Blog EntrySacred Geometry (3): The Platonic Solids Oct 26, '07 1:19 AM
for everyone

Generation upon generation
has passed, my friend, but
these meanings are constant and
everlasting. The water in the stream
may have changed many times,
but the reflection of the moon
and the stars remains the same.

Rumi

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There is Universal Language that all Consciousness understands. It is the Language of Life. Sacred Geometric Symbols make up the Web or Matrix of Life. That which is not seen, but makes up the Whole Fabric of the Universe. This was the secret science of the Cabalists and Alchemists who understood Consciousness. The Seed of Life exists within the Flower of Life which exists within the seed. This is the true essence. The Golden Mean Spiral represents the unfolding.

The First picture is a Nasa photo of a planet forming. Also what is called a "Visica Piscus" the beginning of two circles merging or the seed into the egg. The second picture is the "Seed of Life" and the Third, the "Flower of Life".Within the very nature of geometry there is an unfolding or expansion. This is similar to the expansion of our consciousness.

Currently, the Secret Societies, namely the "Priory of Sion" and Freemasons retain the collective information of this kind. Leonardo Da Vinci was a Grand master of this Society and left manuscripts that depict such things as the "Flower of Life"...

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I already spoke about the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio (1.618… ) that explain the golden spiral.

Other patterns:

1) The Sphere

Starting with what may be the simplest and most perfect of forms, the sphere is an ultimate expression of unity, completeness, and integrity. There is no point of view given greater or lesser importance, and all points on the surface are equally accessible and regarded by the center from which all originate. Atoms, cells, seeds, planets, and globular star systems all echo the spherical paradigm of total inclusion, acceptance, simultaneous potential and fruition, the macrocosm and microcosm.

2) The Platonic Solids (and The Archimedean Solids)

Here's an image of the five Platonic solids: cube {brown}, icosahedron {green), tetrahedron {red}, dodecahedron {purple}, octahedron {blue}

The 5 Platonic solids (Tetrahedron, Cube or (Hexahedron), Octahedron, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron) are ideal, primal models of crystal patterns that occur throughout the world of minerals in countless variations. These are the only five regular polyhedra, that is, the only five solids made from the same equilateral, equiangular polygons. To the Greeks, these solids symbolized fire, earth, air, spirit (or ether) and water respectively.

The Platonic solids are sometimes also called “cosmic figures”.

The Platonic solids were described by Plato in his Timaeus c. 350 B.C.E. In this work, Plato equated the polyhedra with the “elements”:

the cube with earth,

tetrahedron with fire,

the octahedron with air,

the icosahedron with water, and

the dodecahedron with the stuff of which the constellations and heavens were made.

Or shown as plane figures, where the matched sides can be then joined in 3 dimensions to complete the figure

If we put them together:

Metatron's Cube

Flower of Life:

For the Metatron's Cube and the Flower of Life I’ll make another post.


2 Comments
monodogamous wrote on Oct 28, '07
I like this article, and I think a friend of mine on yahoo 360 would enjoy it too. I'll leave a link, as he is writing about numbers, with an artistic, metaphysical theme. Thanks

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-jyIs6lowd6C5lGdPWTURDLg-?cq=1&p=2530#comments
gaiaslight wrote on Nov 4, '07
amazing material, thank you for the reminders
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