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(this transcript is made from photocopies of the original Certificate of Incorporation)





ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
                    That we, the undersigned citizens and residents of the State of California, have this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to Part One of Division Two of Title One of the Corporations Code of the State of California.
                    AND WE HEREBY CERTIFY:
                                                         FIRST
                    That the name of the corporation shall be
                                             CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
                                                       SECOND
                    That the specific and primary purposes for which this corporation is formed are:
                    (a)  To accept and adopt the aims purposes, principles and creed of The Mother Church, “THE CHURCH OF AMERICAN SCIENCE,” of Camden, New Jersey with the powers objectives and duties as herein defined and consecrated.
                    (b)  To train and indoctrinate ministers and brothers and sisters in the principles and teachings of the Church of American Science.
                    (c)  To prepare them and ordain them to carry forward the work of the Church of American Science, and to conduct churches and minister to and conduct congregations.
                    (d)  To resolve the travail and difficulties of members of congregations, as they may appertain to the spirit.
                    (e)  To instruct in spiritual healing acts and other matters within the Creed of the Church of American Science.
                    (f)   To conduct seminaries and instruction groups.
                    (g)  To create congregations and have other powers similar to those of the Church of American Science.
                    (h)  The propagation of the religious faith known as SCIENTOLOGY. Believing that Man's best evidence of God is the God he finds within himself, and trusting with Enduring Faith that The Author of this Universe intended Life to thrive within it, the Church of Scientology is formed to espouse such evidence of the Supreme Being and Spirit as may be knowable to Man and by their use the Church of Scientology hopes to bring a greater tranquility to the State and better order and survival to Man upon this planet.
                    (i)  The Church of American Science exists upon the following creed which is adopted as the creed of the Church of Scientology of California, with the additional tenets provided for in number 5 and 6 below:
                   1.  That God works within Man his wonders to perform.
  2.  That Man is his own soul, basically free and immortal, but deluded by the flesh.
  3.  That Man has a God-given right to his own life.
  4.  That Man has a God-given right to his own reason.
  5.  That Man has a God-given right to his own beliefs.
  6.  That Man has a God-given right to his own mode of thought and/or thinking.
  7.  That Man has a God-given right to free and open communication.
  8.  That the human spirit is the only truly effective therapeutic agent available to Man.
  9.  That a civilization can endure only so long as both spiritual and material needs find place within its structure.
  10.  That a civilization is lost when God and the Spirit are forgotten by its leaders and its peoples.
  11.  That Man and the Nations of Man carry with them their own Salvation and that teachings exist sufficient to effect it.
  12.  The Church of Scientology exists to assist the strong and the weak, to suppress the wrongdoer and to champion the right and Godly. Its mission is to carry to Man, revelations and teachings and practices of the present and the ages past and to assist him, his family and communities to live in greater peace and harmony.
  13.  To practice the teachings and beliefs and propagate in accordance with its tenets the healing of the sick and suffering by prayer or other mental and/or spiritual means without the use of drugs or material remedy.
  14.  The Holy Book of the Church of American Science consists of a collection of the works of and about the Great Teachers, including the work, St. Luke.
  15.  The Saints of the Church of American Science are the messiahs and religions philosophers.
  16.  The specific teachings of the Church of American Science concerns its Holy Book and those contributions on the Mind and Spirit made in more recent times as a result of scientific investigations concerning the human spirit and the physical universe.
                    (j)  To charter, support, organize, establish, cooperate with, affiliate with, other organizations of a like or similar nature.
                    (k)  This corporation is organized for the religious, charitable, social, fraternal, scientific, educational, research, welfare, and protective purposes of the corporation, its membership, its churches, its affiliates, the public whom the Church of Scientology may serve, and its activities.
                    (l)  No part of any gains, profits, or dividends shall be distributed to any member or members hereof.
                    (m) That the authorized member and qualifications of members of this corporation, the different classes of membership, the property, voting and other rights and privileges of each class of membership and the liability of each and/or all classes of members as to dues and the method of collection thereof shall be set forth in the by-laws of the corporation which shall not, however, provide for the issuance of more than one membership to one member. No director or member of the corporation shall be personally liable for the debts, liabilities, or obligations of the corporation.
                    (n)  In furtherance of, and not in limitation of the general powers conferred by the laws of the State of California and the objects and purposes herein set forth it is expressly provided that this corporation shall also have the following powers, viz.:
                        Acting through its trustees, its president, its secretary, affiliates, agents or employees, subject to the powers and restrictions of this certificate of incorporation and its by-laws, this corporation is empowered to do all and only such acts as are necessary or convenient to the attainment of the objects, aims and purposes herein set forth, and to the same extent, and as fully as any natural and/or spiritual person might or could do.
                    (o)  To apply for, hold, and dispose of copyrights, patents and trademarks.
                    (p)  To print and publish articles, books, lessons periodicals, radio and/or television script or other media for the purpose of dissemination of the religions faith, Scientology, to the membership and/or the public.
                    (q)  To acquire by purchase, deed, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise hold or manage, operate, to improve, sell, lease and deal in or with real and personal property of any sort or character, or wherever situated, as may be necessary for the business and objects, aims and purposes or the corporation, and to transact all business relative thereto.
                    (r)  To enter into, make, perform, or to carry out contracts of any kind with any firm, person, persons, partnership, corporation, church or association; to do any and all acts necessary or expedient for carrying out any or all of the objects, aims or purposes of this corporation not forbidden by the certificate of incorporation or in its by-laws or the laws of the State of California.
                    (s)  To act as trustees under any trust incidental to the principle objects of the corporation and to receive, hold and administer and expend funds and property subject to such trusts as may be confided to the corporation.
                    (t)  To have offices and to promote and carry on its aims, objects and purposes within and without the State of California, in other States, the District of Colombia, the Territories and Colonies of the United States and all Foreign Countries.
                    (u)  To do and perform all other acts or things necessary or incidental to any of the objects, aims or purposes herein set forth.
                    (v)  This corporation is not the outgrowth of, the successor to, or the continuation of an unincorporated predecessor.
                    (w) The life of the corporation shall be perpetual.
                                                         THIRD
                    That the County in this State where the principal office for the transaction of the business of the corporation is to be located in the County of Los Angeles.
                                                        FOURTH
                    That the number of shares that may be issued by the corporation is NO SHARES, and it is a non-profit religious, charitable, social, fraternal, educational, welfare, protective, research, membership corporation.
                                                         FIFTH
                    That the number of the Trustees of the said corporation shall be three (3) as provided in the by-laws, and that the names and residence of the Trustees who are appointed to act until the election and qualification of their successors follows:

      NAME       RESIDENCE
Dow F. Ayres 1117 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 19, Calif.
E’Lois M. Farber 109 East Dryden St., Glendale 7, Calif.
J. Burton Farber 109 East Dryden St., Glendale 7, Calif.

                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, for the purpose of forming this corporation under the laws of the State of California, we, the undersigned, constituting the incorporators of this corporation, including the persons named hereinabove as the first Trustees of this corporation have executed these Articles of Incorporation this 4th day of February 1954.

 

 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )  
    ss
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )  

                    On this 4th day of February 1954, before me, the undersigned Notary in and for said County and State, residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Dow F. Ayres, E’Lois M Farber, J. Burton Farber known to me the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same.
                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in said County, the day and year in this certificate first above written.

 


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