Actually
The origin of "mana" as a term to refer to monarch points very much has its roots in magical mana, and I'm surprised nobody else has brought it up yet.
As far as I know, the entire community took it from here:
I think the term might've had some very limited use before(simply because Monarch Powers' acronym -> MP is the same as mana points in other games), but if you chart the frequency of its usage on, say, this forum, you can clearly see that this is what sparked it.
For years - especially before Steam reworked its review system - this review would come out on top whenever you'd open EU4's steam page.
So yeah... Playing the semantics game doesn't make much sense here I think. Mana isn't actual "mana" obviously, it's simply the funi term that we decided to use for monarch powers in EU4(and other PDX games..?).
We don't argue about whether someone has massive body and greenskin if they are called a "troll" on the internet, so I feel like we can agree that EU4's "mana" is simply its own thing.
In the game itself? The only instance is the description to the custom idea for all power costs I believe, tho it's pretty clear there that it's meant to be an easter egg directly referencing the community culture.
In the game files? Plenty cases, especially since starting from 1.31 onwards the CDs have been people deeply engrained within the EU4 community and its folklore. Like here:
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