| The "laws" of chaos can be brought to light,
though never understood.
Chaotic laws are hardly meaningful, and therefore
out of reason's sphere.
It is their purpose to make meaningless, and to
attack the truth.
Here are the laws that rule the world you made.
And yet they govern nothing, and need not be broken; merely looked upon
and gone beyond.
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 him
off from others. This principle evolves from the belief there is a hierarchy
of
illusions; some are
more valuable and therefore true.
[However], no part of
nothing can be more resistant to the truth than can another.
The second law of chaos is that each
one must sin and therefore deserves attack and death.
This principle is the
demand that errors call for punishment and not correction.
This leads directly to the third preposterous
belief that seems to make chaos eternal. For if
God cannot be mistaken, He must accept His Son's belief in what he is,
and hate him for it.
The fear of God is reinforced
by this third principle.
The fourth law of chaos is the
belief you have what you have taken.
By this, another's loss
becomes your gain, and thus it fails to recognize that you can never take
away save from yourself.
Yet all the other laws must lead to this.
All of the mechanisms
of madness are seen emerging here.
The guilty ones protest their "innocence.
In a savage world the kind cannot survive,
so they must take or else be taken from.
A final principle of chaos ... 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.
You who believe you walk in sanity with feet on
solid ground,
and through a world where meaning can be found,
consider this: These are the laws on which your
"sanity" appears to rest.
These are the principles which make the ground
beneath your feet seem solid.
And it is here you look for meaning.
These are the laws you made for your salvation.
They hold in place the substitute for Heaven
which you prefer.
This is their purpose; they were made for this.
There is no point in asking what they mean.
That is apparent.
The means of madness must be insane.
Are you as certain that you realize the goal
is madness?
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.
In truth it does not function,
yet in dreams, where only shadows play the major
roles,
it seems most powerful.
No law of chaos could compel belief but for the
emphasis on form and disregard of content.
How can some forms of murder not mean death?
Can an attack in any form be love?
What form of condemnation is a blessing?
Who makes his savior powerless and finds salvation?
And can you be content with an illusion that you
are living?
Illusions are but forms. Their content is never
true.
The laws of chaos govern all illusions.
Their forms conflict, making it seem quite possible
to value some above the others.
From the belief in sin, the faith in chaos must
follow.
It is because it follows that it seems to be
a logical conclusion; a valid step in ordered thought.
Brother, take not one step in the descent to hell.
For having taken one, you will not recognize
the rest for what they are.
How can you know whether you chose the stairs
to Heaven or the way to hell?
How do you feel?
Is peace in your awareness?
If not,
you walk alone.
Reproduced and abridged from : http://acim.home.att.net
I will take one moment of your precious
time now to highlight the fact that, in the ACIM book,
there are 5 Laws of Chaos and they are presented
in Chapter 23.
How else could it have been?
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