  The order parameter of the chiral phase transition is directly related to the
infrared part of the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator. This part of the
spectrum follows from the low energy limit of QCD which is given by a partition
function of weakly interacting Goldstone modes. We find that the slope of the
Dirac spectrum is determined by the pion decay constant whereas for $\lambda
\ll 1/L^2 \Lambda_{\rm QCD}$ the correlations of the Dirac eigenvalues are
given by a random matrix theory with the global symmetries of the QCD partition
function. A possible observation of these continuum results in lattice QCD with
staggered fermions is discussed.
