Theos-Talk Archives (August 1997 Message tl00145)

>The general convention is that Qabala deals with the "magic(k)al" stuff,
>whereas Kabbalah deals with the mystical stuff.

In twenty years of study I have never heard that. So far as I know, 
whether one uses "Qabala", "Qabalah", "Kabala", "Cabala", or any of the 
other variant transliterations is an arbitrary choice without semantic 
significance. Given that the Hebrew word starts with Qoph, "Qabala" or 
"Qabalah" is arguably most accurate.

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Tim Maroney    tim@maroney.org    http://www.maroney.org