Magick and Coffee Beans...

The other day I started thinking about coffee and how much I like it, for some reason I made a point of remembering all the places in which I have had good coffee, and the list is quite long and international... always a memory that isn't only formed of pictures, but of scents and tastes as well. Then I started thinking of toasted coffee beans, the great way they smell, and the nice taste it gives me to keep one around in my mouth for a while.

And then it struck me: I didn't know where coffee comes from!.

I mean, I know there is some plant... but are they really bean-like plants?, is it a bush?, a tree?, how does it look like?... Are the coffee beans the core of some fruit?, I mean... how come did I consider my self a coffee lover, and I didn't know any of this?!?!?!...

So, I did some research and coffee does come from some sort of bush, and the beans look like this. Ok, that doesn't make me a huge connoisseur on the matter, but it gives me enough info to be able to drink my coffee again and not feel guilty about the oblivion in which I used to live regarding this fine drink.

On the other hand, after all, this post has the word "magick" on it's title, so I might as well comment on that. It is not a secret that I am interested in magick and energies and such things, well, doing some research I bumped into a very interesting deffinition by a guy named Aleister Crowley. Now, we could talk for hours about this guy, what he did, and whether or not you should read his stuff... but we won't. What I have found though is that he manages some very cool concepts, and his deffinition is one that I like a lot:

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take "magical weapons," pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations"?these sentences?in the "magical language" i.e. that which is understood by people I wish to instruct. I call forth "spirits" such as printers, publishers, booksellers, and so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution is thus an act of MAGICK by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.)

He goes on and on about it, but the idea is great... and it pretty much states how everything we do is an act of magic, and how much we succed depends on how strong is our will, and how suited were our mechanism to accomplish things... now, based on this, I like tremendously the part in which he sais that if everything is, after all, an act of magic, why shouldn't we learn to do it the proper way?.

ps. Jaime, I got your comment from haloscan, I agree in every possible way... love is such a weird feeling after all, but a feeling we all crave for and need... and I my self, just as you, hope that I get to feel it at least once more in my life...