Sublime

In this way William Price, the Druid, became directly responsible for cremation being legalized in Britain, with the first officially sanctioned cremation being held a year later.

In 1740 he published the result of his researches in Stonehenge Restored to the British Druids.

The name Alban (literally ‘Briton’) may, in fact, be Germanus’s invention: the personification of Britain’s fall and revival as an orthodox Roman Christian state.

Then, in the 1690s, the Druid Revival began in earnest when John Aubrey, the writer and antiquarian, turned his attention to the stone monuments of Wiltshire.

House-monasteries tentatively suggested at late Roman villas such as Frocester, Chedworth and Halstock hint at the private devotions of landed families. The density of small settlements bearing the names of very obscure saints in Cornwall and north Wales, in particular, is suggestive of the idea that élite families were expected to sponsor their ow

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.