Cosmos is the Greek word for “order.” It relates to the answer to Einstein’s question: Is the universe friendly? There is either order or chaos in the universe. If there is order, then the universe is friendly and operating as it should. Those of us who answer “yes” to Einstein’s question do so because we “feel” the balance, harmony and benevolence in the Intelligence that gives order to the universe. In short, we “feel” at home here without anxiety. We are perfect inhabitants living in a perfect P-A.
A P-B universe is an illusion. A chaotic universe would have self-destructed, exploding in a fire-ball or stiffened into a lifeless orb of ice. The chaos of P-B exists only in the human mind and depends on the reactionary human beings for its energy. As the mystic Matthew Fox puts it: “When we try to build our lives around anything smaller than cosmos we become grotesque, and our institutions, be they religious or familial or educational or governmental, are asked to do too much. They become misshapen and malformed and turn into instruments of cosmic and personal destruction.”[i] And indeed that is what we are creating on this otherwise perfect planet.
[i] Fox, Matthew. Original Blessings. Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1983, p. 72.
