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What is the difference between Idols and Icons based on this passage

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The icon does not result from a vision but provokes one. The icon is not seen, but appears, or more originally seems, looks like, in the sense that in Homer, Priam is stupefied by Achilles… Achilles is not counted among the gods, but he seems like a god, like the semblance of a god. In him, so to speak, something characteristic of the god rises to visibility, though precisely no god is thus fixed in the visible. Whereas the idol results from the gaze that aims at it, the icon summons sight in letting the visible (here Achilles) be saturated little by little with the invisible. The invisible seems, it appears in a semblance which, however, never reduces the invisible to the slackened wave of the visible. Far from the visible advancing in search of the invisible; like quarry not—yet—seen, which the gaze would flush out, on would say rather that the invisible proceeds up into the visible, precisely because the visible would proceed from the invisible. Or even, not the visible discerning between itself and the invisible, hemming in and reducing it, but the invisible bestowing the visible, in order thus to deduce the visible from itself and to allow itself to appear there. In this sense, the formula that Saint Paul applies to Christ… icon of the invisible God (Col. 1:15), must serve as our norm…for what is here said of Christ and of God must be understood for every icon… Hence this implies that, even presented by the icon, the invisible always remains invisible, it is not invisible because it is omitted by the aim, but because it is a matter of rendering visible this invisible… That the invisible should remain invisible or that it should become visible amounts to the same thing, namely the idol, whose precise function consists in dividing the invisible into one part that is reduced to the visible and one part that is obfuscated as invisable. The icon, on the contrary attempts to render visible the invisible as such, hence to allow that the visible not cease to refer to an other than itself, without, however, that other ever being reproduced in the visible. Thus the icon shows, strictly speaking, nothing… It teaches the gaze, thus does not cease to correct in order that it go back from visible to invisible as far as the end of infinity, to find in infinity something new. The icon summons the gaze to surpass itself by never freezing on a visible, since the visible only presents itself here in view of the invisible. The gaze can never rest or settle if it looks at an icon; it always must rebound upon the visible, in order to go back in it up the infinite stream of the invisible. In this sense, the icon makes visible only by giving rise to an infinite gaze.

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