I was doing some digging on gnosticism/indo-aryan/jewish mysticism spread event in early computer/anime history. Being present in several schizo tabletop rpg books, point click games and VNs (and later animes) of the time. (Its a really long list). Ended up falling on a particularly OOF rabbit hole.
I got into computers and game dev via my older brother, he got into it as a child via a rather polemic teacher activist from italy/brazil called Pierluigi Piazzi. My mom was into him, and followed his advice that getting kids into computing was a better path than brazilian school based on the Paulo Freire positivist educational system model, which is absolutely correct. So she got his books and bought an MSX for my brother.

Piazzi also has a label of book publishing called Aleph (as in, the hebrew letter) that is the only sci-fi and esotericism book publisher in Brazil, and so happens that my copy of Snowcrash is published by him.

I'm now learning that he understood programming as an extension of alchemy and means to expand/open one's mind to become a "learner". Sadly it is all in portuguese, so I can't really deliver all of it. I had this book, it reads very differently now.
https://download.file-hunter.com/Books/PT/programas_para_seu_msx.pdf