A Natural-Law Interpretation of the Founders of Major World Religions and a Unified Systems Framework for Education, Leadership, and Society

Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive, non-dogmatic analysis of the original founders of major world religions through the lens of natural law and systems theory. It argues that religious founders were not institutional religion-builders but early observers of universal principles governing human behavior, social stability, and suffering. These principles—cause and effect, balance, feedback, and interconnectedness—were expressed symbolically due to historical and scientific limitations. Over time, institutionalization transformed flexible insights into rigid dogma, leading to systemic failures at societal and global scales. Building on this analysis, the paper proposes a unified universal framework grounded in four natural laws and demonstrates its applicability to education, leadership, economics, population dynamics, governance, and artificial general intelligence (AGI). The framework is positioned as a completion and formalization of the original insights underlying religion, rather than a rejection of them.