cabala

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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

Mia Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were 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

These works, and the other 74 tales in the collection, have become secular cabala, subject to endless sifting and interpretation.

From Time Magazine Archive

I give due credit to the censorial brow, to the broad phylacteries, and to the imposing gravity of those magisterial rabbins and doctors in the cabala of political science.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund