OrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.1

19. The "laws" of chaos can be brought to light, but not understood. Chaotic laws are hardly meaningful and therefore out of reason's sphere. Yet, they appear to constitute an obstacle to reason and to truth. We will look beyond them calmly, understanding what they are, and not believing what they say is true. It is important to understand what they are, because their purpose is to attack the truth and make it meaningless. These are the laws that rule the world we made. Yet, they govern nothing, and need not be broken, only observed, and gone beyond.

20. (1) The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone. Like all these principles, this law maintains that each one is separate, and has a different set of thoughts which sets him apart from others. Those who hold different values seem to be unlike, and therefore enemies. This principle evolves from the belief that there is a hierarchy of illusions. Some illusions are more valuable, and are therefore truer. Each one establishes this hierarchy for himself, and feels justified in attacking what another values, to make his own values seem truer.

21. This law seems to interfere with the first principle of miracles, as it establishes degrees of truth among illusions. It appears as if some illusions are harder to overcome than others. It would be easy to understand that miracles apply to all of them, if we realized that they are all the same, being equally untrue. Errors of any kind can be corrected because they are untrue. No part of nothing can be more resistant to the truth than can another part. When brought to the truth, instead of to each other, errors disappear.

22. (2) The second law of chaos is that each one must sin, and deserves attack and death. This principle, closely related to the first, is the demand that errors call for punishment and not correction. The belief is that the Son of God can make mistakes that determine his inevitable destruction. The destruction of the one who makes the error places him beyond forgiveness and correction. What he has done is interpreted as an irrevocable sentence upon him, which even God Himself is powerless to overcome. Sin cannot be remitted. This law is dear indeed to every worshiper of sin.

23. We consider what this seems to do to the relationship between the Father and the Son. Now it appears that they can never again be one. Now they are different, and enemies. Now they must always be condemned, each by the other. And their relationship is one of opposition, just as the separate aspects of the Son meet only to conflict, and not to join. One becomes weak and defeated. And by his defeat, the other becomes strong. And the fear of God, and of each other now appears sensible, the fear made real by what the Son of God has done to himself, and his Creator. Here, the arrogance on which the laws of chaos stand, is clearly apparent.

24. Here is a principle which would define what the Creator of reality must be, what He must think, what He must believe, and believing it, how He must respond. It is not even seen as necessary that He be asked about the truth of what has been established for His belief. His Son tells Him this, and He only has the choice whether to take the Son's word for it or be mistaken. This leads directly to (3) the third preposterous belief that seems to make chaos eternal. For if God cannot be mistaken, then God must accept the Son's belief and hate him for it.

25. I see how the fear of God is reinforced by this third principle. Now it is impossible to turn to God for help in misery. God has became the "enemy " Who caused the misery, and to Whom appeal is useless. Nor can salvation lie within the Son, whose every aspect seems to be at war with the Son and justified in its attack. Now conflict is inevitable and beyond the help of God. Salvation must remain impossible, because the savior has become the enemy.