There he devoted himself to the Kabbalah, and collected a large library of cabalistic literature. Samuel Vital was the author of both cabalistic and rabbinical works. For his cabalistic views he quotes Recanate and Joseph Sar Shalom, but not the Zohar. Azulai enumerates twenty-four cabalistic treatises by Fano, part being in manuscript. Asher ben David is one of the earliest cabalistic writers. The latter is a book on astrology and cabalistic science. The book, which contains also scholastic and cabalistic discourses, was printed in 1858. According to the "", aside from the wolf, some cabalistic signs and inscriptions were added. A dark figure was visible against a cabalistic emblem. It is knowledge that is public as opposed to secret or cabalistic. For example, in connection with the cabalistic interpretation of Num. Cabalistic themes influence his novel "The Human Chord". In 1888, De Guaita founded the Cabalistic Order of the Rosicrucian. Influenced by them, and others, he studied Oriental languages, chemistry, and the cabalistic sciences.