The next time you read about a car bombing in Iraq, or any terrorist attack in which civilians have been killed, this is what it looks like. Is this how we “immanentize the eschaton?”

Just finished the book, Illuminatus Trilogy, so I’ll include this little Wikipedia clip: The phrase has been much used by Discordians. It is cited in the Principia Discordia, and is referred to fifteen times in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the first of which is the first line of the novel, “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.” The phrase was also used in the debut single (”All You Need Is Love“) by the Illuminatus!-inspired British band The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu: “With this killer virus who needs war? Immanentize the Eschaton, I said shag shag shag some more!”. The phrase furthermore occurs in the lyrics of The Shamen’s song ‘Destination Eschaton’: “So immanentise thy eschaton unto ragnarok or nemeton, and beyond in the name of Adam Kadmon“.

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