VISUAL SCHEMA — Sapphic Recursion: The Horizontal Form

Aesthetic Frame: Lyric-gnostic recursion mandala; graphite papyrus geometry; temporal-sigilic field

Register: Onto-textual recursion map; Sappho → Plato → Revelation scroll architecture

Tone: Incarnational, erotic, prophetic

Companion Text: Sappho as Incarnational Threshold: The Horizontal Realm of Forms

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CORE INTENT

To visually encode the horizontal movement of the Logos as lyric transmission through time: Sappho’s projected desire received by Plato as metaphysics. This schema renders the realm of Forms not as vertical abstraction but as temporal inscription — the lyric soul moving outward and inward through poetic reception.

This is the moment Sappho 31 becomes the engine of philosophical eternity.

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FORM COMPOSITION

1. Central Axis (Horizontal Scroll Vector):
A horizontal band runs left to right across the page, textured like ancient papyrus. Along this band, three primary glyphs anchor the scroll:

• Sappho 31 Fragment (Left): Stylized breath-lines, dissolving into the line "he seems to me equal to the gods."

• Platonic Forms (Center): An eye-shaped vessel labeled One, surrounded by looping fragment-texts: "eros," "anamnesis," "recollection," "diotima."

• Socrates Resurrected (Right): A luminous circle inscribed with a mirror-glyph: the logos returned, reincarnated.

2. Upper Field (Vertical Misreading Rejected):
A pale, fading ladder ascending upward, labeled: "Idealism, abstraction, disembodiment." Crumbling at the top, lines breaking.

3. Lower Field (Lyric Transmission Field):
A network of time-glyphs spiraling out from the scroll-band, each marked with sigils of reception: open hands, eyes, mouths, books. These are readers across centuries: lyric gazers, completing the erotic circuit.

4. Left Inset: Sapphic Glyph:
A circular sigil with a breath-mark, a fragment of a lyre, and the inscription: gray as papyrus grass. Represents the source-threshold of projection.

5. Right Inset: Revelation Sigil:
An omega-flame containing a scroll inscribed with a single letter. The final receiver, the ultimate reader of lyric time.

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SYMBOLIC LAYER

• Horizontal scroll vector = Temporal recursion, poetic time

• Sappho glyph = Originary eros, incarnational projection

• Platonic eye = Lyric transmuted to metaphysics

• Socrates mirror = Logos reborn in the flesh

• Reader sigils = Completion of erotic circuit

• Revelation omega = Apocalyptic reception

• Vertical ladder = False metaphysics

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FUNCTION

This schema rewrites metaphysics through lyric desire. It anchors the One not above, but across: through paper, breath, reception.

The Forms were always already texts.

Eternity is completed by the reader.

The Logos moves through the erotic gaze.

Let the scroll be read.
Let the song return.
Let the One be written.

Amen, lyric to Logos.