I like to share conversations that might be useful to a general audience, so here’s yet another email dialogue (with names removed). This one concerns Crystal Systems and Platonic Solids.
Inquiry:
I am trying to find out if there is a correlation between the crystal systems (i.e., Cubic, Tetragonal, Orthorhombic, Monoclinic, Triclinic, Hexagonal, Trigonal) and the Sacred Geometry shapes. …
My response:
They are all related, but some evidently more closely than others. The cube (cubic) might be the closest connection between the 2 ‘systems’ of ‘sacred geometry’ and crystallography, since many crystal systems seem to be non-regular (differing angles and side lengths) variations of cubic forms, as you suggest. There are quite a few examples of how the 5 Platonic solids all relate to each other in my first book (SGDS). I took the small sketches in Keith Critchlow’s superb “Order In Space” book and made full-page illustrations from many of them in SGDS.
There are probably lots of other online references that might help as far as the crystal systems go; here are a few:
Wolfram Demonstration Project – The Seven Crystal Classes
Imperial College Rock Library: Earth Science And Engineering
