Discordian works
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Discordian works include the Principia Discordia, first published in 1965 (which includes portions of The Honest Book of Truth); and The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which had its first volume published in 1975.
[edit] Summa Universalia
The Summa Universalia was another work by Malaclypse the Younger, purported to be a summary of the Universe. It was excerpted in the first edition of the Principia but never published. It was mentioned in an introduction to one of the Principia editions, and its name is mentioned in the first edition.[1][2]
[edit] The Honest Book of Truth
As well as the Summa Universalia, the Principia Discordia also included selections from Kerry Wendell Thornley's writings, which he named The Honest Book of Truth. These sections are clearly marked, and are subtitled in parody of the bible's books.
The following are the known "books" within The Honest Book of Truth:
- The Book of Explanations
- The Book of Predictions
- The Book of Advice
- The Book of Gooks
- The Gospel According to Fred
- The Epistle to the Paranoids
- The Book of Uterus
- The Indoctrine of the Pineal Gland
Selections from this work can also be found within The Illuminatus! Trilogy,[3].
[edit] References
- ^ "By no means is the Principia our only scripture. All along Greg has been writing what he says is a summary of the Universe, but evidently it will be quite some time before he completes it." Thornley, Kerry: "Principia Discordia", page ix. Illuminet Press, 1991. As quoted at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/intro5.html.
- ^ Malaclypse and Ravenhurst: "Principia Discordia", pages 2, 10, A14. As found at http://appendix.23ae.com/pd1/17.html , http://appendix.23ae.com/pd1/25.html , http://appendix.23ae.com/pd1/14.html .
- ^ Shea, Robert and Wilson, Robert Anton: "The Illuminatus! Trilogy", pages 7, 141, 217, 657. Dell Publishing, 1988
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