Cabala
Cabala (alternately Kabbala(h) or Qabala(h)) may refer to one of several systems of mysticism:
- Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה), a system of Jewish mysticism
- Lurianic Kabbalah, a school of Kabbalah named after Isaac Luria
- Practical Kabbalah, branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that concerns the use of magic
- Prophetic Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia's system of meditative Kabbalah in Judaism
- Christian Kabbalah, interpreted according to Christian theology
- Hermetic Qabalah, a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult
- English Qabalah interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of numerological significances
- English Qaballa, an English esoteric and magical tradition
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Other traditions with some similarities to Kabbalistic doctrine or methods
- Gnosticism, classical belief systems speculating hierarchical mythic processes of good and evil in divine creation
- Neoplatonism, classical philosophy of descending divine emanationism
- Hurufism, Medieval Sufi Islam sect that combined Koranic letters mystically ("cabalistically")
- Sabbateanism, heretical antinomian adaptions of Kabbalah alongside early-modern Judaism
Places
- Qabala, a city in Azerbaijan
- Qabala District, the wider government region
- Cabala, a variant spelling of Jableh (Gabala), a Christian city in Syria during the Middle Ages
See also
- Cabal (disambiguation)
- Cabalist (disambiguation)
- Hasidic philosophy, theological and mystical teachings of Hasidic Judaism
- Jewish meditation, or Meditative Kabbalah, the meditative tradition within Judaic Kabbalah
- Kabala (disambiguation)
- Kabbala (disambiguation)
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