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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras (28)
To the five symmetrical solids of the ancients is added the sphere (1), the most perfect of all created forms. The five Pythagorean solids are: the tetrahedron (2) with four equilateral triangles as faces; the cube (3) with six squares as faces; the octahedron (4) with eight equilateral triangles as faces; the icosahedron (5) with twenty equilateral triangles as faces; and the dodecahedron (6) with twelve regular pentagons as faces.
The Elements (55b)
Timaeus: And the third solid is composed of twice sixty of the elemental triangles conjoined, and of twelve solid angles, each contained by five...
The Elements (55a)
Timaeus: meet in a point, they form one solid angle, which comes next in order to the most obtuse of the plane angles. And when four such angles are...
The Elements (55c)
Timaeus: when joined together, formed eight solid angles, each composed of three plane right angles; and the shape of the body thus constructed was...
The Elements (55e)
Timaeus: and the most plastic body, and of necessity the body which has the most stable bases must be pre-eminently of this character. Now of the...
The Elements (54c)
Timaeus: in being generated, all passed through one another into one another, but this appearance was deceptive. For out of the triangles which we...
The Elements (54e)
Timaeus: and the short sides together as to a center, there is produced from those triangles, six in number, one equilateral triangle. And when four...
The Elements (54b)
Timaeus: the equilateral triangle is constructed as a third. The reason why is a longer story; but should anyone refute us and discover that it is...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (23)
And they called eight a cube, counting the fixed sphere along with the seven revolving ones, by which is produced "the great year," as a kind of perio...
The Elements (54d)
Timaeus: and conversely, when many small bodies are resolved into their triangles they will produce, when unified, one single large mass of another...
The Elements (53d)
Timaeus: Now all triangles derive their origin from two triangles, each having one angle right and the others acute ; and the one of these triangles...
The Demiurge and World Soul (33b)
Timaeus: And he bestowed on it the shape which was befitting and akin. Now for that Living Creature which is designed to embrace within itself all...
The Receptacle (50b)
Timaeus: by far the safest reply, in point of truth, would be that it is gold; but as for the triangle and all the other figures which were formed in...
The Elements (56b)
Timaeus: since it is in all ways the sharpest and most acute of all; and it must also be the lightest, since it is composed of the fewest identical...
The Elements (55d)
Timaeus: in matters wherein he ought to be versed; but the question whether they ought really to be described as one Universe or five is one which...
The Elements (53c)
Timaeus: of each of these Kinds which I must endeavor to explain to you in an exposition of an unusual type; yet, inasmuch as you have some...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(4)
From two letters, or forms He composed two dwellings; from three, six; from four, twenty-four; from five, one hundred and twenty; from six, seven...