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Abstract

Icon as the liturgical art shape belongs to the sense of Orthodox Church. There reflect Eternal truthes which people long for during all times. It’s language might be understood for everyone who believes because the re is no verbal barrier. Icon is not only the witness of eternal beauty but it also contains something very important and is directed into human’s heart. Hence it can’t belong to only one part of Church. In every period of time in icon “writing” appear new expression forms which conform to that time. But very first icons don’t lose their sense. Temporary and historical belongs to eternal origin in icon. This origin we often call mystery. Any attempt to quess this mystery turns it into a thing and thus abolishes the possibility of opening to that Real Reality. It makes impossible to experience it face to face in own being. Icon says the Word of Revelation revelated to Moses on the Horeb mountain: “I am who I am”. God’s speaking to human pierces through everything what happens in our life, everything what happens in the world we are, all biografical and historical process, all ways which we choose when we try to apprehend the Real Reality. Icon - the gate into it.