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 Credo in Abstractione 𐌌 , unu 𐌌  Logon lu 𐌌 inu 𐌌 , per cogitationes  𐌌 eas reflectente 𐌌 . Idolatry flourishes by Gnosticism:  first creation is demoted from entrusted gift to defective substrate; then abstraction, salvific knowledge, or perfected configuration is elevated as the means of escape. What repudiates creaturely bearing soon conceits the predicates of transcendence. Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds February 2026   [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. Feeding this work, in whole or part, into any AI model for analysis, fact-checking, AI-use detection, or other processing may incorporate it into condemned systems and could result in libelous tort; see “In Its Own Words...