April 23, 2019
We continue discussing the “laws of chaos.” These aren’t really laws at all for they are based in illusion, unreality and thus have no real effect. However, our egoic thought system gives them enough power to block our awareness of their lack of truth. The first “law” is The truth is different for everyone. The second “law” is Each one must sin, and therefore deserves attack and death. The third “law” is If God cannot be mistaken, God must accept your belief in what you are, and hate you for it. The fourth “law” is You have what you have taken. These “laws” add up to a twisted view and belief about what we are and what the world is.
These “laws”, when believed and aligned with, motivate us to believe we need to attack each other and deprive each other of the things we think are in short supply. These “laws” convince us to believe that only a few can be granted salvation or at least “happiness” and the rest must lose out. What is it you want that you are willing to get at another’s expense? Can you be sure your attack is justified unless you know what it is for?
And here a final principle of chaos comes to the “rescue.” It holds there is a substitute for love. This is the magic that will cure all of your pain; the missing factor in your madness that makes it “sane.” This is the reason why you must attack. Here is what makes your vengeance justified. Behold, unveiled, the ego’s secret gift, torn from another’s body, hidden there in malice and in hatred for the one to whom the gift belongs. This one would deprive you of the secret ingredient that would give meaning to your life. The substitute for love, born of your enmity to another, must be salvation. It has no substitute, and there is only one. And all your relationships have but the purpose of seizing it and making it your own. T-23.II.12:3-12
We who abide by these “laws” believe we walk in sanity with our feet on solid ground through a world where meaning can be found. The Course asks us to consider this: These are the laws on which our “sanity” appears to rest. These are the principles which make the ground beneath our feet seem solid. And it is here we look for meaning. These are the laws we made for our salvation. They hold in place the substitute for Heaven which we prefer. Their purpose is madness. They were made for madness. Are we certain madness is really our goal? The ground we walk on in this madness governed by the laws of chaos is anything but solid. And the world governed by these laws has no meaning whatsoever. It is madness to believe we could ever find meaning there.
No one wants madness, nor does anyone cling to their madness if they see that this is what it is. What protects madness is the belief that it is true. It is the function of insanity to take the place of truth. It must be seen as truth to be believed. And if it is the truth, then must its opposite, which was the truth before, be madness now. Such a reversal, completely turned around, with madness sanity, illusions true, attack a kindness, hatred love, and murder benediction, is the goal the laws of chaos serve. These are the means by which the laws of Truth appear to be reversed. Here do the laws of sin appear to hold love captive, and let sin go free. T-23.II.14:1-8
Love is what we are really looking for. Peace is where we want to rest. Both are ours already. They are within us. We simply need to turn our sight within to the truth about who we really are. We don’t need to understand the laws of chaos that seem to bind us. Just recognize they keep us from the awareness of the love and peace that dwell within all of us. We don’t need to even know how to get there, for when we are willing, our inner Spirit will guide our journey and open our eyes to the holy light shining within us. The Course reminds us we are the light of the world in lesson 61. Believe it for it is wholly true. And we will see it reflected in each of our relationships as we realize we are One with all creation. Allow your spirit vision to open to the reality of the eternal around us. Love and peace will light our way. Follow this holy Light and be healed and whole.
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