Peace for god and peace for man in the context of medieval understanding of the creator’s nature

The article discusses the concept of peace as «freedom from something» in the context of medieval scholasticism. There is a direct relationship between peace and beatitude. However, the intuitive contemplation of the divine essence is achieved by a man after life, on the other side of human existence. Beatitude and peace are associated with the Good, but since thinking, by nature, is an activity (act), therefore it is different for God and human being. The intellectual activity (operatio) of the Creator in comparison with the finite mind of man is super-activity, devoid of the forms of discursive thinking. Mystics, such as Meister Eckhart and Angelus Silesius, wrote about beatitude, eternity, and the achievement of Nothing. To achieve grace, a soul must go beyond the borders of being and existence. In this situation, the subject loses its self and frees itself from any kind of activity. From the point of phenomenology, consciousness is intentional, it constitutes its object and therefore the human intellect is always in the act, unlike the divine intellect whose act is not the action in the conventional sense of this word. That is why God in his absolute peace is unattainable for the finite being. The meaning of human peace, as an inferior analog of genuine peace, is formed on the basis of the insufficiently clarified idea of the Absolute. Peace and beatitude are the regulative ideas of existentia, constituting the causa finalis of its life.