will-o-the-witch:

alivanna-studyblr:

theroguefeminist:

jews: Kabbalah involves jewish mysticism and texts so complex + specialized only jews well-versed in jewish scholarship to even begin to understand. Others shouldn’t study it.

gentiles in medieval europe: WHY R U KEEPING THIS SECRET?? MUST BE DEVIL WORSHIPPING MAGIC!!

gentiles a few centuries later: lets make a term called “cabal” for secret evil political groups based on the word kabbalah! cant trust those jews!

gentiles during the enlightenment: this kabbalah stuff sounds cool! what if we changed this shit up for christians to use? lets do some alchemy shit this is rad

gentiles today: *starts kabbalah ~religion~ as a celebrity trend* *appropriates kabbalah for ~occult~ cool points in the media and tarot* *profits off of books on faux kabbalah bs to the point jews have trouble finding legit sources on kabbalah*

jews: …

Freemasons: we’re gonna repackage some of this kabbalah with a hodgepodge of ethical maxims and architectural engineering metaphors and market it as The Wisdom of Solomon™.  FOR BOYS ONLY NO GIRLS ALLOWED.

Gardner and Valiente: I’m going to repackage Freemasonry with traditional witchcraft and Romantic poetry and call it Wicca™.

Gardner: …And no old chicks.

Valiente: !?

Modern Pagans: At last we have completely liberated ourselves from teh Judeo-Chrsistian Paradigm™.  Also you literally cannot understand these fabricated ideas of ancient polytheistic religions unless you understand kabbalah.  Also cultural appropriation is horrible.

Jews: …do you even listen to what you are saying????

Reblogging again for the perfect addition

(While also noting that Wicca drew mostly I think from the Order of the Golden Dawn, which still uses a lot of Kabbalah)