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
Hunch-players in Italy's weekly lottery often consult a handy handbook called the cabala which gives the magic numbers associated with certain objects and events.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too often she seems to be hectoring the reader to decipher a private cabala.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mia Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were cabala.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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