What was the real reason L. Ron Hubbard decided to found a religion?

In 1954, L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

"Scientology has accomplished the goal of religion expressed in all man's written history: the freeing of the soul by wisdom.

"It is a far more intellectual religion than that known to the West as late as 1950.

"If we, without therapy, simply taught our truths, we would bring civilization to a barbaric West."

Under the leadership of David Miscavige, Scientologists are working to accomplish this before it's too late to reverse the dangerous trends in our various countries.

^{"You may have been taught that the mind is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life."—L. Ron Hubbard}