Principia Discordia
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THE MAGNUM OPIATE OF MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
OR
HOW I FOUND GODDESS AND WHAT I DID TO HER WHEN I FOUND HER
Wherein is explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything
THE BOOK OF UTERUS 1:5
Some excerpts from an Interview with Malaclypse the Younger by THE GREATER METROPOLITAN YORBA LINDA HERALD-NEWS-SUN-TRIBUNE-JOURNAL-DISPATCH-POST AND SAN FRANCISCO DISCORDIAN SOCIETY CABAL BULLETIN AND INTERGALACTIC REPORT & POPE POOP
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 teachings 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 your answer to my question?
M2: No, of course not. That is just illustrative. The answer to your question is FIVE TONS OF FLAX!
or
HOW I FOUND GODDESS & WHAT I DID TO HER
WHEN I FOUND HER
being a Beginning Introduction to
The Erisian Mysterees
WHICH IS MOST INTERESTING
*
as Divinely Revealed to
My High Reverence MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER, KSC
Omnibenevolent Polyfather of Virginity in Gold
and HIGH PRIEST of
THE PARATHEO-ANAMETAMYSTIKHOOD OF ERIS ESOTERIC (POEE)
HAIL ERIS! * καλλιχτι * ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
- JOSHUA NORTON CABAL -
Surrealists, Harlequinists, Absurdists and Zonked Artists Melee
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
Pages 00003 - 00006Edit
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The Sacred Chao (illustration) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00004.png
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Five Commandments
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Zen Story - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00006.png
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Telegram to Jehova
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Birth of The Erisian Movement - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00008.png
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Pages 00011 - 00014Edit
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Battle Hymn of the Eristocracy - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00012.png
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On Prayer - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00013.png
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Norton's Money
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Eris - Greek Geneology - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00016.png
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Law of Fives - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00017.png
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Myth of The Apple of Discord - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00018.png
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Erisian Hymn - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00020.png
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POEE Chart - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00021.png
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POEE Symbol - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00022.png
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POEE
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Application Form - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00024.png
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POEE Priests - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00025.png
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Erisian Affirmation
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- Legionnaire Certificate
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How To Start A POEE Cabal Without Messing Around With The Polyfather - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00029.png
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Baptismal Rite - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00030.png
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Mysteree Oath - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00032.png
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The Discordian Society - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00033.png
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- The Golden Apple Corps
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Calendar
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Holy Names - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00036.png
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Pope Cards - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00037.png
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Parable of The Bitter Tea - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00038.png
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Sermon on Ethics & Love
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Apostles of Eris - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00040.png
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How Honest Book of Truth Was Revealed - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00042.png
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Curse of Greyface
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Mandala - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00044.png
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Cosmology (Book of Uterus) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00045.png
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Orders of Discordia
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Entropy (Norbert Wiener) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00048.png
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Zarathud's Enlightenment - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00049.png
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The Sacred Chao (text) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00050.png
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Hodge/Podge Transformer - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00053.png
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Brunswick Shrine - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00054.png
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Starbuck's Pebbles
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Eris during 3125 years
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Cosmogeny (Void's Daughters) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00057.png
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Syadastian Chant - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00060.png
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Classification of Saints - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00061.png
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Occultism - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00062.png
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Astrology
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Greyface and Negativism - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00064.png
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The Turkey Curse - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00065.png
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Arguments for Evangelists - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00066.png
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"Sink" (game)
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Chain Letter (Joint Effort) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00068.png
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Avatar Classification - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00069.png
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Epistle to The Paranoids - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00070.png
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Super Secret Crypto Cypher Code - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00072.png
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Illuminati (letter) - PrincipiaDiscordia pg00073.png
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Salvation
THUS ENDS PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
- This being the 4th Edition, March 1970, San Francisco; a revision of the 3rd Edition of 500 copies, whomped together in Tampa 1969; which revised the 2nd Edition of 100 copies from Los Angeles 1969; which was a revision of PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA or HOW THE WEST WAS LOST published in New Orleans in 1965 in five copies, which were mostly lost.
Published by POEE Head Temple - San Francisco
SAN ANDREAS CANYON"
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.
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Thornley's alibi
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