discordianism

The Principia Discordia states that -

"All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5" (this is referred to as the Law of Fives).

The 23 Enigma is regarded as a corollary of this law. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati and in Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance and the Principia Discordia.

In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange, or sacred to the goddess Eris or to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos.

William S. Burroughs is said to be the first person to believe in the 23 enigma - 'I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch. Burroughs said he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark's ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.


Other 23s -

The 2007 film The Number 23, starring Jim Carrey, is the story of a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23 while reading a book of the same title that seems to be about his life.

The 1998 German film 23, starring August Diehl as computer hacker Karl Koch, tells the real-life story of computer hackers inspired by Wilson's 'Illuminatus!' Trilogy.



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