Sublime

Reading the Brehon laws today offers us an opportunity to enter into the minds of the early Druids – and to many people’s surprise, rather than discovering the beliefs of a primitive and savage people, we find a highly considered system that is mostly based upon ‘restorative justice’ – a concept that is found, for example, on the other side of the

Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.

Schisms occurred and other groups formed, and many thousands of people were (and still are) members of such groups. As with Freemasonry, engraved certificates, rings and even porcelain tea sets are sometimes discovered in antique shops or are unearthed as ancestral heirlooms, and families remember that ‘Granddad was a Druid’. But even though the Dr

By the end of the fourth century the temple at Uley Hill had partially collapsed and been demolished. It was now rebuilt on a more modest scale, as an L-shaped structure.o Within another generation or two, at some time during the fifth century, it was replaced by a timber building that looks for all the world like a basilica, with accompanying bapt

with his passing, there remained only one Perfect still at large in the Languedoc. William Bélibaste was from the Corbières who, sometime before Easter 1305, had killed a fellow shepherd.

This truth was expressed by the alchemists (and there is a strong tradition of alchemy within Druidry) and later by Carl Jung (whose work first began to influence modern Druidry through Ross Nichols).

whose service was to the Gods and to their people. The perception is that they held considerable sway in the sociological foundations of Celtic life, being the law-makers and king-makers.