It was founded circa 1958 – 1959 after the publication of its ( first ) holy book the Principia Discordia, written by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst after a series of shared hallucinations at a bowling alley.

It is specified on page 00034 of the Principia Discordia.

Elsewhere in the Principia Discordia, it is mentioned that the Curse of Greyface occurred in 1166 BC, so this is presumably the start-date of the calendar.

* Discordian texts and scriptures include Principia Discordia, Black Iron Prison, Zen Without Zen Masters, Liber Malorum, Book 5 ( The Zenarchist's Cookbook ), Zenarchy Unapologia, The Book of the Apocalypso, The Book of Eris, The Book of Inconveniences, The Honest Book of Truth ( portions of which are used in Principia Discordia ), Jonesboria Discordia, Metaclysmia Discordia, Novus Ordo Discordia, Principia Harmonia, Aeturnus Ille Discordia, The Wise Book of Baloney, The Book of Life, The Book of Chaos and Its Virtue, Chao Te Ching, Summa Discordia, Voices of Chaos, The Book of Chaos, Apocrypha Discordia, Principia Entropius, etc.

A quote from the Principia Discordia, the first holy book of Discordianism, attempts to clear this up:

* Saint Principia of Rome, a holy virgin in Rome and disciple of St Marcella ( 420 )

Today SJG publishes games of numerous varieties ( card games, board games, strategy games ) and genres ( fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror ); they also publish the book Principia Discordia, the sacred text of the Discordian religion.

The solar tidal acceleration at the Earth's surface was first given by Newton in the ' Principia '< ref >, Book 3, Proposition 36, Page 307 Newton put the force to depress the sea at places 90 degrees distant from the Sun at " 1 to 38604600 " ( in terms of g ), and wrote that the force to raise the sea along the Sun-Earth axis is " twice as great ", i. e. 2 to 38604600, which comes to about 0. 52 × 10 < sup >- 7 </ sup > g as expressed in the text .</ ref >

Extracts from its sacred text, the Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger, are extensively quoted throughout the trilogy.

The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia ( 1965 ) by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by The Illuminatus!

The text of the first of the three books of the Principia was presented to the Royal Society at the close of April, 1686.

He and Hill authored the religion's seminal text Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess, And What I Did To Her When I Found Her.

Ronin republished Principia Discordia, with altered text, so as to allow them to copyright the work.

* Principia Discordia, the sacred text of Discordianism, holds that 23 ( along with the discordian prime 5 ) is one of the sacred numbers of Eris, goddess of discord.

Contemporary notation for logic owes more to this text than it does to the notation of Principia Mathematica, long popular in the English speaking world.

The phrase is cited in the Discordian text Principia Discordia, and appears fifteen times in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus!

Some knot-theoretic links contain multiple Borromean rings configurations ; one five-loop link of this type is used as a symbol in Discordianism, based on a depiction in the Principia Discordia.

Discordianism is a religion and parody religion based on the worship of Eris ( also known as Discordia ), the Greco-Roman goddess of chaos.

The holy text spans 1430 pages and contains the actual words spoken by the Sikh Gurus and various other Saints from other religions including Hinduism and Islam.

The holy text says: " The Righteous Judge of Dharma, by the Hukam of God's Command, sits and administers True Justice ".

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

In Hinduism, the holy book Rigveda, the oldest extant Indo-Aryan text, numerous references are made to rebirths, although it portrays reincarnation as " redeaths " ( punarmrtyu ).

His book, Ruhnama ( or Rukhnama ), which is revered in Turkmenistan almost like a holy text, has been translated into 32 languages and distributed for free among major international libraries.

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

" The Muslim holy text defined the Arab and Muslim attitude towards Jews to this day, especially in the periods when Islamic fundamentalism was on the rise.

One of those attracted to Spare's work was Aleister Crowley ( 1875 – 1947 ), an occultist who had founded the religion of Thelema in 1904, taking as its basis a new holy text known as The Book of the Law.

Parsons claimed that Liber 49 constituted a fourth chapter of Crowley's Liber AL Vel Legis ( The Book of the Law ), the holy text of Thelema.

: The holy text of pike and gun ;

As Erskine studied the Bible text he became convinced that it " presented a history of wondrous love in order to excite gratitude, of a high and holy worth, to attract veneration and esteem.

The significance of the place lies in the fact that the holy religious text of the " Hindus ", the " Bhagwad Gita " was complied in this sacred place

The text is interrupted with the poetry of another hymn, the one that begins " Come, thou holy name of the Christ that is above every name " ( 2. 27 ), a theme that was taken up in Catholic Christianity in the 13th century as the Holy Name.

Robotology has a holy text, The Good Book 3. 0 which is stored on a 3. 5 " floppy disk.

The text describing this blessing features a hapax legomenon-the word שכל ( sh-k-l )-which classical rabbinical literature has interpreted in esoteric manners ; some rabbinical sources connect the term with sekel, meaning mind / wisdom, and view it as indicating that Jacob was entirely aware of who he was actually blessing ; other rabbinical sources connect the term with shikkel, viewing it as signifying that Jacob was despoiling Manasseh in favour of Ephraim ; yet other rabbinical sources argue that it refers to the power of Jacob to instruct and guide the holy spirit.

The time thus saved was utilized in transcribing the holy text.

The text remains the holy scripture of the Sikhs, regarded as the teachings of the Ten Gurus.

The philosophy of Sikhism is covered in great detail in the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy text.

The holy text outlines the positive actions that one must take to make progress in the evolution of the person.

Although the author's name is nowhere given in the text, the writer was traditionally believed to be King Solomon because of references such as that found in IX: 7-8, " Thou hast chosen me to be a king of thy people, and a judge of thy sons and daughters: Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount ..." The formulation here is similar to that of Ecclesiastes I: 12, " I, Koheleth, was king in Jerusalem over Israel ," which also fails to denote Solomon by name, but leaves no doubt as to whom the reader should identify as the author.

Again it is possible for this to simply be yet another circle of standing stones ( or the same one as mentioned in relation to Elijah and Elisha, as Bethel is on the circuit with Gilgal, and other assumed locations show Gilgal to be far further away than the other two locations ), and significant that it is treated as a holy place by the biblical text, rather than as a heathen one.

The Vishukkani consists of a ritual arrangement of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh lemon, golden cucumber, betel leaves, arecanut, metal mirror, yellow flowers konna ( Cassia fistula ), and a holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called uruli in the puja room of the house.