Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center

Keynote Address at the Grand Opening of the Church of Scientology of San Francisco (cont.)

Yet, if those steps are an impressive first response in just two years, let's not forget they are but a first step. Moreover, let's not forget why we work with greater urgency than ever: To halt the societal decline so we yet have time to provide the Bridge that is Dianetics and Scientology, to the full accomplishment of our Aims:

"A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper, and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights." – L. Ron Hubbard

And therein lies the greater significance of our new churches like this one we are forming the world over; because what stands before you is not just a new church, but an entirely new type of Church of Scientology.

While we can provide international support for broad-scale programs, the fact is we must yet bring it on the ground, into every community. To accomplish that, requires the establishment of major footholds, in every city, that not only can provide all the help we offer, but which can themselves generate the same everywhere else.

And while that most definitely applies to every one of our Social Betterment programs, I am also speaking of the Bridge itself. For if we are to bring that ultimate freedom, it can no longer only be represented at Flag or our Sea Org organizations.

Which is to say, for all you have previously looked to our top organizations and what they emanate across the globe, then that is what we are now establishing in crucial locations with those same responsibilities for their geographic zones: Organizations that stand as the Flag Land Base for their part of the world, places like San Francisco as the Central Organization for the entire Bay Area.

While much too extensive to detail right now, I can tell you this: for your progress in the here-and-now within this new church are training and auditing facilities that not only bring Flag-level standards, but could themselves appear in a tech training film.

And, that's just a start. Because, as you will also hear in the coming year, it's all in preparation for even greater programs that roll out from here, in the name of planetary clearing, for real.

But even that hardly says it all. When I began, I stated the importance of your new church extended beyond this city. In that regard and, again, whether you knew it or not, your church was also created as a model for others to follow. And not just in terms of its establishment, but also for the dedication of its field and an inspiration of just how it can be done everywhere.

You no doubt have heard of new churches in recent weeks, and they are coming very fast. To that end, I have recently traveled the globe, over forty thousand miles in the last month, visiting our organizations, east-and-west and in both hemispheres. On the one hand, the problems you find in this city are the same you will find anywhere. After all, no matter their race or culture, Man is Man and everyone embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations we all do.