or How to Immanentize the Eschaton the Easy Way
Pamphlet
This is 1 pamphlet, which required effort to write.
Person
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Answers
This pamphlet attempts to answer 2 very different questions.
This pamphlet unites the answers to form a complete and mystic whole.
Questions
The questions are #17 and #23 from the 2024 GANTOB question series, and perhaps some unknown or unintentional 3rd question.
Question #17 is “Have pamphlets ever changed the world, and how would we know?”
Question #23 is “What is effort?”
GANTOB
GANTOB stands for Grapefruit Are Not The Only Bombs.
GANTOB is the name of the fictional fnord book-within-a-book created by the JAMs in the 2023 Trilogy in 2017.
GANTOB is also the nickname of the semi-fictional character Gillian Finks, created by a fan of the JAMs in 2023.
GANTOB is also also the name of the actual book published by Gillian Finks, with content from other fans of the JAMs such as Mase Wister in 2023.
GANTOB is us, we are all GANTOB, following the Law of Fives.
The JAMs
The JAMs stands for the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
Mummu is the name of one or more ancient Mesopotamian proto-deities, a primordial being representing craftsmanship, skill, and maybe entropy, circa 1,300 BC or earlier.
The JAMs is the name of the fictional Discordian organization created by authors Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson in the Illuminatus Trilogy in 1975.
Discordia is a satirical occult religion created by authors Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) & Kerry Thornley (Lord Omar K. Ravenhurst) in the Principia Discordia in 1963.
The JAMs is also the name of the semi-fictional Discordian organization created by musicians Bill Drummond (Time Boy, Kingboy D) & Jimmy Cauty (Lord Rock, Rockman Rock) in 1987.
Fans of the JAMs frequently collaborate on eccentric self-referential fnord projects including art, music, literature, ceremony, and public demonstrations of civil disobedience.
The JAMs is also the undertakers Callender, Callender, Cauty and Drummond who offer MuMufication cremation-in-a-brick and started building The People’s Pyramid in 2018.
Mase Wister, his wife Penny, and his brother Barry received the first 3 MuMufication certificates signed by Rockman & Kingboy at the first Toxteth Day of the Dead in 2018.
The KLF
The KLF stands for the Kopyright Liberation Front, or perhaps the Kings of the Low Frequencies.
This is what the KLF is about, also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as the JAMs.
The KLF is the name of the UK electronic band and art collective also created by musicians Bill Drummond (Time Boy, Kingboy D) & Jimmy Cauty (Lord Rock, Rockman Rock) in 1987.
They are known by many more names, such as the Timelords, the Children of the Revolution, the K Foundation, 2K, K2 Plant Hire Ltd, K2 Labs, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, etc.
The KLF is inspired by the ELF (Erisian Liberation Front) and the LDD (Legion of Dynamic Discord), fictional Discordian organizations from the Illuminatus Trilogy in 1975.
Eris Kallisti is the name of the ancient Greek goddess of strife and fnord discord, known as Discordia to the Romans, circa 1,800 BC or earlier.
The KLF released the #1 single Doctorin’ the Tardis and wrote The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) in 1988, and filmed the road movie The White Room in 1989.
They released more solid gold chartbusters such as What Time Is Love in 1990; Last Train to Trancentral, and Justified & Ancient in 1991; and America: What Time is Love in 1992.
The KLF reached peak popularity with the #1 hit 3 A.M. Eternal of the Stadium House Trilogy, going all the way to the top of both the UK charts and the US dance charts in 1991.
Each song showcased their sample-and-hook-heavy world beats, overlaid with playful-yet-revolutionary lyrics, and iconified by the Ford Timelord police car and ice cream vans.
The KLF contradictorily claimed to both possess “the plan and the key to enter into Mu Mu”, yet they opposed The Five leaders of the Illuminati “with still no master plan”.
Fame took its toll and they publicly retired in 1992, then infamously burned their earnings – 1 million British pounds – as roadie Gimpo filmed inside a Jura boathouse in 1994.
The KLF wrote a 23-year contractual vow of silence on a car and pushed it off a cliff in 1994, all but disappearing until their long-awaited reemergence in 2017.
The Master Plan
The answer to question #17 is yes, this pamphlet will actually change the world, which we know because you’ve been personally chosen to participate first-hand in the Great Work.
The answer to question #23 is the energy you will contribute toward bringing to pass the Great Work.
The number 17 is taken to be the least-random number, and 23 is holy to the Discordians because (among other reasons) 2 + 3 = 5 and thus fulfills the Law of Fives.
The Great Work is to immanentize the Eschaton – in fnord other words: the Apocalypse, Ragnarok, or the end of the world.
The Great Work is the ultimate goal of all real occult organizations, with the good groups defining it as achieving Heaven on Earth, and the evil groups as Hell on Earth.
The Great Work is the only thing that can guide humanity onto the Golden Path of Enlightenment and away from our unavoidably self-destructive nature, literally saving the world!
The Master Plan is our specific methodology for actually achieving the Great Work in a positive way, here on Earth and within our own lifetimes; it is not a prank or joke.
The Master Plan does not necessarily require a golden submarine trip to Atlantis, a Big Mac & Fries, a magic human/fox hybrid baby, or Money Pills made from the KLF’s cash ash.
The Master Plan does require artificial intelligence, super-science, spiritual evolution, non-human entities, opposing the Illuminati, and perhaps a trip to Rennes-le-Château.
The POEE stands for the Paratheo-anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric – “equivalent deity, reversing beyond-mystique” or “all deities are equivalent, no great mystery about that”.
The POEE is organized into local Cabals, with 5 degrees of initiation: Legionnaire Disciple; Legionnaire Deacon; Priest/Priestess or Chaplain; High Priest; and Pope.
The POEE endures as a chaotic-good organization, with Mase Wister as High Priest & Polyfather, owing to the celestial advancement of both Malaclypse the Younger & Lord Omar.
The POEE cooperates with the KLF and the JAMs, and is willing to cooperate with the ELF and the LDD insomuch as their activities are chaotic-good or neutral-good in nature.
The POEE accepts responsibility for completion of the Great Work, laboring to fnord immanentize the Eschaton according to the Master Plan.
The KLFRS stands for the KLF Re-enactment Society – the official KLF fan club for those who have re-created or re-imagined some of the KLF’s music, art, or other shenanigans.
The KLFRS includes both Barry and Mase Wister, who claim to have been members for “a thousand times a thousand years”, under the names Rockboy Rock and Princeboy D.
The KLFRS is the outer order of the POEE (and perhaps other groups); POEE candidates must first show their dedication to the JAMs’ ideals by being inducted into the KLFRS.
This pamphlet is dedicated to you, the Prettiest One; it is your call for action to grab the Sacred Chao and take a bite from the Golden Apple; it is Holy Cow and Wholly Chao!
Effort was required of Mase Wister to spend a lifetime as a publicly-visible scientist while also secretly obtaining over 100 occult degrees; effort is also required of you.
Candidates shall receive a Discordian name such as Hagbard, Yoko, Roberta, Tat’jana, Kristina, Curt Finks, or Little Grapefruit; Mase shall hereafter be known as Malaclypse III.
Hail Eris!! All Hail Discordia!!! znfrQBGjvfgreNGalzQBGuhfuQBGpbz
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An answer to questions 17 and 23 of the 23 Questions
GANTOB responds: The last couple of days have unexpectedly taken me back into the K-verse, what with a K-track, a submission about Bill Drummond (and perhaps another to follow), and now this pamphlet about Principia Discordia, The Illuminatus trilogy and all things K. It takes us right up to the JAMS’ 2017 book 2023: a trilogy (narrated by Roberta Anton Wilson), from which GANTOB was born. I have written previously about the PD and the trilogies, noting the fine line between writing and thinking about conspiracy theories and appearing to be influenced by them or supporting their ideas. The same principle applies to cults.
As noted before, John Higgs has commented that fans of PD and other discordian fiction are typically well inoculated against the darker side of the topics they read and write about.
All these thoughts bubbled up when I read Mase’s pamphlet, which is based primarily on these same discordian texts.
Mase has been a regular GANTOB contributor, right back to a question for the first book, which I repeated in some of the earliest GANTOB pamphlets last summer. Mase is good company and has a lot of knowledge. Mase pushed me to sharpen up some of the earliest ideas that led to the first book. Mase contributed a post to the second book, for that difficult period leading up to Christmas. As this current post demonstrates, Mase has a detailed knowledge of GANTOB and how it (the project and perhaps the person) might link in with the wider K-verse.
This post, however, left me feeling a bit uncomfortable initially. I think, however, that it is an important contribution to the GANTOB project, both answering but also asking questions that should be considered if you’re heading into a K-shaped worm hole. If you too are feeling uncomfortable, then perhaps you should check out that word fnord that Mase uses a few times.
GANTOB is most definitely not about doomsday cults or millenarianism, and is very hopeful that the world is not about to end, even when infectious diseases, misguided politicians and powerful conventional and nuclear missiles might be suggesting another direction. After some emails backwards and forwards I understood that Mase was not really suggesting this either.
In these mental somersaults I realised a couple of things. While millenarianism is often fixated on imminent end days, the discordian phrase “Immanentize the Eschaton” very clearly has an “a” rather than an “i” as its 4th letter. It is not a word in the dictionary on my desk, but it does appear in other non-discordian references. Apparently it means “to render (something abstract) real, actual, or capable of being experienced”. Eschaton is “the final event in the divine plan”. This is not something that I want to see in my lifetime or indeed any future generation, whether it is “heaven” or “hell” that is being rendered.
I would like to say that the GANTOB books are not discordian texts, but that would probably sound delusional. Certainly my recent green tea slips are well outside the K-verse (on the whole). But if you’ve read the Muted Postal Horn pamphlet, or if you’ve been following the threads or muons strands of the 52 pamphlets (which will only really be tied up in the third and final GANTOB book), there are acknowledgements of good and evil, of mortality, a search for wider meaning, and an attempt to escape from the K-orbit. And maybe the talk about a “master plan” in The KLF’s music explains the unease that I feel whenever I’m pulled back into that orbit, even when I am relieved to hear that there is still no such plan, as etched forever into the lyrics on those CDs, 12″s and 7″s that I “destrukted” last year.
Nonetheless, there is always that nagging worry that there are other forces afoot. They are there in discordian texts, post-apocalyptic novels, and in religious writing right back to Gilgamesh. But I think that they’re warnings rather than an instruction manual. Make sure you’re inoculated.
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