Sublime

Love of Justice Druids were judges, and law-makers. Traditionally Druids are interested in restorative, not punitive, justice.

These lodges proliferated throughout England, and then abroad in most corners of the British Empire and in parts of Europe.

The clue to understanding why this should be so lies in the realisation that the historical Bards worked with record and with inspiration.

The Bards were the keepers of tradition, of the memory of the tribe – they were the custodians of the sacredness of the Word.

By working in this way we learn to by-pass the rational mind, which so loves to create limits to understanding.

As the popularity of alternative approaches to healing and spirituality, loosely termed ‘New Age’, grew during the decade or so after the appearance of A View over Atlantis, there developed a thirst for Celtic spirituality, stimulated to a great extent by two prolific writers: Caitlín and John Matthews.

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.

Druidry tends to see the circle as symbolic of all the Earth, rendering the sacred space a microcosm of the whole world.

Druidism touches hearts and souls in different ways and it appeals to many people now because of its lack of exclusivity and uniformity.