A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T.23.II The Laws of Chaos

April 30, 2019

We have been discussing the laws of chaos the last three weeks. This can be a downer, for it is challenging to talk about this negative mind set. Yet, we have all delved into this chaotic mindset at some time or another. We may even have dwelt there for some time. This chaotic world can seem to be full of attack, fear, guilt, suffering and many other forms of misery. First we must realize we have chosen to align our mind with these “laws of chaos” at some level, whether or not we even realize we have done so. Once we have accepted this, we can begin to realize that this chaotic world is not the real world, for it is insanity. More to the point, we can begin to accept that we can make another choice. We ca choose to set a new course of thought. We can align our mind with a thought system that is rooted in love and compassion, one that is at peace, one that recognizes our innate wholeness, completeness and limitlessness.

We maintain we do not believe these senseless laws of chaos, nor act on them. When we look at what they say, we simply can’t believe them. My friend, we do believe them. How else could we perceive the seemingly insane mad world we experience? Yet we accept the world we see and do not recognize its madness. We paint this world rosy, dress it in loveliness, pet it and pamper it, and tell ourselves it is the best we can achieve. Are we really content with the illusion we are living?

There is no life outside of Heaven. Where the One created life, there life must be. In any state apart from Heaven life is illusion. At best it seems like life; at worst, like death. Yet both are judgments on what is not life, equal in their inaccuracy and lack of meaning. Life not in Heaven is impossible, and what is not in Heaven is not anywhere. Outside of Heaven, only the conflict of illusion stands; senseless, impossible and beyond all reason, and yet perceived as an eternal barrier to Heaven. Illusions are but forms. Their content is never true.   T-23.II.19:1-9

Do the laws of chaos bring us a world that seems to be hell? They are the descending stairway to what seems to be hell. Hell is not real, it’s an illusion. Bu when we believe and live by the laws of chaos, our world at times certainly appears to be hell. Love seems to fade into darkness which appears impenetrable. Many of those we encounter seem to be attacking us in some form. We seem to never have enough, or we feel we must get “more.” The steps to chaos do follow neatly from their starting point. Each is a different form in the progression of truth’s reversal, leading still deeper into terror and away from truth. Do not make the mistake of thinking one step is smaller than another, nor that return from one is easier. The whole descent from Heaven lies in each step. Wherever your thinking starts, there must it end.

Friend, take not one step in the descent to hell. For having taken one, you will not recognize the rest for what they are. And they will follow. Attack in any form has placed your foot upon the twisted stairway that leads from Heaven. Yet any instant it is possible to have all this undone. How can you know whether you chose the stairs to Heaven or the way to hell? Quite easily. How do you feel? Is peace in your awareness? Are you certain which way you go? And are you sure the goal of Heaven can be reached? If not, you walk alone. Ask, then, your Friend to join with you, and give you certainty of where you go.   T-23.II.22:1-13

We are the friend that helps each one we encounter to ascend the stairway to the awareness of Heaven around us. And each one we encounter is the friend that helps us ascend the stairway to the awareness of Heaven around us. Accept this friend into Oneness when you first encounter them and begin to experience the peace of Heaven within. The extension of peace and love to all Creation is our purpose in this world. Peace of mind is the sign we have made the correct choice.

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