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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[666 Satan]]'': The Kabbalah is shown throughout the series as a sort of sandwich on the earth.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the Tree of Life is one of the mystical symbols appearing on the mysterious Gate.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' loves its Kabbalistic symbolism. Now, [[Internet Backdraft|whether]] [[Broken Base|it]] [[Rule of Symbolism|means]] [[Faux Symbolism|anything]]...
** The entire tree is lovingly drawn on Gendo Ikari's office floor, and considering how hip deep he is in {{spoiler|reenacting key parts of the original story to bring back his wife and initiate Third Impact}}, it may have somewhat more meaning, insofar as he and {{spoiler|SEELE}} are concerned.
* In ''[[Psyren]]'', Amagai Miroku's Sephirot attack is based on the Tree of Life.
* ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' references it a couple of times. First is Mercuremon's evolved form of Sephirotmon, which is actually composed of orbs in the same pattern as the Tree of Life (complete with the Crest of [[Light Is Not Good|Light]] from [[Digimon Adventure]] on the central orb). Ophanimon has an attack called Sephirot Crystals, in which she summons crystals in the same Tree of Life pattern as well.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Alan Moore's ''[[Promethea]]'' series is strongly oriented by the Occult Kabbalah of [[Aleister Crowley]] and the sex magick tradition that has been riffing on him (whether or not he liked it then, or his devout like it now) for the last century. A trip through the Tree of Sefirot fills up all of books 3 and 4.
* Ben Katchor's ''[[The Jew of New York]]'' includes Kabbalistic meditation on the word
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* The ''[[RWBY]]/[[The Gamer]]'' crossover fic ''[[The Games We Play (RWBY fanfic)|The Games We Play]]'' uses the emanations of the Sephiroth as the basis for the [[Anatomy of the Soul]] in the setting, something that turns out to be critical to the long-term plot.
* [[Pi]] has explicit references to Gematria, the kabbalistic practice of analyzing Hebrew words as numbers.▼
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▲* ''[[Pi]]'' has explicit references to Gematria, the kabbalistic practice of analyzing Hebrew words as numbers.
* Both ''[Hellgate:London\]'' and ''[[Clive Barker's Jericho]]'' have heroes who are ~techno kabbalists~.▼
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[Bee Season]]'', both the great book by Myla Goldberg, and the mediocre movie with Richard Gere, has Abraham Abulafia's prophetic techniques, Isaac Luria's idea of fixing the world, and Hasidic dancing. Of course, this is in a family with serious problems, so these get translated into obsessive compulsion and Hare Krishna.▼
* ''[[Illuminatus]]!''{{'}}s chapter names [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|are named for sephirot]]. So has [[Umberto Eco]]'s [[Foucault's Pendulum]].▼
* ''[[Gustav Meyrink]]''{{'}}s ''Golem'' is heavily influenced by Kabbalah (and by antisemitism). Not very surprisingly so, seeing as the Golem legend is itself heavily kabbalistic, and Meyrink was deeply involved with the esotericism of his time.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* ''[[GURPS
* ''Kabbalah: Mythic Judaism'' was a 1998 supplement for ''[[Ars Magica]]'' quantifying Jewish mysticism and magic for use in the game.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* Both ''[[Hellgate:London
* ''[[Trickster Online]]'' takes place on Kabbalah Island and includes all sorts of specific references to Sefirot.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'''s Sephiroth takes the name from the Tree of Life. But that seems to be it.
* The back wall of the bathroom where you start the game in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' has kabbalistic drawings on it.
* The occult-obsessed school nurse in ''
* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' derives much of its mythology from Kabbalah, instead of the series' habit of drawing on [[Norse Mythology]]. Sephiroth are Auldrant's ten major magical 'hotspots', the Qliphoth is a lifeless underground sea of hot mud and poisonous gas, and several towns in Malkuth take their names from the actual Sephirot. Malkuth itself is named for the lowest Sephirot, which means 'kingdom'.
▲== Literature ==
▲* [[Bee Season]], both the great book by Myla Goldberg, and the mediocre movie with Richard Gere, has Abraham Abulafia's prophetic techniques, Isaac Luria's idea of fixing the world, and Hasidic dancing. Of course, this is in a family with serious problems, so these get translated into obsessive compulsion and Hare Krishna.
▲* [[Illuminatus]]'s chapter names [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|are named for sephirot]]. So has [[Umberto Eco]]'s [[Foucault's Pendulum]].
▲* [[Gustav Meyrink]]'s ''Golem'' is heavily influenced by Kabbalah (and by antisemitism). Not very surprisingly so, seeing as the Golem legend is itself heavily kabbalistic, and Meyrink was deeply involved with the esotericism of his time.
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* ''[[GURPS]] Cabal'' is a game setting in which kabbalah is as ancient as the Jewish mystics claim. Kabbalism is one of the very few "real" (in that universe) paths to potent magic, and Qliphoth are extremely dangerous beings.
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