Secrets of the Cube of Space YHWH Ancient Calendar Clock

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The Cube of Space was popularized by the prominent occultist Paul Foster Case. It associates the three axes of the cube, the center point of the cube, the six sides of the cube, and the twelve edges of the cube, with the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet. The Cube of Space is based upon two verses in the proto-kabbala text called the Sepher Yetzirah. One of those verses is in chapter 4 and the other verse is in chapter 5. The verse in chapter 4 associates 6 hebrew letters with six cardinal directions (up, down, east, west, north, south). The verse in chapter 5 associates 12 hebrew letters with either 12 diagonal directional 'arms' or 12 diagonal boundaries which some interpret as referring to the 12 edges of an octahedron, though 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 this verse (Chapter 5, Verse 2) as describing a cube. (Sefer Yetzirah Page 203) While occult author Kevin Townley explains a cosmology with an octahedron within a cube.

The Cube is a hologram and all of its numerous categories and complex structures are interrelated and linked This is useful when testing the appropriateness of particular interpretations. The conventional representations of the Tree of Life and the circular zodiac are two-dimensional mappings of the 3D Cube, which lose degrees of freedom and connectivity in their transformations. The Cube is a 5/10-dimensional dynamic map of inner/psychological space or reality. It offers a sophisticated multi-dimensional meta-psychology which in outline involves four dimensions of inner space and six dimensions of outer, or experiential, space connected by three axes of being and twelve evolutionary and involutionary states or pathways.

The Tree has been buried in mysticism and the Cube lost in obscurity. The Sephirot are accessed through special gates guarded by angels and demons. We project the Tree upward and try to climb the rungs through mantras and incantations. Meanwhile, the evidence of the Sephirot and the Intemporal is all around us and we are blind to their imprint on our experience. The three axes of the Cube define the categories of existence, life and their union, the fundamental categories of being. The six dimensions, or faces, of the Cube define man's experience of life: the top-bottom (existence) axis runs through him and defines his existence between the poles of self and other. The front-back (life) axis is where he faces his psychological future (the maturity he has not yet attained) and puts his past (unconscious and unstructured energy) behind him. His mostly unconscious, rooted in the physical body, experience of sensous reality enters him through the passive left hand of desire; it is met by a double container (one for the impulse, one for the response) in the (potentially conscious) cognitive response of the active right hand of thought and action: the axis of union or interpenetration.

The Cube of Space is a psychological map that requires us to think psychologically and symbolically about the organization of our own experience in order to be able to read it and find the space it maps. We can use the model of the hypercube, a projection of a 4-dimensional cube into 3-dimensional reality, as a starting point for thinking about the "dimensions" of psychological space.

The Cube is a 10-dimensional model for the totality of human experience and possibility. Our experience of those dimensions, in both material and psychological reality, is a 3-dimensional projection of a higher-dimensional structure existing within and beyond space-time, which is the structure of our own multi-dimensional consciousness.  The Cube of Space maps the intersection of a multi-dimensional structure with 3-dimensional consciousness. What appears as an element of the Cube in psychological 3-space is the imprint of a higher dimension in the total structure. The directions of the Cube are psycho-spatial: they are symbolic and qualitatively as well as spatially organized, (for example: up-other, down-self, front-future, back-past, left-sensation, right-perception, center-psyche) and its categories are experiential (existence, life, experience).  We can look at the structure and organization of the psychological space of the Cube from the inside-out, starting with the two basic categories of inner and outer space. The meaning of the Cube of Space is lost if it is not understood as a description of our own psychological reality. The space in the Cube of Space is our own psychological space and its dimensions are the psychological dimensions of our own experience. We can easily find its "common-sense" descriptions in our own experience and verify their accuracy or usefulness for ourselves.

The Cube of Space describes the human reality of Adam Qadmon, archetypal man, as composed of an inner life formed in the first four Sephirot (spheres of consciousness/energy) and the axes and center of the Cube, and an outer life formed by the last six Sephirot and the opposing faces of the Cube. The inner life is timeless and the outer life is experiential and developmental.

Inner space, or the interior space of human consciousness, is formed by three primary energies, represented by the Hebrew "Mother" letters: Aleph, maximum energy/consciousness, Mem, minimum energy/consciousness, and Sheen/Seen, the energy mediating between them. Outer space or being is the reflection of those energies as existence, life and experience. Existence is formed by the polarity of self and body/other, life by the polarity of future and past, and experience by the polarity of feeling and thought, or stimulus and response. The psyche itself, the seventh direction of the Cube, is at the center, through which all the energies pass.

Symbolically, our existence is defined by self and other, or inner energy and its outer body, with our spiritual goals above and our material development below, and our standing in society. Our life is defined by the uncertain future we face before us, and our past by the actions we have performed and put behind us. The experience of life in existence is made possible by the unconscious impressions of sensuous reality entering our receptive left hand (right-brain) and being met by the cognitive response and action of the right hand (left-brain) Again, in the center is the psyche, the eye of the needle and gateway to our Soul.

The Cube defines seven primary states of "emotional consciousness" and organizes them in psycho-spatial directions. Dante, following classical wisdom and a pre-perspectival view, organized them in triads and put Sloth in the center.
Dante's Punishments:
Cold Sins: (perverted love)
1. Pride: Carrying heavy stones.
2. Envy: Sealed eyes.
3. Anger: Smoke.
Sins of Improper Measure: (defective love)
4. Sloth: Running
Warm Sins: (excessive love)
5. Avarice: Prostration.
6. Gluttony: Starvation.
7. Lust: Fire.

The circular zodiac, like the Tree of Life, is a 2-dimensional projection of the same higher dimensional object that the Cube represents in 3 dimensions. Both projections lose degrees of freedom as their semantic structure is reduced to 2 dimensions, and we miss the information contained in the third axis, which was not available to the pre-Renaissance mind, as we have seen with Dante's otherwise faithful representation of the Emotional States and their Cures.

Each axis is initialized by one of the three roots of the Name YHWH. The expansion of the Name in triads (3-space) creates psychological-developmental space in man. The "Sealing" of the outer directions completes the transition from inner to outer psychological space: all possible permutations of the letters Yod (existence), Hay (life) and Vav (union) taken three at a time seal the faces of the Cube. Aleph externalizes as Yod (up-down: existence), Mem as Hay (front-back: archetypal life) and Sheen as Vav (left-right: union/copulation).

The oppositions contained within each seal's triad (Yod-Hay-Waw, Yod-Waw-Hay) become explicit in the outer directions and the faces of the Cube. Each pair of opposing faces belongs to one of the three primary categories: existence, life and union. In experiential-developmental space, these categories become the polarities of self-body, future-past and sense-perception or feeling-thought and are symbolized or specified by the equations for the astrological planets and their formative letters.