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Fascinating reading. As both a programmer and a student of metaphysics, I've often drawn the analogy between computer programs and magical incantations myself. There may be something to the author's assertion that the distinction between word and action - and even that between thought and action - is completely arbitrary. The New Testament writers seemed to be hinting at something along those lines: for example, when they equate committing adultery in one's heart with committing adultery in fact; or when the first chapter of the Gospel of John states that the Word (i.e., Christ) is both the Creator in physical form and the medium through which physical reality was created.
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