Druidic_Religion

Druidic Religion This research paper is, to begin, not a historical review, not a theological discussion of the character of the Gods, not a mystical talk about ley lines and earth energy. In short, it is going to get very un-mythical. Having said what it is not, I can go on to what it is: a philosophical inquiry, a logical puzzle, into what the moral principles of the ancient Celts might have been and how these principles affect contemporary Druid philosophy. The reconstruction of Druidism has, to a certain extent, been cut off from this tradition of learning, though for good reasons, those philosophies are today, being re-examined and reinterpreted. What I want to establish in this paper is the first moral principle of Druidism, as the ancients may have had it, but more importantly, as we in the twentieth century see it. It is important to begin with an understanding of the logical form that this first moral principle, (FMP), must look like. Given any set of principles, such as “you should always keep promises”, or “you should always save lives”, it is easy to make quick decisions as the need to make them arises. However, druids, truth, knowledge, gods, beings, world, one, moral, yeats, must, celtic, though, things, spiritual, principles, important, form, fianna, between, ancient, value, universe, piggot, mystical, modern, magical, learning, druid, classical, celts, been, because, writers, way, sjoo