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Principia Discordia Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley

Principia Discordia is the sacred text of the Discordian religion written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse The Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). It was originally published under the title "Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost With Explanations to Yellow Pages Use" in a limited edition of 5 copies in 1965. — Excerpted from Principia Discordia on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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

Be Ye Not Lost Among Precepts of Order...
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!

PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA

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!

Dedicated to The Prettiest One

- 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

Contents

3 The Sacred Chao (illustration) 4 Five Commandments (The Pentabarf) 5 Zen Story 6 Telegram to Jehova 7 Birth of the Erisian Movement 11 Battle Hymn of the Eristocracy 12 On Prayer 13 Heaven is down... 14 Norton's Money 15 Eris - Greek Mythology 16 Law of Fives 17 Myth of the Apple of Discord 19 Erisian Hymn 20 POEE Chart 21 POEE Symbol 22 POEE 23 Application Form 24 POEE Priests 26 Erisian Affirmation 27 Legionnaire Certificate 27 St. Gulik 28 How to Start a POEE Cabal Without Messing Around With The Polyfather 29 Baptismal Rite 31 Mysteree Oath 32 The Discordian Society 33 The Golden Apple Corps 33 Numeral V Sign 34 Calendar 35 Holy Names 36 POPE cards 37 Parable of The Bitter Tea 38 Sermon on Ethics & Love 39 Apostles of Eris 41 The Honest Book of Truth 42 The Curse of Greyface 43 Mandala 44 Cosmology (Book of Uterus) 46 Orders of Discordia 47 Entropy (Norbert Weiner) 48 Zarathud's Enlightenment 49 The Sacred Chao (text) 52 Hodge/Podge Transformer 53 Brunswick Shrine 54 Starbuck's Pebbles 55 Eris during 3125 years (Brazil letter) 56 Cosmogeny (Void's Daughters) 59 Syadastian Chant 60 Classification on Saints 61 Occultism 62 Astrology 63 Greyface and Negativism 64 The Turkey Curse 65 Arguments for Evangelists 66 "Sink" (game) 67 Chain Letter (Joint Effort) 68 Avatar Classification 69 Epistle to the Paranoids 71 Super Secret Crypto Cypher Code 72 Illuminati (letter) 74 Salvation

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PrincipiaDiscordia pg00041.png 00041 How Honest Book of Truth Was Revealed

PrincipiaDiscordia pg00042.png 00042 Curse of Greyface

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PrincipiaDiscordia pg00074.png 00074 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.

Ⓚ ALL RIGHTS REVERSED - Reprint what you like

Published by POEE Head Temple - San Francisco

"ON THE FUTURE SITE OF BEAUTIFUL
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.

[edit] Errata

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PrincipiaDiscordia ErrataE.png Collage	PrincipiaDiscordia ErrataF.png Thornley's alibi

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