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| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing |
| Moderator: | JARETH::PAINTER |
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| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 27 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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1173.0. "Wanna' be your own Episkopope?" by CSC32::MORGAN (Reality is the ultimate Rorschach.) Mon Nov 20 1989 16:43
Message #2339 "Cult_watch"
Date: 18-Nov-89 08:48
From: Quid Me Vexabum
To: All
Subj: DISCORDIA
(Eris = Goddess of Confusion; slightly adapted from Greek
mythology.)
(For the complete book, write to: Loompanics Unlimited, PO Box
1197, Port Townsend, WA 98368 - unsolicited advertisement.)
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
(excerpts) ALL RITES REVERSED (K) REPRINT WHAT YOU LIKE
Dedicated to the Prettiest One
POEE
is one manifestation of
the DISCORDIAN SOCIETY
about which
you will learn more and understand less
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
"There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The
opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a
great truth is also true" --Neils Bohr.
ON PRAYER:
Mal-2 was once asked by one of his Disciples if he often prayed
to Eris. He replied with these words: No, we Erisians seldom
pray, it is much too dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many
factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a
drought, and then praying fervently -- and then getting the
entire village wiped out in a torrential flood.
THE LAW OF FIVES:
The Law of Fives is one of the oldest Erisian Mysterees. It was
first revealed to Good Lord Omar and is one of the great
contributions to come from the Hidden Temple of the Happy Jesus.
POEE subscribes to the Law of Fives of Omar's sect. And POEE
also recognizes the holy 23 (2+3=5) that is incorporated by
Episkopos Dr. Mordecai Malignatius, KNS, into his Discordian
sect, the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria. The Law of Fives
states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE
BY OR MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
APPROPRIATE TO FIVE. The Law of Fives is never wrong. In the
Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the
Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
POEE (Pronounced "POEE") is an acronym for the
PARATHEO-ANAMETAMYSTIKHOOD OF ERIS ESOTERIC. The first part can
be taken to mean "equivalent deity, reversing beyond-mystique".
We are not really esoteric, it's just that nobody pays much
attention to us.
MY HIGH REVERENCE MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER, AB, DD, KSC, is the
High Priest of POEE, and POEE is grounded his episkopotic
revelations of The Goddess.
The POEE HEAD TEMPLE is the Joshua Norton Cabal of The Discordian
Society, which is located in Mal-2's pineal gland and can be
found by temporaly and spatially locating the rest of Mal-2.
POEE has no treasury, no by-laws, no articles, no guides save
Mal-2's pineal gland, and has only one scruple -- which Mal-2
keeps on his key chain.
POEE has not registered, incorporated, or otherwise chartered
with the State, and so the State does not recognize POEE or POEE
Ordinations, which is only fair, because POEE does not recognise
the State.
ORDINATION AS A POEE PRIEST:
There are no particular qualifications for Ordination because if
you want to be a POEE Priest then you must undoubtably qualify.
Who could possibly know better than you whether or not you should
be Ordained?
NO TWO EQUALS ARE THE SAME
THE DISCORDIAN SOCIETY
The Discordian Society has no definition.
I sometimes think of it as a disorganization of Eris Freaks. It
has been called a guerilla mind theatre. Episkopos Randomfactor,
Director of Purges of Our People's Underworld Movement sect in
Larchmont. prefers "The World's Greatest Association of
What-ever-it-is-that-we-are." Lady Mal thinks of it as a
RENAISSANCE THINK TANK. Fang the Unwashed, WKC, won't say. You
can think of it any way you like.
An EPISKOPOS OF THE DISCORDIAN SOCIETY is one who prefers total
autonomy, and creates his own Discordian sect as The Goddess
directs him. He speaks for himself and for those that say they
like what he says.
The LEGION OF DYNAMIC DISCORD: A Discordian Society Legionnaire
is one who prefers not to create his own sect.
If you want in on the Discordian Society
then declare yourself what you wish
do what you like
and tell us about it
or
if you prefer
don't.
There are no rules anywhere.
The Goddess Prevails.
The Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusively for them
that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is
reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that
they'll go there if they don't. -- HBT; The Gospel According to
Fred, 3:1
CONVENTIONAL CHAOS
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
that order about 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 a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long
time now.
It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.
HERE FOLLOWS SOME PSYCHO-METAPHYSICS.
If you are not hot for philosophy, best just skip it.
The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Erisitic
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 than 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 than is the level of concept.
We look through 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 ultimate Rorschach.
THE LAST WORD
The foregoing document was revealed to Mal-2 by the Goddess
Herself through many consultations with Her within his Pineal
Gland. It is guaranteed to be the Word of Goddess. However, it
is only fair to state that Goddess doesn't always say the same
thing to each listener, and that other Episkoposes are sometimes
told quite different things in their Revelations, which are also
the Word of Goddess. Consequently, if you prefer a Discordian
Sect other than POEE, then none of these Truths are binding, and
it is a rotten shame that you have read all the way down to the
very last word.
******************************************************
(This has been a public service presentation dated 4-87, from
the Bebe L'Strange Cabal, which may have undergone a name change
by the time you read this. This stuff has been hanging around
longer than CIS has, and there is no copyright applicable to you,
me, or CIS)
--- TBBS v2.1/NM
* Origin: Sound Doctrine BBS (303)680-7209 Aurora CO (7703/4)
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found on pp. 00044-00045 of _Principia_Discordia_:
DOGMA I - Metaphysics #2, "_Cosmology_"*
_The_Book_of_Uterus_
from The Honest Book of Truth
revealed to Lord Omar
I
1. Before the beginning was the Nonexistent Chao, balanced in Oblivion
by the Perfect Counterpushpull of the Hodge and the Podge.
2. Whereupon, by an Act of Happenstance, the Hodge began gradually to
overpower the Podge--and the Primal Chaos thereby came to be.
3. So in the beginning was the Primal Chaos, balanced on the Edge of
Oblivion by the Perfect Counterpullpush of the Podge and the Hodge.
4. Whereupon, by the law of Negative Reversal,** the Podge swiftly
underpowered the Hodge and Everything broke loose.
5. And therein emerged the Active Force of Discord, the Subtle
Manifestation of the Nonexistent Chao, to guide Everything along the
Path back to Oblivion - that it might not become lost among Precepts
of Order in the Region of Thud.
6. Forasmuch as it was Active, the Force of Discord entered the State
of Confusion, wherein It copulated with the Queen and begat ERIS, Our
Lady of Discord and Gross Manifestation of the Nonexistent Chao.
7. And under Eris Confusion became established, and was hence called
Bureaucracy; while over Bureaucracy Eris became established, and was
hence called Discordia.
8. By the by it came to pass that the Establishment of Bureaucracy
perished in a paper shortage.
9. Thus it was, in accord with the Law of Laws.
10. During and after the Fall of the Establishment of Bureaucracy was
the Aftermath, and Age of Disorder in which calculation, computations,
and reckonings were put away by the Children of Eris in Acceptance and
Preparation for Return to Oblivion to be followed by a Repetition of
the Universal Absurdity. Moreover, of Itself the coming of Aftermath
waseth a Resurrection of the Freedom-flowing Chaos. HAIL ERIS!
11. Herein was set into motion the Eristic Pattern, which would Repeat
Itself Five Times Over Seventy-three Times, after which nothing would
happen. * This doctrine should not be confused with DOGMA III -
History #6, "Historic Cycles," which states that social progress
occurs in five cycles, the first three ("The Tricycle") of which are
THESIS, ANTITHESIS, and PARENTHESIS; and the last two ("The Bicycle")
of which are CONSTERNATION and MORAL WARPTITUDE.
** The LAW OF NEGATIVE REVERSAL states that if something does _not_
happen then the exact opposite _will_ happen, only in exactly the
opposite manner from that in which it did not happen.
NOTE: It is from this text from the Book of Uterus that POEE has based
its Erisian Calendar with the year divided into 5 seasons of 73 days
each. Each of the Five Apostles of Eris has patronage over one
Season. A chart of the Seasons, Patrons, Days of the Week, Holydays,
and a perpetual Gregorian converter is included in this edition of
Principia.
Dull but sincere filler
If you took the previous message seriously, you were not paying attention;
likewise, if you took it to be a joke, you were not paying attention.
THE BALANCE MUST BE PRESERVED.
***
The major precept of Discordianism may be stated in the view that current
society sees ORDER vs. DISORDER as the universal struggle of the universe
rather than CREATION vs. DESTRUCTION. The Discordian feels that Creative Order
and Creative Chaos are both good, while Destructive Order and Destructive Chaos
are both, relatively, bad; society seems to believe that Creative Order and
Destructive Order are both good, with Creative Chaos and Destructive Chaos
being the bad elements.
CREATIVE DESTRUCTIVE
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Society: good | Society: good
O |
R Discordians: good | Discordians: bad
D |
E |
R |
_____________________|________________________
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C |
H Society: bad | Society: bad
A |
O Discordians: good | Discordians: bad
S |
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Hope this clarifies the subject somewhat; I'm sure someone is sorry the subject
got brought up by now...
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| 1173.2 | I don't know me | CARTUN::JANOWSKI | CitizensAgainstContinentalDrift | Tue Nov 21 1989 13:19 | 2 |
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I think so neither.
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