the iconoclast's descending

  Gnostic Abstraction vs. the Logos Living with the Substrate:    Theodicy, Form, and Ethical Motion             The eye quickly wanders—in, upward--;  the ear arrests and wends,  aways the courtesan's  rend and course Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds February 2026    [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   Abstract This essay develops, in contrast to the historically recurrent patterns of gnosticism, a Logos-centered metaphysical and ethical framework grounded in Hebrews 5:13–14, which locates mature discernment...