ARE YE WILLING TO BECOME PHILOSOPHICALLY ILLUMINIZED?
KNOW YE THIS O MAN OF FAITH!
I - There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess. There is
no Erisian Movement but The Erisian Movement and it is
The Erisian Movement. And every Golden Apple Corps is the beloved home
of a Golden Worm.
II - A Discordian Shall Always use the Official Discordian Document Numbering System.
III - A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off
Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this
Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the
Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of
Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of
Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog
Buns).
IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the
Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The
Original Snub.
V - A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
IT IS SO WRITTEN! SO BE IT. HAIL DISCORDIA! PROSECUTORS WILL BE TRANSGRESSICUTED.
To: Jehova Yahweh
Care: Celestial Hotel (Suite #666)
Presidential Tier, Paradise
Dear God;
This is to inform you that your current position as
deity is herewith terminated due to gross incompetence STOP Your check
will be
mailed STOP Please do not use me for a reference
Respectfully,
Malaclypse the Younger/Omnibenevolent Polyfather
POEE High Priest
10. The Earth quakes and the heavens rattle; the beasts
of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes
usher up
heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts;
and then on other days it just rains. 11. Indeed do many things come to
pass.
HBT; The Book of Predictions, Chap. 19
IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO HOLD FIRM BELIEFS.
An Erisian Hymn
Onwards Christian Soldiers,
Onwards Buddhist Priests.
Onward, Fruits of Islam,
Fight till you're deceased.
Fight your little battles.
Join in thickest fray;
For the Greater Glory,
of Dis-cord-i-a.
Yah, yah, yah,
Yah, yah, yah, yah.
Blfffffffffffft!
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The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN
IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES
OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE
TO 5.
The Law of Fives is never wrong.
There are no rules anywhere. The Goddess Prevails.
THE DISCORDIAN SOCIETY
The Discordian Society has no definition.
We are a tribe of philosophers, theologians, magicians,
scientists, artists, clowns, and similar maniacs
who are intrigued with ERIS GODDESS OF CONFUSION and
with Her Doings.
1. HUNG MUNG
A Sage of Ancient China and
Official Discordian Missionary to the Heathen Chinese. He who originally
devised THE SACRED
CHAO. Patron of the Season of
Chaos. Holyday: Jan 5.
2. DR. VAN VAN MOJO
A Head Doctor of Deep Africa
and Maker of Fine Dolls. D.H.V., Doctor of Hoodoo and Vexes, from The Greater
Metropolitan Yorba Linda Jesus
Will Save Your Bod Home Study Bible School; and F.I.H.G.W.P., Fellow of
the Intergalactic
Haitian Guerrillas for World
Peace. Patron of The Season of Discord. Holyday: Mar 19.
NOTE:
Erisians of The Laughing Christ sect are of the silly contention that Dr.
Mojo is an imposter and that PATAMUNZO
LINGANANDA is the True Second Apostle. Lord Omar claims that Dr. Mojo heaps
hatred upon Patamunzo, who
sends only Love Vibrations in return. But we of the POEE sect know that
Patamunzo is the Real Imposter, and that those
vibrations of his are actually an attempt to subvert Dr. Mojo's rightful
apostilic authority by shaking him out of his wits.
3. SRI SYADASTI SYADAVAKTAVYA SYADASTI SYANNASTI SYADASTI
CAVAKTAVYASCA SYADASTI
SYANNASTI SYADAVATAVYASCA SYADASTI SYANNASTI SYADAVAKTAVYASCA
Commonly called just SRI SYADASTI.
His name is Sanskrit, and means: All affirmations are true in some sense,
false in some
sense, meaningless in some sense,
true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false
and meaningless in
some sense, and true and false
and meaningless in some sense. He is an Indian Pundit and Prince, born
of the Peyotl Tribe, son
of Gentle Chief Sun Flower Seed
and the squaw Merry Jane. Patron to psychedelic type Discordians.
Patron of the Season of Confusion.
Holyday: May 31. NOTE: Sri Syadasti should not be confused with Blessed
St. Gulik the
Stoned, who is not the same
person but is the same Apostle.
4. ZARATHUD THE INCORRIGIBLE, sometimes called
ZARATHUD THE STAUNCH
A hard nosed Hermit of Medieval
Europe and Chaosphe Bible Banger. Dubbed "Offender of The Faith." Discovered
the Five
Commandments. Patron of the
Season of Bureaucracy. Holyday: Aug. 12
5. THE ELDER MALACLYPSE
A wandering Wiseman of Ancient
Mediterrania ("Med-Terra" or middle earth), who followed a 5-pointed Star
through the
alleys of Rome, Damascus, Baghdad,
Jerusalem, Mecca and Cairo, bearing a sign that seemed to read "DOOM".
(This is a
misunderstanding. The sign actually
read "DUMB". Mal-1 is a Non-Prophet.) Patron and namesake of Mal-2. Patron
of The
Season of The Aftermath. Holyday:
Oct 24.
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless
in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and
meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and
true and false and meaningless in some sense. A public service
clarification by the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual Wisdom, Wilmette.
GREYFACE
In the year 1166 B.C., a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface,
got it into his head that the universe was as humorless as
he, and he began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted
the ways of Serious Order. "Look at all the order around you,"
he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality
was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had
known it.
It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that particular
time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the disorder
around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and
his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously
than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living
beings whose ways of life differed from their own.
The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering
from a psychological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes
frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes for a bad
trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.
It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.
"And, behold, thusly was the Law formulated: Imposition
of Order = escalation of Disorder!"
[H.B.T. ; The Gospel According to Fred, 1:6]
Seasons
1.Chaos - Patron Apostle Hung Mung
2.Discord - Patron Apostle Dr. Van Van Mojo
3.Confusion - Patron Apostle Sri Syadasti
4.Bureaucracy - Patron Apostle Zarathud
5.The Aftermath - Patron Apostle The Elder Malaclypse
SACRED DOCUMENT OF THE FROGS (old erisian poem):
73 days hath Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and Aftermath
= ZARATHUD'S ENLIGHTENMENT =
Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great
delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his
followers.
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he
confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly
grazing.
"Tell me, you dumb beast." demanded the Priest in his commanding voice,
"why don't you do something worthwhile. What is your
Purpose in Life, anyway?"
Munching the tasty grass, The Sacred Chao replied "MU".*
Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened. Primarily because nobody could understand Chinese.
* "MU" is the Chinese ideogram for NO-THING
TAO FA TSU-DAN
FIND PEACE WITH A CONTENTED CHAO
Magicians, especially since the Gnostic and the Quabala influences,
have sought higher consciousness through assimilation and control
of universal opposites-- good/evil, positive/negative, male/female,
etc. But due to the steadfast pomposity of ritualism inherited from
the ancient methods of the shaman, occultists have been blinded to
what is perhaps the two most important pairs of apparent or
earth-plane opposites: ORDER/DISORDER and SERIOUS/HUMOROUS.
Magicians, and progeny the scientists, have always taken themselves
and their subject in an orderly and sober manner, thereby
disregarding an essential metaphysical balance. When magicians learn
to approach philosophy as a malleable art instead of an
immutable Truth, and learn to appreciate the absurdity of man's endeavours,
then they will be able to pursue their art with a lighter
heart, and perhaps gain a clearer understanding of it, and therefore
gain more effective magic. CHAOS IS ENERGY.
This is an essential challenge to the basic concepts of all western
occult thought, and POEE is humbly pleased to offer the first
breakthrough in occultism since Solomon.
To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept
a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to
choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed
of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only
accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order,
and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to
destructive disorder.
The Curse of Greyface included the division of life into order/disorder
as the essential positive/negative polarity, instead of building a
game foundation with creative/destructive as the essential positive/negative.
He has thereby caused man to endure the destructive
aspects of order and has prevented man from effectively participating
in the creative uses of disorder. Civilization reflects this
unfortunate division.
POEE proclaims that the other division is preferable, and we work toward
the proposition that creative disorder, like creative order, is
possible and desirable; and that destructive order, like destructive
disorder, is unnecessary and undesirable.
Seek the Sacred Chao - therein you will find the foolishness of all
ORDER/DISORDER. They are the same!
THE SACRED CHAO
THE SACRED CHAO is the key to illumination. Devised by the Apostle Hung
Mung in ancient China, it was modified and
popularized by the Taoists and is sometimes called the YIN-YANG. The
Sacred Chao is not the Yin-Yang of the Taoists. It is the
HODGE-PODGE of the Erisians. And, instead of a Podge spot on the Hodge
side, it has a PENTAGON which symbolizes the
ANERISTIC PRINCIPLE, and instead of a Hodge spot on the Podge side,
it depicts the GOLDEN APPLE OF DISCORDIA to
symbolize the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.
The Sacred Chao symbolizes absolutely everything anyone need ever know
about absolutely anything, and more! It even symbolizes
everything not worth knowing, depicted by the empty space surrounding
the Hodge-Podge.
The PODGE of the Sacred Chao is symbolized as The Golden Apple of Discordia,
which represents the Eristic Principle of Disorder.
The writing on it, "KALLISTI" is Greek for "TO THE PRETTIEST ONE" and
refers to an old myth about The Goddess. But the
Greeks had only a limited understanding of Disorder, and thought it
to be a negative principle.
The Pentagon represents the Aneristic Principle of Order and symbolizes
the HODGE. The Pentagon has several references; for one,
it can be taken to represent geometry, one of the earliest studies
of formal order to reach elaborate development;* for another, it
specifically accords with THE LAW OF FIVES.
It is also the shape of the United States Military Headquarters, the
Pentagon Building, a most pregnant manifestation of straightjacket
order resting on a firm foundation of chaos and constantly erupting
into dazzling disorder; and this building is one of our more cherished
Erisian Shrines. Also it so happens that in times of medieval magic,
the pentagon was the generic symbol for werewolves, but this
reference is not particularly intended and it should be noted that
the Erisian Movement does not discriminate against werewolves-- our
membership roster is open to persons of all races, national origins
and hobbies.
If you are not hot for philosophy, best just to skip it.
The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle
is that of APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and
disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE
CHAOS, which is a level deeper that is the level of distinction
making.
With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality through
the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. The
ideas-about- reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened
people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people,
especially other cultures, see "reality" differently. It is only the
ideas-about-reality which differ. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level
deeper that is the level of concept.
We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids
(concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A
culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window
we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and
thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic
Principle.
Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid
with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a
perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say
unenlightened westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we
Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful
than others, some more beautiful than others, some more
pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other.
DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular
grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male,
like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence
of female-ness", or vice versa, is a matter of definition and
metaphysically arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is
the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.
The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong,
is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the
ERISTIC ILLUSION.
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative
to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth,
metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid,
and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears
disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently
ordered and disordered.
Reality is the original Rorschach.
Verily! So much for all that.
Mary Jane says "Plant Your Seeds. Keep Prices Down."
And when men become free then mankind will be free.
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris.
A jug of wine,
A leg of lamb
And thou!
Beside me,
Whistling in
the darkness.
GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness
humorously. Either way it is irrelevant.
GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am
crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
GP: Why do you deal with so many negatives?
M2: To dissolve them.
GP: Will you develop that point?
M2: No.
GP: Is there an essential meaning behind POEE?
M2: There is a Zen Story about a student who asked a Master to explain
the meaning of Buddhism. The Master's reply was "Three
pounds of flax."
GP: Is that the answer to my question?
M2: No, of course not. That is just illustrative. The answer to your
question is FIVE TONS OF FLAX!
Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously.
Either way it is irrelevant.
-Malaclypse the Younger
Almost everything you have just read was ripped off from:
THE PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
or, How I Found the Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her
THE MAGNUM OPIATE OF
MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER
Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing
About Absolutely Anything
To read the bits I left out, and all of this again, click
here
to go to the place where you can read the whole damn thing.
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia.
Bullshit makes the flowers
grow & that's beautiful.
The words of the Foolish and those of the Wise
Are not far apart in Discordian Eyes.
To Diverse Gods
Do Mortals bow;
Holy Cow, and
Wholly Chao
-Rev. Dr. Grindlebone
Monroe Cabal
The enlightened take things lightly.
Under no circumstances may you become a Prophet.
We don't intend to jepordize our nonprophet status.
- Kerry Thornley, Discordian Society Co-founder
Think for yourself, schmuck.
Why act like a fool
when you can really be one?
Wired for weirdness.
Remember: King Kong died for your sins.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Neils Bohr
'TIS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO MINDS.
May we all be illuminated with the flick of a switch.
May we all come to know that God is a Bitch.
Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia.
Death to Fanatics!
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
Face to fact with the mighty forces and elements of nature, the thoughtful
man fearlessly contemplates his place in the great cosmic scheme.
-><- POEE -><-
Warning!
Prolonged use in a darkened room may induce hallucinations or trigger
undesired side effects. Should not be used in the presence of
persons
subject to epilepsy.
Fnord.
THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT GUIDE IN YOUR LIFE!
-THE GODDESS ERIS PREVAILS-