Crossword-Solution: CABBALAH 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The philosophic schools had contended against the anthropomorphic views of the older mystics, and thus had brought higher views of the Godhead to dominance; but when the rationalistic movement had spent its force, the reaction came in the form of the Cabbalah, the secret lore which claimed to have been “transmitted” (according to the meaning of the word) from a hoary past.

This sound view was disseminated by the rationalistic school in its contest with the Cabbalah, and has exerted a wholesome influence upon modern Judaism.

Thus the Babylonian master Rab enumerates ten creative principles: Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge, Might and Power, Rebuke, Justice and Righteousness, Love and Mercy.(625) It is hard to say whether the ten attributes of the Haggadah are at all connected with the ten _Sefiroth_ (cosmic forces or circles) of the Cabbalah.

The Cabbalah also divides the soul into three different substances according to the three Biblical names, assigning their origins to the three different spheres of the universe, and reiterating the Platonic theory of the preexistence of the soul and its future transmigration.

Fundamentally the Cabbalah considered the soul an emanation from the divine intellect with a luminous character just like the philosophers.