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According to Fulcanelli, the Phonetic Cabala (Fulcanelli's term for a special use of language, drawing on phonetic similarities and other symbolic techniques for expanding the expressive reach of words) is not the Hebrew Kabbalah; even the derivation is different: Cabala is derived from the Latin "caballus", a horse, as in the Horse of Troy in the Iliad. It is basically homophonic and symphonic rather than numerical; it is based on phonetic assonance and resonance to echo "The Gay Science" in the words of the ancient Greek deities spoken in sacred ancient Greek nomenclature. According to Walter Lang, who wrote an introduction to the English translation of Fulcanelli's "Le Mystère des Cathédrales", the basic principles of the Phonetic Cabala are restored in Fulcanelli's "Magnum Opus".