Druids
Members of the ancient pre-Christian Celtic priestcraft of Britain and Gaul, a secret order about which almost nothing is known. The term 'druid' means 'knowing the oak tree' in Gaelic; the oak tree was sacred to the Celts.
The Druids- A Brief Cultural History
by Christopher M. Nixon
The group of people known as the Druids, their practices, beliefs, and lives are shrouded in a great deal of mystery and misconception.
Druids, Masonic
Members of several Masonic and Rosicrucian fraternal orders founded in the 1700's (and since) in England, France and elsewhere; some claim to go back to the original Druids.
Druids, Reformed ...
Druids first constructed Stonehenge about 4000 years ago during the Neolithic "New Stone Age".
The Druids were initiates of a secret school that existed in their midst. This school, which closely resembled the Bacchic and Eleusinian Mysteries of Greece or the Egyptian rites of Isis and Osiris, is justly designated the Druidic Mysteries.
The Druids of Britain and Gaul had a deep knowledge concerning the mysteries of Isis and worshiped her under the symbol of the moon. Godfrey Higgins considers it a mistake to regard Isis as synonymous with the moon.
Freemasonry and the Druids, by W. Winwood Reade
Gems, Amulets, and Talismans
Haunted Houses, by Andrew Lang
I Ching
Index of Major Figures in Divination and Occult Sciences ...
The Druids of Great Britain practised it in the silent crypts of their deep caves; and Pliny devotes many a chapter to the "wisdom"** of the leaders of the Celts.
When exactly the Druids disappeared is unknown. Numerous authors state that when Christianity first came to the Isles the Druids welcomed it and worked along side of it.
5 He discusses Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Druids, the "notes, signes, tokens, caracters or signes of the voyce whereby there are made generall differences of soundes", and, with evident relish, kabbalah, ...
The traditional thesis that Stonehenge was a druid temple is untenable, because the Druids did not appear in Britain until a few hundred years before the Christian era.
The Druids were the wise men and women who worked as teachers, healers and advisors to Kings and common people alike.
Druids and Brahmins
History of the Ancient Aryans: Outlined in Zoroastrian scriptures
David Livingstone: The Dying God: A New History of Western Civilization
CCG: Abracadabra: The Meaning of Names
On Indo-Aryan Origins (Blavatsky) ...
Mabon marks the autumnal equinox - the time of the second (fruit) harvest and the pivot between the light and dark halves of the year: day and night are of equal length. To the druids this is Alban Elued, "Light of the Water, ...
There are also legends that suggest the stone Celtic Crosses were carved from the standing stones of the Druids and were originally phallic symbols carved into crosses to disguise their original purpose.
The fifth is Romane or Sibylline Magick, which acteth and operates with Tutelar Spirits and Lords, to whom the whole Orb of the earth is distributed. This is valde insignis Magia.* To this also is the doctrine of the Druids referred.
The Hierophants of Babylon and of Egypt, the Druids, the Phoenicians, are all sons of the Dragon, or Serpents.
 See also: Druid, Spirit, World, Ritual, Magic
  
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