May 17, 2012

Design Metaphysics: The Platonic Solids


Conceptual impressions surrounding this post are yet to be substantiated, corroborated, confirmed or woven into a larger argument, context or network.

The Platonic solids are three-dimensional geometric forms that are flat faced with straight edges. The body of each geometric formation is bounded by a common face, i.e. a polygon bounded by a circuit of edges that together enclose a volume in time and 3D space. Together these faces make up the surface of a polygon with each face being joined along a common edge. There are a finite number of faces associated with each Platonic Solid: the tetrahedron 4, the cube 6, the octahedron 8, the dodecahedron 12 and the icosahedron 20.

The Platonic solids and the Classic Elements:

The classic elements are thought to reflect the simplest, most fundamental and essential parts, principles and powers relating to life. The rationale in support of this kind of thinking is based upon a large number of belief systems inspired by observing nature, its cycles, its phases and its qualities. Modern interpretations concerning the elements are similarly based upon these ancient belief systems. 

Earth, water, fire, air and aether are thought to describe and symbolize the five states of “matter”. Each phase encountered is used to initiate the next phase with each being subtler in character than the last.


Relative to design consciousness each phase also contains a particular meaning and purpose in the process of materializing events, (creativity) and situations encountered (creativity in context).  The five elements also connote the five senses, which in turn together create the vehicle/body necessary to experience 3D space/time.

The creative desire to know self, through an individualized experience of pursuing the unknown, begins from a position of not knowing.  What originates from within every virtual field of energy overflows with potentiality. Each element is used to create the next in a series of “experiences” made manifest within the constraints of the dimensional field of choice. Aether (dodecahedron) is the elemental field of vibratory resonance, i.e. quantum, and is inaccessible to the other senses. I would interpret aether as being a field of relative substance, potential and the virtual expression of Source.

These same five elements have been associated with the five platonic solids with aether, represented by the dodecahedron, being the most abstract form of light (energy/information) and being representative of the most perfect expression of forces that together give form to reality.




Concepts surrounding the definition of form are founded upon interpretation thereby symbolizing how “objects” appear before consciousness in 3D space/time. These formations also make reference to the concept of self, i.e. oneness. According to Plato there was an original form, i.e. an idea, for every object containing matter (substance); an idea was the fundamental contributor to the emergence of every object.

Plato’s concept of form trumped substance by transcending time and space. Form was pointless, permanent and perfect; appearing as a holographic blueprint that existed beyond mind, an unchanging reality; an ideal that could made intelligible only by design.

This position also has Taoist overtones. Plato attempts to go past the constraints of mind.  Plato attempts to guide human cognition to go beyond the concept of “substance” by taking the position that the unknown is a constant and should be viewed as a mysterious source of the idea. In affect, the inability to comprehend the source of these ideas is crucial in developing the parameters necessary for consciousness to expand by means of its own self-awareness.

It is a misconception to believe that the entrance into any other universe, parallel or otherwise, will free an observer from the concept of duality. The situation may change, e.g. contextual frequency, yet the law of opposites remain. The concept of duality is a barometer exercised in order to create diverse relationships, i.e. situations, required for expansion, change and enlightenment (information/energy).

The Law of Opposites is evident in every universe. Duality creates the crucible from which the force of desire projects its reality thereby giving direction and relative substance to every idea. Projections in the form of virtual energy give precedence to this holographic image that is conjured to be real by lighting every step in a journey towards greater awakening

The Platonic solids are symbolic models, designed geometric patterns of reality perceived in substance; unchanging and seemingly perfect templates in the quest for balance and harmony within the constraints of three-dimensional space/time.





The Platonic Solids represent ideas that originate from an unknown zero point, Source, Monad ... ideas that exist beyond mind; patterns of creativity that nurture relationship that surface from a virtual field of potential tapped by the imagination. They are vehicles of consciousness designed to give structure to ideas purposely configured to give “perfect” form to a reality known only to the observer.






In essence, each three-dimensional form is holographic in character and substance ... and in command and direction of the observer. Ideal geometries that exist today all stem from a single source, a virtual field of light/energy “formulated” along pathways that appear as being quintessential in character.

Earth = cube
Air = octahedron
Water = icosahedron
Fire = tetrahedron
Aether = dodecahedron







Some of the common properties shared by the Platonic Solids are: all faces are identical polygons, none of the faces intersect except at their edges and the same number of faces meet at each of its points. There can be no more than five Platonic solids; all possessing three concentric spheres with both the dodecahedron and icosahedron closely approximating a greater sphere, i.e. bubble. 



Every Platonic solid appears to emerge from a vibrational source appearing within the parametric constraints of a common field/sphere of virtual energy/light. Each Platonic geometry (virtual point) touches upon the internal surface of a spherical membrane that surrounds them. Each Platonic solid shares in creating the structural geometry required of light/energy to be made manifest in within the parametric constraints of a 3D space/time "bubble" universe.   




The tetrahedron, when facing itself, is a self-dual polyhedron; the cube and the octahedron create a duality between them as well as the dodecahedron and the icosahedron. The tetrahedron, cube and octahedron occur naturally in many crystalline structures. More remains to be said about details surrounding the Platonic Solids, design consciousness and the mathematical flagship of fractal geometry. 






Edited: 10.12.2013, 11.28.2013, 11.19.2014, 12.20.2014, 12.31.2016, 01.11.2017, 09.29.2017, 03.05.2018, 10.06.2018, 07.17.2019, 07.25.2019, 05.14.2020, 10.04.2020, 11.03.2020, 12.13.2021, 06.12.2023, 12.25.2023, 03.13.2024
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