Chaos is presented as a majestic, tragic image of the cosmic primal unity, where all being is melted, from which it appears and in which it dies, the First Principle in which the world originates and into which it plunges. However, in this sense, chaos is absolutely inert, it is only the potential of being, there is no possibility of events, activity, or creativity in it. This is just a “terrible abyss”, ready to swallow everything without a trace

However, chaos also has an active component - the power of destruction, the binary analogue of creative power. The personification of this aspect of chaos is the World Serpent - a force seeking to return the universe to its pre-natal state. At the same time, the Serpent itself manifests itself only when it acts in space; in the Abyss its existence is purely potential - it “sleeps” there

Since the force that creates the world is Consciousness, it is clear that chaos is hostile to consciousness, and it is not only the absence of consciousness, it is anti-consciousness

The attractiveness of the idea of ​​chaos lies in the misunderstanding of its characteristics: the unlimited nature of chaos is understood as its “power”, but in reality chaos is simply outside the concepts of “time” and “space”; in fact, it is outside the very concept of being, since being is a binary pair with consciousness, and denying consciousness, chaos inevitably denies being