These basic principles delineate how life works and why and provide an individual with a greater understanding of his real identity as a spiritual being.

Scientology 8-80 is a work concerned with the discovery and increase of the energy of the thetan. A thetan uses energy in the effort to bring order out of the chaos of the MEST universe, as detailed at page 108. When a spiritual being misuses his energy, he can become trapped by his own transgressions and thus become the effect of the material universe. The “8-8” stands for “infinity-infinity” upright, the “0” represents theta, the static.

Scientology 8-8008 first set forth The Factors, which comprise a vision of the beginning of life, the creation of the universe and the role of man in it. This text represents a study in how to free the human spirit from the debilitating effects of matter, energy, space and time, and a full description of the theta-MEST theory, a core Scientology doctrine. Through the procedures described in this book, one fully awakens the near-ultimate capabilities of the spirit.

The Creation of Human Ability sets out important Scientology religious codes as well as the transcripts of a number of sermons given by L. Ron Hubbard which trace the roots of Scientology through the earliest recorded formulations of Eastern wisdom in the Veda, through the Tao, Buddhism, the Judeo-Christian tradition and culminating in the works of Western seekers of truth.

This book also contains some of the fundamental auditing procedures which are used in the ministration of Scientology and which comprise the Scientology route to spiritual freedom.