Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

Caesar tells us that Druidry originated in Britain, and that students were sent from Gaul to Britain for training.

The Ovate learns and teaches that it is often only by letting go, rather than holding on, that we truly find what we have been seeking.

Love of Truth Druid philosophy is a quest for wisdom.

Love of History and Reverence for the Ancestors Druidry recognises the forming power of the past.

To view nature as imbued with soul, and each creature in the universe as alive and communicative, is a form of animism consistent with the earliest spiritual framework of the ancient Celts. But it has survived into Christian and even post-Christian times. Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head – Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit

A number of the religions of the Near East and the Mediterranean basin spoke of gods who died and were then reborn, Attis, Tammuz, Adonis and Osiris being among the best known.

This gives us a span of 800 years in which organised Druidry flourished. It seems reasonable to say that when Sotion was writing the Druids could well have been in existence for at least 200 years, which gives us a time span of a thousand years, from the fourth century BC to the sixth century AD.

Whether we believe Druidry’s origins lie in the spiritual world, in the temples of Atlantis, the rites of the Dravidians, or the gradual merging of Indo-European and Stone-Age cultures in western Europe, we can be sure that its roots stretch far and deep.

In the training of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, we begin our study in Druidry with the bardic grade – and this is deeply meaningful.