Today we will do the icon stream on the philosophy and reality of symbols: type, prototype, archetype and the ultimate reference point for Orthodox philosophy. The symbolic world of correspondences in our worldview is much more than mere analogy, similitude or metaphor: For us the symbolic is directly grounded in the logical (logoi), and more specifically, the Logos. The reverence paid to the type passes on to the prototype, we read in the fathers and for the 7th council this philosophy was bound up with the Orthodox dogma of the Incarnation and the Christological Councils.