Explain the origins of magic to me

[KorvinStarmast]

It occurs to me that in worlds where life force is a thing then that implies a life field and you could get spontaneous generation by excitation of that field, which could explain certain conjuration

That's a thought I'll take with me.

This is more or less how it works in my setting.

The story of Prometheus is a metaphor for said code being leaked to mortals.

I find magic-as-computer-code to be a terrible fit (magic is too chaotic for it to be computer code, see my initial post in this thread for where I see magic fitting) for a fantasy/swords and sorcery setting, but for futuristic genres maybe ... although I prefer psionics for that kind of setting.(A matter of taste, to be sure).