[W]hen Nichiren began to promulgate his doctrines he composed an essay called the Rissho Ankoku Ron, or “Treatise on the Establishment of the Good Law and Pacification of the State,” which he offered to the Government of that day in hopes that the rulers would accept its precepts and put them into practice. The peace and prosperity of the individual necessarily depend on those of the family, and those of the family on those of the State: for when the State is unprosperous and disturbed the same condition will extend to both families and individuals.