Kabbala

Its application has greatly varied in the course of time, and it is only since the eleventh or twelfth century that the term Kabbala has become the exclusive appellation for the system of Jewish religious philosophy which claims to have been uninterruptedly transmitted by the mouths of the patriarchs, prophets, elders, etc., ever since the creation of the first man.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

That is, while there are important works of Jewish mysticism composed before the Middle Ages, the metaphysics and cosmology we know as Kabbala emerges as a reaction against the rationalism of medieval Jewish philosophy that posits a distant and unapproachable God in line with the Aristotelian and Platonic (and Neoplatonic) schools.

Gershom Scholem Magid, Shaul 2008

But I'm really floundering now at the news that Kabbala is nothing to do with Judaism at all, at the parroted stuff she keeps spouting about reconciling science with spiritualism.

June 2005 2005

But I'm really floundering now at the news that Kabbala is nothing to do with Judaism at all, at the parroted stuff she keeps spouting about reconciling science with spiritualism.

No Excuses 2005

The other literary current of the age is designated by the word Kabbala, which held many of the finest and noblest minds captive to its witchery.

Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

It also directs readers to a Web site www. fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation that calls the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.”

Boing Boing 2007

The form of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbala, which in Indian terminology might be described as Jewish Tantrism, has a historical connection with Sufiism and a real analogy to it, for both arise from the desire to temper an austere and regal deism with concessions to the common human craving for the interesting and picturesque, such as mysticism and magic.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

But from the literary stand-point the Kabbala was a barren inspiration.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

But the Cabbalistæ had also a simpler writing: "The sublime philosophy of those who are called the Kabbala, embraces within itself different kinds to which the following appertain.

Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

When I boarded the plane for Israel, my mother was beginning her studies in Hebrew and the Kabbala.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011