Back to the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate Homepage G.W.F. Hegel: Kabbalah and Gnosticism translation and notes by Scott J. Thompson Hegel Links Kabbalah and Gnosticism Kabbalistic Philosophy and Gnostic theology are also occupied with the concepts of Philo. The first of these concepts is Being: abstract, unknown and nameless. The second is disclosure: the concrete which emanates from Being.