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Definition of cabbalistic in English: cabbalisticadjective kabəˈlɪstɪk Relating to or associated with mystical interpretation or esoteric doctrine. See also Kabbalah Example sentencesExamples - Among the lesser arcana, Saturn is assigned to the threes on cabbalistic grounds.
- A subject in itself is cabalistic meditation (pathwork, or the way of return), in which we attempt to climb up the tree (ladder of lights) to attain union with divinity.
- The theory that if 9 men take 90 days to make up their individual minds, 15 men will take fewer days to make up theirs is cabalistic arithmetic.
- The room is an almost excessively rich joy to the eye, as well as being a sort of one-man cabbalistic text.
- In the lesser arcana, Mercury (as the eighth cabbalistic sphere) rules the eights.
- In the minor arcana, Mars is assigned on cabbalistic grounds to the fives.
- Oh, sure, I strip naked and daub myself with cabbalistic symbols and dance around in the woods with treacle in my hair every second Wednesday, but I'm only doing it to reprogramme my mind.
- In fact, the cabbalistic and/or hermetic connections made between the tarot and its sources were little more than a series of free associations, usually based on personal surmise.
- In this treatise he shows that the cabalistic works, ‘which are palmed upon ancient authorities, are pseudonymous; that the doctrines themselves are mischievous; and that the followers of this system are inflated with proud notions, pretending to know the nature of God better than any one else, and to possess the nearest and best way of approaching the Deity.’
- In the lesser arcana, Venus rules the sevens on cabbalistic grounds.
Synonyms supernatural, magic, magical, mystical, mystic, paranormal, psychic, necromantic, preternatural, transcendental
Derivatives noun ˈkabəlɪz(ə)m Throughout the ages, numerology has always sub-consciously intrigued and influenced people with its mystical fusion, cabbalism, precipitation and excitement. Example sentencesExamples - Likewise, I would suspect that most varieties of gnosticism as well as cabbalism entertain essentially a transcendental metaphor which would distance them from the earth-orientations of ‘nature religion’.
- In some cases the theories are sublime: some purport higher authority or even a secret manuscript as their basis, whilst others rely upon correspondences with cabbalism, astrology, numerology, witchcraft, and so on.
- Unfortunately, the pervasive and propelling mysticism and cabbalism in this story of love, death and possession from beyond the grave aren't in themselves enough to make a theatrical experience.
- As certificates of their qualifications, most of the candidates have enclosed specimens of their skill in alchemy and cabbalism.
noun ˈkabəlɪst I've spent a lot of time in the last few months dwelling in the sphere of Luna (Yesod for the cabbalists). Example sentencesExamples - I think the doctors also noted some of the cabbalists and other devout Jews.
- If lottery grants are thrown open to local voting, any well-organised minority group - fetishist, cabbalist or nakedly populist - can sway the outcome by massing members at key meetings.
- Let it not be forgotten that the first systematic categorisations of colour associations were undertaken by magicians, astrologers and cabbalists and that their conclusions continue to inform a great deal of modern colour theory.
- The subtle energies, known to the cabbalists and alchemists as telluric forces, flow out from her and rise upwards towards the floor of the cathedral.
Origin Earlly 17th century: variant of Kabbalistic. |