A Jist of Brida

I read Brida the whole afternoon the other day. Another laudable work of Paulo Coelho.

Brida is a story of finding one's destiny, of knowledge, of one's self, and of love. It is about a young woman who came in search for magic. She went in to the woods and searched for the Magus who she believed will help her find the answers. Magic, like life is mysterious as he said. The Magus taught her the Tradition of the Sun after seeing in her a Gift. Her Dark Night was the first lesson she learned from him. She went back to town and visited the bookstore of magic and witchcrafting she constantly visits. The storeowner introduced her to Wicca, an expert in tarot card reading, after he was being told that she went to the forest and met the magus.

Wicca saw in Brida a Gift too but was more curious of what interests the Magus about Brida, she must find out. She taught her the Tradition of the Moon. The two became Brida's Teacher, one who guides through revelation and the other teaches witchcraft. In her quest to the mystery of magic, she found out that she was a witch too, like Wicca, who has the gift of calling the spirits, incarnated hundred of years ago. The simple quest of understanding magic led her to her Soulmate, the Magus. But she must find her own path to life...

Did she accept the fate of being a witch? Will she end up with her Soulmate? That you must find out...

Some lines of this book caught my heart. Here are the few.

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forwards. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Sometimes we set off down a path simply because we don't believe in it. It's easy enough. All we have to do then is prove that it isn't the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on.

But the path of magic - like the path of life - is and always will be the path of Mystery. Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong... Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.

I thought I knew what made me happy and what made me sad, then suddenly I realised that I need to think again.

God created the legion of His Left Arm in order to improve us, so that we would know what to do with our mission. But He put man in charge of concentrating the powers of darkness and creating his own demons.