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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cabala (alternately Kabbala(h) or Qabala(h)) may refer to one of several systems of mysticism:

Kabbalah, in traditional belief the continuous general transmission of Jewish mysticism, in academic classification the specific theosophical doctrinal system from the Middle Ages onwards, incorporating schools of Medieval, Lurianic, and Hasidic Kabbalah

In Jewish meditation, Meditative Kabbalah, the meditative tradition within Judaic KabbalahProphetic Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia's system of meditative Kabbalah in JudaismPractical Kabbalah, magical practices in Judaism from the Talmudic period through the Middle Ages, selectively used theurgically by some Jewish KabbalistsSabbateanism, heretical antinomian adaptions of Kabbalah in early-modern Judaism

Christian Kabbalah, Christian theological incorporation of Jewish Kabbalistic doctrine from the Renaissance onwardsHermetic Qabalah, a Western esoteric and magical tradition drawing on Jewish Kabbalah doctrine and methods, with other sources

English Qabalah, one of several different systems of Hermetic Qabalah that interpret the letters of the English or Latin alphabet as number and symbol

Other traditions with some similarities to Kabbalistic doctrine or methods [edit]

Gnosticism, classical belief systems speculating hierarchical mythic processes of good and evil in divine creationNeoplatonism, classical philosophy of descending divine emanationismHurufism, Medieval Sufi Islam sect that combined Koranic letters mystically ("cabalistically")

See also [edit]

Cabal, derived from Cabala in European culture, a secret group/intrigue

Cabala may also be a variant spelling of:

Jableh (Gabala), a Christian city in Syria during the Middle Ages

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