Cabala

Cabala (alternately Kabbala(h) or Qabala(h)) may refer to one of several systems of Mysticism:

• Kabbalah, the religious mystical system of Judaism
• Practical Kabbalah, an agglomeration of all the magical practices that developed in Judaism from the Talmudic period down through the Middle Ages
• Christian Kabbalah, the Christian application of Jewish Kabbalistic methods
• Hermetic Qabalah, a Western esoteric and mystical tradition drawing on Jewish Kabbalah and other sources
  • English Qabalah, one of several different systems of Hermetic Qabalah that interpret the letters of the English or Latin alphabet as number and symbol

See also

Cabala may also be a variant spelling of:

• Jableh (Gabala), a Christian city in Syria during the Middle Ages
• Karbala, a city in Iraq that is holy to Shiite Muslims
• possibly a misspelling of Cabela's, the outdoor specialty retailer.