Aphorism 17, Example

<p>This statement agrees with the report of the reason of the most advanced minds of the race, past and present. Every intelligent conception of the Cosmos must of necessity include the conception of Law. Without this inherent indwelling Law,

the Cosmos could not exist—the Cosmos would be Chaos. The very origin of the term “Cosmos” shows the underlying thought

in the minds of the ancient Greek philosophers who first used it. The word itself is derived from the archaic Greek word

komeo, “to take care of,” and the early Greek philosophers used it first in the sense of “order,” and later in the broader sense of

“the world or universe, from its perfect order and arrangement, as opposed to Chaos.” Its use as “the World‑Soul” came later,

and included the earlier conceptions. Its antithesis the word “Chaos”—has two meanings, viz.: (1) “A yawning empty space”; and (2) “Confusion; or, a mass of matter in confusion without order or laws; a confused mixed, mass, without order or

regularity.” In both of these usages, Chaos is absolutely opposite in meaning to Cosmos. When we postulate a Cosmos without Law and Order, we are simply applying the term to what is really

Chaos—either a Nothing, or else an Orderless Universe. Order always implies the existence of Law—the two are inseparable. There can be no such thing as an universe half Cosmos and half

Chaos. Order and Chaos are antithetical. Law and Chance are antithetical. One annuls the other—they cannot exist at the

same time.&nbsp;</p>

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The three Primary Axioms of Logic show us this fact. Let us consider them for a moment:</p>