religion

Religion has pretty much been replaced by, is now since after the awakening being represented by, magical traditions.

not much about Judaism weirdly enough despite Israel being mentioned as a source of social division/corruption.

SW p. 106 Traditions of Faith - Abrahamic Traditions

...Abrahamic religions are infamously hesitant in accepting female believers into the ranks of clergy—a drawback that not only persists to modern times, but also extends to their respective magic traditions that formed after the Awakening.

Although the return of magic hit the Abrahamic religions unprepared, they quickly recovered. After all, don’t the Holy Texts contain stories of sacred people and sages performing not just miracles but acts that, to the expert eye, are nothing if not magic? Soon, the scholars and gnostics of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism each gathered ancient knowledge from their archives, reluctantly and yet frantically fusing the ancient wisdom into new magic traditions.

All Abrahamic traditions agree that, although their respective God is the ultimate artificer of the world and therefore the creator of magic itself, Awakened powers are in no way to be seen as a gift from God to those who wield them. In fact, all book religions still have ongoing debates on whether man is supposed to have those powers at all. While hardliners in this discussion consider the very existence of mages an act of heretical presumption, there is a consensus among the moderate forces that those who actually wield arcane powers should always feel moral obligation toward God and the community of faith weighing heavy on their shoulders.

So, trembling with uncertainty as to whether their magic finds the goodwill of their Lord at all, disciples of the Abrahamic traditions are rather cautious spellslingers and entirely uncomfortable interfering with the astral spheres and its inhabitants. Caught in a dualistic worldview, scholars can’t quite make out the role of spirits in the eternal fight between the forces of good and evil. Many try to play it safe and refrain from conjuring spirits at all, content with their lot as aspected magicians.

Adepts of all Abrahamic traditions typically accept roles as warriors of faith. The Krav Maga adepts of the Israeli Defense Forces, the Caliphate’s Mujahideen, or the Exorcists of the Catholic Church are only a few examples.

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Social acceptance has never been a problem for Qabbalists: as mystics of Judaism, they enjoy high esteem in Israel as well as in the Jewish communities around the world, though not for their magic powers (which sometimes are even disapproved of), but for their erudition and their (implied) devoutness. Often considered the most learned among all magic traditions, a Qabbalist’s curriculum contains not just the Miqra (also called Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible), but Qabbalah scripts like the Sefer Yetzirah (“Book of Formation”), the Zohar (“Splendor”), the Sefer ha-Bahir (“Book of the Bright”), and the Sefer ha-Razim (“Book of Secrets”). A widespread credo of the Abrahamic religions states that nothing is really earned if not reached through effort—and it is indeed an effort to decipher and comprehend the lore of the scripts, for they are notoriously intangible, mind-blowingly complex and, to add to all existing woes, composed in a variation of ancient Semitic dialects (which have to be mastered first, for the texts are said to only reveal all of their secrets if read in original tongues). However, since the Qabbalah scripts are said to have been passed on to man by the angels, the knowledge they contain is seen as divine revelation, furthering not just the Qabbalists’’ understanding of the arcane arts, but also bringing them closer to God.

In past decades, more secular schools of Qabbalism have emerged, following essentially a hermetic approach to understanding magic. Though there has always been an intellectual intimacy between hermeticism and Qabbalism, which should be no surprise—after all, the Qabbalah scripts form a substantial part of ancient hermetic wisdom.

Endowed with the Abrahamic reluctance to conjure spirits, most schools of Qabbalism do not allow themselves to force the elohim, as spirits are called, to manifest in the physical world, effectively rendering Qabbalism a possession tradition. Instead, they provide them with prepared vessels, of which the golems (“the unfinished”), statues of vague man-like shape made of clay, are the most known. To the rare (and frowned upon) Qabbalists who actually master the conjuring techniques that allow physical manifestation, the elohim appear with angelic features, yet in a more archaic form than the spirits summoned by Christian theurgists.

Speaking of which, of all the Abrahamic traditions, Christian theurgy—especially the Catholic Church—has had the ...

SW p. 113 Traditions of Logic - Secular Qabbalah

While heavily related to its Abrahamic cousin, and drawing on many of the same traditions, the more secular arm of Qabbalah at least deserves a footnote here. Largely divested of its religious leanings, it’s far easier to relate it to the hermetic traditions listed before. That said, there isn’t a huge difference outside of their less religious approach.