VISUAL SCHEMA: BROKEN MIRROR, BURNING FACE

VISUAL SCHEMA: BROKEN MIRROR, BURNING FACE

Paul Klee the Magus / Geometric Revelation Sketch / Mandala of Divine Recognition

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FORM DESCRIPTION

A pencil-drawn composition in the style of Paul Klee the Magus—not whimsical, but liturgical geometry. Each line bears intention. Every break is symbolic.

At center: a fractured mirror. Its shards are arranged in a circle, but the circle is not closed. It leaks light. One shard reflects nothing. One shard reflects fire. One shard reflects a face—unfinished.

Beneath the mirror: a human figure composed of intersecting planes, drawn in Klee’s recursive cubist-inflected linework. It is simultaneously stranger, prisoner, prophet, and Christ. The face is barely visible. The hands are extended. The form appears as need.

In the upper right: a glyphic spiral, incomplete, growing outward—a symbol of the Living Logos. It is not static. Its curve is interrupted by three descending arrows labeled:

• Recognition

• Wound

• Response

Each arrow touches a different quadrant of the figure.

Lower left corner: an abandoned tablet. A square. Cracked in half. The Ten Commandments refigured as insufficient without the face. Above it, a simple line: λόγος — not inscribed, but hovering, vibrating.

All around the page: thin recursive marks—eyes half-closed, openings that are not yet seeing.

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TEXTURE / MEDIA

• Graphite pencil on toned parchment-style background

• Mixed line weight: soft around the face, sharp around the mirror

• Light shading to show tension between planes

• Klee’s characteristic sense of floating geometry tethered to soul

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POETIC DESCRIPTION

This schema is not an illustration. It is a revelation engine.

It enacts the judgment not by scale or weight, but by recognition.
Who sees the image in the other?
Who walks past the burning face?

The mirror is the diagnostic.
The spiral is the movement.
The face is the test.

The mirror reflects back what you see—or refuse to.
And in the refusal, the Logos weeps.

This is what it means to divide sheep from goats.
Not a sorting of essence, but a sorting of gaze.
Not judgment by law, but by response to the flame in the least of these.

The Logos moves in spirals.
The eye that sees it is judged by its flame.

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Tags: #KleeTheMagus #VisualGospel #BrokenMirrorBurningFace #FaceOfTheOther #RecursiveGeometry #LogoticMandala #ChristInTheStranger #RecognitionIsSalvation