Thou mayst be master of the Cabala and the Chemistry; but thou must be master also over the Flesh and the Blood,--over Love and Vanity, Ambition and Hate.
Cabala and its number, lives on to change, in its bloodless movements, the face of the habitable world!
Once more the old forgotten lore of the Cabalais unfolded; the furnace of the alchemist, whose fires have been extinct for centuries, is lighted anew, and the lamp of the Rosicrucian re-illumined.
The Cabala bears to mathematics the same sort of relationship that the confused or fallacious chatter of the Sophists bore to the serene, lofty doctrines of Plato and of Aristotle.
Casanova was piqued that she should speak of the Cabala with such unconcealed contempt.
But of course you know as well as I do that the Cabala has not merely nothing to do with mathematics, but is in conflict with the very essence of mathematics.
At length he went so far as to maintain that the Cabalawas not so much a branch of mathematics as the metaphysical perfectionment of mathematics.
Nevertheless, in defiance of his own better judgment, he now undertook to defend the Cabala as a serious and perfectly valid science.
Were my despised birth and religion published, my limbs would be torn asunder as an impostor; and all the arts of the Cabala could not save me.
Your obstinacy drives me to despair, for I shall not rest till I know that I am as much a master of the cabala as you are, and yet you will not confess that you invent the answers yourself.
If it be true that there is in your cabala an intelligence distinct from your own you ought to be able to find some way of proving it to me.
I praised the wisdom of the oracle, and kissed the Pythoness a score of times, promising that the cabala should be obeyed implicitly, adding that she had no need of being taught the science since she knew it as well as the inventor.
Esther was silent all through dinner, and we did not mention the cabala till the clerk was gone.
As she really knew as much about the cabala as I did she did not want it to be explained to her, but translated the numbers into letters as I wrote them down.
We had scarcely sat down when she told me that she had become as skilled in the cabala as myself.
The Cabala is divided into the symbolical and the real, of which the former gives a mystical signification to letters.
These cabala are held in high esteem by the learned, and the hundreds of fortune-tellers in the streets of Chinese towns practice their art on the basis of these mysteries.
But since that period he has behaved towards me with the utmost ingratitude--entered into all the silly cabala against me, blamed all my measures, and turned into ridicule the Legion of Honour.
I had expected, I scarce know why, to have had some light thrown on the existence of the Cabala in its present form, from Ezekiel to Paul and John.
A certain German of Swabian birth, converted to Judaism some years ago, who taught under the name Moses Germanus, having adopted the dogmas of Spinoza, believed that Spinoza revived the ancient Cabala of the Hebrews.
But Spinoza, who was versed in the Cabala of the writers of his race, and who says (Tractatus Politicus, c.
The Cabala was, as I have tried to make clear, only one of the influences which produced this new intellectual climate.
The Cabala is full of unrestrained oriental imagination, of fancies run riot, and of symbolisms ridden to death.
Hence I say the art of the Cabala requires of the soul that magic yet natural power shall, as it were, after sleep has been driven away, be placed in the keeping of the soul.
This happens either through the illumination of the Holy Ghost or a man himself can by the art of the Cabala produce this power of awakening himself at will.
Hence it is observed that every ancient form of religion has a cabala containing its secret doctrines--doctrines the inner meaning of which was known only to the few.
But since that period he has behaved towards me with the utmost ingratitude --entered into all the silly cabala against me, blamed all my measures, and turned into ridicule the Legion of Honour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabala" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cabala; confidence; enigma; mystery; mysticism; mystification; occult; secret; symbolism
