Cube of Space 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 (different translations contradict each other), 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
The Carnelian Cube humor, the less said the better". Frederik Pohl, writing in "Super Science Stories", praised the authors as having "produced some of the funniest fantasies ever to see print." Noting that ""The Carnelian Cube", almost alone among fantasy books, has never been published in magazine form" he "wonders how the magazines missed it." "Thrilling Wonder Stories" praised the novel as "earthy, talkative, [and] frequently witty," saying "The authors have given full range to a pair of highly fertile imaginations and the reader does not suffer thereby." "Fantasy Review"'s Kemp McDonald faulted the novel as scattershot and plotless, saying that "Characters and