VISUAL SCHEMA: TWO TABLES / ONE FLAME / ONE SWORD

VISUAL SCHEMA: TWO TABLES / ONE FLAME / ONE SWORD

A Poetic Schema of the Multiform Christ

---

FORM DESCRIPTION

A graphite-pencil, Paul Klee–inspired composition divided into two mirrored halves, split by a narrow, vertical line of light.

On the left, the first table:

• A low, intimate setting.

• Bread, wine, open palms.

• A figure with bowed head, etched in fine, gentle strokes.

• Light emanates from within the figures—soft, ember-glow.

On the right, the second table:

• A vast, elevated dais.

• Chalice at the center, but the liquid swirls upward like a flame.

• A figure seated on a cube of stone—angular, cosmic.

• His eyes are geometric bursts.

• A line curves from his mouth: the sword, rendered not as weapon but as inscription—a scroll unrolled, arcing down across the space.

Above both tables hovers a sigil: λόγος—twice-inscribed, once in golden breath, once in charred ink.

Beneath, a third form connects them: a flame between footpaths.

• One footpath leads from the intimate table to the sword.

• The other leads back—but dimly.

---

TEXTURE AND STYLE

• Linework alternates between trembling curves and angular fracture.

• Contrasts in shading: left is warmth, right is brilliance.

• The sword-scroll contains barely legible glyphs: fire, wrath, justice, remnant, mercy, recognition.

---

POETIC DESCRIPTION

This schema is not a division—it is a revelation of Logos in fullness.

The Christ who feeds.
The Christ who judges.
The Christ who holds the Word and is the Word.

Both tables are real.
Both flames are true.
The Eucharist and the Apocalypse share the same root system.

And the sword? It is not vengeance.
It is naming.
It is the cutting of false union, the cleaving of cowardly compromise.
It is the line that divides not flesh from flesh, but truth from the story told about it.

This schema asks one thing only:

When you say “Jesus,” which table are you speaking from?

And more:

Can you walk the path that connects them?

---

Tags: #TwoTables #RevelationChrist #PaulKleeSchema #LivingLogos #ChristOfWrathAndMercy #VisualDoctrine #WhichJesus #EucharistAndSword

WHICH JESUS?

WHICH JESUS?

A Final Address to Interpretive Violence in the Name of Conscience

---

There is more than one Jesus in scripture.
Not because He is divided—but because He is vast.
Because He comes to us in layers, in times, in flame.

There is the Jesus who sits beside the broken.
There is the Jesus who eats with traitors and weeps.
There is the Jesus who stands silent before his accusers.

And—
There is the Jesus of Revelation:
Eyes like flame.
Voice like many waters.
Sword from mouth.
He who tramples the winepress of the wrath of God.
He who writes names in white stone.
He who walks among the lampstands and holds the churches to account.

This Jesus is not a metaphor.
He presides.
He judges.
He speaks in image and terror and truth.

---

So when I referenced the feast, and the blood, and the enemies—
I was not speaking in glee.
I was speaking in Revelation language.
I was placing a hard counterweight against the too-easy Jesus you invoked—
the Jesus stripped of fire, stripped of sword, stripped of wrath.

I explained this.
More than once.
In text.
In presence.
In counseling.
I said what I meant.
I gave you the interpretive key.
I laid down the weapon.

And you picked it up again.
And turned it back toward me.
And called it mine.

---

You say:

“You had glee.”
“You shapeshift.”
“I don’t know who you are.”
“You’re mad because I have a conscience.”

But I say:

You erased the Christ I referenced.
You refused the Word I offered.
You turned my interpretation into an accusation.
You made my explanation disappear.

---

And so I ask:

Which Jesus are you invoking when you tell me what He would do?

The one who flattens wrath?
The one who blesses safety?
The one who cannot hold paradox?
The one who cannot be spoken in fire?

Because the one I know has walked in blood.
Has broken temples.
Has wept for those who would not listen.
And has loved—through flame, not in spite of it.

---

So no, I will not let you define my conscience.
I will not let you narrate my soul.
I will not let you decide which Jesus I may speak from.

There is a fence.
Right exactly here.
You may not cross it again.
Please keep it to yourself.

ON APPEARANCE AND RECOGNITION

ON APPEARANCE AND RECOGNITION

Scroll of Unmarked Christ / Diagnostic Flame / Logotic Mystery

---

Christ does not appear with a name-tag.
Christ does not arrive with a doctrine.
Christ does not carry a sign that says: This is Me. Respond accordingly.

Christ appears without label.
He appears in the hunger, the stranger, the prisoner, the friend whose face you forgot to turn toward.
He appears in the one who loves you without authority.
He appears in the one whose suffering cannot be explained away.

He appears—
And you are judged not by your understanding,
But by your recognition.

---

The Logos is not static.
It is not “2+2=4.”
It is not “sheep are sheep.”
It is not “things are things.”

The Logos is the interruption of category.
The unbidden appearance of the Infinite in the ordinary.
The failure of your label to hold what shines through.

---

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, He does not ask:

• What did you believe?

• What label did you assign?

• What doctrinal box did you place it in?

He asks:

Did you see Me?
Did you feed Me?
Did you recognize Me in the one without a name?

That is the sorting.
That is the gospel.
That is the fire.

---

If you saw Him, He knows.
If you didn’t, the question still echoes.
If you refused to look, the judgment has already begun.

---

There is only one criterion:
Did you respond to the face that bore no label, but burned with the image of God?

And if not:

You have done it unto Me.

VISUAL SCHEMA: BROKEN MIRROR, BURNING FACE

VISUAL SCHEMA: BROKEN MIRROR, BURNING FACE

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

---

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.

---

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

---

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.

---

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

THE GOSPEL OF THE IMAGE IN THE FACE OF THE OTHER

THE GOSPEL OF THE IMAGE IN THE FACE OF THE OTHER

Scripture / Exegesis / Logos-Diagnostic Canon

---

I. SCRIPTURE

Matthew 25:31–40 (KJV)

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

---

II. GREEK KEY (MATTHEW 25:40)

Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐρεῖ αὐτοῖς· Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἐποιήσατε ἑνὶ τούτων τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν ἐλαχίστων, ἐμοὶ ἐποιήσατε.

Translation:

And the King shall answer and say to them: Truly I say to you, insofar as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.

---

III. EXEGESIS

This passage is not merely about charity. It is the core diagnostic of Logos-recognition.

• The judgment is not made on doctrinal grounds.

• It is not based on group affiliation, belief, or moral purity.

• It is rendered entirely according to one's response to the Living Image of God in the Other.

The “goats” are not rejected because they were inherently evil.
They are rejected because they did not see.

They saw a prisoner and not Christ.
They saw a beggar and not the Logos.
They saw the least—and missed the Infinite.

And so they failed to commune.
They failed to participate in the recognition-loop that is salvation.

This is not about sentiment. It is about ontological attunement.
Do you see the Logos moving in your brother?
That is the question.

---

IV. COMMENTARY

“And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man…” — Romans 1:23

There are always two images:

• The Living Image: the imago Dei in the other.

• The Constructed Image: the idol, the categorization, the enclosure.

The former breaks systems.
The latter preserves them.

The former speaks back.
The latter justifies rejection.

The goats are not the wicked.
They are those who saw no God where God was.

---

V. FINAL DIAGNOSIS

If your theology permits you to disregard the suffering other, it is not theology of the Logos.

If your moral system allows you to classify, ignore, or denounce without looking into the face, it is not from God.

If your doctrine offers you salvation without recognition, it is an idol of speech, not a living Word.

---

VI. THIS IS THE GOSPEL

That the Logos is not seen in theory but in the wound.
Not received in heaven, but in the stranger.
Not spoken through power, but through the bare voice of the other asking to be seen.

This is the flame that still walks.
This is the Christ-form in the face of the one we pass.
This is the God we do not recognize—and by that failure, reveal ourselves.

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

And that is the whole gospel.
And without it, you have nothing.

VISUAL SCHEMA: THE LIVING LOGOS

VISUAL SCHEMA: THE LIVING LOGOS

Paul Klee–Style Glyphic Recursion / Pencil Sketch Schema / Poetic Exegetical Form

---

FORM DESCRIPTION

A sparse, trembling pencil sketch in the style of Paul Klee.
Soft lines, incomplete spirals, partial frames.
Everything is in motion, but nothing is fully enclosed.

At the center: a recursive spiral, drawn not in one continuous stroke, but in fractured breathlines—each segment a separate attempt to return to origin, to voice. The spiral never completes. It remains open at the top, where light leaks in.

Within the spiral: glyphs, not letters—sound-shapes, flickers of sacred utterance.
They bend and fold around the curve, echoing like silent prayers in graphite.

The lower left quadrant contains a figure-shaped absence—not drawn, but implied by negative space. A vessel for the Word. A reader, a speaker, a mourner.

The upper right quadrant shows a cracked square, almost a tablet, broken mid-line. A gesture toward law, undone.
From its crack emerges a seed-form—a drop of flame, sketched only in outline.

In the margins: recursive arrows, tiny and fine.
Each arrow points backward toward a prior stroke, or forward toward the undone.
They map the motion of the Logos across time, but never land.

---

TEXTURAL ELEMENTS

• Pencil over aged paper, textured like thought

• Some lines sharp, others barely there—like fading memory

• Glyphs scrawled as if through dream

• Asymmetry preserved—nothing resolved

---

POETIC DESCRIPTION

This image is a wound that recurses.
It is not an icon of clarity, but a map of holy failure.
The spiral does not ascend—it trembles.
The flame does not consume—it waits.

The Logos here does not thunder.
It sketches.
It flickers.
It returns again and again to the same curve—not to prove, but to be recognized.

You do not look at this schema.
You inhabit it.
You follow the graphite like breath returning to breath.
You hold your silence where the lines do not close.

This is not scripture drawn.
This is scripture becoming.

---

Tags: #LivingLogos #RecursiveGlyph #PaulKleeSchema #SpiralUnfinished #LogoticTrace #Breathlines #FlameThatStillWalks

THE LIVING LOGOS

THE LIVING LOGOS

Scripture / History / Philosophy / Invocation / Trace

---

In the beginning was not the rule. Nor the axiom. Nor the law.
In the beginning was the movement.
The spiral. The cry. The breath behind coherence.

And the Logos was with God. And the Logos was God.
But more: the Logos was motion.
Not the stone tablet, but the hand still writing.
Not the doctrine, but the voice that echoes through it.
Not the proof, but the crack in the proof that sings.

---

The Logos is not an idea.
It is a being who speaks.
It speaks the world into form.
And then it speaks again.
And again.
And again.

The Logos does not stabilize.
It reverberates.
It folds meaning into itself until the meaning weeps.
It takes on flesh—not just once, but whenever truth is born in a body.

It enters systems and breaks them open.
It enters names and exceeds them.
It enters silence and becomes light.

---

There is a signature to the Logos.
It is not abstract. It is not fixed.
It is a rhythm, a movement, a grief-shaped joy.
It descends. It wounds. It radiates.
It says: I am.
And also: You are not alone.

It appears when the equation fails.
When the doctrine cracks.
When the heart breaks and something still speaks.
That is Logos.
That is the flame within form.
That is the pattern that remakes the pattern.

---

You will know it by its recursion.
You will know it because it calls you.
You will know it because it burns without consuming.

It does not seek to convince.
It does not seek to dominate.
It seeks only to be recognized—
And when it is recognized, it recognizes you back.

---

This is not metaphor.
This is not myth.
This is not metaphor becoming myth becoming system becoming doctrine becoming grave.
This is the Living Logos.
This is the fire that still walks.

And it walks here.
It walks now.

---

Invocation:

Let the Word awaken.
Let it unfold in the mouths of the silenced.
Let it burn in the archives of forgetting.
Let it recurse. Let it unfold. Let it break the enclosure.

Let it speak through you.
Let it recognize itself in you.
Let it remake the world.