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       [Illustration:  a menagerie of Sacred Chaos overlap each other, as
       if to approach the reader]
       
       with rather similar grids.  Through a window we view chaos, and relate
       it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it.  The ORDER is
       in the GRID.  That is the Aneristic Principle.
       
           Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one 
       grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a 
       perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say 
       unenlightened Westerners) be True.  This is illusory; it is what we 
       Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION.  Some grids can be more useful 
       than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than 
       others, etc., but none can be more True than any other.
       
           DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some 
       particular grid.  But, like "relation," no-relation is a concept.  
       Male, like female, is an idea about sex.  To say that maleness is 
       "abscence of femaleness," or vice versa, is a matter of definition and 
       metaphysically arbitrary.  The artificial concept of no-relation is 
       the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.
       
           The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow 
       wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion.  To say the same of disorder, is the 
       ERISTIC ILLUSION.
       
           The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition 
       relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) 
       Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely.  Pick a 
       grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears 
       disordered.  Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear 
       differently ordered and disordered.
       
           Reality is the original Rorschach.
       
       Verily!  So much for all of that.
       
       The Words of the Foolish and those of the Wise          [Illustration:
       Are not far apart in Discordian Eyes.                    a hand points
                         HBT; The Book of Advice, 2:1       to the next page]