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            The following translation of Gabriel Hanotaux’s JEANNE D’ARC, includes three selections of texts which are relevant to understanding the principle of axiomatic change that Joan of Arc embodied in the accomplishment of her historical mission of saving France and Christianity during a short period of less than two years of deployment, from 1429 to 1431.

            What Gabriel Hanotaux was looking for in his investigation of Joan was the anomaly that caused the change, the paradoxical idea that transformed the whole of Europe and created the French Renaissance; that is, the dominating idea that captured the imagination of the entire French population and caused millions of people to change in a very short period of time.

            Hanotaux focused on those events that demonstrated the transformative principle of change which caused the demise of the entire civil and clerical aristocracy of France and kicked the English out of France. That principle was identified very clearly on the standard that Joan of Arc carried with her into battle, which can be summarized as: The Paradox of the Announcement and its Accomplishment.

The question this raises for us today is: how can a similar idea cause a renaissance during our own time? The entire success of Joan of Arc’s mission resided in answering that question by effectively establishing that paradox as coinciding with the spirit of her time. Can we do the same today?

JOAN OF ARC: THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROMISE

The difficulty in understanding the historical significance of Joan of Arc comes from the difficulty in understanding the nature of her miracle, which is: ANNOUNCING AND ACCOMPLISHING THE CHANGE AT THE SAME TIME. This is what the book of Gabriel Hanotaux, JEANNE D’ARC is uniquely capable of giving the reader the ability to grasp, when he understands the performative nature of the coincidence between her first meeting with Charles VII and the Pilgrimage of the Annunciation at Le Puy on Mach 25, 1429.

The key to understanding Joan of Arc is located in realizing that the purpose of her mission was the reconstruction of humanity in the simultaneity of eternity; that is to say, in discovering that such a miracle of transformation had to pass through the historical reconstruction of Charlemagne’s Unity of Europe: a Europe without religious divisions, a Europe without geopolitical tensions, a Europe without competitive nationalistic and oligarchical interests; in one word, a Europe entirely based on the principle of changing mankind through the benefit of the other.

Hanotaux’s book also makes you discover that if France had been taken over by the English, if during the short period of three years of Joan of Arc’s mission, it had been partitioned between England and the German controlled Burgundy, not only would France have been completely destroyed, but Christianity and Western Civilization as a whole would have also been eradicated from the surface of the Earth.

THE AXIOMATIC CHANGE OF JOAN OF ARC ACCORDING TO GABRIEL HANOTAUX

Benjamin Banneker was an African-American inventor, poet, mathematician, and astronomer mostly known for having designed the plan of the city of Washington DC with the French architect, Pierre L’Enfant, under the supervision of George Washington.

What is little known about him, however, is the fact that he had made the fundamental Leibnizian discovery that the principle of proportionality between reason and power was congruent with arithmetic, politics, and the Peace of Westphalia.

BENJAMIN BANNEKER: PROPORTIONALITY AND THE BENEFIT OF THE OTHER

Schiller said that beauty was essential to life because it is the fundamental characteristic of a moral human being. Why is that the case? Because what is good is also what is beautiful, and what is beautiful is also what is true. As Leibniz discovered:

“All beauty consists in a harmony and proportion; the beauty of minds, or of creatures who possess reason, is a proportion between reason and power, which in this life is also the foundation of the justice, the order, and the merits and even the form of the Republic, that each may understand what he is capable, and capable as much as he understands.” (Quoted from The Political Economy of the American Revolution, EIR, 1995, p. 215.)

WHY IS BEAUTY BEAUTIFUL?

This report investigates the paradox of Homoousios and of the Filioque of the Charlemagne Creed as the means of eliminating the lies of the fake news about war. Once that problem is understood and solved, one might hope that mankind will stop repeating the mistakes of past history.

Since the Filioque question has been the object of the most significant controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity, the time has now come to properly understand and solve such a paradox in order to be able to reach out for a peaceful relationship with Russia and assure the victory of the win-win policy of Xi Jinping.

The point is that the Filioque has to be taken out of its narrow religious context and be adopted as an epistemological mean of securing peace and development for the world. How do you do that? The key is to understand the significance of what Lyndon LaRouche means by a triply-connected Riemannian manifold and apply it to a New Peace of Westphalia for the whole planet.

OLIGARCHISM VS REPUBLICANISM