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Rooted deep in times long past, Druidry was a pathway that was alive with the sacredness of the Nature World. Druidry embraced the wheel of cyclical existences, the circling and the spiraling. There were the Bards who were singers and story tellers. There were the Ovates who were time travellers and healers. There were the Druids who were teachers, philosophers and judges. An Earth based faith, Druidry melded the love of the sea, the sky and the land with ritual, storytelling, poetry, music and the visual arts. Druids were spiritual counselors and philosophers who offered guidance regarding the numerous perplexing enigmas, frustrating conundrums and vexing problems of daily life. The spiritual lineage of Druidry spanned thousands of years of Ancient Celtic Culture. The cave initiations of Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain from twenty-five thousand years ago were mirrored around 3,000 BCE in the rebirth mounds of New Grange in Ireland. They spoke to the heart of the spiritual awakening of creativity after a period of immersion in the darkness of the void. One of the primary themes of Druidry and Celtic spirituality continued to be the quest for spiritual transformation through creative manifestation; and, Scottish Druids and Bards trained this way for hundreds of years. Over the passage of time, the oral traditions surrounding the megalithic Sacred Mounds like Newgrange became shrouded in Celtic Druidic mythos and the mystical mysteries of Fairy mounds and the Sídhe. Oral traditions based on ancient Celtic Druidry memories became fragmented over the ages with modern day Celtic Druids only remembering the passage chambers as places where the Fairies and the Sídhe dwelt. Long forgotten was their true purpose as Sacred Mounds; as well as, their association with their early Túatha Dé Danann ancestors, benefactors and mentors who were immortal and Otherworldly. Instead of being the homes of ancient immortal Celtic Druids like Oenghus, the god of love, the passage chambers like Newgrange were light matrix healing and acceleration temples where the Túatha de Danann, who were sixth dimensional Celtic Druidic shamans helped the peoples of this planet to accelerate their dimensional human bodies.
Although most of the Tuatha Dé Danann had relocated to the Pleaides before the destruction of Lemuria, some of the shamanic healers who were benefactors and mentors of the peoples of this planet, remained behind to help the Celts who followed the Druidry Spiritual Pathway. The Sacred Mound passage chambers utilized the healing properties of crystals and stones in conjunction with the seasonal stellar energies to restore immortality to the human bodies inhabited by the peoples of this planet. This would explain how a tri-spiral Druidic Celtic design could have been carved on a Newgrange orthostat at least 2,500 years before the recorded historical date for the arrival of the Celts in Ireland. At Newgrange there was a cruciform chamber with a corbelled roof at the end of the nineteen meters long inner passage. The spiritual teachings of Druidry were encoded in their stories, songs and myths. Realizing the divinity within everything, Druids sought answers to the eternal questions revolving around the unfoldment of the flower that was the individual soul as it endured through an eternity of lives from dawn to dusk and from season to season. The Druidry of the Celts centered around maintaining their spiritual balance and sacred connectivity with the Natural World by treating all things hallowed with the respect and reverence they deserved. The living waters of rivers, springs and wells were venerated because they were believed to have both magical and curative powers. Animal Spirits, Fairy Mounds, Hollow Hills, Holy Wells, Leprechauns, Mineral Spirits, Mound Building, Sacred Lakes, Sidhe, Tree Spirits and the Wee Folk were all revered by the Celts.
The Druidic Celtic world was
alive with the effervescent glories of the fairies, with the genial helpfulness
of the elementals (fire, earth, air, water); and, with the innate divinity of
the landscape. At the time that Julius Caesar and other classical writers first began to write about the Celts and Druids
through the often deliberately and sometimes inadvertently distorted perceptual lenses of
the Ancient Roman Culture, Celtic Druidry was already a highly
developed Spiritual Pathway.
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