If you marry the ordered to the chaos you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning beyond meaning and meaninglessness.
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The unstable, by bringing order into chaos, by resolving disharmonies and centring upon the mid-point, thus setting a boundary to the multitude and focusing attention upon the cross, consciousness is reunited with the unconscious, the unconscious man is made one with his centre, and in this wise the goal of man’s salvation and exaltation is reached.
You open the gates of the soul to let the dark flood of chaos flow into your order and meaning. If you marry the ordered to the chaos you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning beyond meaning and meaninglessness.
We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the “sine qua non” of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
So in a certain sense disintegration may have its advantages. But of course it’s dangerous, horribly dangerous. Suppose you couldn’t get back, out of the chaos.
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can’t help making fly-traps, and men can’t help making symbols. That’s what the human brain is there for – the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
