Platonic Solids
and Sacred Geometry & Universal Forms
Study the geometrical forms associated with each element. Exploring the Platonic solids as foundational archetypal patters of energy/consciousness
Plato, influenced by Pythagoras, linked geometric shapes (Platonic solids) with the classical elements (earth, water, air, fire, and aether).
dodecahedron
The dodecahedron is one of the five Platonic Solids; it's a symbol of Universe, of Spirit, of Azoth, of the element of the Void. Its twelve sides are pentagonal, and each represents the forces of the Five Elements in their three triplicities vectoring into the visible universe. It is also a talisman of IOPHIAL, the Archangel of the Eighth Sphere, who keeps the gates between Universe and the Divine.
“The Platonic solids are prominent in the philosophy of Plato, their namesake. Plato wrote about them in the dialogue Timaeus c. 360 B.C. in which he associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid. Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron. Of the fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato obscurely remarked, "...the god used it for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven". Aristotle added a fifth element, aither (aether in Latin, "ether" in English) and postulated that the heavens were made of this element, but he had no interest in matching it with Plato's fifth solid.”