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DRUID = MAGI
Celtic Iron age burials share common Spiritual base with those in Eygpt.
The Celtic alliance dominated Europe in the way the Roman Empire was to do much later, the difference being that the Celts were
united by a kind of confederation based on consensus, while the Romans relied on centralized political and military power. The Celtic alliance was nevertheless a force to be reckoned with, as the
Romans experienced, for example, when Rome was sacked by the Celts in 387 BC. A few centuries later, the Druids of Gaul were to conspire against the Romans with the Druids of the Galates in Turkey. In view
of the cohesion of the Celtic peoples and the effiency of the Druids in political and military coordination, it is not so difficult to understand how it was possible to unite the peoples of western
continental Europe to wage war in England. It was certainly there that the war took place, for according to Thucydides, as we have seen, Greece at that time was inhabited by a great number of tribes,
with little or no contact with one another, living at mere subsistence level.
RITUAL USE OF CANNABIS IN BRITAIN STARTS HERE :-
*BEDE* At first, this country had no other inhabitants but the
Britons, from whom it derived its name, who sailing from Brittany, [now called the Department of Finisterre,] successfully invaded the southern coasts; and, when they had conquered the greatest part of it,
it happened that the nation of the Picts, coming from Scythia, as it is reported, in a few ships, were driven by a storm entirely beyond all the coasts of Britain, and as far as the northern coasts of Ireland;
where disembarking and finding the nation of the Scots, they requested to be allowed to settle amongst them, but could not obtain permission. (Ireland is the greatest island next to Britain, and
situated to the westward of it.) The Picts, arriving here, as I just now observed, petitioned the inhabitants to grant them permission to establish themselves as a colony amongst them. The Scots
answered that the island was not large enough to contain them both; but we can give you good advice added they; for we know there is another island, not far eastward from ours, which we can frequently
see in clear weather. If you will go to it, you may easily establish yourselves there, or, if they should oppose you, employ us as auxiliaries. The Picts accordingly, sailing over to Britain,
began to inhabit the northern parts of it; for the Britons were now possessed of the southern.
Face to face with the past
Other evidence of human sacrifice has been found among a group of superbly preserved mummies some 3500 years old, but
whilst they have Caucasian features, red-blond hair and even tartan clothing their discovery in the Takla Makan Desert in China hasu nderstandably caused consternation! Yet the presence of ancient Europeans in
China must be connected with the fact that the region lay at the crossroads of ancient trade routes between China and Europe. The vast expanses of the Eurasian Steppes were also inhabited by Scythian nomads who also
mummified their dead with great success to judge from mummies such as the so-called "Ice Maiden", recently discovered in the permafrost in the Altai Mountains between Siberia and Outer Mongolia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummies_6.shtml
Herodotus: "On a framework of tree sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth. Inside this tent they put a
dish with hot stones on it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapour unsurpassed by any vapour bath one could find in Greece. The
Scythians enjoy it so much they howl with pleasure."
63CE St Joseph of Arimathea comes to Glastonbury on the first Christian mission to Britain
http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/timeline.htm
45ce St Mark establishes the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The Copts claim that marijuana as a sacrament has a lineage descending from the Jewish sect, the
Essenes, who are considered to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls.
208 (c)Tertullian of Carthage writes concerning "districts of the Britons, unreached by Romans, but
subdued to Christ." (He was probably referring to Wales.)
312ce Constantine defeats and kills Maxentius at battle of Milvian Bridge. Constantine converts to Christianity
324 CE Constantine finally achieves full control over an undivided empire
325 Emperor Constantine convokes the First Oecumenical Council at Nicaea (Nicaea I). This synod declares the Son to be
"one in essence" with the Father, condemning Arius and his teaching, and writes the first draft of the Symbol of Faith (Creed).
360 St Martin founds first Gallic
monastery near Tours. (The monastic movement began in the Egyptian desert, but is now spreading to Gaul. St Martin is the founder of the particularly "Celtic" form of monasticism in which the
monastery becomes a tool of evangelistic outreach among the pagani, or country folk ” an ideal approach for the Celts, who do not have cities and whose territorial boundaries are always somewhat fluid.)
360s Celtic pagan revival in Britain about this time (Lydney, etc.)
381 Eastern Emperor Theodosius the Great convokes Second Oecumenical Council at Constantinople (Constantinople I).
This synod confirms the Council of Nicaea, completes the Symbol of Faith (Creed), and ends the Trinitarian controversy, affirming the divinity of the Holy Spirit. It also establishes the
"Pentarchy" of the Church: the five Patriarchates of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem; though all bishops remain equal, the patriarchs preside in love.
First half of 5th c.
Cunedda, from the north, takes over a large part of Wales. Other chieftains in western and northern Britain claim succession to imperial power.
During the same
period, there is much missionary and literary activity by British Christians. St Ninian converts some of the Picts. Pelagius teaches in Rome. Possible settlement of monks or hermits in Glastonbury.
410 The Great Saxon attack on Britain. The regional councils or civitates rebel against Constantine. Britain autonomous within the Empire; provisional de facto recognition by Emperor Honorius. The Goths, under Alaric, sack Rome
418 The preaching of the heresy of Pelagianism is outlawed in Rome.
418(c) Possible imperial expedition to Britain and partial re-occuption (the second
'rescue' described by Gildas?).
421 Emperor Honorius issues a decree forbidding any Pelagians to come nearer to Rome than the one-hundredth mile marker. In the same year, Agricola introduces Pelagian doctrine into Britain.
425(c) No imperial forces or administration in Britain after this date. Vortigern is probably beginning to rise to prominence, possibly as "high-king." Saxons in Cambridgeshire.
429ce Prominent Gallo-Roman Bishops Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes are dispatched to Britain to combat the Pelagian heresy, which is apparently
favoured by Vortigern's 'Celtic' party
In 432 CE, the Grand Council of Druids met for the last time at Stonehenge. In the course of the ceremonial meeting, Agricola shared a vision that
had guided his path for the past years. He had seen that Christianity was the true religion for the Age of the Pisces. His vision revealed that the Holy Roman Empire would soon threaten the shores of
Britain. If they embraced the Christian faith in an alliance with the Greeks, the Celtic people could check the growing power of the Empire. The Roman bishops would most assuredly order the destruction
of all the Sacred Groves and stone circles of their Druidic past, just as they had desecrated all the ancient temples of Egypt. By cloaking their teachings of Wisdom in the mantle of Christian
tradition for the remainder of the Piscean Age, they could prevent the Roman power from completely destroying all records of the ancient Druidic wisdom.
A vast majority of the Druidic Council shared
Agricola's vision, and the Grand Council officially dissolved to re-form as the Orthodox Celtic Church. A young priest named Patrick, who had once been a slave to the Druid of the Irish King Leogaire,
was sent to Ireland to bring this new message to the Land of Eire. A descendant of his mission has survived as The Church of the Culdees.
http://members.tripod.com/~Diogenes_MacLugh/history4.html
476 The last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus,is deposed by the barbarian Odoacer, ending
the Roman Empire in the West
1066 Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings. The Norman Conquest of England. "As the result of one day's fighting (14 October), England received a new royal
dynasty, a new aristocracy, a virtually new Church, a new art, a new architecture and new language."
Pelagius is remembered for trying to free mankind from the guilt of Adam. He and his followers remind us once again that in the early history of the Church there were dissenters. "The great German theologian Karl Barth a few years ago described British Christianity as "incurably Pelagian." The rugged individualism of the Celtic monk, his conviction that each person is free to choose between good and evil. And his insistence that faith must be practical as well as spiritual remain hallmarks of Christians in Britain. An the British imagination has remained rooted in nature, witnessed by the pastoral poetry and landscape pianting in which Britain excels, indeed that peculiar British obsession with gardening is Celtic in origin. Visitors to the British Isles are often shocked at how few people attend church each Sunday. Yet to the Britons, church-goers as well as absentees, the primary test of faith is not religious observance, but daily behavour towards our neighbours and towards ones pets, livestock and plants." A.G.H.
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