Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 87). "The poet's line, 'Order is heaven's first law,' is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics."
Order is law. In truth there can be no such thing as disordered action. Why? Because the only action is the orderly action of divine Principle, which is God. Divine Principle includes all order, arrangement, and action. Mortal mind, which claims to work outside the jurisdiction of divine Principle, has no life to produce order or action, nor can it make conditions for man. The perfect Principle is everywhere present and always in action. If God does not act, there is no action. God, good, is the only cause, and all effect is the outcome of divine Principle.
If one seems to be disordered in thought, body, or estate, what then is the remedy? Surely there can be only one namely, to realize the order and action of divine Mind as present in all our affairs, even in the regulation of the functions of the body and all human experience. Since "order is heaven's first law," it follows that we already are aware of the first law of heaven when we reflect order in conduct and action.
