Revisiting History and New Druidry

In trying to discover a new and higher octave of Druidry for our new world it helps to know the big picture that leads to full spectrum living. So this post is simply going to explore some basic seed thoughts that will need to be more fully explored at a later time. But we need to start somewhere. Ancient tradition tells us that there were three waves of human emigration out of Atlantis before its final destruction around 14,500 years ago.

So let’s take a brief look at these three migrations and see if we can reach some general conclusions. But even before we can do this we need to place ancient Atlantis on the map. My personal understanding is that ancient Atlantis was located at the circular rock formation that is now called “The Eye of Africa” in the Sahara desert. What was once ocean has now been lifted above sea level and the silt of the ocean bottom become desert sands. The cataclysm that destroyed it and caused the great flood of antiquity was a large meteor that struck Greenland where the Hiawatha glacier is now located and set off the Younger Drayus period which was a near extinction event around 14,500 years ago.

But these human migrations took place before the destruction of Atlantis. The oldest and most ancient migration left Africa moving up the fertile crescent area and eventually settled in the Caucasus mountains and Balkans. This migration was kept safe from the great flood of antiquity because of the surrounding mountain ranges that protected them. Because of this they were able to keep their teachings as pure as possible. These were the ancient roots of the Druids, who later moved westward and north to ultimately settle in Ireland and Britain. So in Druidry we can find some of the most ancient roots of religion and spirituality, based upon the etheric energies, the holy grail and the three stages of the godess. Most notable of the Druids was their conviction of another world that existed in parallel to the physical world. This is obviously the underworld of antiquity. These were the secrets of the root chakra.

The second migration of humanity moved to the east and formed the basis of the eastern religions including what we know as the martial arts and tantra as well as Buddhism and Confucianism. These were the secrets of the tan tien or the sacral chakra and survivalism.

Now every 2,000 years a new energy comes into the world and new teachings appear that relate to a new chakra. So we can see the Druids as keeping the teachings of the root chakra, and the asians as keeping the secrets of the sacral chakra. But the ancient Egyptians, who are considered the third and final wave that came out of Atlantis were definitely heart chakra oriented. The Solar Plexus chakra is missing. So there must be a fourth, unknown or unrecognized migration that held the secrets of the Solar Plexus chakra, the lower emotional energies.

We find this group of people in the Minoan civilization of ancient Crete which was completely destroyed. Now occult tradition calls these Solar Plexus energies the Nordic Ray and war like. But there are interesting clues that witchcraft and the healing arts with herbs and medicines came out of Italy. Crete was also the only known ancient civilization that was goddess oriented. Nearby we find Zoroastrianism which was heavily influenced by it.

So we find civilizations that each teach the mysteries of one particular energy or chakra:

Atlantean – Unity or Law of One

Post destruction – (14, 500 BC)

Proto-Druids – root chakra – etheric (10,000 BC)

Asia – sacral chakra – tantric/physical (8000 BC)

Minoan/Nordic – Solar Plexus – lower emotional (6000 BC)

Egyptian – Heart chakra – upper emotional (4000 BC)

Greece – Throat chakra – concrete mental (2000 BC)

Christianity – Third eye chakra – abstract mental (0 AD)

Spiritual Hierarchy – crown chakra – concrete spiritual/ achetypal (2000 AD)

I’m just trying to get an over view at this point. What is important is that today we have mixtures of all sacred teachings and this is important for full spectrum living. We are also beginning a new and higher octave in which once more the root chakra is the main source of energy and life force. But there are severe distortions in what has been passed down to us through time.

The complete soul must travel both the mystical and the magickal path on its way to completion and we can use what we know of these paths to fill in some of the empty spots, rough spots, and errors. All to often we think that our ancient ancestors lived and believed the same things that we do. We project our values and beliefs on them and that is not fair and not accurate. I will give some ready examples.

Ancient life was harsh and difficult. Physical exertion and raw survival needs and skills were far more important than they are in today’s world. The natural world, the etheric world, was much closer to daily life than it is today. A basic belief in the otherworld was a core requirement of Druid society. They believed there were two worlds and travel between them was possible. We see this in the old stories and myths.

Sexuality and the natural roles of the male and female in both procreation and in the development of the soul and its powers were known and very important within ancient societies. This was mostly goddess oriented and the societies were pastoral with herds and breeding programs. The virgin was sacred for magickal/mystical reasons and marriages were arranged. As a wife she was expected to be a mother and produce children. After that role was fulfilled she was free to take on the crone or witch aspect which included more freedom with respect of sexuality. Much of the work of the female took place within the etheric realms and not the physical realms and this needs to be understood in its proper context. Females give birth to the “various astral bodies” as well as giving birth to physical babies. They “took in” the energy of the male and created with it. The female was and is the Holy Grail of legend and myth. She is the one who created the “abundance” of life in all its aspects.

The negation of human sexuality by Christianity is one of the great crimes against humanity. Human bodies were created for sexual pleasure as well as sexual procreation and our ancient ancestors did not have the hangups around sexuality that we do in today’s modern world.

In summary, we can think of the spirituality of the not so ancient Druids ( those pre-Druids that settled in Ireland around 2,000 BC) as encompassing as much of the other influences as possible. They then assimilated much from the Celts, Greeks and Christians as well. But these concerns and beliefs can be broadly characterized as:

A belief in two worlds that it is possible to live and function in at the same time.

The role of the female as Holy Grail of prosperity and abundance. This includes the three faces of the goddess.

A concern with basic survival in all of its aspects and how magick (working with the etheric) can manifest what is needed.

A concern with self defense and battle skills to ensure the safety of community and family.

A concern with medicine and healing arts which were needed to ensure healthy births and to heal wounds.

A core set of values or “code of living” much like the ten commandments but symbolized by the runes. Each rune represents a specific value in life, a way of being. It is not an abstract thought or simple letter as many suppose. Each rune is a “verb” and not a “noun”.

Awareness of the mineral kingdom.

Awareness of the plant kingdom.

Awareness of the animal kingdom.

As magick once more begins to enter our new world with the blossoming of root chakra energy the otherworld, the etheric world once more becomes important to us. It is the immortal world that upholds and creates the physical world. But it remains just as real and vital, even more so. The portal meditations open us to this world and the others as well and allows for a free energy exchange between all the levels of life.