An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries.
1Indirectly, the Hellenic side of Jewish culture left its mark, especially in the Cabbala.
2Reuchlin drew his supply from Italy, and was the first German who read the Cabbala.
3His chief contributions to the movement were practical, though he doubtless taught a theoretical Cabbala also.
4The Cabbala has intimate relations with neo-Platonism.
5The German Cabbala, too, which owed nothing directly to that school, held that God was not rationally knowable.
6Here I am, reading hard at the Cabbala, or Philo-whois stupider still-andwhat more would you have?'
7Agape equals ninety-three, seven one eight equals Stele six six six, sayeth the Apocalypse of the Cabbala...
8"This philosophy is the old Jewish-Pythagorean Cabbala, which teaches the motion of the Earth and Pre-existence of the Soul."