Cabalistic

<p>A <b>cabal</b> is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%28polity%29" title="State (polity)">state</a>, or other community, often by <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intrigue" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:intrigue">intrigue</a>, usually unbeknown to persons outside their group. Cabals are sometimes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society" title="Secret society">secret societies</a> composed of a few designing persons, and at other times are manifestations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence" title="Emergence">emergent behavior</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance" title="Governance">governance</a> on the part of a community of persons who have well established public affiliation or kinship. The term can also be used to refer to the designs of such persons or to the practical consequences of their emergent behavior, and also holds a general meaning of intrigue and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy%28civil%29" title="Conspiracy (civil)">conspiracy</a>. The use of this term usually carries strong connotations of shadowy corners, back rooms and insidious influence. The term is frequently used in conspiracy theories; some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_conspiracy_theories" title="Masonic conspiracy theories">Masonic conspiracy theories</a> describe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Freemasonry</a> as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_%28politics%29" title="Internationalism (politics)">internationalist</a> secret cabal.</p>