cabala
Britishnoun
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- cabalism noun
- cabalist noun
- cabalistic adjective
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This prince had published and defended nine hundred propositions on theology, mathematics, physics, cabala, and other sciences.
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The female stood before him, resting her hands upon the table, awaiting with patience the result of these mysteries of the cabala.
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In the cabala, which has found admission into the idea of the alchemists and rosicrucians, no small part is played by three pillars and two pillars.
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"Their generation of the gods is the same with the generation or creation of the world, both of them having, in all probability, derived it from the Mosaic cabala, or tradition."
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The first one below would seem to be akin to the various cabala of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania.
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