…the distinction between “magick” and “communication” exists only in our traditional ways of thinking. The uncanny Egyptians attributed both inventions to a single deity, Thoth, god of speech and other illusions.

In the existential world — in the sensory-sensual continuum — Thoth still reigns and language still has magick. All communication contains sorcery and/or hypnosis, because humans use howls, snarls, yaps, purrs, gargles, gurgles, etc. — noises of many sorts — to create a neuro — semantic “grid” projected upon all incidents and events. We generally call these grids languages.

– Robert Anton Wilson, Email to the Universe