November 7, 1996
Andrew H. Wilson, Esquire
Wilson, Ryan & Campilongo
115 Sansome Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94104
Dear Mr. Wilson:
In answer to your communication of October 23, 1996, God moves His people.
Recently there was the message that a court of man's laws had ordered San Francisco
to forsake its cross on its hill as all too Christian. More recently I learned
that Los Angeles was selling a street name altogether too Scientological. I could
do aught else but ask the city to consider its actions.
L. Ron Hubbard "joked" that he was the antichrist, and his organization
to this day has not repudiated his antichristian blasphemy. He didn't teach wisdom,
and his knowledge became but stupidity. God would save all, Scientologist and
Nonscientologist alike, from foolishness. Wouldn't you, if you were me, reach
out and ask the LA City Council to stop and think, for wisdom's sake?
This is not to leave unacknowledged that L. Ron Hubbard was a writer, a philosopher
and a child of God, and he drove a car, for goodness sake, just like me. I am
grateful that God sent us to each other. But wisdom would not have me threaten
you with legal action for asking a city council to consider the meaning of renaming
one of its streets Gerry Armstrong Rue. Do reconsider what you really want, and
also ask David Miscavige to please respond to the letters I've sent him.
Years ago on a number of occasions, when I had the chance and thought about
it, once in a while I had the good sense to ask for wisdom. After a time I was
smart enough to understand what I had been asking for. Apparently not everyone,
and possibly not even most people, ask for it, or even know that it's available.
Asking for it, or having it, does not make one special. Jesus Christ is special
because He is wisdom.
In the Scientology organization it was a crime to seek wisdom, and people who
did seek it were isolated and dealt with as if they were "psychotic."
But God limits everyone's stupidity, and even after all that time in Scientology
I heard again of wisdom and then learned joyfully that it is available and free.
It is neither an extraordinary nor damning fact that I have been stupid and
wasted many of wisdom's golden opportunities. Nevertheless, it would be foolish
of any court, I still believe, to actually order me to be stupid. I have been
acting for years
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November 7, 1996
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with judicious responses to legalistic charges in the faith that our judges
will be brought to embrace wisdom. At God's pleasure they sit in His seat to speak
His words. If I had not wanted wisdom, I might not have known from stupidity and
remained a fool. Knowing wisdom in the age of stupidity is the blessing and message
of prophets.
I have conveyed to everyone- the LA City Council, the Mayor, the courts, David
Miscavige and you included - as I have been called, and as a prophet would I should
think in this brief period on the edge of the Age of Wisdom, the words as I listen
to them. Some of that wisdom concerns Scientology, and it could have been no other
way, for God has not cut off the Scientologists' remnant, but yet sends them His
eternal message.
Your leaders have not seen wisdom in my words, and will not. Those who depend
on the sale and success of stupidity have only for now an easy market. The sun
shines and rain falls on all and stupidity makes life needlessly threatening for
the stupid and wise alike. Wisdom's Source, of course, is not threatened.
He sends His messengers where it appears wisdom has been vanquished, for stupidity
is the more dangerous of human conditions, and His children call to Him when in
danger.
He saves His children from the perils of stupidity if they but look to Him.
It is not God's Will that anyone stumble on wisdom, but that its Source be known,
for wisdom is above all else from Him. We are on its very threshold, and still
in plenty of time. We know to pray, for that we are to do without ceasing.
I have I imagine not said why my letter to the LA City Council does not violate
Judge Thomas's order as you imagine I should, but I imagine as well that you already
know why. Rather than extend stupidity then I have said something of wisdom, which,
I know you will agree, is a far better thing.
Yours patiently,
Gerry Armstrong
715 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415)456-8450
cc: Graham E. Berry, Esquire (w/enclosures)
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