Chance, Chaos, and Luck

Modern scientific theory teaches that the universe functions in a mode of randomness and chaos. Specifically, quantum theory posits that order and logic are only imposed on an object at the time it is observed as it flows through the flux of chaos.  The empirical sciences promulgate theories as fact, rejecting anything not reducible to physical examination and testing. 

In ninpo, the spiritual is recognized as an aspect of reality.  Indeed, ninpo relies on the understanding of spiritual principals to interpret natural phenomena.  Apart from a relationship with the Divine there can be no true ninpo and apart from a biblical world view there can be no true understanding of the nature of reality.  

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The flacon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

The actions of the Omnicient and Eternal must of necessity appear, at certain points, to the finite and mortal as random.  The events of eternity may seem to arise out of chaos but this is only because our point of reference is infinitely small; this is the great failing of empiricism.  The Ninja knew that reality is not reducible to the observable and that chance and chaos are only illusions.  "The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." Proverbs 16:33  There is no particle of reality that is outside God' s sphere of Sovereignty.  To argue otherwise is to postulate the absurd.  To understand the principal of Divine Sovereignty is to gain the key to correctly interpreting the nature of the universe.