cabala
Example Sentences
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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
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
The female stood before him, resting her hands upon the table, awaiting with patience the result of these mysteries of the cabala.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
