(5) Details of this kind have fascinated at least one other scholar, Dominique Aubier, who reads Don Quixote
cabalistically, with Cervantes serving as a kind of latter-day seal of the Prophets: "La prophetie en cours concernerait l'achevement d'une enterprise soutenue par le Coran et l'Islam pour Mahomet, la Bible espagnole pour Cervantes" (2.31).
Bruno is not merely defining or presenting the Kabbalah: he is writing a Kabbalistic text." (20) The cabalists from whom Bruno learned, Pico, Reuchlin and Agrippa, did use Cabala mainly to support other, more fundamental beliefs, Christian or magical; Bruno, in contrast, tried to think
cabalistically. This insight does not immediately solve problems, as a comment of Bruno's shows: "Here then is Cabala, theology and philosophy: I mean a Cabala of theological philosophy, a philosophy of Cabalistic theology, a theology of Cabalistic philosophy, such that I am uncertain whether you have these three either as an entirety, or in parts, or as nothing.