The Christianlike Kabbala was to be his intercessor at the Vatican. |
He desired that the Kabbala be taught only in secret, and be not expounded in public. |
Certainly they are four treatises on alchemy and kabbala. |
Those who have studied the esoteric kabbala know the intimate meaning of the magic figure very well. |
The Neoplatonic tradition, which undergirds Sufism, the Kabbala, and Western esotericism, regards physical phenomena as lower manifestations of realities that are spiritual at higher levels of being. |
He then embarked on intensive study, first of the philosophy of Maimonides, then of the esoteric Kabbala, which was rather more to his taste. |