On the Question of Peace x

SO VITAL indeed is the question of peace that nations entire, in the necessary and honorable quest for an answer, are willing to sacrifice so much of it's treasured sons and daughters along the course of this one hope.

For the answer to this question governs a nation's self-evident right to exist as itself.

This is true across all of human history.

So much sacred blood and noble toil have been shed and suffered through in the course of the ages upon the altar of freedom to obtain from this sacrifice of tears, the soul of a nation which is the light of its civilization.
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LET US CONSIDER, my honorable compatriot, the question of peace. It is obvious to our observation that most - if not all - of the nations of today have an urgent need for answers to this ageless question. It is also obvious to our remembrances that many nations of old have urgently sought for answers to this same question. In the larger context of this overwhelming commonality of need, therefore, let us think not that our own particular need as a nation in our own time and place and its inherent difficulties though common to our own experience is in any way an exception to this one rule: that every nation, of all times and places, in the course of its being itself must hope with only one hope - the hope of peace.

Hence, let us establish now in the opposite sense what a nation may never hope for in its own soul - war, war in the sense of its one paradigm whole. For this is the one and only sin that an entire nation can become guilty of and since the wages of sin is ever the same for all souls, a nation that is guilty of war in its soul shall in time perish in the desolation of war and the false peace which it has chosen for itself. No nation can establish its own sense of being itself through opposition without first creating within itself a common reality that is meaningful to the particular existence of its people. A nation that acquires a spirit of opposition (the spirit of opposition being the fundamental being of war) exclusively as a means to derive a sense of meaningful pursuit among other nations in the world becomes hollowed out inside being without its own soul; it proves constantly restless stirring with the stirrings of wars ambition and helpless against the darkness of war.

Therefore, the question of peace, most especially where it concerns emerging nations, is more than just the absence of conflict as peace is often times interpreted to be, it is a question that is existential to that civilization, concerning the one whole of the nation which includes all its generations in time and dimensional space. In this regard, expediency and particularity become insignificant when compared to the universality and absoluteness that is necessary in the consideration.

Briefly and as regards to the one peace of our nations;

Peace is original to our state. It can not be won in battle nor can peace ever be attained through war. Peace, as it concerns our nations, can only be re-established among the hearts of the people.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the complete turning away from it. Peace where it is present in the people is the foundation upon which the generations of that nation may freely build the habitations, systems and institutions of sacred life that work together to advance and defend the common good which is the labor of Country itself: Country being the synthesis in time of the nation and the state.

Peace is not the appeasement of war as peace where it is present in the people is exactly the reason the noble military exists by commission of the state and on behalf of its nation. Force of arms is only meaningful where peace is present in the people as a means of defense.

Peace is neither particular to nor exclusive of anything within the whole of itself - it extends to all things within its own sphere of being. Peace is a good of the people therefore, it is a one whole truth. From the soul of man, peace exists as wholes upon greater wholes which are ascendant to the Almighty as well as aligned towards the purpose of all creation which is the restoration of itself as itself in the original form intended from the foundation of the world.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sancti!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.