'But your Engine does computation. And so I am compelled to ask, at what point does it become imbued with the incorporeal principle of Thought? You say that Cogitatio informs the body, and somehow organizes it into a mechanical system that is capable of acting. I will accept that for now. But with the Arithmetickal Engine, you are working backwards – constructing a mechanical system in the hopes that it will become impregnated from above – as the Holy Virgin. When does the Annunciation occur – at the moment you put the last gear into place? When you turn the crank?'