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The five Platonic Solids are the “first principles“ from which all the forms of the world of phenomena originate. They can all be inscribed in a sphere, the Tetrahedron is associated with Fire, the Hexahedron (or Cube) with Earth, the Octahedron with Air, the Icosahedron with Water and the Dodecahedron with Ether-Universe; the latter, with a pentagonal base, is the only one which can hold the others. Being universal archetypes, it is easy to make a cultural leap from ancient Greece to ancient China. For a m
