April 9, 2019
The laws of chaos are not understandable for they make no sense. These laws are made up by our egoic thought system to convince us that separation is reality. They are designed to keep us distracted and confused. They support a distorted view of the world that is just mistaken. They are not meaningful and out of reason’s sphere. The minute we look at them through the eyes of reason, they make no sense whatsoever. We need not ever understand the laws of chaos, but we can bring them to light. These laws of chaos may appear to be obstacles to reason, but there is a way to look beyond them. The Course asks us to take a step back and look at them calmly. Their purpose is to make meaningless and attack the truth. Here are the laws that rule the world we made. And yet they govern nothing and need not be broken; merely looked upon and gone beyond. Let’s begin to look at them.
The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone. Like all these principles, this one maintains that each is separate and has a different set of thoughts that set them off from others. This principle evolves from the belief there is a hierarchy of illusions; some are more valuable and therefore true. Each one establishes this for themselves, and makes it true by their attack on what another values. And this is justified because the values differ, and those who hold them seem to be unlike, and therefore enemies. T-23.II.2:1-5
This first law of chaos contradicts the first principle of miracles – There is no order of difficulty in miracles – for this first law of chaos implies there are degrees of truth and illusions. If we realized that they are all the same and equally untrue, it would be easy to understand that miracles apply to all of them. Errors of any kind can be corrected because they aren’t true. When we bring them to truth instead of to each other, they simply fade to nothing. And no part of nothing can be more resistant to the truth than can another.
The second law of chaos, dear indeed to every worshipper of sin, is that each one must sin, and therefore deserves attack and death. This principle, closely related to the first, is the demand that errors call for punishment and not correction. For the destruction of the one who makes the error places them beyond correction and beyond forgiveness. What they have done is thus interpreted as an irrevocable sentence upon themselves, which the One is powerless to overcome. Sin cannot be remitted, being the belief the One Holy Child can make mistakes for which their own destruction becomes inevitable. T-23.II.4:1-5
Think what this seems to do to the relationship between the Creator and the Created. This belief makes it appear that They can never be One again. For One must always be condemned by the Other. They now seem to be different, and enemies. Their relationship is one of opposition, just as the separate aspects of Us meet only to conflict but not to join in Oneness. One becomes weak, the other strong by their defeat. The fear of Oneness and of each other now appears sensible. This illusion, this mistake, is made real by what We have done both to ourselves and our Creator. As we align our minds with the laws of chaos, we dig ourselves into separation and block ourselves from the awareness of who we really are. It is not difficult to undo this mistaken belief. We simply look beyond the laws of chaos to reason and truth beyond them.
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