Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

There were so many policies you could always find one to beat someone over the head.
On Boxing Day 66 I was made director of income for Saint Hill. Our statistics did very well, income
was increasing steadily. I think it was £8-10,000 a week. We never had any proper bookkeeping,
never any profit or loss statement. Money was banked and LRH kept his finger on the money in the
bank accounts. He had weekly statistics and reports of gross income and bills paid. He kept track
of all the money, in and out. I was on that for 3 months when he made another shake-up on his
lines and in March '67 I was back on LRH Comm Saint Hill.
Within a few days of return from Rhodesia he came into the qualifications division, spotted me,
walked over and shook my hand warmly and was very, very pleasant. That was not usual. He talked
to other people, including the qualifications secretary who was suffering from cancer and told her
there was nothing she should worry about because there was nothing that could be done and not
to expect miracles.
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I thought he had superhuman qualities although a lot happened that made me realise he was
human. When I was his household officer I pointed out to him that people working at the manor left
the back door open. As you come in the back door, close by was a staircase leading to the
children's quarters. I was on the top floor and he was right at the front of the house. I was worried
about it because the back door was open through the night and I told him I didn't think it was a good
idea. He was very upset about it and told no of other people it was not nice I should have such a
thought. because I put out the idea that the children would get harmed - it was a negative thought
saying a bad thing might happen. because I had postulated such a thing once, it could be said you
were likely to make it happen. About a week later he was talking about the back door and said it
should be locked, because the children were so close. He was giving me back my origination as if
it was his. It showed me he had a human side as well. Another time I had worked on holiday, Mary
Sue told me to put in for extra wages but somehow I had got paid for a day extra which I forgot about
and the next time the subject came up when I had to work another day off Mary Sue told me to put in
for extra wages and so I told her I owed her a day's work. He gave me a sharp look and said thank
you for getting off the withhold - Scientology for making a clean breast of things.
Scientology-speak was used all the time.
He was extremely critical of other people behind their backs. Most of us thought he was very
unusual, a very great person working on a way to really help the world, and that excused him a
tremendous amount.
Rhodesia. He inferred that the problem was he knew what to do about blacks in Rhodesia and they
trusted him and he became very popular with them and the Government kicked him out because of
that, they could not tolerate that. I also heard him say to Mary Sue that in Rhodesia he lost £200,000
through his lost investment.
THE SEA ORG. My first recollection was some activity to train people in seamanship. Some went
down to the lake in little rubber dinghies and rowed about. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. He
was in Spain while this was going on - in '67, after he got back from Rhodesia.
Early in 1965 he spent about 3 months in Spain. Early in 1966 he went to Rhodesia. Early in 1967
he was in Spain. Mary Sue stayed at Saint Hill - this was by March '67.