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

Too often she seems to be hectoring the reader to decipher a private 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Carmody gold is the cabala of Carmody suzerainty.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)