| Struggling for her moorings there, she began reading C.G. Jung which led to books on alchemy, hermetic magic, astrology and the Kabbala. |
| He then embarked on intensive study, first of the philosophy of Maimonides, then of the esoteric Kabbala, which was rather more to his taste. |
| 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 desired that the Kabbala be taught only in secret, and be not expounded in public. |
| The Christianlike Kabbala was to be his intercessor at the Vatican. |
