cabala
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Bach was into puzzles, numerology, and all kinds of musical cabala, so the nuttiest idea of all about his tuning might well be right.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2010
These works, and the other 74 tales in the collection, have become secular cabala, subject to endless sifting and interpretation.
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Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala.
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Mia Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were cabala.
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I give due credit to the censorial brow, to the broad phylacteries, and to the imposing gravity, of those magisterial rabbins and doctors in the cabala of political science.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
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