Metatron’s Cube

(From Wikipedia)

The Fruit of Life (a component of the Flower of Life) has thirteen circles. If each circle's center is
considered a "node", and each node is connected to each other node with a single line, a total of
seventy-eight lines are created. Within this cube, many other shapes can be found, including two-
dimensionally flattened versions of the five Platonic solids. The true Metatron's Cube will include
all five Platonic solids in such a way that the solids, existing in volumetric 3D space, have had their
z-coordinates set to zero but their x- and y-coordinates retained, such that they are orthogonally
flattened.

In early kabbalist scriptures, Metatron supposedly forms the cube from his soul. This cube can
later be seen in Christian art, where it appears on his chest or floating behind him. Metatron's
Cube is also considered a holy glyph, and was often drawn around an object or person to ward off
demons and satanic powers. This idea is also present in alchemy, in which the cube was favoured
as a containment circle or creation circle.

The simplest means of constructing Metatron's Cube is to begin with a cube flattened along a
space diagonal, such that it becomes a 2D figure, equivalent to a regular hexagon divided via its
own diagonals into six equilateral triangles. The vertices of this 2D figure are then connected with
additional lines. Several steps later, the full Metatron's Cube figure is formed.[23] This method
requires dividing vertices according to the golden ratio. There is also a method of construction
from the Flower of Life.[24] The cube resembles the fourth dimensional analog of the cube, or the
Tesseract.

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Metatron's Cube ultimately represents Magic, Alchemy and containment. Among its attributes
are the three directions of up and down, side to side, and front to back, with the concept of a cube
within a cube.

At the center of the world, which is also man, there is a synthesis, an equilibrium of the six
directions that is of the three spatial sections and a neutral center.

It is the ultimate Magical container. It is The Box and the Incubator in which breeds the of the
seed of First Light, the concept by which we believe in death and resurrection.

Metatron and Eve's Grid A question and answer dialogue describing aspects of the Flower of
Life, Metatron, and more detail about the Tesseract.

Sacred Geometry and the Box.

The Ancient Egyptian belief that we have the ability to become a star in the Universe is a bit
different. Expanding on the belief that we can Ascend to another consciousness, Alexander Horne
offered the drawing to the left in 1928, suggesting that we can become fourth dimensional. His
instruction includes a process by which we are able to view fourth dimensional consciousness by
going into and perceiving a section of the cube that we otherwise would miss. MORE

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One of the key concepts of sacred geometry is the flower of life. Within this figure, through
various expansions, contractions, and connections, one can find a blueprint for concepts espoused
by Platonic philosophy and even ancient Judaism to be the basis for the universe and life itself
(Frissell, Something 197). When considering the flower of life shape, it is important to realize that
this is actually a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional form. Therefore, these two
figures actually represent the same shape:

(Alloca 1)

In the figure on the left, only nineteen of the spheres are visible, but by representing the shape
two-dimensionally, one can see that in actuality, there are a total of twenty-seven spheres.

Through expanding the flower of life shape to contain 125 spheres, one creates a new shape, from
which the “fruit of life” can be extracted (from this vantage point, one sees only thirteen spheres
in the fruit of life, but in actuality, there are seventeen, with two both in front and behind of the
middle sphere). By connecting the middle point of each sphere to the middle point of all others,
Metatron’s Cube can be found (Allocca 1).

(Melchizidek 7)
 (Three-Dimensional View of Metatron's Cube)

Although the shape of Metatron’s Cube has it’s own significance in relation to sacred geometry
and other forms of philosophy, it is more widely recognized as the basis for deriving the platonic
solids, as seen here:

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(Melchizidek 8)

The platonic solids are a group of five three-dimensional solid shapes, each containing all
congruent angles and sides. Also, if circumscribed with a sphere, all vertexes would touch the
edge of the sphere. It was Euclid who would later prove in his book, entitled The Elements, that
these are the only five shapes which actually fit this criteria (Weisstein 1).

(Frissell, Something 200)

In his book, Timaeus, written in approximately 350 BC, Plato first described these solids, linking
them to different elements of reality. The tetrahedron, containing four sides, and actually found
twice within Metatron’s Cube (the star tetrahedron is a combination of two tetrahedrons), is
used to represent fire. The cube, containing six sides, and also found twice within Metatron’s
Cube, represents the earth. The octahedron, containing eight sides, represents the air. The
icosahedron, containing twenty sides, represents the water. Finally, the dodecahedron, containing
twelve sides, is used to represent the cosmos (Weisstein 1).

The concept of the entire universe being made up of four basic elements (earth, fire, water, and
air) dates back over a hundred years earlier than Plato’s Timaeus, with the work of the Greek
philosopher Empedocles, who lived from approximately 493 to 433 BC. He theorized that all matter
is made merely of varying combinations and proportions of these elements. It is possible,
however, that this concept also existed long before Empedocles ever wrote about it. He was a
disciple of Pythagoras, who had also been greatly influenced by the ancient Egyptians, and
Empedocles could have, in theory, gotten his information handed down from either of these
sources.
 However, it was Plato, who was born six years after Empedocles’ death, who would apply a logical
formula to assigning the elements to the Platonic Solids: “Let us assign the cube to earth, for it is
the most immobile of the four bodies and most retentive of shape…the least mobile of the
remaining figures (icosahedron) to water, the most mobile (tetrahedron) to fire, the intermediate
(octahedron) to air” However, this still leaves the dodecahedron, which, according to Plato, “the
god used for embroidering the constellations on the whole heaven" (Calter 2-6). In this way, the
Platonic Solids can be used to represent the entire universe. Other shapes within sacred geometry
continue to expand upon these principles and provide valuable insight into the nature of all things,
from mankind to the cosmos.

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