elemental energies and sacred geometry
Platonic Solids
"[Geometry is] . . . persued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes, ...
[it] must draw the soul towards truth and give the finishing touch to the philosophic spirit." Plato
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the quintessential renaissance man: artist, mathematician, scientist, and engineer turned geometry into an artform with his exquisite drawings which culminated in a book of illustrations, The Divine Proportion. (1509).
[it] must draw the soul towards truth and give the finishing touch to the philosophic spirit." Plato
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the quintessential renaissance man: artist, mathematician, scientist, and engineer turned geometry into an artform with his exquisite drawings which culminated in a book of illustrations, The Divine Proportion. (1509).
The idea that everything is composed of the four primal elements of earth, air, fire and water is attributed to the Greek philosopher, Empedocles ( circa 493-433 BC), who died 6 years before Plato was born. Empedocles believed that our world was governed by opposing forces such as love and hate, affinity and antipathy and these forces played an important part in the balance of harmony within the universe. Much as we understand Yin and Yang (traditional Chinese medicine) today as opposites on a continuum of energy or matter.
It was Plato who first took these ideas of the elements into the realm of geometric figures known as polyhedra, and what we now know as the Platonic Solids and attributed one of the elements to each of the 5 figures.
It was Plato who first took these ideas of the elements into the realm of geometric figures known as polyhedra, and what we now know as the Platonic Solids and attributed one of the elements to each of the 5 figures.
These stone balls at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, are dated at least 1000 years before Plato, showing all the Platonic Solids.
The Etheric Body
The fifth element is ether and surrounds all living things, including the earth. In this protective etheric body is contained all the other elements of water, air, earth and fire. As are all the basic physical states: solid, liquid, gaseous and flame, and all the psychological states of fixed, fluid, airy and fiery. The life processes that make us feel alive are also contained within this sacred space: impulse, desire, thought and action. All these natural, psychological, spiritual and divine states of being are the threads that connect our divine selves with the wisdom of the universe. The etheric band that surrounds us gives us the gift of LIGHT which radiates with the immortal power of LOVE. Not only is it the gateway from darkness into light but it also has the power to turn melancholy into bliss; dullness into brightness; atrophy into energy. It is the halo of Christ, the spirit made visible, the sacred vehicle for healing, the message from our guides, wings of angels, the inspiration for our journey through life, uniting harmony and joy, peace and beauty. The etheric dodecahedron has 12 faces, and symbolises the 12 signs of the zodiac. |