The Spiritual Life of Water by Alick Bartholomew

Author:Alick Bartholomew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Science/Spirituality
ISBN: 9781594778582
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2010-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

ORDER FROM CHAOS

The principle has been recognized by the philosophers of all the great civilizations—that change can come only from the failure of the status quo. Put another way: order must be preceded by chaos; the two are inseparable partners (see box). In the Chinese Tao Te Ching, the hexagram for “crisis” is the same as that for “opportunity.”†38

Chaos Precedes Order

Author Callum Coats gives a helpful explanation of dialectic thinking, which he insists is imperative for comprehension of the whole. Thus, yin is balanced by yang (yin x yang = 1), magnetism by electricism, frequency by wavelength, spirit by matter, and so on. Thus also, chaos x order = 1, or wholeness. Without chaos (undifferentiated, unstructured matter or energy; or unordered, unmetamorphosed unconditional love), there could be no basis for the creation of order (differentiated, harmonically structured matter or energy). Therefore, the foundation for order is chaos.1, *39

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