Malaclypse the Younger

This article needs additional citations for verification. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Malaclypse the Younger" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Gregory Hill
Born	(1941-05-21)May 21, 1941 California, U.S.
Died	July 20, 2000(2000-07-20) (aged 59) San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S.
Pen name	Malaclypse the Younger
Nationality	American
Subject	Religion, politics, satire
Spouse	Jeanetta Hill

Gregory Hill (May 21, 1941 – July 20, 2000),

Gregory H. Hill was born in California on Wednesday, May 21, 1941. He worked for Western Union while a young man in the Southern California area of Whittier, California.[4]

Around 1958 or 1959 while still a teenager, he, Kerry Thornley and others began working on the Discordian religion.^[4]

In 1965, the first edition of Principia Discordia was printed, allegedly in five copies. The most famous edition was the fourth.

Hill spent much of his life working for Bank of America as a computer programmer, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. He had apparently visited there while a child.^[4]

Robert Anton Wilson stated, in the lecture "The I in the Triangle" from 1990, that Greg Hill was at the time the head of a large computer facility owned by one of the largest banks in the United States.^[5]

A designer of one of the early video games, Hill wrote about computers including editing a computer-oriented newsletter. He also published an article proposing using a computer to transmit signals to remotely control robots.^[4]

He was married to Jeanetta Ross; they later separated and may have divorced.^[4]

He died in the San Francisco Bay Area of California on the July 20, 2000. A long-time smoker, he died of cancer.^[4]

In 1994, he and

Greg Hill described Mal-2 as a spirit sent into him by Eris that helped him write the Principia Discordia over the course of ten years in his early adulthood. An interview included in the fourth edition of the Principia Discordia by Loompanics Press reveals that Mal-2 left once the book was finished. He claims Mal-2 returned to leave a fifth and final edition consisting solely of a Western Union telegraph form filled with the letter "M". Greg Hill also reveals that he had access to Western Union forms when he worked at Western Union.

Principia Discordia

In 2006, a copy of the first edition of the Principia Discordia was claimed by Rev. DrJon Swabey to have been discovered in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection in the National Archives, proving Malaclypse the Younger to be Gregory Hill.^[7] However, Adam Gorightly, compiler of Historia Discordia which claims to contain the actual first edition, said this was in error. Gorightly said he received the first edition from Dr. Robert Newport who had overseen the estate of Gregory Hill.^[8][9]

Possessing many titles, including "Omnibenevolent Polyfather of Virginity in Gold", Malaclypse's true identity or position within the Erisian religion is completely unknown. He is frequently mentioned in the Principia Discordia, credited with wiring telegrams to God from the Celestial Hotel and decrying the usefulness of prayer. These claims are in the nature of the Principia Discordia.

Very little is known about Malaclypse the Elder, the namesake of Mal-2. The Principia Discordia merely mentions him as a "non-prophet" and that he was mistaken for a doomsayer when carrying a sign that read "DUMB."

Illuminatus!

Malaclypse the Younger also appears in The Illuminatus! Trilogy by

• Malaclypse the Younger. Principia Discordia Archived April 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, 1st Edition, p. A7.
• _____. Principia Discordia, 4th Edition, 1980,
  Loompanics Unlimited. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson
  . Afterword by Greg Hill.
• _____. Principia Discordia, 5th Edition, 1991, IllumiNet Press. Introduction by
  Kerry Thornley
  .