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
Compound of 5-cube and 5-orthoplex cells and edges. Mid-edges of the 5-cube cross mid-cell in the 16-cell, and vice versa. It can be seen as the 5-dimensional analogue of a compound of cube and octahedron. The 42 Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the compound are. The convex hull of the vertices makes the dual of rectified 5-orthoplex. The intersection of the 5-cube and 5-orthoplex compound is the uniform birectified 5-cube: = ∩ . The compound can be seen in projection as the union of the two polytope graphs. The convex hulll as the dual of the rectified 5-orthoplex will have the same vertices, but