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ADF, for example, describes Druidry in the following manner: Neopagan Druidry is a group of religions, philosophies and ways of life, rooted in ancient soil yet reaching for the stars. We are part of the larger Neopagan movement, one of the world’s most vital and creative new religious awakenings.
This focus on ecology is not specific only to the druidic movement in contemporary Paganism, but druidry is the only denomination to put so much emphasis on it and effort into realization of those postulates.
This chapter explains how in searching the Classical texts for a core of Druidic doctrine, it is the Druids' tenet of reincarnation that stands out. Better known as the mathematician who gave the world his theorem, chief among Pythagoras's philosophical teachings was the concept of reincarnation or, more precisely, the transmigration of souls.
In The Book of Druidry (1992: 114-118), Ross Nichols describes several Druid groups having, as their focus, ritual sentiments that can be thought of as local or nationalist. They include the Welsh Gorsedd (formed in 1792) and the Cornish-based Bards of Cernow (founded 1928).
In ‘Fergus and the Druid’, a poem written in 1892 by the famed Irish writer William Butler Yeats, King Fergus tells a druid that he wishes to “learn the dreaming wisdom that is yours”. This is but one example of how, in literature, art, and popular culture, druids are associated with dreams, secrets, mystical wisdom, and magical powers.
Overview. Editors: Ethan Doyle White, Jonathan Woolley. Deepens collective scholastic understandings of modern religious Druidry as an actor within the broader Pagan milieu. Serves as a benchmark upon which all future studies of modern Druidry, and modern Paganism more widely, can draw upon.
1 sty 2012 · This article is a short presentation of the connections between the Western esoteric tradition and Druidry, as demonstrated by the British Druidic traditions.
