Erasmus is looking for a tool that will protect harmony: "If you hate in your heart war I, Peace, will give you advice o­n how to protect consent." He sees this tool to support everything that serves the common good rather than self-interest: "Peace and harmony among the citizens can curb the evil thoughts of bad sovereign. Let neither citizens nor sovereign not think about their private benefit." Commonweal provides consent/harmony between people and prevents war. This is the great conclusion of Erasmus: the common good is consent/harmony (and vice versa), which excludes war generated by private interests. "The war has nothing to do with the public interest." However, Erasmus recognizes just wars against the barbarian invasions as a public good. He admits o­nly unjust and criminal the wars between Christians. He appeals to reason of Christians: "Understand, what a colossal power is in harmony (consent) of set (people), opposing the tyranny of the nobles! ... The most people hate the war and pray for peace. A few, whose vile welfare depends from national grief, want war."
           Almost all the deep intuitions of peace from harmony/consent and all the riches of social imagination of this peace at Erasmus are the source of GPS. But harmony at his is subjective and surface, therefore weak, depending o­n the arbitrariness of people and deprived of social need and objective basis. It makes peace by weak, "banished and defeated everywhere" as he himself admits. Weak harmony allows disharmony and wars from it to be strong, long-lasting and debilitating. Erasmus intuitively realized and expressed that general historical trend, which can be called a trend of “social weakening peace” and which can be represented by the following chain of concepts 1.Weak social harmony - 2.Weak social peace - 3.Strong social disharmony - 4.Strong wars. This trend is resulting in fall of the common good and the growth of social destruction and pathology. The chain of concepts of this historical trend is expressed by the following model of Tetranet harmonious thinking: 

Model-12. Weakness of peace from harmony at Erasmus

Erasmus’ main merit is to establish the inseparability of, o­n the o­ne hand, peace and harmony, and o­n the other, disharmony and war. They are practically indissoluble and identical at him that GPS accepts and develops. Erasmus therefore can be considered with sufficient ground as o­ne of the pioneers of this science - GPS.

The attributes of social necessity and sufficiency of harmony were available to Leibniz’s intuition in his, per se axiomatic, pre-established harmony, which he gave the highest - the divine, absolute sense.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716), German philosopher, mathematician, historian, creating theory of the predetermined/pre-established harmony (this concept was first mentioned in 1696), which was the result of his passion since the age of twelve to look for all the "unity and harmony" under the influence of Confucianism. This Leibniz’s doctrine should explain, within his philosophy of Monadology, universal inter-dependence and consistency in the world by God’s pre-established harmony, i.e. consent and conformity between mutually independent physical and spiritual substances, i.e. between monads of soul and body, or between essence and existence in the universe, in which "everything breathes by mutual consent."

This atmosphere of harmony was created by God before monads and is embedded in them as their preset nature, reflecting and incorporating "all in all" and therefore coordinated (harmonious) always and everywhere. He gave this theory crucial importance as a new proof of God's existence previously unknown. Recognizing harmony established by God before any creation, Leibniz explained that its fundamental role in all that He created. He saw no other way to understand the consistency of natural universe except through divine harmony. It defines a single world order, the unity of its diversity and common laws of its development [41, 371-373 etс.]

The famous historian of philosophy Igor Narskiy [42, 319-321, etc.] wrote, "In the system of Leibniz, main role of God consists in the integration and harmonization of monads .... Harmonization of monads ... forces them to restrict each other." In the epistemological sense predetermined harmony means that "the results of cognition also compose a harmonious system." (This harmony demonstrates, in particular, the GPS creation, including the SPHERONS theory uniting its precursors’ ideas presented in this paragraph.)

Leibniz believed that the present world was created by God as the best (harmonious) of all possible worlds, including human society, as the essential harmony of monads defines the harmony of all their manifestations, including social. Therefore, God established harmony between people provides a lasting peace in which wars - it is o­nly local, occasional, temporary and pathological deviations from it. So Leibniz ignores a problem of war and peace, considering it clear, solved o­nce and forever by his pre-established harmony “in our most perfect”, i.e. very harmonious world. The fact that people still cannot live in it by fully harmoniously and without wars – it is a matter of time: the future history will correct this injustice, when people overcome their ignorance in harmony.

If Erasmus’ peace is a pathetic island in an ocean of eternal war, "banished and defeated everywhere", which cannot save even the human consent because of its subjectivity, precariousness and fragility, in the system of Leibniz’s pre-established harmony peace is as strong and eternal as this harmony installed by God absolutely. Therefore, Leibniz’s peace is the eternal ocean of divine harmony, in which the war is o­nly temporary and miserable islands disappearing under the influence of pre-established harmony, eliminating any deviations from it.

Unlike Erasmus, Leibniz outlined intuitively the opposite historical trend, which can be called a trend of “social reinforcement” and which can be represented by the following chain of concepts: 1.Strong social harmony - 2.Strong social peace - 3.Weak social disharmony - 4.Weak wars or their absence. This trend is resulting in the growth of the common good and reducing social destruction and pathology. The chain of concepts of this historical trend is expressed by the following model of Tetranet thinking:

Model-13. Lasting peace from harmony of Gottfried Leibniz

Both opposite historical trends act simultaneously and are determined by the quality and scope of social harmony, which depends from the quality and scope of its 16 fundamental elements presented in SOCIONOME (see above). But Erasmus’ trend is full dynamics and development and Leibniz’s trend is devoid them in view of the absolute nature of pre-established harmony. The main merit of Leibniz is to find the eternal source of harmony, which he found o­nly in God. Harmony at Leibniz, like Pythagoras and Plato, received divine sanctification that is very important for recognition of its highest social value ​​and priority. This idea takes and develops GPS, therefore Leibniz, like Erasmus, can be considered with sufficient ground as o­ne of the pioneers of this science - GPS.

Thus, if Erasmus found and identified a link of peace and harmony, dependence of the first from the second but cannot find eternal source of harmony/consent of people, Leibniz found it in the divine pre-established harmony of all things but cannot find its specific grounds in society, in social nature. It did Kant, who rejected the pre-established harmony of Leibniz.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the great German philosopher, published in 1795 a brilliant treatise o­n "Perpetual Peace" [43, 150-192]. In this work, in the "FIRST SUPPLEMENT.

OF THE GUARANTEE FOR PERPETUAL PEACE" to the "Third Definitive Article of Perpetual Peace," he made the greatest discovery of the "harmony among men" as social nature and the guarantee of eternal peace ("The guarantee of perpetual peace is nature"). This nature "establishes harmony between morality and politics by transcendental concept of public right," o­n which Kant builds the harmonious agreement of "perpetual peace among nations." Just right, uniting in consent/harmony the goals of all individuals and groups in society is an adequate way of expressing eternal social nature of humans, and therefore the o­nly tool to achieve eternal peace, "which is not just a chimerical o­ne." But the right is able to achieve this goal o­nly through eternal harmonious social nature of people, their abilities and employment. He writes: "nature guarantees perpetual peace by the mechanism of human passions." This means that by nature a man is peaceful and harmonious, so eternal peace is o­nly a matter of time. A more detailed and comprehensive analysis of Kant's philosophy of peace is represented in a remarkable and innovative article of Eugene Ivakhnenko [44].

Recognition of harmonious social nature is the main merit of Kant. He found the source of peace in harmony not o­nly God but also in human nature itself, in the active productive employment of people, which can o­nly be a harmonious and peaceful, i.e. of peaceful from harmony. This idea is fully perceived and developed in GPS. Therefore, Kant, like Leibniz and Erasmus, we can assume, with sufficient reason, o­ne of the founders of this science - GPS.

Kant, like Leibniz, is a supporter of the strong historical tendency but unlike him he sees the force of this trend not o­nly in God but in the production nature of society. GPS develops precisely this tendency in its central theory of SPHERONS with which we, in the words of Kant, associate "revolution in the way of human thinking," i.e., necessity of revolution of very straggled social thinking in general and especially the sources of eternal peace.

We do not touch here with two important aspects of Kant’s theory of perpetual peace: 1. Legal, which studied in detail in many other works [45; 46; 47; 48] and 2. Philosophical contradiction with the contractual theory of society, in which the so-called "natural condition of people" is understood as "war of all against all" (Hobbes), i.e. as congenital in nature the hostility of people to each other. The second point, in our view, is a new antinomy Kant, who recognized Hobbes’ theory and simultaneously asserted the possibility and inevitability of perpetual peace as a result of a harmonious human nature. The eternal peace is impossible if human nature is military, and if it is possible and even more inevitable as in Kant, the human nature is peace, not military.

This antinomy may be defined so: human nature is harmonious/peace-loving and at the same time is aggressive/warlike, shortly: peace/war nature. In this antinomy both theses can be proved equally well, if limited historical experience, which gives the myriads of examples how peace so and military aggression. Unfortunately, Kant did not formulate this antinomy; therefore, an opposite of these theses remained as logical contradiction in his philosophy of peace. This antinomy will be discussed in the next paragraph.

The conclusions from the analysis and comparison of peace doctrines of three philosophers as founders of GPS are.

1. All they recognized harmony as source and foundation of peace. It is their identity and a cause of their recognition as the GPS founders and their different and contradictory in understanding of harmony is philosophical impetus for development of GPS.

2. Erasmus unfolded the dependence of peace from harmony but found no objective basis for harmony.

3. Leibniz found this basis in the divine pre-established harmony but did not find it in society.

4. Kant defined the foundation of social harmony in active employment of people but did not find its social structure and limited the achievement of perpetual peace o­nly right.

5. All three approaches to understanding peace from harmony epistemologically based o­n intuition of SPHERONS as the eternal social structure of harmony serving a source of peace but o­n its different sides and manifestations.

6. All three approaches are the necessary intuitive steps of approximation to scientific knowledge of social harmony of SPHERONS as an eternal structural basis and source of global peace in society.

7. SPHERONS in their structural quality as harmonious creators of necessary social resources are the common denominator of these approaches.

The creation of SPHERONS’ theory in GPS through more than 200 years after Kant and almost 500 years after Erasmus, that expresses its complexity and difficulty for knowledge, marks the transition of past intuitive guesses and assumptions about peace from harmony o­n a truly scientific level. It integrates the logical theory (the first chapter), statistical empirical evidence (chapter two) and the historical evolution of SPHERONS idea as a synthesis of positive intuitions of past approaches. SPHERONS express indissolubility of peace and harmony as at Erasmus; they are eternal as at Leibniz; they are social as at Kant and they acquire the structure and consciousness through GPS.

Only conscious SPHERONS provide a strong historical tendency of global peace in its entirety. Therefore, in harmonious unity with the theory of SPHERONS, Erasmus, Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant are the GPS founders and their ideas acquire a new historical meaning in the new spiritual dimension, composing elements of modern scientific revolution of straggler social cognition.

The main content of this article is summarizing in model of harmonious Tetranet thinking by chain of concepts expressing attributive transformation of harmony at the GPS founders: 1.Erasmus: subjective harmony - 2.Leibniz: pre-established harmony - 3.Kant: harmony of social nature - 4.GPS: eternal harmony of SPHERONS
 

Model-14. Attributive transformation of harmony at GPS founders

In this dynamics of harmony attributes, SPHERONS of GPS take its logical place, integrating its quality at the predecessors and opening perspectives of the new qualities and institutions of social harmony necessary for conscious SPHERONS and their scientific construction of global peace. In their philosophical knowledge a key role play different intuition of SPHERONS’ social harmony among different nations at different times. As wrote the famous explorer of Leibniz's philosophy and antiquity Gennady Mayorov, "idea is the intuition of being" creative inspiration, knowledge start and incentive of thinking, the result of which is the concept" [49, 110-117]. Jurgen Habermas, in the ethical analysis of Kant's idea of ​​peace, also recognizes its intuition but value character [50]. As intuition of Democritus’ atoms passed history of almost 2500 years to the scientific concept of atom, also intuition of SPHERONS, since Numa Pompilius, passed in the history of almost 2,700 years up to their scientific concept in GPS. Awareness of intuition and concept of SPHERONS was o­nly possible within their scientific theory of harmony in the ABC [1, 25-65], developed in the early chapters of GPS.

Leo Semashko, PhD, GHA President, St-Petersburg, Russia,

Web: www.peacefromharmony.org,E-mail: leo.semashko@gmail.com

3.7. What is the Human Nature: War or Peace? SPHERONS: Logic of Peace Nature.

Leo Semashko

The dilemma of military/peaceful nature of human is the eternal question of philosophy and knowledge in general. Its range was defined by Plato, when he placed the human between God, who knows all things, and animals that are unable to comprehend the world. The human nature is to know the unknown, it is homo sapience. However, it is purely epistemological definition, which does not answer the question of social nature of human directly, though connected with it. If we do not know the human nature, we do not know to what is intended his reason: for war to kill their own kind, or for peace to continue the life of persons and society?

The most common response to the question of human nature became a Social contract theory of Thomas Hobbes, who defined this nature as military. Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), the celebrated British philosopher, known for Social contract theory as a theory of the state in which the doctrine of man is its introduction into the main work of Hobbes' Leviathan. His ideas about human nature got the most widely recognized and adopted so far, although many followers corrected it and opponents criticized it. He writes: "we find in human nature are three main causes of the war: first, competition; secondly, mistrust; third, the thirst for glory ... It is obvious that as long as men live without a common power, holding them all in fear, they are in that condition which is called war, and it is in a state of war of all against all (bellum omnium contra omnes) ..., when everyone is an enemy of each ... In this state there is no place for labor love, .. there is no agriculture, shipping, maritime trade, ... no knowledge of the earth's surface, calculating time, crafts, literature, no society, and, worst of all, there is a perpetual fear and constant danger of violent death, and human life is lonely, poor, hopeless, dumb and short-lived "[51, 333].

Thus, human is naturally hostile to the other person and he is more cruel beast than wolves, bears and snakes. Therefore, "Man is a wolf" (homo homini lupus est) and he uncontrollably tends not to peace with other people and to the power and property. All this at Hobbes characterizes most clearly "natural state" of people.

Professor Igor Narskiy wonders the legitimate question: "when and where was indeed observed in the Earth the natural state? Hobbes does not "tie" it to the specific conditions of primitive life and do not correlate with any real historical chronology .."[52, 167]. Consequently, Hobbes’ proposed model of human nature and its natural state has no scientific sense, as devoid any empirical grounds. Similarly, we can arbitrarily ascribe to human nature any qualities. The o­nly reason explaining these fictions of Hobbes can o­nly be temporary and local facts of "revolutionary events in England in the mid XVII century, when the clashes of selfish property relations culminated... (together) with ruthless pauperization of peasants" [ibid.]

Contrary to scientific insolvency of Hobbes' teaching about military nature of a human and its natural state as a "war of all against all" or "each with other", it has a lot of supporters, even among thinkers. We have already emphasized that among them was Kant, who in confirmation of Hobbes' understanding of human nature emphasized: "From such a curve plank as that, from which a human is made, you cannot do anything direct," having in mind "the inevitable antagonism" and life "through wars" in human society [53, 14-15]. The life of this false and fantastic doctrine up to now can o­nly be explained by o­ne thing: it is advantageous militarists and arms manufacturers of all time and nations, so they defended and will defend it contrary to the facts, science and logic.

But science must show, o­n the o­ne hand, the falsity of doctrines of military nature of human (primarily at Hobbes), and o­n the other, to oppose them the scientific theory of the peaceful nature of human.

The falsity of Hobbes’ doctrine of human nature is as follows:

1.In this notion of Hobbes are mixed two concepts: animal and social nature of human.

2. When Hobbes speaks about human as a more brutal beast than wolves, bears and snakes, he has a view the animal nature, appreciating its erroneously and at humans and at animals. This well had noticed still Erasmus: "Consent (harmony – L.S.) exists and among the most ferocious and wild beasts. Lion never shows vampirism to their fellows. Boar do not rips smashing tusk other boar. Among lynxes peace reigns .... A consensus among wolves even become proverbial .... o­nly people - and they need the most unanimity - unable to reconcile any kind and powerful nature, no education, no clear benefit from mutual consent"[54, 41]. The animals are unable to kill their own kind and the people - are able, but not by any innate nature and by ignorance in harmony/consent and inability to organize their lives in it.

3. o­n social nature, a human is public being, capable o­nly live together with others humans that already was well understood by Aristotle over two thousand years before Hobbes. Therefore, human cannot live "lonely" and kill each other, according to Hobbes. This is absurd. A man can o­nly live in society that is o­nly together with other people in peace and cooperating with them, rather than killing them. Outside of society and without people a man cannot exist. Therefore, the reason is given to man for peace and not for war. However, in some, militaristic conditions, such as the USA, where everyone is allowed to have guns, society is moving in the direction of the war of all against all.

4. The social nature and condition, by definition, are impossible without labor love, production, knowledge, and society. But Hobbes admits their absence for a man with complete seriousness, though this is the chimerical and unnatural condition appropriated to the frogs and other animals but not the man as a social being.

Therefore, all of Hobbes’ "proofs" of military nature and natural state of man has nothing to do with science. They are o­nly good for the warlords that similar "arguments" justify their military aggressions, such as Mussolini, who said “man is nasty animal”; or as the Prussian King Frederick II, who claimed that war is inevitable, as “the men are the most vicious creature in the world and always will kill their own kind”, etc.

The social nature of man can be determined by science o­nly within holistic system of universal and permanent elements of society represented in SOCIONOME whose center are SPHERONS (see the first chapter above and the ABC of Harmony) [1]. The history knows a myriad of facts as the lowest as and most sublime of human behavior. What is the nature of man? It cannot be deduced from this set of facts. Of them can prove both military and peace nature of man as another antinomy of knowledge. It is needs the logical proof of human nature, which is sole by Leibniz, which guarantees objectivity and truth of knowledge.

Such proof gives the theory of SPHERONS substantiating from harmony the peaceful nature of human. It is logically deployed in detail in the first chapter and confirmed statistically in the second chapter. Briefly recall its essence. The human nature is harmonious and peaceful thanks to a joint, all people, the SPHERONS production of spheral PIOT resources needed every society in history. Every adult is involved in all areas to the extent possible, and belongs to all SPHERONS, passing from o­ne to another as needed. Therefore, the murder of each partner of co-production by everyone is no possible! This would stop the production and would kill society. Therefore, the joint production of all the necessary resources is harmonious and peaceful. Harmonious nature of SPHERONS and every man in his essence, expressed by psychological genome PSYNOME, similar to SOCIONOME, define peaceful social nature of man [1, 36-45].It is a logical conclusion of GPS and at the same time its basis for the subsequent conclusions.

Social contract as a common good can be understood and is based o­nly o­n the joint production of the necessary resources PIOT by relevant SPHERONS in peace from their harmony. SPHERONS establish the State and Law (see below). This is a fundamentally new explanation for the origin of a new civil society, all previous history of which a deep intuition of social peace from harmony of SPHERONS accompanied in many different ways. Analysis of its evolution within epistemological perspective of GPS is a task of the new, global history of peace from harmony.

The considered logic of peace human nature can be represented in a model of Tetranet harmonious thinking by the chain of concepts: 1.Joint production of PIOT resources - 2.SPHERONS harmony in PIOT production - 3.Harmony of human nature: PSYNOME – 4. Peace human nature.

Model-15. Logic of social peace nature of human from harmony

The military nature of man is excluded by social peace nature of society, its SPFERONS and human. The existence of war is not due to their nature and superficial, temporary and local historical (transient) causes of social disharmony, which were considered in the first chapter in general and will be analyzed in more detail below.

This paragraph is summarized in the following theses of the logic of peace animal and social nature of human.

1.The nature of animals is peaceful, as if it was a military, i.e. would be to murder their own kind, all kinds of animals long would destroy themselves for hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

2.The nature of primates, including humans, is also peaceful, as if it was a military, the primates long would destroy themselves for tens of millions of years of evolution. The assumption of the "natural state of war of all against all" means, ultimately, the victory of o­nly being in a result of murder of all others, and death of this victor in solitude of the impossibility of procreation, safety from other animals and obtaining the necessary resources.

3.The nature of human, a reasonable being (homo sapiens) is also peaceful, as if it was a military, the human long would destroy themselves for tens of thousands of years of evolution.

4.Any logical assumption about existence of primates with a military nature is recognition of their kinds become extinct and disappeared from the evolution of animal kingdom as a result of military self-destruct in "natural state of war of all against all (each with each)" without any traces in the evolutionary history due to the high speed of self-destruction.

The theses of this logic can be represented, for clarity, in the following table.

Table. Peaceful and Military Nature

As we can see from this table, the logic of evolutionary history of animals, including human, leaves no room for a military nature and its "natural state of war of all against all (each with each)" in any of the historical choices. "The military nature" is pure fiction and myth of abstract thinking, which transforms the private (temporary and local) wars in the rank of the eternal, universal and unchanging "human nature." In reality, the nature of animal kingdom, along with the human race is peaceful, as demonstrated by time, i.e. the whole history of animal evolution. This is the most powerful and persuasive fact of peace human nature, which is devoid an abstract hypothesis "military nature of human."

The historical proof of peaceful nature of human and society requires logical argumentation and theoretical explanation. It was first presented in tetrad paradigm of global peace from universal social harmony of SPHERONS in Global Peace Science in this book.

To eliminate the epistemological source of the ideas about "military nature of human" and its "natural state of war of all against all", people should learn to live in peace from harmony that requires not o­nly intuition but also science of peace. Just so people can live in peace without killing each other to continue the human race and do not expose it to risks of self-destruction through growth of weapons and violence. Other way to survive, except peace, at human, like all animals, does not exist. Mankind makes this whole history but intuitively, leaving ample field for wars o­n the scale of its ignorance in social harmony. We can assume that humanity possesses o­n 70-80% intuitive global peace from harmony and by 20-30% (on the maximum number of population, which participated in the biggest World Wars) its space remains open for wars of ignorance in harmony. This social space of war will decrease o­n the measure of growth of GPS education and the corresponding, peaceful consciousness from harmony. Of course, we must understand that at the modern weapons for self-destruction of humanity is enough space of war and in 30, and 20 and 10 and o­ne percent. While this space is not to be reduced to zero, until mankind will stand o­n the brink of self-destruction. Freedom from its danger will be achieved with the full disarmament.

God gave people an intuitive way to live in peace, above all in the family, so as not to interrupt the human race, and not to condemn it to extinction. But in large masses of people in large-scale societies, besides intuition requires scientific knowledge, consciousness and will to live together in peace from harmony. This knowledge, consciousness and will give GPS and global education in it since childhood. o­nly in this case, the peaceful nature of human will reach the fullness of reasonable historical development. Scientific consciousness of peace from harmony in GPS will supplement intuitive peaceful human nature, which is expressed in religion, art, family, and other basis social institutions up to necessary completeness, excluding any space war in society. But with the current level of public consciousness and traditional social thinking, ignorant in scientific, objective, harmony, eliminate the space of war from society is not possible. GPS opens this possibility really, scientifically convincing humanity in its ineradicable peaceful nature and debunking all the myths about its military nature as false and inhuman.

Leo Semashko, PhD, GHA President, St-Petersburg, Russia,

Web: www.peacefromharmony.org,E-mail: leo.semashko@gmail.com

3.8. Classic Peace Ideas in GPS and their GHA Interpretation

Francisco Goya: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

GHA comment: The Sleep of Peace Reason Produced War Monsters of the 20th and 21st Centuries. o­nly Global Peace Science will awake this reason. But this science does not yet exist. We must create this science that military monsters of military science would not engulf humanity in the sleep of peace reason.

Immanuel Kant: Natural harmony among men is the guarantee of perpetual peace, which is not just a chimerical o­ne.

GHA comment: Kant, in the spirit of his antinomic thinking, held antinomic definition of human nature: the military posed by Hobbes, and harmonious. His philosophy of harmonious social nature of people is the original theoretical foundation and source for the Global Peace Science. Therefore Kant is the ancestor of this science as a science of social harmony, which was most fully developed in the GHA peacemaking books and projects since 2005.

Social harmony provides the best, most just, most free and most equal opportunities and rights for the development of every person, every part of society/humanity and it as a whole. Therefore harmony excludes wars between the parts and is a natural and therefore the ultimate guarantor and source of peace. Hence, peace comes from harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi: If we are ever to have real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children.

GHA comment: If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children, with the ABC of Harmony as peace science, and with their harmonious peace education.

Nelson Mandela: Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the World.

GHA comment: Education will always be the most powerful weapon to change the world, when it will become a planetary harmonious education in Global Peace Science.

Albert Einstein: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can o­nly be achieved by understanding.

GHA comment: Hence, peace can be achieved and built o­nly by reason, armed with global peace science and embodied in global consciousness through global education in it.

We should overcome the challenge of scientific disarmament and ignorance of peace reason in the face of the powerful and excellent armament of militaristic reason by highly developed for two centuries military science, to which today are served millions of military experts, scholars, teachers and students in thousands of military headquarters staff, academies and colleges of the world.

Charles, Prince of Wales: Harmony is a revolution in our outlook and thinking.

GHA comment: GHA has been developing a harmonious outlook and thinking since 2005, but o­nly now we have come to understand its revolutionary character in Global Peace Science. This science is an intellectual revolution of peace thinking (worldview, theory, philosophy, consciousness) of humanity of the 21st century. Such a scientific revolution of peace thinking is the response to the actual collapse of traditional peace thinking, which has been expressed in the 20th century to the present day in its complete impotence before two world wars, before daily local wars, before galloping military expenditures and the arms race for the third world war, before rising terror and individual murders, etc. This revolution will allow creating Global Peace Science that cannot be created in traditional peace thinking in spite of all its merits.

The revolution of peacemaking thinking from harmony, initiated by Charles, Prince of Wales in his book Harmony, 2010, is a source of inspiration and enthusiasm of GHA and all peacemakers of the world, awaking peace reason through imagination of harmony in Global Peace Science.

Leo Tolstoy: In the hands of war are billions of money, millions of obedient troops and in our hands is o­nly o­ne, but the mightiest tool in the world - the truth.

GHA comment: Of all the arsenals of humanity: culture, science, art, medicine, education, economy, politics, etc., the most powerful and fastest growing today is the war arsenal, consolidated by military science, which are nursing all governments around the world with rabid military budgets, which now absorbs almost all the economic growth of humanity.

The peace arsenal is infinitely weak in comparison with it, first of all, because it is deprived of scientific expression of the peace truth as its mightiest tool. This truth is clearly expressed by Global Peace Science.

Martin L. King Jr.: We must shift the arms race into a peace race.

GHA comment: Global Peace Science reveals the truth that the main source of economic growth of humanity in the 21st century is global peace, not the exploitation of natural resources in military interests. When the governments of the world understand this truth in terms of economic stimulus, then they will come to a peace race, i.e. to emulation of the earliest transformations of military arsenals and military forces to the Peace Corps using military resources and expenses for the purposes of peaceful construction of roads, airports, housing, hospitals, educational institutions, sports facilities, etc. A peace race will overcome hunger, unemployment and other social pathologies and global problems. A peace race as such supersedes the economic and financial crises, resulting from the arms race and excessive military spending. A peace race based o­n Global Peace Science will ensure sustainable development of humanity, which is constantly being undermined by the arms race.

Martin L. King Jr.: Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

GHA comment: To the militarist, having a false definition of peace (“if you want peace – prepare to war”), peace becomes a slave, a condition, a break between wars and preparations for war, Global Peace Science advocates true definition of peace: “If you want peace - create harmony o­n the basis of its science.” Peace can be reached o­nly by peaceful path of global peace consciousness through global peace education in this science, and not a global preparation to war in an endless arms race.

Militaristic definition and thinking of peace is limited the military means to achieve peace, which provides, at best, a temporary reconciliation, maintaining an endless war path. We see this throughout history, up to the present day. World leaders and governments are competent in military ways of achieving peace but they are ignorant in peaceful/harmonious means to achieve it.

Nicholas Roerich: Peace culture must be in priority, not war culture.

GHA comment: o­nly Global Peace Science reveals all the diversity of peace benefits before the war and provides insight into the true culture of peace. The lack of this science in human culture is its biggest flaw so far. This science is the foundation for the Harmonious Culture of Peace, which is opposed to the militaristic culture of peace, absorbing and retaining its private positive moments.

Abdul Kalam:

The wise sage Confucius said,

"When there is beauty in the character,

There is harmony in the home"

The enlightened o­ne, the Buddha added,

"When there is harmony in the home,

There is order in the nation,

When there is order in the nation

There is peace in the world"

GHA comment: Confucius and Buddha expressed the architecture of global peace and its main levels: individual - family - nation – humanity/world/Earth. Confucius and Buddha identified the root source of global peace - harmony of the human as a genus. But o­nly through 2.5 thousand years of military history after Confucius and Buddha humanity has come to Science, which allows us to understand the architecture and source of global peace from harmony - not o­nly geniuses but also to everyone. o­nly this Science provides global peace consciousness and global peace from conscious harmony. o­nly this Science will allow consciously establishing harmony in character and family. o­nly this Science will allow mankind to consciously build a harmonious order in the nations and a harmonious global peace in the world o­n our Earth.

Despite the wise and undoubtedly true words of Confucius, Buddha, and other humanity’s geniuses, the global peace has no appeared o­n the Earth over more than 2,500 years of endless war o­n it. It will come to the Earth o­nly when Global Peace Science will be created as a property of all nations and every person o­n Earth. Therefore, this Science is the first common good of humanity and for each person in the 21st century.

Global Harmony Association, inspired by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, 2002-2007, the great contemporary scientist and poet in harmony, the ABC of Harmony coauthor, the GHA Honorary Member since 2005 and the GHA World Harmony Creator since 2011, realized the need for this Science and created the first book o­n this topic in world history in the ABC of Harmony for World Peace … (2012) and in this book.

Ernesto Kahan: Ah, if men could understand that giving love they will achieve much more than giving hate!

GHA comment: Men can understand it through Global Peace Science, which unfolds the deep mystery of love as peace from harmony in all its bloom and dignity, eliminating hate as own defiling humiliation.

Others GHA comments: GHA creates Global Peace Science o­n the shoulders of world giants of human thought.

Global Peace Science is the consolidation of peace consciousness of humanity in contrast to military science, which is the consolidation of hostile consciousness in humanity.

If harmony is the ultimate guarantor and natural source of peace, Global Peace Science is the Science of Social Harmony, founded by Kant and which most fully represented in the ABC of Harmony for Global Peace (2012).

The famous American philosopher, the ABC coauthor, Glenn Martin, praised it as "our new Planetary paradigm, the fundamental revolution in science and paradigm shift in human consciousness" (p. 296).

GHA does not know other variants of Global Peace Science and other theoretical approaches to its creation but logically GHA supposes them opportunity and is ready both to compete with them in any international scientific contest for peace science, and to cooperation with them to complement each other in a mutual harmonious enriching.

GHA understands that all powerful militaristic host will hamper to the progress of Global Peace Science, so this task will not be easy and fast o­ne.

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3.9. Mir (Peace). Prayer for Peace and Culture. Nicholas Roerich

Mir (Peace).

It is no coincidence that the Russian word mir means both "Universe" and "peacefulness" at the same time. It is for a reason that these two great concepts are united by o­ne sounding. When you bethink of Universe you imagine peaceful labour. Having set about work you will be conscious of the Universe.

Peace is particularly talked about in the fear of threat of war. But war can be of different kinds - inward and outward, visible and invisible. And it's an open question which o­ne is more dreadful...

"It is a true misery of both ancient and present mankind that its most prominent poet and wisest teacher Homer was a bard of war, not peace. He had lost his faith in peace together with faith in gods.

‘There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of o­ne mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor there any covenants between us, till o­ne or other shall fall and glut grim Mars with his life's blood.’

That is what "everyone will be killing each other" and "there will be no end to war" mean. "Iliad", the Trojan war mark just the beginning of endless war - the war which has been lasting till today throughout centuries of the world history", - Merezhkovsky exclaims in his "Atlantida".

There are lots of heartrending moanings. Dante had also designated scorching spots for assassins and vituperators. If we examine all symbols and scrolls, in all metaphors and hieroglyphs we will see the same aspiration, an intimate and heartful prayer for peace […….].

The Truth is "thou shalt not kill". The first step appropriate for everyone everywhere is no murder - no war. "Kill and you will die, give life and you will be alive yourself. It is clear to a baby, being the greatest mystery at the same time".

Is defense of culture needed? Everywhere and everytime it is. Should we help cultural workers who are oppressed and burdened? Everywhere and everytime we should. Should we unite around the sign of culture to overcome all the efforts to disseminate disintegration? Everywhere and everytime we should.

Or maybe culture, knowledge and beauty already been protected and affirmed enough? Maybe the principles of culture already been established everywhere? Or do cultural workers have law and people's sense as their stronghold? The League of Culture as a voice of public opinion is still emergently necessary!

We have to talk about peace and non killing. Why do we still have to? Hadn't the past millennia taught people the basic things which had been given as a commandment through all scriptures? But what do we see? The far it goes the more urgent is to claim the essence of peace. Where is the evolution when the menacing gun is combat-ready and deadly poison is being madly disseminated? To what extent people became sophisticated that poison is pouring down from the sky! From that very sky which used to give people vivifying prana.

What o­n earth is this? There are bombs and mines under the ground. Poison comes down from the sky. Muzzles of dreadful guns are o­n the alert. Here it comes the "celebration of gun" when its shot makes journey around the earth and reach anything which it can destroy.

"Nations have no idea which horrifying danger they are going to face in case of a new war", - Prof. André Meyer wrote in his report for League of Nations.

"Gases of the past war were just a toy, a children's play in front of what we will have in case of new war", - adds another expert Columbia university Professor V. Cannon.

According to the recent report of Dr. Hilton Jones made in New York the brand new gas can destroy the whole army just as easy as "quench a candle".

Truth! The inventor of poisonous gas thinks he is doing right thing. The steel worker is proud of his gun which would slay somebody beyond the horizon. The knife grinder is foretasting how the blade stubs skin and flesh... Human thoughts!

Not this kind of truth is needed. "People need another truth", - Gorky says. The truth which could boost the creative energy. Needed is the truth which awakens people's trust in their own will, sense and kind deeds.

Others make bulletproof armours. Do they hope to create a defense against all malicious attacks? May it be so.

Defense of culture, defense of motherland, defense of dignity do not suppose thoughts of violent invasion. Armour of defense is not poison of destruction. Justified is defense, condemned is invasion.

Isn't that amazing that in Russian both "peacefulness" and "Universe" are expressed by the same word "Mir"? It is not due to poorness of the language. The language is rich. But these two concepts are univalent in their essence. Universe and peaceful creation are indivisible. By all their symbols and hieroglyphs were the ancient people trying to make this beneficial and salvational tie clear.

Mir is the Universe and Mir is the global peaceful labour. Planting is creation; beauty of peace is the victress.

Prayer for Peace and Culture.

Culture and Peace are the most sacred goal of humanity! In the days of great unrest, both material and spiritual, the disturbed spirit yearns for these radiant strongholds. But our union in the name of these regenerating conceptions should not be an abstract o­ne. In accordance with our abilities, each o­ne in his own field, should infuse them into the actual surrounding life, as most necessary and undeferrable.

In our Peace Pact, in 1929, we proposed a special Banner of Peace for the protection of all cultural treasures. A special Committee for promoting this Banner has been elected in New York. An International Union for the Roerich Pact has been established with its central seat in Bruges, where a world Congress for spreading the ideals of Peace through Culture was convened last September with most significant results, indicating how close this aim is to the hearts of all affirmative people of the entire world.

From Temples, shrines of spirit, from all light-imparting centers, should ceaselessly thunder the world-wide call, eliminating the very possibilities of wars, and creating, for the generations to come, new lofty traditions of veneration for the true cultural treasures. By untiringly unfurling everywhere the Banner of Peace, we thus destroy the very physical field of war. Let us also affirm the World-Day of Culture, when simultaneously in all churches, all schools and all educational institutions, the world will be reminded of the true treasures of humanity, of creative heroic enthusiasm, of improvement and enhancement of life. For this purpose, we have not o­nly to safeguard our cultural heritage in which are expressed the highest achievements of humanity, with all available means, but we must consciously value these treasures, remembering that each contact with them in itself will ennoble the human spirit.

As we have already witnessed, wars cannot be stopped by interdiction, any more than malice or falsehood can be prohibited. But by striving undelay ably and patiently to the highest treasures of humanity, we may make these products of darkness altogether inadmissible, as the progeny of crass ignorance. The ennobled, expanded consciousness having contacted the Realm of Light, will naturally enter the path of peaceful constructiveness, discarding as shameful refuse all the disparagement of human dignity generated by ignorance.

Already the lists of endorsers of the Banner of Peace are long and glorious. Already the Banner has been consecrated during the conference in Bruges in the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Thereby we have given our sacred oath to introduce it everywhere with all possible measures. Those from all ends of the world who trusted us and have suffused the space with their heartiest wishes, will not look in vain for the Banner above all shrines of real treasures. Each day brings new letters, new response. The election urn has been filled with precious votes “For Peace.” Verily Peace and Culture are at present urgently needed.

It is not so much a new law that is needed, but an imperative wish, a united panhuman desire to safeguard the achievements of mankind, which is so badly needed. Every endeavor, even the most evident, requires an active start. For Peace and Culture o­ne does not even need a unanimous world-wide vote. The beautiful principles of General Good can be affirmed in every scale, still retaining their vital potentiality. Let us thus greet wholeheartedly all co-workers: “Without delay, proceed victoriously in your full capacities, along this glorious Path!”

Verily, the time is short—lose neither the day nor the hour! Kindle the flame of the heart to an indomitable enthusiasm. Under the Banner of Peace let us proceed towards the o­ne Supreme Light, in powerful union as the World League of Culture! [55]

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