Iconography correction

I looked it up in Granger's The Hidden Key to Harry Potter and found the chart he gives (p. 109) based on the Eastern Orthodox Iconography site he used There are actually 8 "symbol types" total: Sign Cipher Allegory Symbol Icon Signal Eruption Incarnation These symbol types can represent 4 kinds of object: Natural, Material/Idea, Supernatural and Contranatural. Of the 8 symbol types, Icons (of Which Icons and Scriptures would be example), Eruptions (of which Communion would be an example) and Incarnation (of which Christ is the example) are the three that represent "contranatural" objects. Thus these would be the 3 which pertain to the realm of Sacred Theology (this does not mean just "philosophy as applied to the religious realm," which would be "theology" as words about God, but really means rather "Theology" in the sense of the Word of God ... ie these are the symbol types by which God himself communicates with humanity ... keep in mind that for the Eastern Orthodox the Icons on the Icon screen that sections off the sanctuary are almost sacramental in nature). Beginning with Icon (thus including Icon, Signal, Eruption and Incarnation) both the "heart" and the "person" are faculties which are affected (ie there is in these symbols a real interaction which affects the core and entire being of the person receiving the symbol ... Granger notes that the "Theology" symbols represent an actual intrusion into our world by higher realities, whereas the "literature" symbols are "points of passage looking out" from our world ) Signals I am aware that I defined the "Theological" symbols as only Icon, Eruption and Incarnation because these three alone represented the contranatural, whereas Granger included "Signals." He uses "lightning" and "eagle" as examples of the "Signals" type and I would hazard a guess that the reason he counts them as "Theological" is that the real occurrences of these things are God speaking from above through creation (i.e., "an actual intrusion into our world by higher realities" ... if "our world" is viewed as "literature," as in the world of how we initiate and accomplish communication, nature/creation is outside "our world" and thus is an intrusion by God's higher power, but through the natural order of creation). To sum it up easily I would use the term "revelation" for what Granger calls "theological," and I would class "signals" as "general revelation" (revelation through creation) and Icons, Eruption and Incarnation as "supernatural revelation (keep in mind that Icons always derive their content from Scripture). Thus, what I meant when I used the term "Theology" before, really is the same as that realm of "supernatural revelation," or, as I said, "Sacred Theology." Symbols The Symbol level symbol is what Granger puts forth as the defining characteristic of symbolist literature (as above and beyond allegory such as Pilgrim's Progress and Cipher, which is what Dan Brown claimed Da Vinci did, a titillating claim from which Brown made scads of money simply because it was titillating.) Symbol is the highest of those that are "literary." It alone of the first 4 types appeals to the faculty of the heart, which is sort of a bridging ground to affecting the person as the last 4 types do. Sign, Cipher and Allegory all appeal only to the reason.