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As we mentioned in Volume One, the Gnostics, like the Stoics, were most likely a pan-Druidic order. Gnostic groups were very likely making a return to the highest principles of the Egyptian Amenists and the Irish Druids. This is the reason why Gnostic groups were so ruthlessly persecuted. Given that this is the truth, we are not surprised that modern academics are, on the whole, loath to get to the bottom of what Gnosticism was about. They know, all too well, what it would mean for the orthodox hegemony, should the truth about the Gnostics and their inclination toward Druidry be brought to light.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

In the Egyptian language the word “Christ” denoted one who was "anointed." In ancient times there was a process or ritual known as Horasis. During this rite the male's entire body was regarded as a phallus and anointed accordingly. This practice originated from the Druids who would anoint the trunk of a specially prepared oak tree with oil. We note a similar practice among the Egyptians, whose ithyphallic obelisk symbolized the ancient earth god Geb. And we find the practice among the Hindus, whose erect "lingam" stone symbolized the ancient god Shiva, or Pashupati.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

When Christianity preached Jesus as God, it preached the most familiar name of its own deity to Druidism; and in the ancient British tongue 'Jesus' has never assumed its Greek, Latin, or Hebrew form, but remains the pure Druidic 'Yesu'.

— Fredrick Haberman; Tracing Our Ancestors (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

And more; it was the sacred principles of Druidry that were to be studied by the senior Templars, Masons, Cardinals, Priests, and Kabalists of old.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

The religions of Christianity and Judaism originate from the same source, and that source is Egypt. Egyptian culture and religion had its source also, and that source is Ireland. Ireland's Druidic and proto-Druidic traditions, likewise, had their source in the pre-diluvian civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria. These facts will come as something of a shock to the majority of those readers who have received their education from conventional sources and who have tended to blithely accept on faith all that pours forth from the mouths and pens of the so-called "historians"and "experts" who believe themselves informed about the world of the past.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

The Druids were the oldest priesthood from the oldest civilization on earth. Egyptian religion and Judeo-Christianity were plagiarizations and corruptions of Druidic teachings and traditions. The word Druid means "Doorway," and also "Servent of Truth."

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Druids were attacked by the Christian church for their paganism, but especially for their propensity to include sacred women in their ranks.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

Dryadism and druidism were two phases of the same religion, evidently restricted to a female priesthood in the earlier, matriarchal stage, later open to male priests as well. Gaulish and British priests of the oak groves formed a class of bardic wizards, keeping a sacred tradition by memorizing orally transmitted material, the nucleus of medieval sagas, epics, and ballads.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

No such nonsense [redemption by proxy] was taught by the Servants of Truth. [...] The adept under the guidance of the Druid or Shaman faced nature and knew full well that there was no entrance to the halls of his gods as long as he remained morally impure and sodden.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Dr. Smith thinks that the Druids never offered any human or even animal sacrifice...Dr. Smith says, that in the Gaelic language, customs, or traditions, there is not a hint allusive to the sacrifice of any living being

— Godfrey Higgins; Celtic Druids (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

A number of factors led to the lack of knowledge concerning the Druids. Beginning in the first century A.D., the Roman Empire and the Christian Church suppressed the Druid teachings. Later, the Saxon invasion of Celtic lands eliminated the memory of the Druids. To preserve their knowledge, the Druids went underground and swore solemn oaths of secrecy.

— Robert Siblerud; Keepers of the Secrets (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The greatest slander toward the Druids is the assertion that they were compulsive sacrificers of animals and human beings. The image of blood-soaked altars and blazing wicker men sickens modern readers and helps to aggrandize the minions of Christianity, making them appear humane and elevated in spirit. But in truth, there exists not one factual account of any such practices among the Druids. The fiction of their mania for sacrifice was pure propaganda. And naturally this makes sense since the world's priests and literati, the Brahmins and Aryans, the Egyptians and Persians, would hardly have held the Druids in such high esteem if bloody sacrifices were their sport.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The cunning linguists downplayed the terms "Caucasian," "Nordic," "Gothic," and inserted the obscure terms "Celtic" and "Semitic," to mislead the curious. Whether the attacks on Ireland's sovereignty came from the original Roman Invasions (AD 43), or from Saint Patrick and his purges and book-burnings (443 AD), or from the Normans and their oppressive "Statutes of Kilkenny" (AD 1367), or from the bloody interference of the English Royals, or from the massacres of Oliver Cromwell (AD 1649), or from the artificially created Great Famine (1845-6), or from the ghastly Penal Laws imposed by England, or from the endless later "Catholic versus Protestant" conflicts, the object has remained very much the same - that we should never discover the sacred legacy of the Druids.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

As we have already mentioned, once the Druids and Bards were destroyed, the desecration and looting of their works began. The physical and ideological plunder lasted for generations. The perpetrators of this crime (the Atonists, Milesians, Culdean Monks, Templars, and Vatican) commissioned “historians” to scribble a new history of the British Isles, a fiction that Hans Christian Andersen would have been in awe of. In the place of the White Magi we have leprechauns. In place of the groves we have Jesuit colleges. And in place of the natural religion of the Druids, we have Judeo-Christianity with all its error, folly, and poison.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The Druids represented an absolute threat to the Roman State, because their science and philosophy dangerously contradicted Roman orthodoxy. The Romans were materialistic, the Druids spiritual. For the Romans the State was a monolithic structure spread over territories deliberately organized into a hierarchy. With the Druids it was a freely consented moral order with an entirely mythical central idea...

— La Femme Celte; quoted by Michael Tsarion view

[...] we think that the Druidic Order within Ireland were Amenist sympathizers and therefore anti-Atonist and anti-Milesian.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The Irish Druidical rites manifested themselves principally in sun worship. Their chief god was Bel or Baal - the same worshipped by the Phoenicians - the god of the sun

— Ignatius Donnelly; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The Egyptians referred to the Druids as the "People of the Sea"

— Sirona Knight; Celtic Traditions (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The magicians and sorcerers whom Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar summoned to their aid are referred to in the Gaelic Bible as Draoitbo, Druids, the same name as is given to the wise men who are mentioned in the New Testament as travelling from the East to Bethlehem

— Dudley Wright; Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The Irish Druidical rites manifested themselves principally in sun worship. Their chief god was Bel or Baal - the same worshipped by the Phoenicians - the god of the sun.

— Ignatius Donnelly; Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The Druids, like the Celts who came after them, were also very conscious of the dual nature of things. As night follows day, and death follows life, so did all things in life possess their "negative" side. The sun and solar-god were no different. The dark side of Apollo was Dionysus. The dark side of Ahura Mazda was Ahriman, the dark side of Horus was Set, and the dark side of God was Lucifer. It was only later that the pretender solar church of Rome decided to abolish the logic of the dualist metaphysic and divide the sides of one personality into two separate and distinct entities forever adverse to one another and never to be reconciled.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Like the later Freemasons, who appropriated their symbolic tropes, the ancient Druids venerated the number three and tripartite metaphysical principles. From the earliest days of the Irish the custom was for three kings to simultaneously govern. This is a phenomenon we find employed in Egypt where each of the fourteen or more nomes, or sacred cities, along the Nile were ruled over by a trinity of gods.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Long before the age of Galileo, the Renaissance, and the so-called "Age of Enlightenment," the Druids (like the Maya) possessed telescopes by which they observed the heavens. They were experts at building tall stone observatories and they knew the complex ordinances of their vast sky temple in which the sun and moon were god and goddess. The former was the representation of light and worldly wisdom, the latter of inwardness and self-knowledge.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

His [A High Druid's] ecclesiastical power being far greater than that of the Papacy in its heyday, he claimed to speak with the direct authority of God as the Pope does yet on matters of doctrine. The Celtic Hierarch called himself the Living God, and, pretending to divine power, ruled with all temporal and ecclesiastical control as he saw fit. Reade says of the Pontifex Maximus of Rome: "The office was probably an imitation of the Arch-Druid, who had supreme power over secular as well as ecclesiastical affairs, and who was surrounded by a Senate of the chief Druids, as the Pontifex Maximus was by Flamines, and the Pope by Cardinals

— Comyns Beaumont; The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The Druids taught the doctrine of the one supreme being, a future state of rewards and punishments, the immortality of the soul and a metempsychosis...Their doctrines were chiefly those of the Pythagoreans. Their authority in many cases exceeded that of the monarch. They were, of course, the sole interpreters of religion, and consequently superintended all sacrifices; for no private person was allowed to offer a sacrifice without their sanction. They possessed the power of excommunication, which was the most horrible punishment that could be inflicted next to that of death...As the Romans gained ground in these islands the power of the Druids gradually declined; and they were finally assailed by Suetonius Paulinis, governor of Britain under Nero, AD 61

— Charles William Heckethorn; Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The druids were the exclusive intellectual elite, and were recruited among the ranks of the nobility. They enjoyed special privileges, such as exemption from tributes and were not obliged to bear arms coins…Their education was very lengthy, and involved twenty years of memorizing sacred texts which religious taboo banned from being put in writing…In their religious role, the druids insured the conduct of religious practices, presided over sacrificial rites, and received and interpreted omens. The only ones "to know the nature of the gods," they acted as intermediaries between the world of humankind and the domain of the supernatural. Guardians of the fundamental gnosis, they perpetuated a conception of mankind and the universe contained in an esoteric doctrine which, for obvious reasons, remains a mystery

— Otto Herman Frey; The Celts (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The Druids held the symbols of the serpent and the dragon in the highest esteem and considered them insignias of royalty. They referred to themselves as Naddreds. This word means "Wise Serpent."

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

A great number of Irish epic texts speak of the Druids, but the literature and laws of Ireland were not written down until after Christianity swept through the Celtic countries

— Sirona Knight; Celtic Traditions (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

Author Peter Berresford Ellis reminds us that the Druids were not only exemplary healers but the first to take interest in the welfare of their lower classes.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

In the Druidic order indeed centered, and from it radiated to the whole world civil and ecclesiastical knowledge of the realm: they were its statesmen, legislators, priests, physicians, lawyers, teachers, poets; the depositories of all human and divine knowledge; its Church and parliament; its court of law; its colleges of physicians and surgeons; its magistrates, clergy and bishops

— R. W. Morgan; St. Paul in Britain (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

It required twenty years to master the circle of Druidic knowledge...Natural philosophy, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, jurisprudence, medicine, poetry, and oratory were all proposed and taught, the first two with severe exactitude. The system of astronomy inculcated had never varied, being the same as that taught by Pythagoras, now known as the Copernican or Newtonian.

— R. W. Morgan; St. Paul in Britain (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

...a caste incorporating all the learned professions. The caste not only consisted of those who had a religious function but also comprised philosophers, judges, teachers, historians, poets, musicians, physicians, astronomers, prophets and political advisers or counselors

— Peter Berresford Ellis; The Druids (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

For, without the Druids, the Kings may neither do nor consult anything; so that in reality they are the Druids who reign

— John Chrysostom; quoted by Michael Tsarion view

These Servants of Truth held greater power than the kings who took advice from them

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

As one of their [Druids] leading dogmas, they include this: that souls are not annihilated, but pass after death from one body to another, and they hold that by this teaching, men are much encouraged to valor, through disregarding the fear of death. They also discuss and impart to their young many things concerning the heavenly bodies and their movements, the size of the world and our earth, natural sciences, and the influence and power of the immortal gods

— Julius Caesar; Gallic Wars (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The word has several probable related origins. Most likely it derives from the Gaelic draeidh (pronounced dhree) meaning "kindred;" or from druvid that means "one who knows" or "one who has knowledge." The suffix vid (also wid) is the root of wizard and wise. We find this syllable in vedic and veda that connote the highest wisdom. It may also derive from druthin that means "servant of truth." In German it means "of god." An Irish priestess was also known as a druith. We derive the word truth from druthin. The hard "D" sound becomes Anglesized as "T." Another acceptable rendering is from Welsh Gaelic - der wydd, meaning "superior-priest" or "inspector," and from draoith meaning "magician." In Persian we have duree, meaning "noble and holy man," and duracht. In Arabic it is dere, a "wise man," and in Persian it is daru, meaning "Magus." In Punjabi the word dara means "to dare" or to be "fearful," (or "awesome") fearless," "brave," and "bold." We get the word dare from this root. The English dear ("beloved one") derives from the same root. And related also is the Sanskrit Deva (from Duw) meaning “one without darkness.” The word can also mean "to shine," and it clearly referred to the sun and to the gods of light such as Indra, Agni, Adonai, and Aton, etc. Undoubtedly, deva is the origin of the word dove and the title David, as used by the Levites to denote their military commanders and chieftains (for instance Tuthmosis III).

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Naturally, it is not commonly known that the various symbols and theological idioms of Judaism and Christianity (and even Brahmanism) are of <em>Druidic</em> origin.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

As doctors and surgeons attend a casualty of an automobile wreck, so the men who came to be known as the "Druids" attempted to heal the Earth's grievous wounds. They did not regard catastrophes as we do today in our spiritless times. To them there was no such thing as a random act of fate or nature. Everything that occurred had meaning. All that happened in the natural world did so to instruct and guide. The lessons of nature, the ultimate teacher, were to be heeded and cherished. It was never a case of "bad" and "good", for these were not unsophisticated men drunk with superstition as we have been led to believe by those wretches whose minds are truly rank and foul. The Arya, the Elders, the Druids, were the purified ones who had made themselves eligible to work with the subtle energies of the Earth. Few were pure enough for such science. Only those hygienic in mind and heart dare attend to duties of this kind. The Druidic Order of Aryan Elders reverenced the Earth and commissioned the construction of the many Mesolithic and Megalithic sites that cover Britain, France, and Scandinavia. They were the Magi who instructed the world' hierophants how to undo what had been done, and how to again set upright the pillar.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The area covered by the Celtic domain at the height of its expansion in the third century B.C. was enormous, encompassing no less than the British Isles, France, the western Iberian peninsula, a large part of northern Italy, most of Germany, the Low Countries, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, a major portion of the Balkans, and Galatia in Asia Minor. And we have reason to assume that as far as the Celtic realm extended, so did the power and influence of the Druids. Everywhere evidence speaks strongly for the cultural, if not political, unity of the people

— Raul R. Lonigan; The Druids: Priests of the Ancient Celts (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

Despite the consensus of orthodox anthropologists, the fact is that neither the Irish nor their Druidic Elders descended from the Kurgans or early Ukrainian hunter-gatherers. They did not, as most stubborn historians and commentators believe, hail from the Steppes of Russia, Harz Mountains, Balkans, or Danube Valley. Their origins are to be found exactly where their own legends state, in the ancient civilizations that existed and thrived before recorded history.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Those who come to browse the subject may be fooled into thinking that Wales, and not Ireland, was the original seat of Druidry.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The Druidic Order was apparently tripartite in nature. There were the Druids, the Bards, and the Ovates. The Druids were the perfected ones, the elite who presided over all. The order was not to enforce hierarchy but to make sure that only the pure had access to sacred knowledge. The word <em>Ovate</em> or <em>Vate</em> comes from the Gaelic word <em>Faidh</em>. This word also gives us the modern words <em>Vatican</em>, <em>Fate</em> and <em>Faith</em>. The Druids were literally those who were "masters of fate" or the "men of faith."

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

From these Elders [Druids] the arcane archive of knowledge was surreptitiously appropriated by their enemies, the servants of darkness, whose biological and ideological descendants now rule the world.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The first people in recorded history to study the operations of the heavens and zodiac, and to understand the strange but intimate connections between physical and psychic energy, were the Druids from the "Fortunate" or "Blessed Isles."

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The Chapters of Genesis constitute a general rehearsing of Druidism, all direct evidence carefully expurgated and remaining undiscoverable until one looks directly and carefully at the text.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

The Christmas tree today is a Druid rite, even to a pointed tree, they sell for more money than a round one. Subconsciously all the people today are Druids.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

The tree was the emblem for Druidism. The oak tree generally served the purpose, although in Egypt the Acacia or the Akak, a pointed shrub sufficed to symbolize the Druid strength.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

In the thousand years from Exodus to Ezra, Ale Aleik led the Israelites from poverty to glory and to ruin. The tabernacle was an imposing tent but not unlike many of those of the present day Sheiks of the desert. The system of the Druid Priesthood with its gardens, groves, Temples, Hedges, Gates, Axes, and Sacred Harlot is covered by the Bible, but it also is everywhere else in Paganism. Gardens of Eden, Odin or Adon (is) were everywhere. Paradise meant park of the Gods.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

Manx means Men Gods - for every Druid Priest was a God and his domain was a garden.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

One of the great Gods of the Druids was Hessus, the Strong Man. Some writers think this to be the same name as Jesus. At Western Germany is the country of Hess.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

When Constantine accepted Christianity the oracles suddenly stopped. Two hundred of the most prominent oracles of the classic world suddenly ceased to speak. To some this was a miracle; to others it was only the pagan priests seeing the handwriting on the wall and changing over to Christianity. But in England all the druid priests had to be corralled and isolated on the island of Angelus and killed, before Christianity could replace Druidism. The struggle in Central Europe was spotted and oft-time bloody.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

The Druid system, in Europe, has dominated most of Europe, it even influenced the thinking in Eastern Europe, but it dominated Western Europe and it dominates America.

— Jordan Maxwell; Signs of Destiny II Lecture view

The Druids did not permit themselves the luxury of cutting a single living thing with a sharpened edge.

— Michael Tsarion; Atlantis, Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation view

The Druids of Britain and Gaul had a deep knowledge concerning the mysteries of Isis and worshiped her under the symbol of the moon. Godfrey Higgins considers it a mistake to regard Isis as synonymous with the moon. The moon was chosen for Isis because of its dominion over water. The Druids considered the sun to be the father and the moon the mother of all things. By means of these symbols they worshiped Universal Nature.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view