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(if he compiles truths). The fourth section of The House (The
Five Apostles, Saints, and Like Personages) is closed to Epis-
koposes. The Five Apostles are Confusium, Krishna Argumentaba,
Frere Jaques Discordot (Jean the Eristentionalist), Eristotle,
and Malaclypse (The Elder)--Controvite almost made it but got
scrounged out. For more information on The Apostles see Book II.
of The Honest Book Of Truth (Lord Omar's Holy Work). So far,
there are three Saints: St. Bokonon, St. Yossarian and St.
Quixote. We expect to add more as we go along. We have no
Like Personages as yet (in fact, we don't even know what one
might be).
The Administry is concerned with administrative functions
and is divided such that: The Erisin Archives holds all records;
The Bureau of Symbols, Etc. invents, designs, renders and dis-
tributes all the documents and such; The Secretariat types, mimios,
mails, collects for the Treasury (if such an opportunity were ever
to arise) and things of that nature; The Bureau of Projects heads
the projects; and the Miscellaneous miscellaneouses. About
Projects: so far we have three, The Fair Play For Switzerland
Committee; The University of Discordia, and the Membership Cam-
paign. We expect to accumulate Projects as we prosper. A Keeper
in The Administry is called a "Keeper" and he keeps whatever it is
that needs keeping. Only an Episkopos may be a Keeper; but a
Legionnaire may assist a Keeper and hence advance to Disciplehood--
with the title "Disciple of Eris-Grand.....to the.....", which is
a large jump in status.
THE ERISTIC MOVEMENT refers to Discordians that are not enlightened
but manifest one of The Principles, specificly the Principle of
Discord. An Avatar is an individual who is 99 & ll/25ths percent
Pure Chaos; such a person is an incarnation of Eris Herself and
though he leads a frustrated life on this earth, he is of Divine
Status in essence. Avatars (whole hearted Avatars, that is) are
very few and very precious. To date, we have discovered only
one: "The Prince of Dynamic Discord, Chaos Incarnate, Efficacious
Paradox Con Carne, Our Eristic Avatar, Corporealeris, The Living
One." He lives in L.A., works for the Post Office and is a grad-
uate of the same college that belched out Richard Nixon. A Com-
piler of Truth--Lay is like an Esoteric Compiler except that he
has never heard of Discordianism and compiles thruth intuitively.
Two contemporary examples are Joseph Heller ("Catch 22") and
Kurt Vonnegut ("Cat's Cradle"); two classic examples are Cerventes
("Don Quixote") and Lewis Carroll (all sorts of stuff). If [these]
brilliant men were to know of Discordianism, it is likely they they
would become Erisians (in fact, Heller and Vonnegut are going to
be contacted very soon).
THE ERISTESQUE MOVEMENT refers to unenlightened Discordians that
manifest the other Principle: the Principle of Superficial Order
Resting On A Solid Foundation Of Chaos. Concerning the Orders
of Eris: The Knights are the Bureaucrats and Militarists of [the]
world; Ichabod College is for those who have been exposed to the
Discordian Society but don't understand it (all of whom [flunk out);]
The Defamation League--Underground is for the rabble-rousers,
anarchists, bomb-throwers, assassins and such; Local #666 is [for]
Doom Prophets in general (there has been no Doom Propher since
Malaclypse (The Elder) who has known what he was doing); and [The]
Bowel Movement is for Discordians that want OUT. In general,
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