tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50346842918949644782024-03-12T17:03:44.051-07:00The Druid KingI am a Natural Witch / Druid reincarnated, a founding member of Craeftgemot Witancoveyne (A Druid Church and School in America) and practice what we call Techno-Druidism which makes me a Techno Druid. TD's use both Modern Science and the Ancient Occult Sciences in Alchemical and Psychic forms Magick and Divination. This translates to we use any and all things that work from above or below, if the price is right and the Karma fair. Here I post some of my views and research.The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-73285626937635914852022-08-16T00:46:00.002-07:002022-08-16T00:46:40.771-07:00Time Line<p> </p><div class="fb_content clearfix " id="content" role="main" style="background-color: #e9ebee; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; min-height: 640px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="_4bmm" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 0px 10px 0px 11px; width: 926px;"><div class="clearfix _ikh _4_vt" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 14px 0px; zoom: 1;"><div aria-describedby="pageTitle" class="_4bl7 _4k2o" role="main" style="float: left; font-family: inherit; min-height: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 614px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="_4-u2 _4-u8" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 223, 226); font-family: inherit;"><div class="_4-u3 _5cla" style="border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; padding: 16px;"><div class="clearfix" style="font-family: inherit; zoom: 1;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><h2 class="_5clb" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Time Line, a mixed bag from many sources but I find it helpful.</h2></div></div><div class="mts _50f8" style="color: #90949c; font-family: inherit; margin-top: 5px;">By <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1608175435&extragetparams=%7B%22eid%22%3A%22ARBP8NYsT39anRgh0rirlNYeBYJS6ws-RzCydrKGL3LwwSl9701wi2WXrJVWZQKe7VN5U1NRjUroz4Zg%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/ipv6king?eid=ARBP8NYsT39anRgh0rirlNYeBYJS6ws-RzCydrKGL3LwwSl9701wi2WXrJVWZQKe7VN5U1NRjUroz4Zg" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George King">George King</a> on <a class="_39g5" href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/druid-ley-way-classroom/time-line-a-mixed-bag-from-many-sources-but-i-find-it-helpful/755591814490261/" style="color: #90949c; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 10:25 PM</a><span class="timelineUnitContainer" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_5k3v _5k3w clearfix" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">110814a</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Time Lines Notes</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life"is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, spanning from roughly 541 to 252.2 million years ago</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">It is the longest of the Phanerozoic eras, and is subdivided into six geologic periods (from oldest to least old): the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian. The Paleozoic comes after the Neoproterozoic Era of the Proterozoic Eon, and is followed by the Mesozoic Era.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Cambrian Period witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared. Fish, arthropods, amphibians and reptiles all evolved during the Paleozoic. Life began in the ocean but eventually transitioned onto land, and by the late Paleozoic, it was dominated by various forms of organisms. Great forests of primitive plants covered the continents, many of which formed the coal beds of Europe and eastern North America. Towards the end of the era, large, sophisticated reptiles were dominant and the first modern plants (conifers) appeared.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Paleozoic Era ended with the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The effects of this catastrophe were so devastating that it took life on land 30 million years into the Mesozoic to recover.[2] Recovery of life in the sea may have been much faster</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Permian period is a geologic period and system which extends from 298.9 ± 0.2 to 252.2 ± 0.5 Ma It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Mesozoic Era 252.2 Ma,</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Triassic Period is a geologic period and system that extends from about 250 to 200 Ma 252.2 ± 0.5 to 201.3 ± 0.2 Ma</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Jurassic Period is a geologic period and systemthat constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era, also known as the Age of Reptiles and extends from 201.3± 0.6 Ma to 145± 4 Ma</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The start of the period is marked by the major Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. Another extinction event, the Late Piensbachian/Early Toarcian event, occurred in the Early Jurassic, and a third extinction event, the Late Tithonian event, occurred at the end of the Jurassic; however neither of these two events rank among the 'Big Five' mass extinction.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Cretaceous Period (/krɨˈteɪʃəs/, krə-tay-shəs), derived from the Latin "creta" (chalk), usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide (chalk), is a geologic period and system from circa 145 ± 4 to 66 Ma ago</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the Cenozoic era. It is the last period of the Mesozoic Era, and, spanning 79 million years, the longest period of the Phanerozoic Eon.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels and creating numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now extinct marine reptiles, ammonites and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land. At the same time, new groups of mammals and birds, as well as flowering plants, appeared. The Cretaceous ended with a large mass extinction, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, in which many groups, including non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and large marine reptiles, died out. The end of the Cretaceous is defined by the K–Pg boundary, a geologic signature associated with the mass extinction which lies between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">K–Pg / K–T extinction abbreviation of Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, also called K–Pg extinction or Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, a global extinction event responsible for eliminating approximately 80 percent of all species of animals at or very close to the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, about 66 Ma</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Bone Yard Bard Comes on the Stage:</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">System Series Stage Age (Ma)</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Aquitanian 20.43–23.03</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Burdigalian 15.97–20.43</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Langhian 13.65–15.97</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Serravallian 11.608–13.65</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Tortonian 7.246–11.608</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Miocene Messinian 5.332–7.246</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Miocene Bones 1.1 7 - 5.3 Ma</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Zanclean 3.600–5.332</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Neogene Pliocene Piacenzian 2.588–3.600</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Pliocene Bones 2.1 5.3 - 2.58</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Pleistocene BonesLower Paleolithic: 2.58 Ma - 300,000 YearsMiddle Paleolithic: 300,000 - 50,000 years</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Pinnacle Point Caves have revealed occupation by<span style="font-weight: 600;"> Middle Stone Age </span>people between 170,000 and 40,000 years ago</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Upper Paleolithic: 50,000 - 10,000 years old</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Holocene BonesMesolithic / Neolithic: 10,000 - 5000 years old</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Palaeolithic period,Old Stone Age 2,500,000 to 200,000 BC Age, Era or Period is a <span style="font-weight: 600;">...</span> λίθος, lithos, "stone", literally <em><span style="font-weight: 600;">meaning</span></em> "old age of the stone" or "Old Stone Age."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The last Ice Age finally came to an end around 10,000BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Western Europe pre c. 8800 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Pleistocene ('Ice Age') approximately 11,600 years ago</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The <span style="font-weight: 600;">Pleistocene</span> /ˈplaɪstəsiːn/ (symbol PS[1]) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's recent period of repeated glaciations.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Charles Lyell introduced this term in 1839 to describe strata in Sicily that had at least 70% of their molluscan fauna still living today. This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer. He constructed the name "Pleistocene" ("Most New" or "Newest") from the Greek πλεῖστος, <em>pleīstos</em>, "most", and καινός, <em>kainós</em>(latinized as <em>cænus</em>), "new";[2] this contrasting with the immediately preceding Pleiocene ("More New" or "Newer", from πλείων,<em>pleíōn</em>, "more", and <em>kainós</em>; usual spelling: Pliocene), and the immediately subsequent Holocene ("wholly new" or "entirely new", from ὅλος, <em>hólos</em>, "whole", and <em>kainós</em>) epoch, which extends to the present time.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary Period or sixth epoch of the Cenozoic Era.[3] The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period. It also corresponds with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology. In the ICS timescale, the Pleistocene is divided into four stages or ages, the Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian. All of these stages were defined in southern Europe. In addition to this international subdivision, various regional subdivisions are often used.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Before a change finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the time boundary between the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being at 1.806 million years before the present, as opposed to the currently accepted 2.588 million years BP: publications from the preceding years may use either definition of the period.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Dating</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Pleistocene has been dated from 2.588 million (±5,000) to 11,700 years before present (BP), with the end date expressed in radiocarbon years as 10,000 carbon-14 years BP.[4] It covers most of the latest period of repeated glaciation, up to and including the Younger Dryas cold spell. The end of the Younger Dryas has been dated to about 9640 BC (11,654 calendar years BP). It was not until after the development of radiocarbon dating, however, that Pleistocene archaeological excavations shifted to stratified caves and rock-shelters as opposed to open-air river-terrace sites.[5]</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">In 2009 the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) confirmed a change in time period for the Pleistocene, changing the start date from 1.806 to 2.588 million years BP, and accepted the base of the Gelasian as the base of the Pleistocene, namely the base of the Monte San Nicola GSSP.[6] The IUGS has yet to approve a type section, Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), for the upper Pleistocene/Holocene boundary (<em>i.e.</em> the upper boundary). The proposed section is the <em>North Greenland Ice Core Project</em> ice core 75° 06' N 42° 18' W.[7] The lower boundary of the Pleistocene Series is formally defined magnetostratigraphically as the base of the Matuyama (C2r) chronozone, isotopic stage 103. Above this point there are notable extinctions of the calcareous nanofossils: <em>Discoaster pentaradiatus</em> and <em>Discoaster surculus</em>.[8][9]</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Pleistocene covers the recent period of repeated glaciations. The name Plio-Pleistocene has in the past been used to mean the last ice age. The revised definition of theQuaternary, by pushing back the start date of the Pleistocene to 2.58 Ma, results in the inclusion of all the recent repeated glaciations within the Pleistocene. <a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPleistocene%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2dY8yJmRdXjmhgbcCJwbXA7eLmL_QPAW_0Zq6TJR4OLDZPOM7JgS5UVPU&h=AT19vpzB0vSLYWkxUQ5n1-eoGAcFT9O0_KQU4odXiwGBb2K-riXFgcyBT8jZLIcPRS3kiU7mm2WHDJ5-_iC2OojNqtvkpabvFZSTZ_3woyGT1jzq5Oxv1jgFooIJq1016ZI" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene</a></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Mesolithic c. 8800 – 4900 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Mesolithic 9600 - 4000 BC.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Mesolithic period or ('Middle Stone Age') Stone Age 2,000,000 BP – 3300 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Mesolithic Age (Middle Stone Age: c.10,000BC–c.4500BC) people were nomadichunter-gatherers.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Paleolithic 2,000,000 BP – 8300 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Lower Paleolithic 2,000,000 BP – 300,000 BP</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Middle Paleolithic 300,000 BP – 30,000 BP</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Upper Paleolithic 30,000 BP – 12,000 BP</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Younger Dryas period 12,900 Asteroid or comet that struck Quebec caused the abrupt change to a colder, drier climate. As a result of the impact and dramatic climate change - also referred to as the ‘Big Freeze’ - mammals including mastodons, camels, giant sloths, and saber-toothed cats all vanished in North America, forcing human hunters to set aside their spears and instead gather plants and cultivation. Meanwhile in the Mediterranean, the first farmers started to grow crops - thus the invention of agriculture served as a pivotal step in the development of communities and the division of labor, and led to the establishment of civilization.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Epipaleolithic 12,000 BP – 8300 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The last Ice Age finally came to an end around 10,000BC. Mesolithic Age (Middle Stone Age: c.10,000BC–c.4500BC) people were nomadichunter-gatherers.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Megalithic period 5000 1500 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Neolithic c. 4900 – 2000 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Neolithic Era, or Period, from νέος (néos, "new") and λίθος (líthos, "stone"), or New Stone age</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Farming spread across Europe from the eastern Mediterranean (wild varieties of wheat and barley, sheep and goats are native to the Near East), and arrived in Britain around 4500BC, ushering in the Neolithic (New Stone) Age. The farming skills, and associated way of life, brought to Britain by immigrants from mainland Europe, would have been gradually adopted, and adapted, by the indigenous population – it now seems clear that there was no rapid ‘Neolithic revolution’, as was once thought. Bone analysis indicates</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><em> </em></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Saddle quernand rubbing stone.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">that, during the whole Neolithic period, people's diet contained little food which was not of animal origin. This suggests that farming in Britain was more concerned with animal husbandry (sheep, cattle, goats, pigs – dogs would probably have been used to assist with the herding) than the growing of crops. Cereals were grown, of course (the land would have been worked with spades, hoes, and, perhaps, rudimentary ploughs), but there is speculation that the grain was, mostly, used for ritual purposes, and possibly, eventually (3rd millennium BC), brewing.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Neolithic The New Stone Age or Neolithic began around 6,000 years ago 8300 BCE – 4500 BCE.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Pre-pottery Neolithic 8300 BCE – 5500 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Pottery Neolithic BCE – 4500 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Chalcolithic 4500 BCE – 3300 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Chalcolithic 4500 BCE – 4000 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) 4000 BCE – 3300 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Bronze AgeBronze Age c. 2000 – 800 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Bronze Age 3300 BCE – 1200 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Bronze Age 3300 BCE – 2000 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Bronze Age I 3300 BCE – 3000 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Bronze Age II 3000 BCE – 2700 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Bronze Age III 2700 BCE – 2200 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Bronze Age IV 2200 BCE – 2000 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Middle Bronze Age 2000 BCE – 1550 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Middle Bronze Age I 2000 BCE – 1750 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Middle Bronze Age II 1750 BCE – 1650 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Middle Bronze Age III 1650 BCE – 1550 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Bronze Age 1550 BCE – 1200 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Bronze Age I 1550 BCE – 1400 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Bronze Age II A 1400 BCE – 1300 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Bronze Age II B 1300 BCE – 1200 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Coligny Calendar 1100 BCE(first century bce Celtic calendar discovered in 1897), astronomical calculus shows that it must have been computed in 1100 bce</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age c. 800 – 1 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age 1200 BCE – 586 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age I 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age I A 1200 BCE – 1150 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age I B 1150 BCE – 1000 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age II 1000 BCE – 586 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age II A 1000 BCE – 900 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age II B 900 BCE – 700 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Iron Age II C 700 BCE – 586 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Etruscan ages:</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">800 BCE Beginning of the Etruscan civilization in Italy.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">539 BCE Etruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels the Greeks from Corsica.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">535 BCE Battle of Alalia. Carthaginian navy, in alliance with Etruscans, defeated Greek ships off the island of Corsica.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">c. 475 BCE Celts defeat the Etruscans at the Ticino River.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">400 BCE Celts enter Italy and settle in the Po Valley. Etruscan power declines.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">396 BCE Celts defeat the Etruscan army at the battle of Melpum. Afterwards the Celts heavily settle all over the Po Valley.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">396 BCE Roman expansion begins with the capture of Veii from the Etruscans.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">391 BCE Senones besiege Clusium, an Etruscan city.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">298 BCE - 290 BCE Third Samnite War. Victory for Rome, peace with the Etruscans.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">283 BCE Romans defeat the Etruscans and Celts at lake Vadimonis.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">225 BCE Celts defeat 6000 Romans at Faesulae and proceed to overrun Etruria.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Roman c. AD 1 – 400</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early medieval period c. AD 400 – 800</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Medieval period 800 – c. 1500</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Post-medieval period c. 1500 – c. 1800</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Roman Iron Age c. AD 1 – 400</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Germanic Iron Age c. AD 400 – 800</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Viking Age c. AD 800 – 1066</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Medieval period 1066 – c. 1500</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Post-medieval period c. 1500 – c. 1800</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Historical periods 586 BCE – present</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Babylonian & Persian periods 586 BCE – 332 BC.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Hellenistic period 332 BCE – 37 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Hellenistic 332 BCE – 167 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Hellenistic 167 BCE – 37 BCE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Roman period 37 BCE – 324 CE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Roman 37 BCE – 132 CE</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Roman 132 CE – 324</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Byzantine period 324 – 638</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Early Arab period (Umayyad and Abbasid) 638 – 1099</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Crusader & Ayyubidperiods 1099 – 1291</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Late Arab period (Fatimid and Mamluk) 1291 – 1516</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">15th century was a time of upheaval, in Europe in the Balkans, in the Near East with Timurid expansion as far as Turkey and the Black Sea, and also with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453,</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The <span style="font-weight: 600;">Timurid</span> dynasty (Persian: تیموریان), self-designated <em>Gurkānī</em>(Persian: گوركانى), was a Sunni Muslim Persianate dynasty ofTurco-Mongol lineage which ruled over modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, as well as parts of contemporaryPakistan, India, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Caucasus. The dynasty was founded by Timur (<em>Tamerlane</em>) in the 14th century.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Timurids lost control of most of Persia to the Safavid dynasty in 1501, but members of the dynasty continued to rule parts of Central Asia and parts of India, sometimes known as the <span style="font-weight: 600;">Timurid Emirates</span>. In the 16th century, Babur, a Timurid prince from Ferghana (modernUzbekistan), invaded Kabulistan (modern Afghanistan) and established a small kingdom there, and from there 20 years later he invadedHindustan to establish the Mughal Empire.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Ottoman period 1516 – 1917</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Modern period 1917 – current</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">BC, AD, BCE, BP Abbreviation(s), Latin phrase, Meaning</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Abbreviation(s) Latin phrase Meaning</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">BC * (Christian calendar concepts) before Christ</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">BCE Before Common Era Years are designated as before the Christ's birth.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">AD ** (Christian calendar concepts) Anno Domino Year of the Lord in the year of the Lord Years are designated as after the Christ's birth.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">BP *** "Before Present" means before 1950. The most commonly used convention in radiocarbon dating. "Present" referring to the year 1950 AD. 1950 is the date that the calibration curves were established. It also predates atmospheric testing of the atom bomb, which significantly upset C12/C14 ratios in the following years.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">CE Common Era (also Current Era or Christian Era , abbreviated as CE, is an alternative naming of the traditional calendar era, Anno Domini (abbreviated AD)</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">EV Era Vulgaris "Christian, Vulgar or Common Era"for all pratical purposes can be used interchangeably</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Ma million years.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">History of the use of the CE/BCE abbreviation</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">(CE/BCE and AD/BC) are numerically equivalent</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">* In the Gregorian Calendar, which we use, there is no year zero and the sequence of years near the start runs as follows: ..., 4BC, 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD, 3AD, 4AD ...</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">** Since 2000 AD is the 2000th year of the Christian calendar, it was the last year of the 2nd millennium. So the 3rd millennium and the 21st century began at the same moment - on January 01, 2001.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">*** If a radiocarbon lab reports an age of 13000 years BP, they are implying that the fossil would have died 13000 years before 1950 AD.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Coligny Calendar (first century bce Celtic calendar discovered in 1897), astronomical calculus shows that it must have been computed in 1100 bce</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Needs placements</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">The Pre-Celtic and Early Celtic Civilization <span style="font-weight: 600;">''The La Tene Period</span> of Ancient Ireland''..!!</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">La Tène culture developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from 450 BCE to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE) in Belgium, eastern France, Switzerland, Austria, Southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia,Slovenia, Hungary and Romania. To the north extended the contemporary Jastorf culture of Northern Germany. 1 The Jastorf culture is the southern part of the Pre-Roman Iron Age of the north.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">deep late <span style="font-weight: 600;">Pleistocene</span> (Ice Age)</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">------------------------------------------------</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.siol-nan-gaidheal.org%2FCeltic_Solidarity%2Fprehist1.htm%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1t6vsYKmgLdMQoIzMtY2yQAHAAQnkrniygaNCRgmvr76FwSJU67CAxNbI&h=AT1aWcNtj549VoEvoPlYoxlCVl_Mov5DwplA6e3u5HmMYIOuWBc8SJrO6aC71tnCTzEsvMSEP6llXXHm01ZA5AI5sZyiQ661r26p9ELE2Yr_WLoHXrY9WJiR057si8RliWQ" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.org/Celtic_Solidarity/prehist1.htm</a></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Prehistory</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">30,000 BC: Although covered in a huge ice sheet, the topography of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England is much as it is today; sea levels fluctuating due to the effects of the Ice Ages.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">10,000 BC: Though much of the land is still glaciated, the first prehistoric settlers of Scotland arrive, probably by the Northern Ice sheet extending from Southern Norway to the Orkney Islands and Caithness. The land is covered in dense forest which is home to elk, deer, wild boar, goats, bears, wolves and many species of birds. Fruit and nuts were plentiful as were fish, shellfish and edible seaweed. The first humans were nomadic, living in skin shelters and/or caves, they would stay in an area for a while until the resources were nearly exhausted and then move on to a different area. They used flint tools of surprising sophistication which enabled them to make arrow heads and spear tips, knives and axeheads which assisted them to become more efficient hunters. The prehistory of Scotland and Ireland is paradoxical in that these two countries, after Iceland, may have been the last part of Europe to be occupied by man, probably less than 10,000 years ago, and yet they still have one of the richest archaeological heritages in western Europe. The earliest settlers arrived in Ireland, in the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age period. They crossed by land bridge from Scotland. These people were mainly hunters. See Note 10,000-2000 BC and see what archeology is finding out about them and the Ceide Fields of Co Mayo!.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">8,500 BC: The earliest evidence yet is found at Cramond near Edinburgh of an early hunter-gatherer homestead, and the remains of elk bones, fish bones, shellfish and hazelnut shells show that they enjoyed a reasonable standard of living.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">7000 BC: Evidence of first men in Ireland.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">6500 BC: The Urumchi People settle in Eastern Turkestan - Northern China. They are clearly Celtic, with red or yellow hair, and with caucasian features. They speak a language known as Tocharian which is related to Gaelic through the Indo European group of languages. Well preserved mummies reveal the knowledge of weaving, and tartan cloth has been found, still as colourful as the day it was woven. Also grave goods have been recovered, including chariots, ploughs, horse harness, harrows, bronze and iron tools, pottery including a grain storage jar capable of holding 120 Kgs of grain, and intricate jewellery made of bronze, pewter, copper, silver and gold. Their techniques of preserving the dead by mummification were superior to the Egyptian as the soft internal organs were not removed but preserved in situ.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">5000 BC: Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) brings farming to Ulster.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">3900 BC: The oldest coastal dunes in Ireland, pre-dating a radiocarbon age of 5,315±±135 years BP, occur at Grangemore.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">3000 BC: Sea level stabilized. Colonists of the neolithic, or new stone-age period, reached Ireland. These people were farmers. Remnants of their civilization have been excavated at Lough Gur in Co. Limerick. They traded in a limited form in products, such as axe-heads. One of their monuments, a megalithic tomb at Newgrange in Co. Meath, has survived. Visit the ancient tombs in Knowth, Boyne Valley. (Six pages, one photo per page).</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">2500 BC: Passage Graves at Newgrange, Co. Meath built; wheat cultivated at Newgrange; evidence of Boyne culture.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">2250 BC: Portal Tombs such as the Kempe Stones in Newtownards.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">2100 BC: Celtic tribes in Europe. Celtic and Italic migrants are quite certain to be among the first Indo-Europeans who penetrated into Central Europe. It is known that the task to connect exact archaeological cultures with exact tribes at that time is not yet completed, but still according to the most widespread version, Celts were represented by the "cord pottery" culture. In the late 3rd millennium they began to migrate west from the Low Danube (where they lived together with Italics and Illyrians). Soon Celts appeared in France and in South Germany. The date mentioned above can be regarded as a possible time of separation of the Celtic language from the Celto-Italo-Veneto-Illyrian language community.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">2000 BC-1200 BC: First Celtic immigrants to the British Isles thought to have arrived. Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Prospectors and metalworkers arrived. Metal deposits were discovered, and soon bronze and gold objects were made. Items (such as axe-heads, pottery and jewelery) made by these Bronze Age people, have been found.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1800 BC: Bronze Age commences in Ulster: tin (probably from Kernow - Cornwall) alloyed with copper to make bronze; gold worked.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1699 BC: Beginning of the Milesian Genealogies; Milesian Legends; and The Fianna.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1400 BC: Celts arrive in Spain. This date is the earliest in archaeology to mark the event, and usually scientists tend to think Celts appeared in Spain later. It depends on the exact archaeological culture which we connect with Celtic expansion. The most widespread opinion is to link Celts with the "urn culture" (German "Urnenfelderkultur", Spanish "campos de urnas") which spread from the Danube region to the west, to all Central Europe and later to Gaul and Iberia (Spain). But many believe than this culture unified all "Ancient European" ethnic groups of Indo-Europeans who came from Asia to Europe within one big migration wave. It probably included Celts, Italics, Illyrians and Venetic tribes, whose languages have much in common. But while Illyrians and Venetians remained on the Balkans, Italics penetrated into Italy, Celts were the only people who went farther to Gaul and Spain. In Spain first Indo-Europeans occupied mainly the northern regions. They did not mix with the aboriginal population, though their language was somehow transforming in phonetics and syntax. This first Celtic wave (the first Celts were called Beribraces in ancient sources) put the beginning to the Celtiberian language.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">2500-1300 BC: Indo-European peoples spread from Pannonia to Dalmatia. It looks as if many European groups of the Indo-European family came to Europe, their future homeland, together. Celtic, Italic, Illyrian, Thracian, Venetic, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic peoples, after crossing South Russians Steppes, achieved Europe about 2500 BC and settled in the Middle Danube valley. Then, their population was not numerous, so they did not need to migrate. Later Italic tribes began moving to the south, then Celtic - to the west, Germanic - to the north. In about 1300 BC Illyrian and Venetic groups (or one group which was later divided into two) started migrating to the south, from Pannonia (modern Hungary) to Dalmatia (modern Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia). Probably one more tribe joined the Illyrians in their move - they were Italics, a part of them who later went west to Italy, where they united with their relatives who already lived there. The intrusion of Illyrians to Dalmatia seems to cause the first "Great Movement of Peoples" which will be described later: it started in Central Europe, and via the Balkans and Greece spread to the Mediterranean, causing other great changes in the ethnic and linguistic map of the Indo-European world.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1200 BC : Start of the Bronze Age; Urnfield Culture in central Europe; Celtic cultures in Gaul and Germania. From this time Celts gradually become the most powerful nation in Northern Europe. They easily and quickly spread over vast lands of France (Gaul), Germany, the Low Countries, the Alps, and penetrated on to the Iberian peninsula. Celts were wary and numerous which helped them to conquer lands of ancient European tribes and to widen their domain. Celtic tribes are believed to have been moving first along the Middle Danube to the west; later their cultures can be archaeologically traced in Southern Germany and in Central Gaul; Celts slowly assimilated the aboriginal peoples of those regions, and neolithic cultures which flourished in Europe before Indo-Europeans came, were preserved in the 12th century BC only in the Low Rhine lands, somewhere in the Alps and on the peninsula of Brittany. The British Isles were not yet visited by the Indo-European settlers, though continental cultures - Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Greek - developed trade contacts with the islands. The Common Celtic language was at that time still very similar to its relatives Italic, Illyrian and Venetic. Besides, Celtic words and word elements were borrowed by Slavic and Germanic languages in this very early epoch.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Celtic cultures in Ireland</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">More people reached Ireland, producing a greater variety of weapons and artifacts made under influences of of northern Europe. Later phase of Bronze Age: gold ornaments very numerous. A common dwelling of this period was the "crannog", an artificial island, constructed in the middle of a lake.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1100-450 BC: Hallstatt Period - Notes - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unc.edu%2Fceltic%2Ftopics%2Fburial%2Fburial.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2yZU_cfULjqhItEQuGpDMFDYzkrhWL6ax6h5GIJKGYH0hgHVmF3miVmKs&h=AT1MfvINs3O1ilJ4O-tIwmSMsTKPwQby_86x3uneitZcyWZ7FCb-hVNeagNwSKvWseQmu9raHsa3_oFdiuKOUrQrVYv2OGCF0-A3iM2J0JTSuS2xjjT2Mb29-HkfJuS5_yU" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.unc.edu/celtic/topics/burial/burial.html</a></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Celtic Time line 1000 BC to 1 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.siol-nan-gaidheal.org%2FCeltic_Solidarity%2Fprehist2.htm%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2A1xq7gOSnDsePQS6PrLN6ERk7waHNNYEcI4-QV6PGrmcxm55uocThZN4&h=AT3K-qpCkZ5bfzaw1BqAU3zhUAoWfR7HeCFq4zXPc7gJWamLqy58m7V2J7iQCKQd0MktLyv-nyIVXMLdh6gLeWw1s55KCZ_knX2A8kIs-_MP0uYNC7v5fXGy3xGbj3iKjQs" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.org/Celtic_Solidarity/prehist2.htm</a></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1000 BC to 1 BC</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1000-750 BC: Proto-Celtic people of the Urnfield culture dominate much of Continental Europe. They also start to spread out over northern Asia as far as the frontiers of China. Development of the deliberate smelting of iron in the Middle East and China around the same time, prompting the title 'The Iron Age' for this period.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">1000 BC: Standing Stones such as those in North Down erected.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">900 BC: Goidelic-speaking people in England.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">950 BC: Relatively sudden climatic deterioration leading to wetter conditions and a reduction in population in lowland areas.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">c.700-c.600 BC: Celts arrive from parts of Gaul, Britain, and central Europe. They continued to arrive, up to the time of Christianity. Belonging linguistically to the Indo-European culture, Celts soon began to dominate Ireland, and the earliest settlers. Ireland divided into provinces.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">700-500 BC: Hallstatt culture develops in Austria.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">700 BC: Early Celts in Austria bury iron swords with their dead.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">680 BC: Radiocarbon dating for first circular inhabitation enclosure at Emain Machae (Navan Fort, near Armagh) Note 1 Note 2.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">650 BC: The Hallstatt people learn to make use of iron and emerge as the great Iron Age Celtic culture of northern Europe. As trade routes reach them via the Rhône and Danube rivers, so their influence grows. They bury their chiefs in great style, the dead leader lying in his four-wheeled chariot with his weapons around him. They make their swords of iron or from iron models copied in bronze.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">600 BC: Goidelic-speaking Celts from Spain arrive in Ireland. Celts into Italy. Greeks found the colony of Massilia, opening up trade between the Celts of inland Europe and the Mediterranean. First evidence of Britain having a name - Albion - (albino, white - called after the chalk-cliffs of Dover). A major rebuild of old Bronze Age defences, and construction of new hillforts takes place in Britain.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">550-500 BC: A princess in Vix (Burgundy) is buried with a 280 gallon bronze Greek vase, the largest ever made. 60 miles away a prince is buried layed out on bronze chais-lounge in a hugh chamber tomb.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">550 BC: Celts begin to arrive in the British Isles, mainly in Ireland, but also in Scotland and England.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">520 BC: Great riches are placed in the tomb of a princess at Vix, France, including a massive wine-mixing bowl from Greece. This illustrates not only the wealth of Celtic chiefs, but also their desire for objects from the classical world, in particular those connected with wine. Heuneberg, an elaborate contemporary Iron Age fort on the river Danube, also imports Greek drinking vessels.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">500 BC: Trade between the Etruscans and the Celts begins. Chariots are used by the Celts in Britain; they are introduced via the Etruscans. Lá Téne phase of Celtic culture speads through Europe. Brythonic Celts reach Britain. Iron metallurgy in Ireland, though bronze age economy still in evidence. The Greeks record the name of a major tribe - The KELTOI - and this becomes the common name for all of the tribes. Celts (the Gaels - from Galicia) arrive in Ireland from Spain.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">500 BC- 400 BC: The Celts begin to make an impression on European history. They are divided into a number of different tribes, sharing a distinctive decorative style of art, characterized by curving designs and mythical animals. These can be seen on their jewelry (gold and bronze torques), their weapons (decorated shields and sword scabbards), and their pottery and other vessels. The Celts probably originate in northwest and central Europe, France (particularly the area of Champagne), Switzerland, Lower Austria, and western Slovakia. The area of the western Hallstatt, Upper Austria, is also associated with the Celts.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">480 BC: Celts of the Hallstatt culture of upper Austria begin to arrive in Britain in substantial numbers. This is the main period of Celtic immigration, greatly augmenting and changing the balance of Britain's population, and is known as Britain's "Iron Age" culture.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">450 BC: End of Halstatt Era, beginning of La Téne Era; New wave of Celtic tribes come to Italy.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">410 BC: Celtic tribes (soon to become known to the Romans as the Gauls) migrate south across the Alps into the Italian region during this period.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">c.400 BC: Celtic tribes begin to move into northern Italy; the Boii and Senones cross the river Po and settle in the Po valley. The Insubres occupy Lombardy, with their capital at Milan (Roman Mediolanum). These Celtic tribes are collectively called Gauls by the Romans. At the same time, other Celtic groups are colonizing the banks of the Yonne and Seine rivers in France, and yet others are moving into Bohemia and Bavaria. Reference. Celts attack the Etruscan city of Clusium.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">390 BC: A wandering tribe of Celts (whom the Romans call Gauls) under Brennos defeats the Romans at the Battle of the Allia and Rome is besieged until only the Capitol is unconquered. When the citizens of Rome flee before the Gauls' attack of the Capitol, the senators, according to legend, stay seated majestically in their robes while the barbarian Gauls wonder at them. When a Gaul strokes the beard of Papirius, he strikes the offending Gaul, and the Gauls massacre the entire Senate. The rest of the city is sacked by the Gauls. Offended by the dirty conditions of the city, they demand a ransom to leave the Romans alone. Brennus demands his weight in gold and when the Romans complain he throws his sword on the scales to be weighed as well with the cry "VAE VICTUS" - (Woe to the Vanquished). After the sack of Rome by the Gauls, Rome has to deal with unrest and revolt by all its former enemies and most of its allies, including Etruria, the Aequi, the Volsci, the Latins, and the Hernici.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">340 BC: Romans prohibit single combat to settle conflict with the Celts.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">335 BC: Alexander the Great encounters Celts on the Danube: Alexander receives envoys from the Celts, and exchange pledges of alliance. Large numbers of Celtic warriors join the Greeks in a war against the Etruscans.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">323 BC: Alexander dies and the Celts push into Macedonia.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">320 BC: Pytheas [a Greek geographer] refers to the British Isles as the 'Isles of the Pretani'. The Pretani were the ancient British people and are made up of the Ulster Cruithin, Scottish Picts, and the Welsh Ancient Britons.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">300 BC: Macha Mong Ruad - The First Milesian Queen of Ireland reigned.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">298 BC: Third Samnite War.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">285 BC: Battle of Vadimonian Lake.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">280-275: BC Celts in Asia Minor: Galatia founded in what is present day central and northern Turkey. References : 1, 2, 3.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">279 BC: Celtic tribes invade Greece: a horde of Gauls - a Celtic people from central Europe - sweeps down from the Danube valley through Macedon into Greece, killing and plundering. They are only just halted by the Aetolian League before they reach Delphi, where they intended to plunder the shrine. They turn back north, where King Antigonus II defeats them in Macedon, winning popular support for his kingship. The Celtic chieftain Brennus the Gaul is reputedly prevented from desecrating the shrine of Apollo at Delphi by a miraculous storm and, having been defeated in this way, kills himself in shame.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">275 BC: Celts of the La Tène culture (known in Britain as the Iron Age B culture) settle in England, particularly in the Yorkshire Wolds. They spread out from Yorkshire and where they meet Iron Age A forts they tend to refortify them in a most elaborate way, with triple fortifications.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">264-241 BC: 1st Punic War.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">250-230 BC: Galatian Celts defeated in battle by Greek forces in western Turkey.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">250 BC: A group of Celts of the tribe of the Volcae Tectosages invade southern France and settle there, mixing with the local population. Another group settles in Bohemia.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">225 BC: Celts march on Rome again; Roman army routs invading Celtic Gauls at Telamon in central Italy.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">200-40 BC: Manching, a Celtic Oppidum south of the Danube in Bavaria, was the site of highly advanced metal working techniques. References - 1, 2.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">200 BC: The Celts establish permanent fortified settlements (Oppida, or towns). Bronze and iron objects; sculpture in stone and wood; Turoe stone. The Celtic culture of the La Tene civilization, named after a Celtic site in Switzerland, reaches Ireland. Celtic Ireland was not politically unified, only by culture and language. The country was divided into about 150 minitature kingdoms, each called a 'tuath'. A minor king ruled a 'tuath', subject to a more powerful king who ruled a group of 'tuath', who was in turn subject to one of the five provincial kings. (Early on there were five provinces, with Meath as a separate province.) This caused constant shifting in power, among the most important contenders. Celtic Ireland had a simple agrarian economy. No coins were used, and the cow was the unit of exchange. There were no towns. Society was stratified into classes, and was regulated by the Brehon Laws, based largely on the concepts of the 'tuath' as the political body, and the 'fine', or extended family as the social unit.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">197 BC: First Celtiberian revolt.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">191 BC: Cisalpine Gaul is taken by the Romans.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">181 BC-179 BC: In Spain, the Lusones, a Celtiberian tribe, try to migrate into Carpetania, and the First Celtiberian War begins. Fulvius Flaccus defeats them at Aebura, captures their capital at Contrebia, and takes the district known as Celtiberia Citerior (Nearer Celtiberia) to the Romans. The following year Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus senior takes over the war, and continues to defeat the Celtiberians. He makes a treaty with the Nearer Celtiberians, by which they provide tribute and auxiliary troops, and an alliance with Further Celtiberia.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">150 BC: A fresh wave of Celts, partly Germanic, begins to arrive in Britain - the Belgae, known as the Iron Age C people.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">150-121 BC: Rome takes Provence.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">125 BC: Romans annex Gallia.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">120 - 60 BC: Central Gallic tribes (the Arverni, Brituriges, Aedui, Sequani, and Helvetii) begin organizing themselves into basic state governments, or civitates. Each civitates elected a chief magistrate, and was divided into smaller units (pagi) with at least one trade center (oppida) or hillforts.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">121 BC: Rome defeats the Gauls on the lower Rhone River, opening Gaul to Roman occupation.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">118 BC: Rome founded its first colonia (veteran's town) in Gaul at Narbo Martius (Narbonne). Its province of Transalpina, later renamed Narbonensis (today's Provence), extended from the Maritime Alps westward to the Pyrenees, and north to Lake Geneva. After the Cimbric Wars, Germano-Celtic uprisings that occurred between 109-101 BC, regular Roman trade and organization became more secure.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">113 BC: War between Rome and Celtiberians. A Celtic tribe known as the Cimbri to the Romans, having migrated south from Denmark, reach the river Meuse. They defeat a Roman army at Noricum (modern Austria) and threaten northern Italy.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">112-109 BC: The Getae joined the Celts to invade Roman possessions in the western Balkans.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">109-101 BC: Cimbric Wars - Germano-Celtic uprisings - after which Roman trade and establishment became more stable.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">107 BC: The Cimbri inflict yet another defeat on the Romans.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">105 BC: The Cimbri inflict a still more serious defeat on the Romans at Arausio (modern Orange) on the river Rhône; the province of Transalpine Gaul in southern France now appears to be at their mercy and Rome itself seems threatened.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">104 BC: Gaius Marius is elected consul again in Rome and reforms the army to meet the threat of the Cimbri, a Celtic tribe. The captured Jugurtha of Numidia is displayed at the triumph (victory procession) of Marius and his staff officer, Cornelius Sulla, in Rome. The reforms of the Roman consul Gaius Marius make the Roman army more professional and democratic. He increases the legion from about 5,000 to 6,000; changes the 120-strong maniple to the 600-strong cohort; abolishes dependence upon class for recruitment to various ranks of the army; and converts the cavalry to an auxiliary arm. He gives the legions names and numbers and introduces the eagle as a standard for each.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">102 BC: The Roman consul Gaius Marius, preparing to meet the Cimbri trains his army with great strictness. Homosexuality is punished, with death in the case of one of Marius' own nephews. His soldiers, practicing route-marches, call themselves "Marius' Mules."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">101 BC: The Roman consul Gaius Marius completely defeats the Cimbri at the Battle of Vercellae in the Po valley, northern Italy, with a reputed slaughter of 120,000 men. Rome has no more threats from the Celtic and Germanic barbarians for another five centuries. Marius returns to Rome a hero.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">c.100 BC: Celts, probably of the Iron Age B culture of Britain, build their most remarkable stone forts in Scotland. The forts, known as brochs, are dry-stone towers surrounding a circular internal area of about 8.5 m/28 ft in diameter with walls as thick as 4 m/13 ft, in which rooms and staircases are sometimes inset.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">100 BC: Arrival of the Gaels in Ireland; Black Pig's Dyke built by the Ulaid and Cruithin. This was a defensive structure running along the southern border of Ulster. Belgae tribes migrate to Britain to escape Roman domination.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">95 BC: A 40 meter structure was built at Navan Fort at Emain Macha.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">91 BC: The distinctive curvilinear decorative art of the Celtic La Tène culture is introduced into Britain. The Celts of this culture also introduce the practice of throwing votive offerings into sacred waters, as at Llyn Cerrig Bach on the island of Anglesey, which is probably used as a holy place until the Roman destruction of AD 78-79. The enameled bronze shield found in modern times in the river Thames at Battersea dates from this period.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">80 BC: The second wave of Celtic Belgae arrives in Britain from Gaul during this period. They settle mostly in the southeast and tackle the less well-drained and still forested land, farming with a plow that can turn the sod. They are probably responsible for the white horse on the chalk downs at Uffington in Oxfordshire.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">c.80-60 BC: Romans arrive in Gaul; the region was occupied by about 60 different tribes speaking Celtic languages.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">72 BC: Romans launch a retaliatory strike against the Getae and the Celts across the Danube but withdraw because, one account reports, the soldiers were "frightened by the darkness of the forests."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">70 BC: Druids (a fire cult from the Middle East) arrive in Britain and gain control of the ruling classes.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">65 BC: The situation in Rome is deteriorating into a struggle for power between individuals, with the support of the common people felt to be a necessary asset. The Roman politician Julius Caesar becomes aedile (with responsibility for temples, buildings, streets, markets, and public games), and he spends vast sums on pleasing the public. The Roman politician Catiline conspires to gain power in Rome by force. His plans are betrayed to the orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, however, by representatives of the Gallic tribe of the Allobroges, who are in Rome to attempt to settle grievances concerning the governing of the province of Gallia Narbonensis in France.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.siol-nan-gaidheal.org%2FCeltic_Solidarity%2Fprehist3.htm%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2G8DZ-ljpj1y0Fzh0jrpstc6zSBfYa3Df1uGSuZRvHb0nK-DzQGDM2N8w&h=AT0WENhk1VGOXieIOg0pGCB-uEIbAgT3yLlA-_65-S9BthyY49XvQ9rRF28mpPeuKv4Cs91QJKqMgP29ZCq-BTBNnlwgN6iTLyW76f48HvROtW028MyY1CaQQTWibDcZ5Fs" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.org/Celtic_Solidarity/prehist3.htm</a></span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0 AD to 1400 AD</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">80 AD: Julius Agricola invades Caledonia.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">83: The Celtic tribes unite under Calgacus, but he is defeated at the battle of Mons Graupius, the earliest recorded battle in Scottish history between the Picts and Romans. Tacitus, the Roman writer, credited Calgacus with the quote "They are the only people on earth to whose covetousness both riches and poverty are equally tempting. To robbery, butchery and rapine, they give the lying name of 'government'; they create a desolation and call it peace....."</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">121 - 129: Hadrian's Wall is built between present-day Bo'ness and Wallsend, designed to hold back the Picts.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">139:The Antonine Wall built to subdue the Lowland tribes and establish a new frontier north of Hadrian’s Wall.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">200: A number of smaller tribes in northern Britain are absorbed into two main groups: the Maeatae and the Caledones.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">297: The Picts are first mentioned in Roman writings: "a nation still savage and accustomed only to the hitherto semi-naked Picts and Hibernians as their enemies, yielded to Roman arms and standards without difficulty" - Eumenius. The name "Pict" is said to have come either from a Latin word meaning "the painted ones" or another meaning "fighter". Both of these quite accurately described the Pictish people.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">360: A Roman author describes a warring tribe based in Ireland as the "Scots".</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">368: The Pictish, Scots and Saxon tribes attack the Romans in London, and loot and plunder their treasures.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">397: St Ninian preaching in Galloway.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">460-490: "Arthur", King of the Brethoni, is claimed to have led a band of elite Celtic warriors in a desperate struggle against the invading Saxons. This myth has since been plundered by the Anglo-Saxons who now claim Arthur as one of their own.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">501 - 503: Legend has it that the Scots from Ireland, a Gaelic-speaking people, Christian in religion, establish their kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll on the west coast and isles of Scotland. This is now open to debate, as it seems that they were in fact indigenous to the area. Recent research shows no evidence of Irish influence at this time.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">563: Saint Columba sails from Ireland to Argyll to found a monastery on the Island of Iona. This started the gradual conversion of the Picts to Christianity.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">565: Columba visits the Pictish King Bridei at his fort near Inverness</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">597: The death of St. Columba at Iona.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">606 Death of King Aidan of Dalriada.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">608: Death of St Balfred, famous hermit of the Bass Rock.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">616: St Donan, a missionary in northern and western Scotland, is killed by sea pirates in Eigg.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">664: The death of St Boisel, Prior of Melrose.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">20 May 685: The Battle of Nechtansmere in Forfarshire - in the spring of 685 when the Northumbrian King, Egfrith, decided to advance north to battle with the Picts and claim their territory as his own. Leading a large and powerful force, Egfrith marched into Pictavia. But the Picts were ready and waiting. Their king, Bridei, had devised a plan. Using cunning tactics, Bridei drew the Northumbrians towards Dunnichen in Angus. Bridei split his Pictish army in two - the strongest half he hid on Dunnichen Hill, meanwhile the weaker half went down the hill to confront their enemy. As the battle progressed, the Picts, feigning fear, turned heel and retreated back over the hill, chased by the Northumbrians. This was the moment Bridei had hoped for. As the Northumbrians came over the hill, the bulk of the Pictish forces, who were lying in wait, attacked. There was no escape. The few who did manage to elude the swords and spears of the Picts, drowned in the marshy loch at the foot of the hill.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">23 Sep 704: The death of St Adamnan, Abbot of Iona; best known as the author of a 'Life' of St Columba.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">711: The Pictish King Nechtan invites Abbot Ceolfrith of Monkwearmouth to send masons to build a church of stone, dedicated to St Peter in Pictavia (Angus).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">793: The first reported Norse invasion of Scotland: Picts and Dal Riata unite against their common enemy.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">802: The Vikings (Danes) plunder Iona for the first, but not the last, time.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">843: Kenneth MacAlpin unites the Scots and Picts as one nation under his rule, following a battle at the Gathering Stone at Airthrey, near Stirling. This Unity continues with a battle later that year at Athelstaneford in Lothian, where the Albannach defeat the Angles. The Saltire (the Cross of Saint Andrew) is adopted as the Scottish flag, making it the oldest surviving national flag in history.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">858 - 862: Reign of Donald I</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">862 - 877: Reign of Constantine I</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">877 - 878: Reign of Ael</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">878 - 889: Reign of Eochaid</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">889 - 900: Reign of Donald II</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">900 - 942: Reign of Constantine II</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">942 - 954: Reign of Malcolm I</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">954 - 962: Reign of Indulf</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">962 - 966: Reign of Dubh</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">966 - 971: Reign of Culen</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">c 971: Edgar gives Lothian to Kenneth II</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">971 - 975: Reign of Kenneth II</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">973: Luncarty - King Kenneth defeats the Danish Vikings.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">986: Last recorded raid on Iona by Vikings.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">995 - 997: Reign of Constantine III</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">997 - 1005: Reign of Kenneth III</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1005: Malcolm II (r 1005-1034) kills Kenneth III and becomes King.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1014: The Battle of Mortlach, in Banffshire - the Scots, under Malcolm II, defeat the Danish Vikings.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1018: King Malcolm II and Owen-the-Bald, King of Strathclyde defeat the Anglo-Saxon Northumbrians on the River Tweed. Strathclyde is annexed by the Scots. Malcolm II gains Lothian. Death of King Owen. Duncan, grandson of Malcolm II, is made ruler of Strathclyde.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1034: Reign of Duncan I (1034 - 1040). Duncan, made King of Strathclyde after the battle of Carham, helps kill his grandfather Malcolm II and becomes King of Scotland.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1040: Reign of Macbeth (1040 - 1057). MacBeth slays Duncan to become King of Scotland after Duncan is heavily defeated by the English in battle.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">15 Aug 1057: The Battle of Lumphanan - on 15 August MacBeth is defeated and killed by Malcolm Canmore. Reign of Malcolm III (1057 - 1093) commences.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1066: The Norman Conquest of England.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1069: Malcolm III marries Margaret, an Anglo-Saxon princess who sought refuge in Scotland.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1073: Malcolm III pays homage to William I of England, after defeat in battle. This leads to the claim of suzerainty used by the English for centuries afterwards to justify oppression agains the Scots.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">13 Nov 1093: The Battle of Alnwick - King Malcolm III is killed. His death ultimatley leads to the death of Queen Margaret. Much English influence was brought to Lowland Scotland by her, and she was later canonised St. Margaret.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1093 - 1094: First Reign of Donald Ban I</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1094: Reign of Duncan II</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1094 - 1097: Second Reign of Donald Ban</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1097 - 1107: Reign of Edgar</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1107: Reign of Alexander I (1107-1124). On the death of Edgar, Scotland becomes disunited. Alexander I becomes King of Scots, but David I becomes King in Lothian and Strathclyde.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1124: Reign of David I (1124 - 1153). Unity is restored when, on Alexander's death, David becomes King of Scots. His reign is one of the most important in Scotland's history, extending Scottish borders to the River Tees, including all of Northumberland. David I institutes many administrative changes into Scotland including laws, early schools and gives much Scottish land to his Norman friends.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1134: The Province of Moray is annexed by the Crown.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1138: An English victory at the Battle of the Standard at Northallerton. King David I is defeated and 10,000 Scots killed by the Normans.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1153: Reign of Malcolm IV (1153-1165). Rise of Somerled (Scot-Viking Lord of the Isles and progenitor of Clan Donald).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1160: Galloway subjected to the Scottish crown.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1164: The death of Somerled.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1165: Reign of William I, "Lion of Scotland" (1165 - 1214).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">8 Dec 1174: Treaty of Falaise. Under this treaty, Scotland would be in debt to England for years. After William I has been captured by the English, he agrees to accept Henry II as his feudal overlord.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1179: Province of Ross subdued by William I.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1180: Inverness receives Charter from William I.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1189: The Quitclaim of Canterbury.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1192: Scottish Church becomes a "special daughter" of the Roman See.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1214: Reign of Alexander II (1198-1249), raised to the throne by the Seven Earls of Scotland.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1222: Alexander II conquers Argyll.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1249: Reign of Alexander III (1249 - 1286).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">26 Dec 1251: Marriage of Alexander III, King of Scots, to Margaret, daughter of Henry III, King of England, in York. The young Alexander refuses to acknowledge English overlordship of Scotland.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1263: Scots win decisive victory over King Haaken of Norway at the Battle of Largs, and obtain the Hebrides from Norway.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1266: The Treaty of Perth. The Western Isles (Hebrides) are officially annexed by the crown.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1272: Birth of William Wallace at Elderslie.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1274: Birth of Robert de Brus.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">8 Oct 1275: Scottish forces put down a Manx rebellion in the Battle of Ronaldsway, Isle of Man. The Manx had refused peace terms the previous day and before dawn were routed. The Isle of Man had passed from Norwegian to Scottish rule in 1266.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">28 Oct 1278: Alexander III, King of Scots, pays homage to Edward I of England, for lands he holds in England, but reserves the Kingdom of Scotland from English overlordship.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">19 Mar 1286: Alexander III, King of Scots, killed accidentally in a fall from his horse at Kinghorn, Fife. The last of the MacAlpine dynasty and the Celtic line of Scottish Kings, his reign was known as "The Golden Age".</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1289: Margaret, the "Maid of Norway", Alexander's only heir dies. The Scottish crown is opened to over a dozen claimants. Edward I of England falsely claims suzerainty.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">30 Nov 1292: Coronation of John Balliol, the last recorded inauguration of a King of Scots on the Stone of Destiny. Known as 'Toom Tabard', (empty coat), Balliol is seen as a puppet of Edward I of England.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">23 Oct 1295: Treaty between John Balliol, King of Scots, and Philippe IV of France, made at Paris for mutual military help against the English - "The Auld Alliance". Renewed by Robert I at the Treaty of Corbeil, 1326, it became the accepted response to English aggression against either party.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">27 Apr 1296: The "Dunbar Drave". Rout of Scottish army in the Battle of Dunbar by Edward 1, King of England, after John Balliol, King of Scots, had renounced his allegiance to England. The start of the Wars of Independence. The Coronation Stone - the 'Lia Fail' or Stone of Destiny stolen by Edward and taken to Westminster Abbey.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1297: William Wallace kills the sheriff of Lanark, Hazelrig, and a revolt under his command is begun.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">11 Sept 1297: Battle of Stirling Bridge where the Scots under the command of William Wallace and Andrew de Moray defeat a larger English force under John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham. De Moray subsequently died of wounds received in the battle.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">11 Oct 1297: Letter from Andrew de Moray and William Wallace, Guardians of Scotland, to the cities of Lubeck and Hamburg informing them that Scotland and the Hanseatic League could recommence.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">23 Aug 1305: The execution of Sir William Wallace at Smithfield in London, England after his betrayal by Menteith. Falsely accused of treason to a king to whom he owed no allegiance, Wallace's death shines down through the years to light the cause of Scottish Independence.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1306: Robert Bruce murders the John "Red" Comyn at Greyfriar Abbey, Dumfries.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">25 Mar 1306: Robert de Brus, Earl of Annandale, is crowned King of Scots at Scone in the presence of four bishops, five earls and the people of Scotland by the Countess of Buchan.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1307: Three of the Bruce's brothers, Alexander, Nigel and Thomas are hanged, drawn and quartered by Edward I, exactly as Wallace had been executed two years earlier.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1308: At Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, King Robert the Bruce defeats Comyn of Buchan and the English.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">8 Nov 1308: Death of John Duns Scotus, born in Berwickshire c.1265, scholastic philosopher at Oxford, Paris and Cologne. The Subtle Doctor (doctor Subtilis), John Duns Scotus was one of the great philosophers; study and use of his work was commended by Pope John XX111, and he was beatified by Pope John Paul 11 in 1993.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">23 Feb 1310: Declaration of the Clergy and People in favour of King Robert 1, The Bruce, from the Church of the Friary Minor in Dundee.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">29 Oct 1312: Treaty of Inverness. Robert I gives an undertaking to King Haakon V of Norway to observe the terms of Treaty of Perth (1266).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">24 June 1314: The Battle of Bannockburn : the Scots under Robert the Bruce rout the English led by Edward II, resulting in Scottish Independence. The Scots with only 500 mounted men, 2,500 spearmen and 5,000 warriors defeat the English and their army of 25-30,000. It was England's most severe loss to any army in their medieval history.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">2 Mar 1316: King Robert II, first of the House of Stewart, was born at Renfrew. His mother was Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I and wife of Walter, Great Stewart of Scotland.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">6 Apr 1320: The Declaration of Arbroath - A letter from the Scottish barons to Pope John XXII, affirming their determination to maintain Scottish Independence and support King Robert I unless he showed signs of yielding. There are many echoes of the Arbroath Declaration in the American Declaration of Independence, written in 1776.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1326: The first Scottish Parliament met.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">17 Mar 1328: Treaty of Edinburgh, by which England acknowledged the independence of Scotland under Robert 1, was concluded at Edinburgh and ratified at Northampton on 4 May 1328.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1329: King Robert the Bruce dies. Accession of David II (r 1329-71).</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">12 Aug 1332: The Battle of Dupplin Moor, where the Scots, led by the regent Earl of Mar, squandered their numerical advantage, and following a confused attack are routed with heavy losses by Edward Balliol's army.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">19 Jul 1333: Battle of Halidon Hill at Berwick where an English army under Edward III and Edward Balliol defeated the Scots forces led by Sir Archibald Douglas. The English archers devastated the Scottish army and inflicted terrible losses, including six earls, seventy barons and over 500 knights.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1346: The Battle of Neville's Cross. King David II is defeated and captured by the English.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1349-50: The Black Death (bubonic plague) begins in Scotland.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1371: Accession of Robert II, the first of the Stewart Kings to the throne. Robert II (the Stewart) reigns 1371-1390.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1388: The Battle of Otterburn. Henry Percy "Hotspur" and the English defeated by the Scots under James, 2nd earl of Douglas. Henry and Ralph Percy are captured. James Douglas is killed during the battle.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1390-1406: Reign of Robert III.</span></p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1396: The infamous Clan Chattan battle at Perth, watched by King Robert III as "entertainment".</span></p><br /></div></div><div class="_5clc" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 0px 12px 12px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><form action="https://www.facebook.com/ajax/ufi/modify.php" class="commentable_item" data-ft="{"tn":"]"}" id="u_0_h_C7" method="post" rel="async" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"></div></div><div class="_4299" style="border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; width: 588px;"><div class="_5vsi" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="_78bu" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="_1dnh" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 12px; min-height: 32px; padding: 4px 0px;"><div class="_3vuz" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; order: 1;"><span class=" _18vi" style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex: 1 0 0%; font-family: inherit; justify-content: center;"><div class="_666k" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative; width: 282px;"><div class="_8c74" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></form></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="background-color: #e9ebee; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div data-referrer="page_footer" data-testid="page_footer" id="pageFooter" style="color: #737373; font-family: inherit; margin: auto; width: auto;"><div class="mvl copyright" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #90949c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px;"><ul class="uiList localeSelectorList _509- _4ki _6-h _6-j _6-i" data-nocookies="1" style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></ul></div></div></div></div></div>The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-91240105434383268232021-10-30T01:18:00.001-07:002021-10-30T01:18:36.083-07:00Breaking the Bank-Credit Card Chains.<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QzyVPMnlfi4/YXz_yjdn7EI/AAAAAAAALQY/yiuc4Xq5YVQ_U7InmWozyrkU1UBLlyVkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/hack-g5454c2471_1920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1920" height="214" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QzyVPMnlfi4/YXz_yjdn7EI/AAAAAAAALQY/yiuc4Xq5YVQ_U7InmWozyrkU1UBLlyVkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/hack-g5454c2471_1920.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Recently we received a unexpected large (to us) charge via PayPal on a software service we had canceled several years ago. To make a long story short, we could not get our money back. </p><p>At about the same time looking at crypto currency articles. Facebook flooded me with ads.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had been wanting to get a prepaid Visa debit card. For use online at sites I did not trust. With today's level of big companies being hacked, that should be everybody.</p><p>Also had looked at getting an internet only bank a few years ago but could not find a match for me.</p><p>Well things all came together.</p><p>Coinbase.com was giving $5.00 in bitcoin to open a free Wallet/account. Well having no money to invest but wanting too and also learn, this was hit. Tbey in all gave me about $25.00 in different crypto tokens. They also got hacked.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I did not have to give coinbase a bank accout or credit card to set my self up. Of course they keep pushing for one.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here is the deal I wanted. A Debit Card that never had seen any link to our bank account or other credit cards. That I could add cash to locally and easily. No fees, money never expires if not used.</p><p>Along comes an ad for a phone app debit card, no fees, can ad cash to it at many name brand stores (stores to charge a fee when doing this. $4.95 at Wagreens today.</p><p>Card/app I picked was Passbook by Remeny. They are pushing this card for people without a US citizenship and SSN. And for overseas money transfers. After a lot of googling, I went for it.</p><p>Love it, you get message right away on any card activity, customer service is very responsive and fast. You can disable and enable card by phone app at any time.</p><p>So I put $20.00 on it at Walgrees today. Yes it cost me $4.95 fee to Walgreens, fee would have been the same had I put a few hundred dollars on it. Which I did not have.</p><p>Gave coinbase the Card, they put two charges on card and ask me to te them the amounts, to verify it as right account.</p><p>Passbook messaged me the charges in almost real time.</p><p>It took several hours for Coinbase to remove charges. When that was done, I turned off card. And we leave it off till need it again.</p><p>The Chain is fully broken. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-48058003207809854432019-05-09T22:52:00.002-07:002019-05-09T23:26:38.383-07:00Who is a Druid?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My position has always been its the right of every Order, Grove, Church, Temple, </span><br />
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It is also the right of anyone to use wear what Titles, Robes, Chains and Badges of Rank or Honor, nor belonging to an Order, Grove, Church, Temple, or School as they see fit.
It is my and anyone's rights to put a value or not on them, both in Public and Private.</span><br />
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You may notice, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will at times address someone as a Druii, Druid, or Druidess or other common ranks of Druidism, in Public, showing that I feel they deserve this Honor and respect from me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><br /><a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2016/10/am-i-druid.html"><span style="color: black;">Am I Druid?</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2014/11/what-is-druid-today.html"><span style="color: black;">What is Druid Today?</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2012/04/abcs-of-druidism.html"><span style="color: black;">The ABC's of Druidism:</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/05/druids-order-of-training.html"><span style="color: black;">Druid's order of training:</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/03/of-prophets-and-druids-robes.html"><span style="color: black;">Of Prophets and Druid's Robes:</span></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/02/of-bells-and-druids.html"><span style="color: black;">Of Bells and Druids:</span></a></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-is-pagan-druids-view.html"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;">What is a Pagan? A Druid's View:</span></span></a></span><br />
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-31032480093801439352017-08-26T16:43:00.002-07:002017-08-26T17:02:00.990-07:00A Druid's Definition of Death<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The point where the Mortal-Coil unwinds and the Soul-Coil rewinds.<br /><br />Remember Always.<br /><br />Life before Life, Life after Life.<br /><br />Death only Hurts the Living.<br /><br /><a href="http://soulpearls.blogspot.com/2014/08/summerlands-hard-road-death-for-living.html">A small Crain's Bag to help on the Hard Road.</a><br /></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-73451782273651583072017-08-13T17:52:00.003-07:002017-08-13T17:52:44.035-07:00R: Major Arts Studied by the Tuatha Dé Danann from Cath Maige Tuired (CMT):<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Major Arts Studied by the Tuatha Dé Danann from Cath Maige Tuired (CMT):</div>
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Foglaim feasa – occult lore<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />Fithasachta – sorcery<br />Druidechtai – druidic arts<br />Amaidechtai – witchcraft<br />Amainsechtai – magical skill<br />Cerd ngenntlichtae – pagan arts</span></div>
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Major Arts Studied by the Tuatha Dé Danann from Lebor Gabála (LGE, Section VII):</div>
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Druidechta – Druidry<br />Fessa – knowledge<br />Fástini - prophecy<br />Amainsechtai – magic<br />Cerdaib Suithe Gentliuchta – arts of pagan cunning</div>
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These arts and skills are grouped as the major categories of Druidecht (druidry) and Diabal-dan (demonic arts) in poem LXII of Lebor Gabála. Keating calls these wizardry, Druid rites and Devilcraft in his History of Ireland.</div>
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The four teachers of the Tuatha Dé Danann are Morfesa, Esras, Uiscias and Semias. They are called wizards (druids) and poets (filid) in the text and are said to teach occult lore (fios) and secret knowledge (éolas). In Lebor Gabála (poem LXII) they are called Sages (sair-leasa) and Poets (filid).</div>
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There is much to learn from the little that has been presented here. I hope that those who are reading this discover that which is hidden within each person so that it can change the world.</div>
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It is well accepted that the Druids and Celts were all<br />
for framing everything it sets of three.<br />
So when a Druid ask a question, it should not be a surprise<br />
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The Common, Practical, Physical, Physiological, and Sociological side, the realm of the Brehon. Where the answers may be weighted and tallied. Yet it may also have a Religious aspect and or other Occultations.<br />
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The Philosophical side, realms of the Bard, Mind, and Awen. Yet it may also have a Religious aspect and or other Occultations.<br />
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The Metaphysical side, realms of the Vatis or Ovate, Seer, Psychic and Prophet.<br />
Here Summerlands, the Astral, Conjure and Draíocht, twist and bend the Natural Laws like Mist twisting in the Sunshine.<br />
Yet it may also have a Religious aspect and or other Occultations.<br />
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Relating to biology or living organisms.<br />
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Call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.<br />
Implore or without physical efforts force, someone to do something.<br />
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One of the three primary arts, the word is used to refer to what we would now call "magick" (in both the simple and the ritual sense). It means "the use of powers to effect ends." Spell-casting, the use of evocations and invocations, the practice of chanting, circle dancing (intended to bring about a particular end) and other arts are all considered disciplines of draíocht.<br />
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Metaphysical:<br />
Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature.<br />
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The state of being hidden from view or lost to notice.<br />
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Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.<br />
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Having material existence: perceptible especially through the senses and subject to the laws of nature.<br />
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Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms and their parts.<br />
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Relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate set of realities or deities.<br />
A religious person religious attitudes or religious beliefs or observances of a chosen religious order.<br />
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Concerning the development, structure, and functioning of human society.<br />
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-15188795511380970722017-07-10T17:04:00.004-07:002017-07-10T17:06:05.638-07:00Conjure: "The Witches Flower" Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>I keep a small supply for various Conjure usages. Certain people (myself included) are not allergic to its touch or scratches from its very sharp thorns and as all parts are Poisonous to Humans, I have Renamed it "The Witches Flower" And Like Witchcraft it is very hard to uproot and goes deep underground to survive.<br />TDK</i></div>
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>><span style="font-family: inherit;">Horsenettle (<em>Solanum carolinense</em>), a poisonous member of the nightshade family, is one of the most difficult weeds to eradicate since it resists most attempts at control. Tilling the soil only makes it worse because it brings seeds to the surface where they can germinate. Flame weeding doesn’t kill the weed either because the penetrating roots reach depths of 10 feet or more, where they survive after the tops are burned away</span><span style="font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 15.5px; font-weight: bold;">.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/get-rid-of-horsenettle-weeds.htm">https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/get-rid-of-horsenettle-weeds.htm</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Read more at Gardening Know How: Horsenettle Control – How To Get Rid Of Horsenettle Weeds </span><a href="https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/get-rid-of-horsenettle-weeds.htm" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #007012; font-family: ABeeZee; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/get-rid-of-horsenettle-weeds.htm</a><br />
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All parts of the plant, including its tomato-like fruit, are poisonous to varying degrees due to the presence of solanine glycoalkaloids which is a toxic alkaloid and one of the plant's natural defenses. While ingesting any part of the plant can cause fever, headache, scratchy throat, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, ingesting the fruit can cause abdominal pain, circulatory and respiratory depression, or even death.</div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-18067178777836365332017-06-16T17:51:00.001-07:002017-06-16T18:08:34.485-07:00The Three Levels of the Mind.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1dqi8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span><span data-offset-key="53d5h-0-0">Conscious, Subconscious and Superconscious being an Ultra Wide Band Reciever/Transmitter that tunes across Space, Time, and the Dimensions, including Spirit, Summerlands or Astral Plains or Death/Birth Barriers.
For most nonconsciously psychic humans there is little to no awareness of the Superconscious Mind and if there were it would completely overload them. Like being in the presence of an ultra bright and ultra loud wideband random noise source.
So through Dreams, Intuition, Awen, Gut Feeling, etc. The Subconscious mind feeds data and desires back and forth via these difficult channels </span></span>and highly filtered by our Consciousmind's belief systems<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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While the good psychic can often get a much clearer channel to what is often called the Akashic Records or Astral Realms.
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-40212736774236982382017-05-26T12:14:00.002-07:002017-05-26T13:58:15.918-07:00The Gods and Lwa walk among us,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="cocrp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"> as they did in days of Yore.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="mf4v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Riding the bodies of the Poor, Homeless, Hurt and Destitute.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="841aj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Also in animals form of foot, tail, and wing. Often ragged, tired, hungry or in other need of help and shelter. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1gne2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Have you shared a smile, kind word, a cup of water and crust of bread with them?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6roji-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Have we lost our manners and customs of our Yore Tribes and selves as we have born-again today? </span></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-26623259561325774052016-10-28T17:20:00.000-07:002016-10-28T17:20:51.782-07:00Am I a Druid?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Sacred Oak and Ley call the Druids home. </span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you feel the call you belong.</span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But we were and are the Few.</span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born again of Soul's Renew.</span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let Sun and Moon help you on your way.</span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And as a Druid, I will address you."</span></i></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-78700785146060533832016-10-08T19:28:00.003-07:002017-02-28T17:30:32.958-08:00The rope on the Mantel Place <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="2h8ni-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Even the wisest Southern Gentleman I even knew was in his day both good and a FOOL.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41i6i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">My Grandfather, yet as a young child I was shown his piece of the lynching rope, still on the mantel of a very real working fireplace, and told the sad story with pride in his eyes by my Father.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b6r5v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, both were good Men, Both Southern Baptist every Sunday.</span></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-23887728846212818102016-09-30T20:29:00.000-07:002016-09-30T20:29:02.896-07:00The Blogs Twitter Feed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="5otq5-0-0"> Helping an arriving Human Soul or one that is a bit lost in the Astral or as we call it "Summer's-Lands" Ref. 1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="ev5vp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span><span data-offset-key="ajj1o-0-0">A Great Honor in that you were psychically linked, trusted, respected, true friend of or one that cared for this soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="9169c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span><span data-offset-key="e0d7q-0-0">Also the honor of personally seeing and being part of the wheel of "Life after Life" while alive in this very dark hard matter world we are currently in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="3te3u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span><span data-offset-key="367lo-0-0">A Great Burden in it both is a very energetic drain on the physcal shell (body) and it makes it harder if times are hard to stay focused on the needs of our physical World and Body. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="eph60-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span><span data-offset-key="11lca-0-0">A very Glad Time, being able to see again most often someone from you past, dearly liked, loved or Respected. Often was older than you in the physical count.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="fotr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span><span data-offset-key="eh6qp-0-0">A Very Sad time because it is most likely this Soul has just returned (Died) to Summerslands. Is in a very lost and confused state of mind. Even </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with a restored physical body that they can not yet accept.
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<span data-offset-key="9go7f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: normal;">The Mind and Body should be viewed as a "Self Standing, Self Programming, Distributive Communications and Feedback System" The Soul as a High level Cloud Network like connection running a background High Level Virtualization Operating System program in the Body's Processor Systems. Or in lay terms Mind / Body are one and soul is connected Intelligent Parasite. TDK</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eff1f3; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"><a class=" UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1608175435&extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Afalse%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/ipv6king?fref=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">George King</a></span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gone but not. "Love.s Bridge is never Broken once build."</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">TDK</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee";">"Even in the Humbest of Meals, a bit of Presentation can go a long way to improving it. This also true in most other things in life." TDK</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee";">While I have many friends that I believe would benefit from adding well known Herbal agents into their health plans. Each of us must come to "Mother's Garden" for their own reasons and then we can help pick and plant. TDK</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 12px;">There is Life before Life and Life after Life, separation is really hard, but love is never lost. TDK</span>
<span style="font-family: "abeezee";">"The Prophet needs to write on the Wall for seldom will ears and minds understand when the tongue is first wagged." TDK</span>
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 12px;">"Life is like a Forest fire if we live long enough. Like the Tress that where all that is left of our families is ashes or deep in the ground." TDK</span>
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee"; white-space: normal;">While it is a Druid's way and duty to protect Nature.</span><br style="font-family: ABeeZee; white-space: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "abeezee"; white-space: normal;">She or He must be prepared to War Against her at times for the good of the Touta. TDK</span>
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<span data-offset-key="3dca9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"Each, in the end, must find their own path. Just as the Oak must put down its Own Roots."</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="413qr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Once on the Ley and old Druid. Way. Even the Acorn is a Druii.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fprq3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And In the last stage, Robe and Chain, the Wisdom on what Battles, Where, Why and if taken on in sight of whose most Public Eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 12px;">All roads to the past lead to the truth for the Future. TDK</span>
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<span data-offset-key="9go7f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><a class=" UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1608175435&extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Afalse%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/ipv6king?fref=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">George King</a></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">Life is like water, sometimes liquid, sometimes soild, sometimes vapor, sometime locked in deep embrace of other things, TDK</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: inherit;">"The Secrets of the Universe:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="au687-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Those that know seldom say.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="arnir-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Those that say, seldom know."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"In the Land of Trolls, do not sleep under the Bridge" TDK
</span><br />Poetic (Meaning) To Poke with a Flower covered sharp stick ! (The Druid King Dictionary for Bards).</span>
"What Dark Daggers Hide.
Where no true truth may Abide."
TDK
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<span style="font-family: "abeezee"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Ah the Over-Soul Scribe of eternity. TDK </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="flh85-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It is so ODD how people of Nations that praise Individual Freedom, lack of Kingship rule, desire for Democracy etc in this life. Seek so hard to give that all up in the After-Life. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9go7f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">TDK</span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9go7f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Life is a Wheel, one must roll with it. TDK</span></span></div>
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"Fear Not Dear Friends.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="98o8h-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">The Winds of Life blow Strong and Hard.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8iflu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Even the Mightiest Oak must someday Fall.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fu0ar-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">'Ad vitam aeternam' </span></span></div>
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Moon and Sun and Water run.<br />
Of were the Druids and the Gods play<br />
To most of the World there is none.<br />
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Truth: That which lies between the Light and the Shadow.<br />
The candle of the mind cast the scariest shadows.<br />
Are we not all Puppets dancing on Souls Invisible Strings?<br />
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<span data-offset-key="536j0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">But Few Know</span></div>
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And of those that Know even fewer Say</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="aae4u-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This is the way with all things"</span></div>
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The depths of a Druii's True Roots like the great Oak or any tree in the forest of Life are really only tested when times are hard and resources scarce.</div>
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Or in the face of Strong and Ill winds of Adversity.</div>
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This too is true of real friendship among Men an Fae and on the Path which your true life you did lay.</div>
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"Not every acorn makes and Oak, yet all serve a great purpose" TDK</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;">"One person's Charlatan is another person's Religious Authority." TDK</span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".230.1:4:1:$comment10153027006548143_10153027232723143:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.0" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".230.1:4:1:$comment10153027006548143_10153027232723143:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".230.1:4:1:$comment10153027006548143_10153027232723143:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".230.1:4:1:$comment10153027006548143_10153027232723143:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">"The Oak must grow where the seed falls. That is Karma or Life. How deep the roots to feed its self, that is Oak and Druid Willpower. " </span><br data-reactid=".230.1:4:1:$comment10153027006548143_10153027232723143:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><span data-reactid=".230.1:4:1:$comment10153027006548143_10153027232723143:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0">TDK</span></span></span><br />
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</span><span data-reactid=".3s.1:5:1:$comment857451034345317_857670000990087:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text12:0" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.8640003204346px;">"The House of Learning starts at the foundations and just takes its final outward shape as it reachs the Apex of Death" </span><br data-reactid=".3s.1:5:1:$comment857451034345317_857670000990087:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text13:0" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.8640003204346px;" /><span data-reactid=".3s.1:5:1:$comment857451034345317_857670000990087:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text14:0" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.8640003204346px;">TDK</span><span style="background-color: #dbedfe; color: #373e4d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.2880001068115px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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We should be a bit more forgiving.</div>
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This group is a very big forest.</div>
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"A like the Tree we sometimes judge things from the taste of our Roots instead of the winds songs in our leaves."</div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-6352211481893235542016-04-12T18:58:00.000-07:002016-04-12T18:58:42.212-07:00Druidic Chains, Robes and Vestments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="7pprm-0-0">Same for Fascia, Ribbons, Sash, Scarf, Stole or Tippet.</span></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-12020491088619287982016-03-20T02:41:00.001-07:002018-11-23T14:10:09.592-08:00Past Life Awen, Knowledge Renew.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some call it the Golden Thread. Others amazing insight or intuition.<br />
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Some people just seem to know the answer or are able to reach correct conclusions with out sufficient knowledge, data or experience. And very often they can not explain how or why they reached a certain conclusion or took a certain course of action. <br />
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Often when pressed for a answer they will only be able to honestly say, it felt right. So how to they do this. Many of us are familiar with inspiration or creative ideas as Awen. And yes I am sure this exist and can be accessed by us all.<br />
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But there is a second form of Awen, I refer to as Past life Awen. Where (in my Three Consciousness model) problems the Conscious Mind can not solve are pasted down to the Subconscious Mind, if it can not mashup a solution, in some people these questions are pasted out to the Superconscious Mind. A wideband transceiver that can can interface your past and future lives "Soul Stream"<br />
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A while the easiest source of Past / Future live Awen is your own Soul's experiences. It is my belief that you can also tap into the experiences of others souls and minds. Both living now and in your Soul Stream.<br />
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So Happy Awen, Knowledge Renew to All!<br />
TDK.<br />
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Refereces:<br />
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Golden Thread:<br />
<a href="http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2012/04/golden-thread.html">http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2012/04/golden-thread.html</a><br />
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Thee Level Mind:<br />
A three level consciousness model, I use.<br />
Conscious Mind > Subconscious Mind > Superconscious Mind. <br />
Superconscious Mind: A wideband transceiver that can can interface your past and future lives "Soul Stream" and the Universe in general at a deep psychic level.<br />
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Oversoul: A shadowy Intelligence, that guides and integrates all your Lives, present , past and future experiences into a forming Godhead.<br />
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Also see: <a href="http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-over-soul.html">http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-over-soul.html</a><br />
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SPG "Soul Pool Group",:<br />
A group of souls that tend to reincarnate somewhat together, often in families lines, tribal lines, locational lines etc. One of the reasons you keep running into people you somehow seem to already know. It is believed by me that this group Dies and reincarnates in a average time period of three generations or three hundred years on the long side.<br />
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And yes there is more than one SPG alive and on earth at the same time.<br />
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Soul Stream:<br />
A term I have coined to indicate not just your past or future lives but that also of your Oversoul and your "Soul Pool Group" (SPG) group pool of Souls one tends to reincarnate with. <br />
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-26773527231363250322016-03-10T21:17:00.001-08:002016-09-04T03:47:54.150-07:00What color are my robes (am I a Druid)?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="b8g1k-0-0">There is no one Robe fits all nor patent or trademarks the term nor the concept of Druid.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="75sf1-0-0">To some the bones of the past wisper this or that. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="38hrh-0-0">To others they feel they must Reform and seem to sleep with the Romans.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a99q0-0-0"> For others. To others ancient Oak and Stone cut Let, wisper dreams that guild their way.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6gllh-0-0">To many the past is dead and should be sweep away. Except title Druid has a nice ring in modern day.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4kbo1-0-0">So if to Order, Grove or Tribe you have pledged to follow their own way..</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a07ll-0-0">Otherwise go deep in the woods, let wind, leaves and Summer's Bees help show you, your own Awen and redream your robes of yesterday.</span></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-34089344237118051422016-02-24T19:06:00.001-08:002016-02-24T22:54:13.158-08:00Modern Gods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While not everyone
feels they are a <span style="color: #111111;">polytheists, even among
Druids or other Pagans. <br /><br />I feel when they look at the Modern
Gods, they will see that they to are deep into Polytheism. To show
what I mean, lets look at the B Family of Gods and Goddesses.</span><br /><br />The
B Family of Gods and Goddesses:<br /><br /><br />How many times have we
been admonished to be more like these Gods and Goddesses?<br /><br />Or
wished and prayed to them in need, frustration or despair.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">And of Course we all
know someone that claims to be a direct descendant of the Family
Matriarch “Queen Bee” .<br /><br />And everyone has wished or prayed
to their most popular Aunt, "Gonna Be" .<br /><br />The B Family:<br /><br />Mother:<br /><br /> (Family
Matriarch Great Goddesses) Queen Bee<br /><br />Father:<br />(Horny old
Woody) Would Be<br /><br />Brothers:<br />(Brother Carl) Could Be
<br />(Brother Shane) Should Be<br /><br />Sisters:<br />(Sister Candy) Can
Be<br />(Sister May) May Be<br /><br />Uncles:<br />(Uncle Wilbur) Will
Be<br /><br />Aunts:<br />(Aunt Gray) Gonna Be <br /><br />Cousins:<br />(Crazy
cousin Wilma) Wanna Be <br /><br />Moon Rising<br />TDK / The Druid
King</span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br />(c)
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Polytheism</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
the worship of or belief in multiple deities usually assembled into a
pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and
rituals. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different
gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or
ancestral principles, and can be viewed either as autonomous or as
aspects or emanations of a creator God or transcendental
absolute principle (monistic theologies), which manifests immanently
in nature (panentheistic and pantheistic theologies).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the
belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. Polytheists do
not always worship all the gods equally, but can be henotheists,
specializing in the worship of one particular deity. Other
polytheists can bekathenotheists, worshiping different deities at
different times.<br />(Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism)</span></span></span><br />
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-29200926214367268942015-07-30T00:51:00.001-07:002015-08-01T02:06:56.122-07:00 Celtic Pneumatology the Druids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b><i>First let us look
closely at the term. Noting it is most often show in Abramic Light
and not Pagan or Druidic !</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pneumatology:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">>></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatology
[noo-muh-tol-uh-jee, nyoo-] </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">noun
> 1. Theology., doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit, the
belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2.
the doctrine or theory of spiritual beings.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3.
Archaic. psychology.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4.
Obsolete, pneumatics.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Origin
of pneumatology :</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1670-1680 1670-80;
pneumato- + -logy</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Related
forms:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatologic
[noo-mat-l-oj-ik, nyoo-, noo-muh-tl-, nyoo-] (Show IPA),
pneumatological, adjective</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatologist,
noun</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dictionary.com
Unabridged</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Based
on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2015.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Historical
Examples:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There
has been a great change of late years in connection with the science
of pneumatology and with the manner of treating it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Atlantic
Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Various: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
first part is cosmology, the second rational doctrine of the soul,
pneumatology and theology.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">A
Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Norman
Kemp Smith </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But
neither the physiology, nor the pneumatology had been placed in
organic connection with the central cerebral science.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Buchanan's
Journal of Man, September 1887 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Various
:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
have now mind as mind, divested of its naturalness and subjectivity,
and as such, it is an object of pneumatology.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
History of Philosophy in Epitome </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Albert
Schwegler </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
to the psychic half of the cerebral functions, they omitted entirely
that portion which relates to pneumatology.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Buchanan's
Journal of Man, October 1887 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Various </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatology
was no science, but the mere fancy of an excited imagination.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Atlantic
Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Various </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">British
Dictionary definitions for pneumatology :</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatology
/ˌnjuːməˈtɒlədʒɪ/</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">noun
> 1. the branch of theology concerned with the Holy Ghost and
other spiritual beings</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2.
an obsolete name for psychology (sense 1)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3.
an obsolete term for pneumatics</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Derived
Forms:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatological
(ˌnjuːmətəˈlɒdʒɪkə l) adjective </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatologist,
noun</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><<</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">REf.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pneumatology
is the study of spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the
spiritual aspect of human beings and the interactions between humans
and God. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is Greek for "breath",
which metaphorically describes a non-material being or influence.
Pneumatology as the study of the spirit is to be distinguished from
psychology, the study of the soul. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As many religious denominations do
not distinguish between soul and spirit, this has been somewhat
problematic. In general, the ABCs of psychology are the study of
cognition, affect, and connation, or to put it into words more
generally recognized, thinking, feeling, and willing. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thoughts,
feelings, and acts of will (motivations, intentions, willfulness) is
what fills the psyche, but when psychology is done what is primarily
of interest is the actual nature of the collecting, organizing, and
clarifying of thoughts, that is, thinking characterized as cogent,
logical, run-on, disconnected, tautologous, symbolic, or psychotic
(schizophrenic). </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly feelings may be brought to the center of
attention, but in psychology what is of interest is the actual nature
of feeling itself, characterized as intuitive, sympathetic, empathic,
inappropriate, projective, easily changeable, fixed and not easily
changeable, or psychotic (manic-depressive). </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly a person's
will acts may be considered, but in psychology it is the actual
nature of using the will that is of interest, characterized as
unconscious, weak, self-serving, magnanimous, informed by thinking
and feeling, overly influential over thinking and feeling, or
psychotic (psychopathic or sociopathic). </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In contradistinction to
psychology, pneumatology involves the study of the spirit (German
Geist, Greek pneuma). In general, the ABCs of pneumatology are the
study of technique (craftsmanship, German Kunst, Greek techne),
science (conceptualization of ideas, German Wissenschaft, Greek
episteme), poetry (inspiration, German Einatmung, Greek poises),
belief (opinion, German Glaube, Greek doxa), and recognition (holding
in mind, German Erkenntnis, Greek gnosis).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
Christian theology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Main
article: Pneumatology (Christianity)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
Christian theology pneumatology refers to the study of the Holy
Spirit. The English word comes from two Greek words: πνευμα
(pneuma, spirit) and λογος (logos, study of; teaching about). </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pneumatology would normally include study of the person of the Holy
Spirit, and the works of the Holy Spirit. This latter category would
normally include Christian teachings on new birth, spiritual gifts
(charismata), Spirit-baptism, sanctification, the inspiration of
prophets, and the indwelling of the Holy Trinity (which in itself
covers many different aspects).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Different Christian denominations
have different theological approaches. << Ref.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>For the Pagan Celt or Druid this defination should be the interactions with the Gods Goddesses, AOS Si / Creideamh Sí , genii locorum , Otherkind and all aspects of SummerLands - the World of Spirit or as many call it the Astral Planes. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Both sent from and by our Dindsenchas, Seanchas, Taibhsearachd and Ár nDraíocht Féin .</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The point I hope people will see from the below article is the great </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>similarity between the Charismatic tales of early Irish Christian converts receiving “charismata” or special gifts and powers via pneumatology of (claimed) Holy Ghost, </i></b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(I believe) </i></b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>.</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>And (to me) the Pre-Christianity “Celtic-Pneumatology” of Awen and (Imbas) “Iombhas Forosna”, creating truly ancient Charismatic Vates, Bards and Druids that received gifts from the Aos Si, Gods or Goddesses, SummerLands or other kinds of Otherkind.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>While the below article only approaches our rich Druidic / Celtic heritages of these seemly magical realities.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> It does serve as a great reference to us all to rediscover our true natures and powers:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>TDK</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christianity
and the appeal of Celtic Pneumatology:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NIGEL
SCOTLAND</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charismatic
Christianity and the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">appeal
of Celtic Pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nigel
Scotland notes that Celtic Pneumatology has become a significant</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">resource
for charismatics and post-charismatics in recent years. The</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">section
of this article considers some of the possible origins and content</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
Celtic culture and Christianity. Drawing on the writings of Bede and</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">other
early Christian writers, he reflects on the many stories of the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">northern
saints under headings related to spiritual gifts: healing and</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">wholeness
conflict with the demonic and prophetic and knowledge gifts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charismatic
Christianity</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
word ‘charismatic’ derives from the Greek word ‘charismata’
which means gift</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
the Holy Spirit. Peter Hocken asserted that Harold Bredesen (b. 1918)
and Jean</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stone
(b. 1924) ‘have the distinction of coining the term ‘charismatic’
to denote</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
new movement of the Holy Spirit which emerged within the mainstream</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">denominational
churches in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the end of their</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">article
entitled ‘Return of the Charismata’, they stated ‘we call this
movement “the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">charismatic
renewal”’.1 Charismatic Christianity is a worldwide experience of
the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holy
Spirit which is rooted in the Day of Pentecost. It emphasises an
‘overwhelming</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">filling
of the Holy Spirit’ and the practice of the gifts of the Holy
Spirit, most notably</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">speaking
in tongues, prophecy and healing but also other speaking, helping and</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">miraculous
gifts listed in the New Testament. Professor Max Turner has suggested</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
‘charisma’ means no more than ‘gift’.2 Charismatic
Christianity therefore</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">emphasises
the importance of the indwelling ‘Charisma’ or gracious gift of
the Spirit</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
the use of the ‘Charismata’ or gifts of Holy Spirit.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There
are a number of reasons why charismatic Christians have found</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">themselves
drawn to Celtic pneumatology. By the 1980s the charismatic movement</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">had
grown steadily and impacted on the life and worship of numbers of the
historic</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">denominational
churches but at the same time many were beginning to feel the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">need
for a more ‘rooted’ spirituality. Charismatics knew what they had
reacted</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">against
but somehow they weren’t altogether sure what they should be
standing</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for.
They still valued the filling of the Holy Spirit, the practice of the
charismata</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
freedom in worship, but there was now a growing sense that
charismatic</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christianity
had become introverted and insular and that the experience of the
Holy</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1
Hocken, P., Streams of Renewal, Paternoster</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Press,
Carlisle 1997, p 185.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2
See Turner, M., The Holy Spirit and Spiritual</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gifts:
Then and Now, Paternoster Press,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carlisle
1996, pp 252-255.</span></span></span></div>
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ANVIL Volume 23 No 3 2006</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spirit
was an end in itself. There was increased concern that an unless the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">anointing’
was related and directed into the surrounding world and its culture
it</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">would
dry up like an unused well. In short, it needed to be earthed in what
was</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">objective
and solid. It was at this point that some with an interest in early
church</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">history
began to discover that Celtic pneumatology had something very
definite</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
bring to this situation. The Celts like the Charismatics valued the
gifts and the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Baptism
of the Holy Spirit but their experience of his person was much more</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">integrated
with the life of God’s created universe. They loved to use the
gifts of</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Holy Spirit and delighted in spontaneous worship but they focused
these</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">blessings
on the presence of Christ as they reverentially shared the bread and
wine</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
the sacrament of Holy Communion. The Celts also found that they could
draw</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on
the Holy Spirit’s presence through the created world around them.
They</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">delighted
to stand in the sea to praise God or walk in the rain reciting the
psalms</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">or
share in the Eucharist in the open countryside. Indeed Patrick had
portable a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">communion
table for this very purpose. The Celts also made much use of
Christian</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">art
forms and symbolism particularly the cross as another means of
allowing the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holy
Spirit to direct their attention on to Christ. For the Celts
appropriate physical</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">touch
was also a way of making the Holy Spirit’s presence a practical
reality</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">particularly
in times of sickness, worry and uncertainty. Hence they valued</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sacramental
oil, consecrated water, icons, art forms, holy relics and sacred
treasures.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two
books in particular sought to demonstrate the possibilities of Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatology
for those Charismatics who were feeling rootless. These were</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michael
Mitton’s Restoring the Woven Cord: Strands in Celtic Christianity
for the Church</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To-day
and Ray Simpson’s Exploring Celtic Spirituality: Historic Roots for
our Future.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Both
were published in 19953 and both sought to indicate the relevance of
Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">worship
and spirituality for Charismatic Christianity. Mitton asserted that
the early</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celts
were thoroughly comfortable with a God who would have readily
understood</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">John
Wimber’s concept of ‘Power Evangelism’. On a personal note he
also related</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
in Celtic spirituality he had ‘discovered something that he had
been searching</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for
during the past twenty years’.4 Earlier in 1992, a group of
Charismatic Christians</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
included a Baptist minister, an Anglican Priest and a Roman Catholic
layman</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">established
the Northumbria Community in a large house that is situated in close</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">proximity
to the cave where Cuthbert’s body is said to have been taken by
monks</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">who
were seeking refuge from Viking insurgents. Then in 1994 a group led
Michael</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mitton
and Ray Simpson launched The Community of St Aidan and St Hilda which</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">aims
to bring healing to the land and calls its members ‘to commit
themselves to</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">reproduce
the quality of the lives of the Celtic Saints’. In 1996 Ray Simpson
left</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">his
Norwich parish and took up residence in a small cottage in
Lindisfarne from</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where
he holds retreats, provides resources and actively encourages
interested</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">churches
to explore Celtic mission, worship and spirituality.5</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Interest
in Celtic Pneumatology was further prompted by the ‘Toronto
Blessing’</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
began with a series of meetings at the Toronto Airport Church in
January</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3
See Mitton, M., Restoring the Woven Cord:</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strands
of Celtic Christianity for the Church of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today
Darton, Longman and Todd, and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Simpson,
R., Exploring Celtic Spirituality:</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Historic
Roots for Our Future, Hodder and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stoughton,
1995. See also Simpson, R., Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worship
Through the Year, Hodder and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stoughton,
1997.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4
Mitton, R., Restoring the Woven Cord p1.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5
See Bradley, I., Celtic Christianity Making</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Myths
and Chasing Dreams, Edinburgh</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">University
Press, 1999 pp 208-210.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">181</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1994
and spread all over the world. Indeed the Toronto experience is
ongoing in</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">many
places at the present time. It was and is associated with a variety
of emotional</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
religious phenomena, most notably seemingly uncontrollable ‘holy
laughter’,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">people
falling and lying on the ground in a semi-conscious state, running on
the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">spot,
pogoing, roaring like a lion and jerking or twitching like pigeon.
These</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">religious
exercises’ have since become the subject of much ongoing debate not</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">only
in the wider Christian world but among Charismatics themselves. To
many</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">this
was and is God moving in a ‘new wave’. It’s a time to ‘drink’
or ‘soak’ or in the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">words
of one church notice-board ‘to come and have a spiritual carwash’.
For other</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">charismatics
the phenomena are regarded as a psychologically induced human</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">response
to preachers’ rhetoric coupled with a mild hypnosis generated by
lengthy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sessions
of calming worship songs. At best all this was held to be the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MacDonaldisation’
of charismatic Christian experience and at worst it was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">unbridled
‘enthusiasm’. In the view of concerned Charismatics it had
depersonalised</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Holy Spirit. In short, the Toronto experience resulted in the
emergence of ‘PostCharismatics’.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These
are Charismatics who still value and endorse the ‘Baptism of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Holy Spirit’ but they reject outright the phenomena associated with
Toronto</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as
psychological aberrations that are without Scriptural precedent. They
also stand</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">four-square
against the irrationality of what R.T. Kendal rejoices in and calls
the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yuk
factor’! The Yuk factor is happy to endorse what many might take to
be a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">fetish
as the moving of God’s spirit.6 In summary, Post-Charismatics feel
that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charismatic
pneumatology has ‘run thin’ on content and doctrine and lost its</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christological
focus. For the Post-Charismatics therefore Celtic pneumatology has</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">much
to offer because it gives greater weight to the rational and promotes
a Holy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spirit
experience that has less potential to become an end in itself. At the
same</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">time
it embraces the world which the Spirit, as the third person of the
Trinity, helped</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
bring into being</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celtic
Christianity</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
origins of the Celtic race are shrouded in obscurity. They are
generally believed</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
have first emerged as a distinct linguistic group in the Black Sea
area about</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1000BC.
By 600BC they had moved from this central European base to the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pyrenees
in the south, the Rhine basin in the north and as far as Ireland in
the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">west
and to what is now Rumania in the East. During the years 400 to
1000AD</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Celts came to dominate Ireland, Scotland and parts of Wales and the
West</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Country.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Romans first established the province of Britannia in 50AD but they
never</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">really
exerted much influence north of Hadrian’s Wall which had been built
for</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">defensive
purposes in 122 A.D.. Celtic peoples were chiefly located in the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">geographical
regions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. However by the time of Bede</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celts
were settled in many parts of England and the influence of Celtic
Christianity</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">stretched
as far south as the Thames estuary. It is probable that Roman</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6
See Kendall, R.T., Out of the Comfort Zone</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Hodder
and Stoughton, 2005) especially pp</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">154-155
where he describes how Rodney</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Howard
Brown prayed for Randy and Nancy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wall.
Nancy was ‘left with an urge to utter</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ho!
Involuntarily whether at home, church</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">or
in a restaurant’. She asked Kendall why</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she
had this urge. He replied, ‘God does this</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
see if you want the anointing more than</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">anything
else in the world’. She immediately</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">cried
out, ‘Ho!, Ho!, Ho!’.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nigel
Scotland Charismatic Christianity and the appeal of Celtic
Pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">administrators
and soldiers were the first to impact the indigenous Celtic peoples</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
the province of Britannia with the Christian faith. Their influence
was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">supplemented
by monks from Gaul.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
409 Rome was taken by the Goths and from that point on Roman rule
came</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
an end in Britain. After about 410 onwards the Roman military began
to withdraw</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from
England and the country was invaded by Angles, Saxons and Jutes from
various</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">parts
of Europe. This meant that for much of the fifth and sixth centuries
Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christianity
was pushed north and west by the pagan invaders. Expressions of
Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christianity
were nevertheless in evidence in the British Isles until about 1000
AD</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">but
it was most prominent in the period before the Venerable Bede
completed his</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ecclesiastical
History of the English People in 731. The golden age of Celtic
Christianity</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is
usually regarded as mid fifth to the mid seventh century. This was
the era which</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">saw
the best known of the Irish and British Saints. Patrick’s arrival
in Ireland in or</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">about
432 and marks its start. Others followed in his steps – Brigid,
Ninian, David,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Columba
and Aidan whose death in 651 represents the end of the era.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With
the coming of Augustine, the monk from Rome, sent by Pope Gregory in</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">597,
the influence of Roman Christianity began to mingle with and
eventually</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">predominate
over the Celtic expressions of the faith. Bede detects two campaigns</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from
Rome against the Celtic tradition. The first was about the beginning
of the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">seventh
century under Augustine of Canterbury against the British Church in
the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">West;
the second was made at the time of Bishop Wilfrid at the Synod of
Whitby</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
663 when the issue turned on the date of Easter.7</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
has been noted Charismatic Christianity places particular emphasis on
the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holy
Spirit experience and the practice of the Holy Spirit’s gifts. What
therefore</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">follows
is an examination of the appeal for Charismatics of these two aspects
within</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
life and worship of the Celtic Church. The principal sources for this
are found</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, his Life of
Cuthbert written in</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">716
and the writings of Patrick, most notably his Confession written
about 470.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Venerable Bede (673-735), a priest and monk at Jarrow, was the first
great</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">English
Church historian. He wrote of the period between Caesar’s invasion
of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Britain
in 55BC and the year 731 and described the situation in both Britain
and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ireland.
He makes mention of a British King called Lucius who ruled under the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Romans
and who sent a letter to the Bishop of Rome in 167 asking to be made
a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christian.
Before Bede began his work, he collected and sifted his materials
which</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">included
ancient traditions and sources, recent letters and acts of church
councils.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However,
although Bede checked and sifted his witnesses, he is rarely</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">questioning
of the evidence they produced or the stories which they related. De</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paor
criticised Bede’s work on the ground that he took some of his
information</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from
Gildas, a Welsh monk, who wrote about 540 AD and whose knowledge of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
events a century and a half before his own time was very far from
perfect.8</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Against
that, it should be noted that Bede did have access to the library at
Jarrow,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
was almost unequalled by any in England and he did cross-check his
evidence</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with
other sources and with other individuals whom he knew personally. In</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">summing
up his account of Aidan in Book 3 of his History, Bede made it clear
that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7
See Chadwick, N.K., The Age of the Saints in</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Celtic Church, OUP, London 1963, p 121.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8
De Paor, L., St Patrick’s World, University of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Notre
Dame Press, Dublin 1993, p 11.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">183</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
aimed to be faithful to his sources. He wrote, ‘…as a truthful
historian, I have</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">given
an accurate account of his life, commending all that was excellent
and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">preserving
his memory for the benefit of my readers’.9</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is generally acknowledged however that Patrick, Columba and other
Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">saints
had their reputations enhanced with additional accounts of the
miraculous</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by
later generations for varying reasons. Sometimes it was to strengthen
the status</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
a particular See or to promote their relics as a means of increasing
pilgrimage</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
racheting up monastic income. Bradley is of the view that Bede
‘almost</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">certainly
over-exaggerated both the peculiar missionary zeal and the monastic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">character
of the Irish church’.10 Leaving aside these criticisms for the
present, it</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">has
to be said that many of the miracles in the Celtic Church which Bede
records</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">are
not out of keeping with the writings of his contemporaries.
Additionally, many</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
them resonate with the miracles reported by Luke in the Book of Acts.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Holy Spirit Experience in Celtic Christianity</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Contemporary
Charismatic Christianity is generally held to begin with an</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">overwhelming
presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. This kind of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">experience
was by no means unusual among the Celts. Early in the fourth century,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">shortly
after the martyrdom of Alban, Bede related that Germanus, a bishop
who</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">had
come from Gaul, was ‘filled with the Holy Ghost, called on the name
of the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trinity’
and restored a girl’s eyes ‘in the sight of them all’.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick
(385-461) was a British man who was captured in a raid and taken to</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ireland
as a slave for six years. He then escaped to Gaul where he trained as
a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">monk.
He eventually found his way back to Britain from where he was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">commissioned
to take the gospel to Ireland. Towards the end of his life he wrote</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
his Confession: ‘He who wants can laugh and jeer, but I shall not
keep silent nor</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">keep
hidden the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">before
they took place as He who knows all things before the world began’.11</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick
is quite clear that these miraculous occurrences were accomplished by</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
power of the Holy Spirit. He reminds his readers at the beginning of
his</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Confession
that Jesus ‘poured out on us abundantly His Holy Spirit, the gift
and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pledge
of immortality, who makes those who believe and obey to be sons of
God</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
heirs along with Christ’.12 Patrick recalled how when he first
reached Ireland</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as
a captive, he was able to pray before dawn in all weathers, snow,
frost and rain</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">because
the Spirit was fervent within me.’13</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On
occasion Patrick was profoundly conscious of the Holy Spirit praying
from</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">deep
within his own spirit. His description of this experience is not
dissimilar from</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
recounted by people who pray in tongues or who enter a state of
constant</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">intercession
by praying the Jesus Prayer. Patrick related.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
saw Him praying within me and I was, as it were, inside my own body
and I</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">heard
His voice above me, that is to say above my inner self, and He was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">praying
there powerfully and groaning; and meanwhile I was dumbfounded and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9
The sources for the descriptive material</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">related
to the lives of the Celtic saints are</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bede’s
History and Bede, Life of Cuthbert,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Penguin
Books ,Harmondsworth 1986,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">unless
otherwise stated.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">10
Bradley,I., Celtic Christianity, Edinburgh</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">University
Press, Edinburgh 1999, p 27.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">11
Patrick, Confession, Declaration 45.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12
Patrick, Confession, Declaration 4.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">13
Patrick, Confession, Declaration 16</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nigel
Scotland Charismatic Christianity and the appeal of Celtic
Pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">184
ANVIL Volume 23 No 3 2006</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">astonished
and wondered who it could be that was praying with me, but at</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
end of the prayer He spoke and said that He was the Spirit … The
Spirit</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">helps
the weaknesses of our prayer; for we do not know what to pray for as</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">we
ought; but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspeakable
groans</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
cannot be expressed in words. (Romans 8.26) and again: ‘The Lord
our</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">advocate
intercedes for us.’ (cf 1 John 2 v 1) 14</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
he later reflected on his time in Ireland as a captive exile, Patrick
wrote that</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">God
protected him from all evils ‘because of His Spirit dwelling in
me’.15</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
his Life of Cuthbert Bede also stressed the work of the Holy Spirit.
He wrote</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
it was the bishop’s in the habit to go round the diocese ‘giving
saving counsel</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
all the houses and hamlets of the countryside, and laying his hand on
the newly</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">baptised
so that the Grace of the Holy Spirit might come down upon them.’.
On</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">another
occasion Bede reported that Cuthbert (634-687) arrived in a certain
village</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where
‘he preached twice to the milling crowds and brought down the grace
of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Holy Spirit by imposition of hands on those newly regenerated in
Christ’. It is</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">clear
therefore that in the years up until the time of Bede that Christian
people</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sought
for and cultivated a conscious awareness of the Holy Spirit’s
presence in</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">their
lives. Equally, it is evident that they expected the charismata or
gifts of the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holy
Spirit to feature in the Church’s life, ministry and worship.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spiritual
Gifts in Celtic Christianity</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of
the charismata or gifts of the Holy Spirit which were in evidence in
this early</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celtic
churches, healing and wholeness, conflict with the demonic and
prophetic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
knowledge gifts appear to have been particularly prominent.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Healing
and Wholeness</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
writings of Bede and Patrick abound with examples of healing. In the
case of</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bede
however it has to be said that some of his sources may have suffered
from</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">embellishments
either through word of mouth or as written creations in the years</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">before
he encountered them in his researches in the monastic library at
Jarrow.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leaving
the possibility of such fabrication aside for a moment, what is not
in</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">question
is the fact that Bede himself evidently valued the gifts of the Holy
Spirit</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
believed them to be a vital aspect of the church’s life and
worship.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
New Testament emphasises healing as one of the gifts of the Holy
Spirit.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bede
certainly gives many instances of its use in the Christian churches
in the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">years
before his own time. For example, he related the case of a youth
whose</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">arm
was healed by the power of the cross, which King Oswald (d. 642) had</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">erected
before going into battle in 634. Some years after the King’s death,
this</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">young
man, a brother named Bothelm from the Church at Hebron, who Bede</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">stated
‘is still living’, slipped on the ice and fractured his arm which
caused him</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">agonising
pain. At length another brother decided to go up to the site of the
cross</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
brought back a piece of its revered wood. At supper he passed a few
strands</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
the old moss that grew on the surface of the cross to the injured
man. He</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">had
nowhere to put it and so thrust it next to his breast. When he awoke
next</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">14
Patrick, Confession, Declaration 25. 15 Patrick, Confession,
Declaration 33.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">185</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">morning
he was perfectly healed. Bede went on to relate several other
miraculous</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">cures
that took place at the site of Oswald’s death. ‘Many people’,
he wrote, ‘took</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">away
the very dust from the place where his body fell, and put it in
water, from</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
sick folk who drank it received great benefit.’ Bede felt this to
be no</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">surprise,
for during his life time Oswald ‘never failed to provide for the
sick and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">needy
and to give them alms and aid’. A paralysed young girl was healed
on being</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">laid
down at the place of Oswald’s death and even a horse that happened
to fall</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">at
the spot was soon restored and ready to ride. Stories about other
Celtic saints</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">also
featured miraculous healings. St Brigid (c450-523) of Ireland cured a
child</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">who
was mute.16 It was not always the actual person who caused the
healing.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
relics of the saints, or a visit to a saint’s tomb, often brought
about miracles.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bede
gives the account of a man named Baduthegn who suddenly became</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">paralysed
on one side of his body from head to foot. The man crawled on his</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hands
and knees to the tomb of Saint Cuthbert. He prayed and fell asleep
there,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
when he awoke he was completely cured. Another individual with a
tumour</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on
his eyelid was suddenly cured by the goodness of God and by means of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cuthbert’s
relics. Cuthbert brought healing to a woman who sipped water that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
had blessed and to a bed-ridden man called Hildmer who ate bread
which he</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">had
blessed and to Aelfflaed, a nun who was unable to walk, who touched a
linen</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">cincture
which he sent to her. Whilst not all Charismatics or
Post-Charismatics</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">will
be happy with the use of relics there is something of importance
here. There</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">has
been a tendency among some Charismatics, possibly stemming from</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Protestant
roots, to shy away from the physical. To be able to sip water that
has</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">been
consecrated in the name of the Trinity or to hold a small wooden
cross</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">can
be a powerful aid to the faith of someone who is sick or discouraged.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cuthbert
not only healed people but his prayers also brought healing to the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">land.
Bede recounted how Cuthbert went to live alone on Farne Island, a few
miles</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
the south east of Lindisfarne. He was, says Bede, ‘the first brave
man to live</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">there
alone’, for the island ‘had no water, corn or trees and being the
haunt of evil</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">spirits
was very ill-suited to human habitation’. However, when Cuthbert
arrived</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he
ordered all the evil spirits to withdraw, and the island became quite
habitable</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
‘a rich crop quickly sprung up’. Here we observe an important
outward thrust</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
Celtic pneumatology with obvious practical implications for C21st
Christianity.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For
Charismatics who feel that their worship or personal experience of
the Holy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spirit
has become too introverted, Cuthbert and his associates present us
with a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">pneumatology
that seeks to bring healing of the created order.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bede
also recounted healings by Bishop John, first of Hexham then of York.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
information was given to Bede personally by Berthun, the bishop’s
deacon.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Among
many instances, a dumb youth who had many scabs and scales on his
head</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
was partially bald, began to speak freely after ‘the bishop took
him by the chin</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
made the sign of the holy cross on his tongue’. Later ‘with the
assistance of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
bishop’s blessing and prayers his skin healed, and a vigorous
growth of hair</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">appeared’.
When he was at York, John blessed and prayed over a nun who was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lying
in bed with a wounded and badly swollen arm. Just as the bishop was
leaving,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
pain left her, the swelling subsided and the girl gave thanks to our
Lord and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">16
Liam de Paor, St Patrick’s World, Four Courts</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Press
Ltd., 1993, p 212.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nigel
Scotland Charismatic Christianity and the appeal of Celtic
Pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">186
ANVIL Volume 23 No 3 2006</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saviour’.
Another individual with a tumour on his eyelid was suddenly cured by</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
goodness of God and by means of Cuthbert’s relics. On another
occasion he</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">prayed
for one of his clergy who had fallen from his horse and cracked his
skull.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
bishop spent the night with him in prayer asking God to restore him.
Early</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">next
morning the priest was able to sit up and talk and within a short
while was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">again
riding his horse.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conflict
with the demonic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Early
Celtic Christianity both understood and grappled with the demonic.
The</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celts
lived in a world that they felt to be populated not only by Christ,
angels</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
saints, but also with demons and wicked spirits. It has been
suggested that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">part
of the reason for this may have been the pagan religious practices
and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">backgrounds
out of which the Celts had been converted. Ian Bradley posited that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
pattern known as the Celtic Knot was used to ward off the devil’s
powers.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick,
when evangelising the Irish, had many a conflict with the forces of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">darkness.
For instance when he came to the heathen city of Tara he discovered</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">there
was an idolatrous feast which was kept at the same time as Easter. By</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">tradition
no one could light a fire before one was kindled in the King’s
house.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unconcerned
by this pagan custom Patrick began his Easter celebration with an</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">enormous
fire. The result of this was that the King went with a number of his</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">counsellors
and wizards to remonstrate with Patrick. One of the wizards called</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lochra
spoke against the Catholic faith in ‘the most arrogant terms’. In
response,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick
shouted out aloud, ‘O Lord, who can do all things … may this
impious</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">man
who blasphemes your name, be now carried out of here without delay.’</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Almost
immediately the man fell headfirst and crashed his head against a
stone</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
died.17</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick
recorded another instance during his labours in Ireland when he was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">attacked
by the devil. He wrote in his Confession: ‘I was asleep, and Satan
attacked</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">me
violently, something which I shall remember as long as I am in this
body;</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
there fell on top of me a huge rock, as it were, and I was completely</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">paralysed’.
He was, he says, on shouting out, aided by Christ and his Spirit and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">set
at liberty.18</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celtic
Christians developed a range of prayers and rituals to invoke God’s</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">protective
powers against evil and fear. In times of danger some would draw a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">circle
round themselves and their loved ones.19 Using their index fingers
they would</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">point
and turn round sun-wise while reciting a prayer. The breastplate
prayers, of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
the one attributed to Patrick is best known, seek in a similar way to
surround</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">those
who pray with the protective clothing of God’s presence. This of
course has</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">clear
Scriptural precedent in Ephesians chapter 6 verses 1 – 10 where
Christians</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">are
exhorted by the apostle Paul to take to themselves the whole armour
of God.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
verses of Patrick’s breastplate show clearly the wide range of
powers which</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Celts invoked for protection – the strong name of the Trinity, the
life, death</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
resurrection of Jesus, the angelic hosts, the faith of the confessors
and the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">word
of the apostles.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">17
Muirchu, Life of Patrick, paragraph 17.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">18
Muirchu, Life of Patrick, Declaration 20.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">19
Bradley, I., The Celtic Way, Darton, Longman</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
Todd, London 1993, p 47</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">187</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
be with me, Christ within me,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
behind me, Christ before me,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
beside me, Christ to win me,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
to comfort and restore me</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
beneath me, Christ above me,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
in quiet, Christ in danger</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
in hearts of all that love me,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christ
in mouth of friend and stranger.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cuthbert,
like Patrick, was acutely conscious of a personal conflict with the
devil</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
evil spiritual forces. While preaching on one occasion he warned his
hearers</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
be on their guard whenever they heard the mysteries of the Kingdom of
Heaven</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">being
preached. For, as he went on to say, the devil ‘has a thousand
crafty ways of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">harming
us.’ A little later Bede described how the wife of Hildmer, King
Egfrid’s</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sheriff,
was possessed of a devil. ‘She was’, says Bede, ‘so sorely
vexed that she</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">would
gnash her teeth, let out frightful howls, and fling her arms and legs
about’.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
was’, Bede reported, ‘a terrifying sight to see her.’ However
as the man of God</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">came
to Hildmer’s house the situation was transformed. Bede records that
‘as they</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">approached
the house the evil spirit, unable to bear the coming of the Holy
Spirit</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with
whom Cuthbert was filled, suddenly departed’ and the woman’s
affliction</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">vanished.
Bede wrote of Cuthbert: ‘He became famous for miracles, for his
prayers</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">restored
sufferers from all kinds of disease and affliction. He cured some who
were</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">vexed
by unclean spirits not only by laying on of hands, exhorting, and
exorcising</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">–
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that
is by actual contact – but even from afar, merely by praying or
predicting</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">their
cure, as in the case of the sheriff’s wife’. Cuthbert, Patrick
and other Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">church
leaders demonstrate a thoroughly positive Trinitarian and
Christocentric</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">way
of dealing with the forces of evil. At the same time Bede does not
give the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">impression
that the Celts were overly captivated by the demonic or engaged in</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lengthy
exorcism sessions. Yet they nevertheless had a quiet authority which</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">recognised
that the power of God’s Spirit was released through godly and
prayerful</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">living.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some
years later Wilfrid (634-709) who was nurtured in the Celtic
traditions of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
monastery of Lindisfarne, became bishop of York. But he then spent
further</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">time
at Lyons and Rome and became an intransigent supporter of Roman
church</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">customs
against the Celtic ways of northern England. After his return to his
native</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">homeland
he was imprisoned at the command of King Egfrid. He had not however</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lost
his Celtic openness to the Holy Spirit. When therefore the wife of
the sheriff</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">who
had put him behind bars was in a paralysed and dying state, Wilfrid
agreed to</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">be
taken to her. He sprinkled her face with holy water and poured some
drops into</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">her
mouth. She thanked God aloud and then like Peter’s
mother-in-law,ministered</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
them.20</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Prophetic
and Knowledge Gifts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Celtic
Christians also valued and practised prophetic and knowledge gifts.
In his</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Confession
Patrick recounted eight visions which he saw in dreams, all of which</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">20
Eddius Stephanus, Life of Wilfrid (circa 720),</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">chapter
37.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nigel
Scotland Charismatic Christianity and the appeal of Celtic
Pneumatology</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">188
ANVIL Volume 23 No 3 2006</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">were
direct messages from God. The most vivid and most important in so far
as</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">his
life’s direction was concerned was his divine summons to return to
Ireland and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
proclaim the gospel. His call as he described in his Confession is
written in the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">style
of Paul’s vision of the man in Acts chapter 16 verse 19 saying come
over to</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Macedonia
and help us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And
then I saw, indeed in the bosom of the night, a man coming as it were</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from
Ireland, Victorinus by name, with innumerable letters, and he gave
one</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
them to me … And while I was reading aloud the beginning of the
letter, I</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">myself
thought indeed in my mind that I heard the voice of those who were</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">near
the wood of Foclut, which is close by the Western Sea. And they cried</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">out
thus as if with one voice, ‘We entreat thee, holy youth, that thou
come,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
henceforth walk among us.21</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One
of Patrick’s contemporaries, St. Ailbe, prophesied the coming of a
great</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">bishop.
He noticed a pregnant woman in the congregation and then was filled
with</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
spirit of prophecy. He told the priest, who was unable to speak at
that moment,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
is why you are unable to speak: God wished that first you would hear
the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">news
of the infant whom that woman carried in her womb. He will indeed be
a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">chosen
one of God, a renowned bishop and he will be called David’.22 David
was</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">born
soon after and later became the principal bishop in Wales.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Visions
while awake were common among the Celts. Columba (521-597) who</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">landed
on the island of Iona in 563 with twelve disciples and founded a new</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">monastery
was said on several occasions to have seen angels. He wrote that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heaven
has granted to some to see on occasion in their mind, clearly and
surely,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
whole earth and seas and sky’.23 In his Ecclesiastical History Bede
gives an</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">extended
account of the Irish monk, Fursey , or sometimes Fursa, (d. 648). He</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">was
born in Ireland and first came to England fairly late in his life,
sometime after</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">630
and was welcomed by King Sigebert of the East Angles who was
encouraged</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by
the work of Felix at Dunwich. Fursey proved to be an effective
evangelist and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">established
a monastery probably at Burgh Castle near Yarmouth. Bede relates that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">many
were ‘inspired by the example of his goodness and the effectiveness
of his</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">teaching.’
Many unbelievers were converted to Christ and a large number of</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">believers
were provoked to greater love and faith.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once
when Fursey was ill ‘God gave him a vision in which he was directed
to</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">continue
his diligent preaching and to persevere with his routine of vigils
and</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">prayer’.
Prompted by what he saw, Fursey lost no time in constructing a
monastery</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on
a site given to him by King Sigbert. On another occasion, Fursey had
an</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">experience
which appears to have been something akin the Apostle Paul when he</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">was
caught up in the third heaven.. Fursey entered a trance and felt that
he had</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">quitted
his body. He was then carried up to a great height and told to look
down</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on
the world. From this vantage point he saw four fires burning in the
air and was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">informed
that they were Falsehood, Covetousness, Discord and Cruelty. He was</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">then
informed that these fires destroy men’s bodies and that after death
everyone</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">must
make due atonement for their sins by fire.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">21
Patrick, Confession, Declaration 23.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">22
De Paor, L., Op. Cit., p 234.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">23
Bradley, I., The Celtic Way p 93.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">189</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aidan,
(d. 651) another Irish monk, came to England about the same time as</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fursey
and settled in the north of England at Lindisfarne. He was
consecrated a</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">bishop
and encouraged by King Oswald made long journeys on foot establishing</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">missionary
and teaching centres. Aidan evidently had a strong gift of prophecy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">since
on one occasion he burst into tears and foretold the death of
Oswald’s</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">successor,
King Oswin. Aidan declared, ‘the King will not live very long; for
I have</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">never
before seen a humble King. I feel that he will soon be taken from us,
because</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">this
nation is not worthy of a King’. Bede noted that not very long
afterwards the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">bishop’s
foreboding was borne out by the King’s death. Bede goes on in his
narrative</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to
relate how Aidan foretold a storm at sea and gave the seafarers holy
oil to calm</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
waves. He summed up Aidan’s life stating that ‘he took pains
never to neglect</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">anything
he had learned from the writings of the evangelists, apostles and
prophets,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
set himself to carry them out with all his powers.’ There is no
doubting that</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
Celtic churches took the prophetic with seriousness. Knowledge and
prophecy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">certainly
helped to envision evangelistic enterprise and church planting. What
we</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">don’t
know from Bede and the other early historians is to what extent
prophecy</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">failed
or led men and women into extremes of behaviour.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conclusion</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
summary, it is clear that while some of what Bede relates may have
been</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">embellished
either by himself or by those from whom he derived his information,</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">miraculous
stories of charismatic gifts were regarded as an important and
integral</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">part
of the Christian faith. It must also be remembered that Bede claimed
in his</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">own
words to be ‘a truthful historian’ who accurately recounted the
facts as he</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">knew
them to his readers. What he appears to do, is to use his historical
sources</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
a similar way to the gospel writers. Sometimes there is extended
narrative but</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">at
certain points there are core events which are presented in a form
and style</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">which
he anticipates will persuade the readers of the truth of the
Christian faith.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Contemporary
charismatic Christians clearly share the Celtic experience of the</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holy
Spirit that awakened their awareness of Christ’s presence and
deepened their</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">love
and respect for the earth’s resources. Some Anglican and Roman
Catholics</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charismatics
can fully identify with those Celts who had an almost sacramental</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">view
of the universe and literally found themselves able to imbibe God’s
presence</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as
they delighted in the landscape and the changing of the seasons. Not
only were</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">they
respectful of the land, they prayed and worked for its healing and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">transformation
much in the way that contemporary Charismatics have been doing</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in
parts of Africa and South America.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the matter of conflict with the forces of evil there is much in
Celtic life and</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">worship
which resonates with contemporary charismatic experience. Celtic</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Christians
shared the charismatic heightened awareness of the presence of evil</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
spiritual conflict in both the socio-political and domestic spheres.
It does</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">however
seem to have been the case that the Celts did not share the
tendencies</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of
the more extreme section of contemporary Charismatics, some of whom
display</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PS “ Aos Sí and Creideamh Sí the Druid's way or the Celts Way or Both” is a discussion going on in (my) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/howtobeadruid/">“How to be a Druid</a>” Fbg.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We begin with a Mashup Glossary of Ideas, Terms and Words taken from many sources. While it is not practical for me to give credits to the sources as I am mixing and rewritting them. Most will be shared as your required reading to be able to fully follow this twisted path back to our Acient Druidic Woods. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And yes in the end I will try and make a reasonable position on how all of this was more than Important to the Acient Druids and the Toutas (Tribes) they servered. As it is also today, be you Druii or Modern Celt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">------------<br /><br />This site has a great deal of information and examples. So I leave it to you to read / reread as time prements. <br />As we look at other sources later the commom threads should start to enterweave.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So let us add another Tree to our "Aos Si" Forest tonight.<br /><br />Some of you know I study Vodou, VooDoo HooDoo and Root work also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">>>The faeries are said to absorb the essence, the vitality, of the food and drink. The remaining substance must later be buried, and never given to a human or animal. This is an interesting idea, is it not? That the food and drink from the land have vital forces within them, that human hands can transform the raw food plants into food and drink, and that the transformed vitality can be offered back, sharing it with the spirits of the land.<<</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">>>The reality of faery beings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some years ago, one of my mentors, the writer and Qabalist W G Gray, said that there is little point in debating if something is “real” or not, but that if we behave as if it is real, then we will have astonishing results. This is a powerful idea, for it connects the imagination and the manifest world. Not belief, or the deeper faith of religion, but the imagination. The Irish people have always behaved as if faeries are real, without debating belief or superstition. Most of all, the faery tradition is, even today, a practical aspect of daily life.<<</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2015/07/celtic-pneumatology-druids.html" style="line-height: 18.4px;">http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2015/07/celtic-pneumatology-druids.html</a><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">A nice place to visit:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://unfetteredwood.blogspot.ca/2016/03/e-books-apps-for-gaelic-polytheists.html">http://unfetteredwood.blogspot.ca/2016/03/e-books-apps-for-gaelic-polytheists.html</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.ucd.ie/news/2013/01JAN13/280113-Fairies-both-good-and-evil-in-Irish-traditional-music-and-song.html"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">http://www.ucd.ie/news/2013/01JAN13/280113-Fairies-both-good-and-evil-in-Irish-traditional-music-and-song.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.gaelicfolkway.webs.com/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">http://www.gaelicfolkway.webs.com/</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></u></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://rjstewart.org/irish-faery.html"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">http://rjstewart.org/irish-faery.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn">http://enc.tfode.com/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn</a></span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="http://www.irelandseye.com/animation/intro.html">http://www.irelandseye.com/animation/intro.html</a></span></u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> A fied guide to Irish Fae</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-----------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Henge Key Terms:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span lang="en">"</span><span lang="en"><b>Aos Si</b></span><span lang="en">"<br /><br />The</span><span lang="en"><b>aos sí</b></span><span lang="en"> (Irish pronunciation: [iːs ˈʃiː], "ees shee", older form </span><span lang="en"><b>aes sídhe</b></span><span lang="en"> [eːs ˈʃiːðʲə]), "ays sheeth-uh") is the Irish term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology (usually spelled </span><span lang="en"><b>Sìth</b></span><span lang="en">, however pronounced the same), comparable to the fairies or elves. They are said to live underground in fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans. This world is described in the </span><span lang="en"><b>Book of Invasions (recorded in the Book of Leinster)</b></span><span lang="en"> as a parallel universe in which the </span><span lang="en"><b>aos sí</b></span><span lang="en"> walk amongst the living. In the Irish language, </span><span lang="en"><b>aos sí</b></span><span lang="en"> means "people of the mounds" (the mounds are known in Irish as "the sídhe"). In Irish literature the people of the mounds are also called </span><span lang="en"><b>daoine sídhe</b></span><span lang="en"> [ˈdiːnʲə ˈʃiːə]; in Scottish mythology they are </span><span lang="en"><b>daoine sìth</b></span><span lang="en">. They are variously said to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or goddesses and gods<br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">>> People generally believed it was unlucky to call fairies by their name and consequently appellations such as</span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">na daoine maithe</span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[the good people],</span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">na daoine uaisle</span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[the gentry] or</span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">bunadh na gcnoc</span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[the people of the hills] <br />"The Good Neighbors"<br />"The Fair Folk"<br />"The Folk"<br />In Gaelic folklore</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">In folk belief and practice, the aos sí are often appeased with offerings, and care is taken to avoid angering or insulting them. Often they are not named directly, but rather spoken of as "The Good Neighbors", "The Fair Folk", or simply "The Folk". The most common names for them, aos sí, aes sídhe, daoine sídhe (singular duine sídhe) and daoine sìth mean, literally, "people of the mounds" (referring to the sidhe).</span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.bing/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><u>http://www.bing</u></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"> (dot) com/knows/search?q=aos%20s%C3%AD&mkt=zh-cn</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">C:::<br /><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">creideamh (Irish)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meaning: belief, faith; religion, creed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pronunciation, (Munster, Galway) IPA(key): [ˈcɾʲɛdʲəvˠ], (Mayo) IPA(key): [ˈcɾʲɛdʲuː]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, (Ulster) IPA(key): [ˈcɾʲɛdʲu]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Etymology From Old Irish creitem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Noun :creideamh m (genitive singular creidimh, plural creidimh)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Creideamh Sí</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is Irish for the "Fairy Faith," a collection of beliefs and practices observed by those who wish to keep good relationships with the aos sí and avoid angering them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The custom of offering milk and traditional foods - such as baked goods, apples or berries - to the aos sí have survived through the Christian era into the present day in parts of Ireland,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Scotland and the diaspora. Those who maintain some degree of belief in the aos sí also are aware to leave their sacred places alone and protect them from damage through road or housing construction.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">S:::<br />"Si"<br />In Irish (Gaelic), the word "sf9 means "mounds" or "spirits of the</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">mounds," referring to those same mounds which archaeology describes as central</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">features of the Neolithic (and later) Irish cultures. These megalithic mounds incor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to landscape and (frequently) astronomical alignments. These features indicate cal</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">endrical ritual and religious functions, reflecting a concern with the continuance</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of life's cycles, and with its dead. </span></span></span>
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/215194/_The_Irish_S%C3%AD_Tradition_Connections_Between_Disciplines_and_What_s_in_a_Word_"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">https://www.academia.edu/215194/_The_Irish_S%C3%AD_Tradition_Connections_Between_Disciplines_and_What_s_in_a_Word_</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">A::</span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bord_F%C3%A1ilte"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">á</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"> > </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The accent above the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>a </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is a </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">diacritic</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">known in </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Irish</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">as the </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%ADneadh_fada"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">síneadh fada</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(literally, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>long stretching</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, as it lengthens the vowel; often called just the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>fada </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in English), and as the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>sràc </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(pronounced </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Scottish_Gaelic"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[s̪t̪ɾaːxk]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">) in</span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Scottish Gaelic</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; 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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Creideamh > Religion<br />(Irish) Pronunciation, (Munster, Galway) IPA(key): [ˈcɾʲɛdʲəvˠ], (Mayo) IPA(key): [ˈcɾʲɛdʲuː], (Ulster) IPA(key): [ˈcɾʲɛdʲu]<br />Etymology From Old Irish creitem.<br />Noun :creideamh m (genitive singular creidimh, plural creidimh)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meaning: belief, faith; religion, creed Ref. 1<br /><br />D::<br /><br />daoine sídhe (singular duine sídhe) > the people of the mounds In Irish literature [ˈdiːnʲə ˈʃiːə].<br />daoine sìth > the people of the mounds In in Scottish mythology .<br /><em>na daoine maithe > </em>the good people <br /><em>na daoine uaisle > </em>the gentry <br /><br />Diadhachd ( Scottish Gaelic) > Noun, diadhachd f (genitive singular diadhachd, plural diadhachdan)<br />Meaning: religion, divinity, theology, deity godliness, piety, devotion deity, divinity</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><br />Éire > Ireland<br />F::<br /><br />Faery (added as just a good point to keep in mind. I perfer Fae. TDK ></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">The spelling “faery” is intentional in this essay, to distinguish these land and water spirits of Ireland and other Celtic realms from the fantasy Fairy of entertainment and fiction. Author R. J. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><i>Stewart</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fáilte (Irish pronunciation:</span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Irish"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[ˈfɑːlʲtʲə]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">),Fàilte(ScottishGaelic:</span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Scottish_Gaelic"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[faːltʲə]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">), andFailt(Manx:</span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Manx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[faːlʲtʃ]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">) is a word meaning "welcome"</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />L::<br />Lean-sa dlùth ri cliù do shìnnsear. > Keep closely to the ways of your ancestors. ~traditional Gàidhlig proverb</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leanbhan (LYAN-uh-van) > little child, baby.<br /><br />LGE Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) The Lebor Gabála became one of the most popular and influential works of early Irish literature. It is usually known in English as :<br />The Book of Invasions or<br />The Book of Conquests, and in Modern Irish as <br />Leabhar Gabhála Éireann or <br />Leabhar Gabhála na hÉireann.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">In Lebor Gabála Érenn, the </span></span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">Tuatha Dé Danann</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;"> are closely associated with the</span></span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Br%C3%BA_na_B%C3%B3inne"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">Brú na Bóinne</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;"> World Heritage Sites of</span></span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Newgrange"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">Newgrange</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Knowth"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">Knowth</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;"> and </span></span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Dowth"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">Dowth</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;"> in the Boyne valley, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/County_Meath"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">County Meath</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #f9f9f9;">, Ireland.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those who went into the north of the world are the supernaturally-gifted </span></span></span><a href="http://enc.tfode.com/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann"><span style="color: #5a3696;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuatha Dé Danann</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (or Tuath Dé), who represent the main pagan gods of Ireland. They come to Ireland in dark clouds and land on a mountain in the west. Ref. 8</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>tgyn</i>>> I practice <i>An Creideamh</i> <i>Sí</i>, the indigenous Gaelic faery tradition, by building and maintaining sacred relations with the ancestral deities/powers collectively called the <i>Aos Sí </i>, the Ancestors, the fae folk, and the land goddess, traditionally called <i>Flaith</i>eas, meaning Sovereignty, as well as with other special Persons of Cascadia where I live, such as several nations of Tree People.</span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">The Tradition includes celebrating the four traditional Celtic feast days, offering daily and monthly prayers, making regular food and drink offerings, and studying the tales of myth and family lore. For myself, it has also come to include opening up to the Powers of the land where I live, and engaging with Them through the ancestral template </span><span lang="en-US"><i>An Creideamh Sí </i></span><span lang="en-US">suggests, as those of the Tradition who came before me would do/had done. I began by researching family genealogy, following family names and lines back to specific people and places, to connect with specific lands, sacred sites, deities, powers, and customs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">The Tradition endures today among many who maintain The Pact through offerings, visiting or recalling the sacred sídhe mounds and sites, and reciting the ancestral tales, whether they live in their ancestral homelands or in diasporal nations, and whether they be monotheist, atheist, or polytheist, although the Tradition itself is decidedly animistic and non-Christian, being a lifeway of maintaining respectful relationships with various powerful non-human Persons, grounded in a non-dualistic worldview. <br /><br />Some describe the Tradition as Celtic, as its languages and customs are, yet the Tradition also encompasses the great mounds which were built and used before Celtic languages were spoken by the Ancestors, and is observed today by those who do not presently speak Celtic languages. I will describe it as Indigenous, Ancestral, Gaelic, and Faery, meaning that it builds sacred relations with those non-human Persons and Nations said to reside in or be intimately connected with so-called otherworldly realms in the folklore, and derives from those original inhabitants who lived in/with the lands today known by the Gaelic names</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Éire </i></span><span lang="en-US">and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Alba</i></span><span lang="en-US">, Ireland and Scotland respectively. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So while the descriptor 'Celtic' can be helpful, it can also be confusing since it is popularly used today for all kinds of unrelated things, but ironically can also be unnecessarily limiting since its academic definition consists of certain specific parameters. << Ref. 5</span></span></span></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-76645073992914304702015-07-17T00:11:00.000-07:002016-09-30T09:56:28.080-07:00Robes Chains Drugs and Demons on the Druid Path.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While those that know me also know I do not judge
what Robes, Chains or Titles others in Druid's Woods wear.<br />
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Nor
do I seldom take a public position on the use of Psychotropic drugs
plants or fungi.<br />
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Yet I do judge those I would call Druid's of
the Oak and Leys in the Woods I walk. <br />
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And yes I do feel that
Psychotropics can aid a Uate or Bard at times.<br />
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But when it
comes to Druii Level lack of control of any addiction or demon
prevents one in my eyes of bringing Honor the White Robe or Gold
Chains of rank of these high offices. <br />
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Be them Drugs Drink Sex
Power Greed Envy Pride Jealous Anger Hate or so many more demons that
haunt the human mind.<br />
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Which also brings to mind my (different
from most well know Druid Orders) views on the Order of Training for
a Druid.<br />
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From this blog:
<a href="http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/05/druids-order-of-training.html">http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2013/05/druids-order-of-training.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 22pt;">Druid's
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of Training on the Ley path of a Druid.<br /><br />Vatis or Ovate as
seer, psychic and prophet must learn to hear and see with the
Psychic mind as first.<br /><br />Bard as poet and warrior must
learn to teach , how to bless and curse (<span style="color: #663300;"><span style="font-family: "accord light sf";">druid
rhetoric {</span></span>Rosc or <span style="font-family: "accord light sf";">roscanna
magick poems} )</span> with the psychic mind, tongue and
body as second.<br /><br />Druid as wiser warrior and peace
keeper must learn to deal with the Politics of Life both Human and
Gods as last.</span></span></span></div>
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The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-18323073809759180322015-06-12T21:52:00.000-07:002015-11-06T02:33:12.673-08:00Why do Neo Druids not test for Reincarnation ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit;"><br />Summerlands (Astral Worlds), Transmigration, Metempsychosis or Reincarnation of Souls. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit;"><br />The very core of the Druidic Beliefs of our Ancient Selves. Yet it seems to be one of the most ignored parts of most Neo-Druidic Orders, Schools, Groves or Churches today. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes we accept that many Neo Druids or Pagans only pay lip service to the Worlds of Spirit (</span><span style="line-height: 15.6800003051758px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Andumnos or Anam Cara</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, Psychic <span style="font-family: inherit;">(</span></span><span style="line-height: 15.6800003051758px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Taibhsearachd)</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Real Magick (</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.6800003051758px;">Draíocht)<br /><br />Yet I still wonder why we do not actively test for our returns or reincarnation.<br />I know from years of observation, soul return in beloved animal friends is easy to see if one but looks. Why not look for it in Human form also?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A few reference links to wet the soul.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit;"><br />TDK / The Druid King</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Celts, Karma and Reincarnation</span></span><br />
<a href="http://summerlands.com/crossroads/library/celts_and_karma.html"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black; font-family: inherit;">http://summerlands.com/crossroads/library/celts_and_karma.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Always seemed odd that Neo-Druids did not do this also.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Testing for a given reincarnate soul:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit;">How others have done it.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/how-the-dalai-lama-is-chosen/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/how-the-dalai-lama-is-chosen/</span></a></span><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama" style="font-family: inherit;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Terms Reference:</span></span><br />
<a href="http://hoodoo-vodou-druido-grove.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-irish-terms-i-have-used.html"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black;">http://hoodoo-vodou-druido-grove.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-irish-terms-i-have-used.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tags:</span><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Druid, metempsychosis,</span><span style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> Reincarnation, Soul, Transmigration</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.0" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.864px;"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body" style="background-color: #f6f7f8;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.0" style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.864px;"><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.0.$end/=1$text0/=010">Perhaps this could help!</span><br data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.0.$end/=1$text1/=010" /><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.0.$end/=1$text2/=010">>>Scientific Acceptability of Rebirth is a Buddhist perspective on the scientific approach to incarnation and rebirth. Author Dr. Dharmawardena points out that the reason why classical science cannot explain rebirth is due to i</span></span><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0/=1$text0/=010" style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12.864px;">nherent limitations in classical science. Modern science has transcended these limitations, and therefore rebirth is within the scope of modern science. Modern science accepts rebirth as a scientifically acceptable phenomenon through the same tests used to prove scientific acceptability <<</span><br data-reactid=".7y.1:5.1:$comment839550099468744_911045295652557.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.2.$comment-body.0.3.0.$text0/=1$text1/=010" /><a href="http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Scientific-Acceptability-of-Rebirth.pdf?351736">http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Scientific-Acceptability-of-Rebirth.pdf?351736</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
The Druid Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09156840928304875907noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5034684291894964478.post-31175806830150828972015-05-09T21:21:00.000-07:002015-05-09T21:21:28.006-07:00Can you be a Christian and a Druid?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Do you as a Druid believe in:<br />
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Original Sin. Decide (god killing blood sacrifice required because of Orginal Sin).<br />
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A God that says My Way or forever Hell punishment.<br />
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You get one and only one chance, not a cycle of continuing reincarnations.<br />
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Killing millions of people if they do not convert to your beliefs.<br />
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Racism at the highest level (Your God /gods have one chosen people).<br />
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Destroying almost all life on earth not once but twice (Water great flood and Fire coming).<br />
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if you do and still feel you are a Druid, I guess the answer for you is yes.<br />
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My words may seem harsh, but I only ask what is taught by them as facts or history has show as true.<br />
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