The Cube of Space is an occult concept popularized by the occultist

Paul Foster Case Paul Foster Case (October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954) was an American occultist of the early 20th century and author of numerous books on occult tarot and Qabalah. Perhaps his greatest contributions to the field of occultism were the lessons ...

. The Cube of Space associates the center point of the cube, its three axes, six sides, and the 12 edges of the cube with the 22 letters of the

Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewi ...

.The Tarot, A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages by Case, Paul Foster The Cube of Space is based upon two verses in the proto- kabbala text called the

Sepher Yetzirah ''Sefer Yetzirah'' ( ''Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā'', ''Book of Formation'', or ''Book of Creation'') is the title of a book on Jewish mysticism, although some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed ...

; one of the verses is in chapter four and the other is in chapter five. Chapter four's verse associates the six Hebrew letters with the six cardinal directions: up, down, east, west, north, and south, and chapter five's verse associates the 12 Hebrew letters with either 12 diagonal directional 'arms' or 12 diagonal boundaries. Different translations contradict each other; with some interpreting the 12 Hebrew letters as referring to the 12 edges of an octahedron while others like Paul Foster Case interpreted these as the 12 edges of a cube. In the most authoritative English translation of the Sepher Yetzirah, scholar Aryeh Kaplan, interprets chapter five, verse two, as describing a cube. However, another occult author, Kevin Townley, explains a cosmology of an octahedron within a cube.Meditations on the Cube of Space by Townley, Kevin

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Sefer Yetzirah: Cube of Space
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