Frequently answered questions
What is our pathway?
Druidry is part of the British Native Spiritual Tradition. It is a stream of the Western Mystery Tradition. Our way is the Song of the Divine Spirit that flows eternally through the fabric of the Island of Britain. It exists of itself. It was here before mankind first set foot on these shores and will remain long after Humanity has left this Earth to dwell amongst the stars.
The expression of Spirituality is given form by those people of Britain who recognise and respond to this call of the Spirit; peoples of many races and many periods. The diverse people of Ancient Britain followed their path in their own different ways, marking their sacred places by earthen banks or standing stones or groves of trees or in ways long forgotten, but all responded to the Divine Song. As churches and chapels appeared the Song continued, as bright as a colour in the Lindisfarne Gospels. It rose, it swelled and found unity in the Celtic Saints. It sings in the seas that surround our islands just as is whistles in the holy wells that bubble from the land. The early Celtic Spiritual Tradition was rooted deep in the land, in a time and culture where Nature was seen not as a fallen state from which we needed to escape, but as a part of Divinity.
When Christianity first came to the British Isles, it had a distinctly Celtic flavour. It was characterised by a continued reverence for Nature as the face of the Divine. The One God spoke simply in the solitudes of wind and woodland, sea-wave and mountaintop... and for centuries, the old Gods and Goddesses – the many faces of The One - continued to have a place in the hearts and holy days of the people.
The teaching is for those who truly wish to work towards transformation. It is an inner journey - a quest through the mythic Otherworld of our own psyche - to the very centre of ourselves; the Celtic Heaven - Tir nan Og. This “Land of Eternal Youth” is seen not so much as a place, but as a state of being. Once we live from there, we discover that Heaven is here - we reunite Above and Below into a new Sacred Whole.
When Mother Earth and Father Spirit unite in us, our heart becomes the womb for the Divine Child... The Incarnation... The Christ...
During a thousand years of eclipse, the Song of Albion was sung in the heart and in the quiet private places, by hearth and crib and woodland stream, and now bursts forth again like the first Spring flowers after the long icy night of Winter. Druidry melded with Christianity to form an expression of Celtic spirituality that has survived unbroken on these islands for two thousand years.
Beliefs and disbeliefs
Druids of Albion believe in One Eternal, Divine Creation, whose attributes are Truth, Beauty and Goodness. These are reflected back from the physical Universe as Love, Harmony and Joy. The trinity is vitally important to us. Druids could not believe that such a Divine Spirit expresses itself in terms of Anger, Jealousy or Retribution. Our members may see One God, One Goddess, may see the ebb and flow of the divine impulse in all things and thus see deity as all, or deity in each individual thing. In the druid way there is room for monotheism, polytheism, pantheism and animism, but in our way there is but One God.
We believe that the Divine Spirit dwells within all physical nature; animal, vegetable and mineral. Druids do not believe that the Universe is simply a mass of inert or inconsequential objects to be exploited and despoiled as the fancy takes us.
Druids of Albion believe that the Divine origins of the Universe will ultimately result in the return of all the Spiritual elements into a reunion with the Eternal Creation after countless developments. Some see this is the Second Coming or Judgement Day. Druids of Albion do not believe in Hell or in some eternal banishment from the Divine due to human imperfection in a single make-or-break incarnation. We see the Fall as mans mental evolution away from unity to individuality, away from us to me, away from God to ourself.
Druids of Albion believe that evil is a peculiarly human condition that has its origins in the fear that stems from ignorance or insecurity about our Divine origins and destiny. Druids believe that evil is eliminated by a conscious re-engagement with the Divine Spirit. Druids of Albion do not believe in an externally manifesting source of evil such as Satan, the Devil etc. Mankind holds all the evil we can bear.
Druids of Albion believe that the duty of all created matter is to acknowledge its Divine origins and to express this belief through Love, Harmony and Joy.
Do you have a holy book?
Druids have all or no sacred texts. The Tradition is not governed by a set of written rules, ancient or modern. Howver we can live by the Word of any true spritual path encompassed in a book such as The Bible, the Quoran, the Ardi Granth etc.
How then do druids receive spirtual insight?
Druids believed that the Divine Spirit exists within all of Creation; animal, vegetable and mineral. All that exists contains the Divine and is therefore sacred. Druids trained to access the Divine through the natural world as well as other recorded sources of wisdom.
Do druids believe in the devil?
Yes and No. Druids of Albion do not believe in an externally manifesting source of evil. Druids see no case for some outside agency being to blame for extreme anti-social human behaviour nor do they believe that such behaviour is the product of Divine predestination. Druids believe strongly in individual personal responsibility for ALL our actions, good or evil. However, evil can express itself in many ways and this may include the manifestation of negative energies or spirits in places or people. In the latter instance of perceived 'human possession' advice MUST be sought from appropriate and qualified professionals. See the Christian Deliverance Study Group as a starting point.
Didn't druids sacrifice people?
The Romans were keen to justify their campaigns against the Celts and record them making sacrifices. Later Christian writers in Ireland make mention of Druids putting a stop to human sacrifice. We will probably never know exactly what happened so long ago, but sacrifice in any form, real or allegorical, plays no part in Druidry today.
Where can we best explore a druid/christian mix?
We are proud to be associated with the Céile Dé and we count Fionntulach as one of our teachers. The Order of Céile Dé - or Culdees (The servants, or Spouses of God)... expresses the oldest continuous spiritual tradition of the Celtic countries.
The path of the Céile Dé is and always has been toward a search for the Ultimate Reality - Union with the Divine. Rooted in an authentic Gaelic Spiritual form, it has a deep reverence for our Mother Earth and all Her children… Branching into Christ-consciousness, it fulfils itself in Unconditional love.
What happens when we die?
Druids have always believed that the soul is immortal with Ancient Druidry teaching a Western Tradition of reincarnation or a redeployment of the soul. Between and after incarnations, the soul is believed to dwell in the light of the Otherworld or Summerlands which is neither `above' nor `below', but rather `within'. And then, in the fullness of God's time...
Based on the vision of Chris Turner, revised by Geoff Boswell
Druidry is part of the British Native Spiritual Tradition. It is a stream of the Western Mystery Tradition. Our way is the Song of the Divine Spirit that flows eternally through the fabric of the Island of Britain. It exists of itself. It was here before mankind first set foot on these shores and will remain long after Humanity has left this Earth to dwell amongst the stars.
The expression of Spirituality is given form by those people of Britain who recognise and respond to this call of the Spirit; peoples of many races and many periods. The diverse people of Ancient Britain followed their path in their own different ways, marking their sacred places by earthen banks or standing stones or groves of trees or in ways long forgotten, but all responded to the Divine Song. As churches and chapels appeared the Song continued, as bright as a colour in the Lindisfarne Gospels. It rose, it swelled and found unity in the Celtic Saints. It sings in the seas that surround our islands just as is whistles in the holy wells that bubble from the land. The early Celtic Spiritual Tradition was rooted deep in the land, in a time and culture where Nature was seen not as a fallen state from which we needed to escape, but as a part of Divinity.
When Christianity first came to the British Isles, it had a distinctly Celtic flavour. It was characterised by a continued reverence for Nature as the face of the Divine. The One God spoke simply in the solitudes of wind and woodland, sea-wave and mountaintop... and for centuries, the old Gods and Goddesses – the many faces of The One - continued to have a place in the hearts and holy days of the people.
The teaching is for those who truly wish to work towards transformation. It is an inner journey - a quest through the mythic Otherworld of our own psyche - to the very centre of ourselves; the Celtic Heaven - Tir nan Og. This “Land of Eternal Youth” is seen not so much as a place, but as a state of being. Once we live from there, we discover that Heaven is here - we reunite Above and Below into a new Sacred Whole.
When Mother Earth and Father Spirit unite in us, our heart becomes the womb for the Divine Child... The Incarnation... The Christ...
During a thousand years of eclipse, the Song of Albion was sung in the heart and in the quiet private places, by hearth and crib and woodland stream, and now bursts forth again like the first Spring flowers after the long icy night of Winter. Druidry melded with Christianity to form an expression of Celtic spirituality that has survived unbroken on these islands for two thousand years.
Beliefs and disbeliefs
Druids of Albion believe in One Eternal, Divine Creation, whose attributes are Truth, Beauty and Goodness. These are reflected back from the physical Universe as Love, Harmony and Joy. The trinity is vitally important to us. Druids could not believe that such a Divine Spirit expresses itself in terms of Anger, Jealousy or Retribution. Our members may see One God, One Goddess, may see the ebb and flow of the divine impulse in all things and thus see deity as all, or deity in each individual thing. In the druid way there is room for monotheism, polytheism, pantheism and animism, but in our way there is but One God.
We believe that the Divine Spirit dwells within all physical nature; animal, vegetable and mineral. Druids do not believe that the Universe is simply a mass of inert or inconsequential objects to be exploited and despoiled as the fancy takes us.
Druids of Albion believe that the Divine origins of the Universe will ultimately result in the return of all the Spiritual elements into a reunion with the Eternal Creation after countless developments. Some see this is the Second Coming or Judgement Day. Druids of Albion do not believe in Hell or in some eternal banishment from the Divine due to human imperfection in a single make-or-break incarnation. We see the Fall as mans mental evolution away from unity to individuality, away from us to me, away from God to ourself.
Druids of Albion believe that evil is a peculiarly human condition that has its origins in the fear that stems from ignorance or insecurity about our Divine origins and destiny. Druids believe that evil is eliminated by a conscious re-engagement with the Divine Spirit. Druids of Albion do not believe in an externally manifesting source of evil such as Satan, the Devil etc. Mankind holds all the evil we can bear.
Druids of Albion believe that the duty of all created matter is to acknowledge its Divine origins and to express this belief through Love, Harmony and Joy.
Do you have a holy book?
Druids have all or no sacred texts. The Tradition is not governed by a set of written rules, ancient or modern. Howver we can live by the Word of any true spritual path encompassed in a book such as The Bible, the Quoran, the Ardi Granth etc.
How then do druids receive spirtual insight?
Druids believed that the Divine Spirit exists within all of Creation; animal, vegetable and mineral. All that exists contains the Divine and is therefore sacred. Druids trained to access the Divine through the natural world as well as other recorded sources of wisdom.
Do druids believe in the devil?
Yes and No. Druids of Albion do not believe in an externally manifesting source of evil. Druids see no case for some outside agency being to blame for extreme anti-social human behaviour nor do they believe that such behaviour is the product of Divine predestination. Druids believe strongly in individual personal responsibility for ALL our actions, good or evil. However, evil can express itself in many ways and this may include the manifestation of negative energies or spirits in places or people. In the latter instance of perceived 'human possession' advice MUST be sought from appropriate and qualified professionals. See the Christian Deliverance Study Group as a starting point.
Didn't druids sacrifice people?
The Romans were keen to justify their campaigns against the Celts and record them making sacrifices. Later Christian writers in Ireland make mention of Druids putting a stop to human sacrifice. We will probably never know exactly what happened so long ago, but sacrifice in any form, real or allegorical, plays no part in Druidry today.
Where can we best explore a druid/christian mix?
We are proud to be associated with the Céile Dé and we count Fionntulach as one of our teachers. The Order of Céile Dé - or Culdees (The servants, or Spouses of God)... expresses the oldest continuous spiritual tradition of the Celtic countries.
The path of the Céile Dé is and always has been toward a search for the Ultimate Reality - Union with the Divine. Rooted in an authentic Gaelic Spiritual form, it has a deep reverence for our Mother Earth and all Her children… Branching into Christ-consciousness, it fulfils itself in Unconditional love.
What happens when we die?
Druids have always believed that the soul is immortal with Ancient Druidry teaching a Western Tradition of reincarnation or a redeployment of the soul. Between and after incarnations, the soul is believed to dwell in the light of the Otherworld or Summerlands which is neither `above' nor `below', but rather `within'. And then, in the fullness of God's time...
Based on the vision of Chris Turner, revised by Geoff Boswell