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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala.

From Time Magazine Archive

The consumption tax would drastically reduce the number of exclusions, deductions and credits that now make the Internal Revenue Code a cabala for tax lawyers and C.P.A.s.

From Time Magazine Archive

This prince had published and defended nine hundred propositions on theology, mathematics, physics, cabala, and other sciences.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio