Quintessence

A brief look at the fifth, that quintessential Platonic Solid, the Pentagonal Dodecahedron. Four of these five convex regular polyhedra are introduced in Plato's "Timaeus" as corresponding to the four "elements" or "essences" earth, air, fire, and water. The dodecahedron is related to the all-embracing Cosmos itself, and symbolizes a mysterious fifth essence, above and beyond all others, a quintessence.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Quintessence
• Pentagonal
• Dodecahedron
• Plato
• Timaeus

[killtroy811]

cool explanation and video. I have the sacred geometry book you showed and I look and study it all the time. A lot of things i learned about and saw in my dreams has to to with sacred geometry and planet locations.

take care

[rufus16180339887]

Thanks! I should have done more, maybe quoted from the Timaeus itself, but the actual passage is not terribly clear.

[zeroian0]

Thank you Russell.

[supermanctb]

what is this?

[killtroy811]

Rest in peace my friend.

[singingbanana]

Nice video, it goes into some nice detail I would have liked to have gone into in my video. Thanks.

[killtroy811]

I'll have to check out the book timaeus. I have not really sat and read any of platos work. I do not know why now that I think about it. I'll have to check it out now. take care