sic permanet gloria mundi?

The myth of Er suggests that we did choose our parents, and the idea that all that we do on earth -- also suggested in the lines toward the end of Goethe's Faust "Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdetagen/Nicht in Äonen untergehn" (lines 11583-4) -- might be permanent, if not in "this world", could be termed in contrast to sic transit gloria mundi: sic permanet gloria mundi.

This assumes some such reality as the Zoroastrian daena sub specie aeternitatis.

Justice in God, Man, Nature, Cosmos?

theodicy

anthropodicy

physiodicy

cosmodicy

Read from theologian J. Matthew Ashley: "In classical terms, this is to broach the problem of theodicy: how to think about God in the face of the presence of suffering in God's creation. After God's dethronement as the subject of history, the question rebounds to the new subject of history: the human being. As a consequence, theodicy becomes anthropodicy — justifications of our faith in humanity as the subject of history, in the face of the suffering that is so inextricably woven into the history that humanity makes. Mutatis mutandis, the universe story brings with it the need for a "cosmodicy." How do we think about the presence of suffering, on a massive scale, in the story of the cosmos, particularly when the cosmos itself is understood to be the subject of history? How do we justify our faith in the cosmos?

-- J. Matthew Ashley, "Reading the universe story theologically: the contribution of a biblical narrative imagination", Theological Studies, 2010, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 870-902

sic transit gloria cogitatis

sic transit gloria cogitatis would mean ~thus pass all the glories of human thinking.

sic transit gloria concepti would mean ~thus pass all the glories of human concept, ideas.