Im intrigued by the way that the Shams Al Marif has a numerology using the Arabic letters and the Kabbalah has similar powers for the Hebrew letters. The shams and Arabic approach uses magical squares in a more elaborated way. This made me wonder if the Kabbalahists also use/used magical squares and whether that is something the 2 traditions could learn from each other. The Arabic tradition doesn use permutation of letters as much as the Kabbalists (openly anyway). Any thoughts?
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Are Kabbalah numerology the same as Arabic Islamic Abjad?
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Yes, they're similar systems, and you also find forms in Latin & English in Agrippa's 3 books of occult philosophy, and Vedic forms in other sources. They're meant to make systems of connecting concepts together, and create "bodies" to house the unified intelligences, similar to how a modern chaos magician would make their sigils.