lesson was explained and memorialized by L. Ron Hubbard in a thirteen-page policy letter entitled "The Responsibilities of Leaders." It begins with a several-page essay summarizing the rise and fall of nineteenth-century South American liberator Simon Bolivar. Hubbard speaks of Bolivar in glowing terms: brave, dashing, and cunning. He recounts how one of Bolivar's many mistresses, Manuela Saenz, stood above all the rest. Hubbard then analyzes Bolivar's failure to empower Saenz to use any means she deemed necessary to keep his enemies at bay, and how Saenz failed to demand or utilize such power. That, per Hubbard, was the reason that Bolivar and Saenz wound up dying in a ditch, penniless.
Among other things, Hubbard criticizes Saenz for the following faults: