Fascinating. I bet this would be even more powerful with a homoiconic language like Hebrew: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137068/jewish/Letters-

Fascinating. I bet this would be even more powerful with a homoiconic language like Hebrew: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137068/jewish/Letters-of-Light.htm http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137068/jewish/.... And then penmen would have gotten what they wanted working with the tools of God: the hebrew letters are considered to be the foundational creative and substantive components of the Universe, so they would have been a priesthood of sorts guarding a lot more than social class: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofer