-7-THE HOUSE OF THE APOSTLES OF ERIS The House (as we lovingly call it) is the Eristocracy of the Erisian Movement. Any member of The House is called an Episkopos (which is a real honest-to-goodness Greek word that means "overseer", and from which we derive good words like "epistle" and bad words like "Episcopalian".) and all of the Episkoposes are Eristocrats, which is the same thing. Now this is not to say that an Episkopos cannot be something else in The House also--he can, if that something just happens to be a High Priest or a Compiler of Truth--Esoteric. In fact, it is quite likely that he will be a Compiler of Truth-- Esoteric; because that is probably how he became an Episkopos in the first place (but more on that later). The fact that the sub-divisions of The House are numbered should not lead one to believe that it is a hierarchy because that is not the case; with the grand exception of The Golden Apple Corps, which is in the attic. No Episkopos has any authority over any other Episkopos, (with same exception as mentioned) all are Eristocrats. But then some Episkoposes do hold a higher place, but not because he is an Episkopos but because he is a something else too, and if that something else is the head of something. For instance, a High Priest is the head of all those that follow his sect--be they Legionnaires or Episkoposes--but he has no authority over just any old body. Perhaps this will become clearer as we go along (note 4).