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KULTCHA #20
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Part Two: THE ROOTS OF REVOLUTIONARY VANDALISM
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"As for Kerista, that group espoused spontaneity, community, eroticism,
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and liberty. Omar wrote that the aims of Kerista and Paganism, in general,
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were strongly opposed to dogma and creed: 'Kerista is a religion and the
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mood of Kerista is one of holiness. Do not, however, look for a profusion of
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rituals, dogmas, doctrines and scriptures. Kerista is too sacred for that. It
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is more akin to the religions of the East and, also, the so-called pagan
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religions of the pre-Christian West. Its fount of being is the religious
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experience and that action or word or though which is not infused with
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ecstasy is not Kerista. And Kerista, like those religions of olden times, is
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life-affirming.'
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"Kerista disappeared and Young Omar became involved with the vagaries
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and intricacies of the Lady Eris, but he was perhaps the first person, at
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least in the United States, to use the word Pagan to describe past and
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present nature religions. Some have actually alleged that the entire
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Neo-Pagan movement is an Erisian Plot (see next chapter and Robert Anton
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Wilson and Robert Shea's ILLUMINATUS) .... " (pp. 276-77)
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"In a way, it's ridiculous to even talk seriously about the Erisians, a
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group, or collection of groups, that has called itself a 'Non-prophet
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Irreligious Disorganization' that is 'dedicated to an advanced
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understanding of the para-physical manifestation of Everyday Chaos,' and
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at other times has stated, 'The Erisian revelation is not a complicated
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put-on disguised as a new religion, but a new religion disguised as a
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complicated put-on.'
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"The Discordian Society was founded (if one can call it that) in 1957 (or
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1958 -- even this primary confusion has never been cleared up) by Greg
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Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Ravenhurst) ....
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Omar Ravenhurst went on to form his own Erisian organization, the Erisian
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Liberation Front (ELF) ...." (pp. 304-5)
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Other Erisian cabals formed. At one point there were rumored to be more
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than twenty, although some may have had a membership of only one. Since
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radical decentralization is a Discordian principle, it is impossible to know
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how many Discordians there were and are, or what they are doing. Most of
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these cabals engaged in various nonviolent, absurdist, revolutionary,
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magical and surrealist endeavors. A number of these 'actions' were done
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under the name of the supposed 'Bavarian Illuminati,' a rather mysterious
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organization founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. The Erisian 'Illuminati'
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have mostly been the inspirations of someone known as Thomas the
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Gnostic. Similar actions were initiated by ELF. Omar Ravenhurst, for
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example, invented a Do-It-Yourself Conspiracy Kit, complete with
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assortments of stationery bearing dubious letterheads....
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"'Eris is an authentic goddess. Furthermore, she is an old one. In the
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beginning I was myself as Malaclypse the Younger. But if you do this type
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of thing well enough, it starts to work'.... I asked Malaclypse, 'What's Omar
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Ravenhurst doing these days?' He said, 'Ravenhurst has recently been in a
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state of extreme discord. We were talking about Eris and confusion and he
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said, "You know, if I had realized that all of this was going to come TRUE, I
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would have chosen Venus."!" -- Margot Adler, DRAWING DOWN THE MOON (pp.
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308-312)
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c 1986 Kerry W. Thornley
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Available from :
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Illumi-Net
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(404) 377-1141
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