According to the world's leading scholar on the Kabbalah, a man named Gershom Sholem, Kabbalah is gnostic. It has gnostic roots, and it doesn't have to be gnostic in terms of how a person approaches it, but it's heavily influenced by gnosticism.
The Soul of a Jew and the Soul of a Non-Jew: An Inconvenient Truth and the Quest for an Alternative
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