ETHIOPIA & ABYSSINIA

It would seem that GURDJIEFF was interested and had traveled to Ethiopia and insisted that it had or has great importance for those on the 'esoteric quest' or 'search for truth' and similar ventures.... Well, we now seem to think that man had his origins in that part of the African Continent, migrated to other places, but also it is where COFFEE, an important drink that G always seemed to have about him,especially when seated at cafes in Paris, or one particular one he used for his 'office' and 'writing' stand....the Cafe De La Paix...on Rue De La Paix....( I stayed at Hotel De La Paix in Paris and also at one in Siem Reap,Cambodia)........Ethiopia is also the site of where many hold the notion, or consider it, that THE LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT is to be found, and possibly in a certain church or monastery......and, of course, the proximity of Egypt and perhaps some of the origins of the ancient doctrines came from there, maybe long before Moses and maybe afterwards.....still one can only wonder and hope....then there is the modern history of Ethiopia and Mussolini's conquest of it.....and we all like to drink Ethiopian coffee if we are true coffee lovers......strong and dark, unsweetened and unsullied by milk.....