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Edward Davies, author of Mythology and Rites of British Druids, was one
of those who, with Job Morganwg, regarded the Arkite theory as having its
foundation in Genesis. But, as Professor Rhys says, "when one turns to
Davies's authorities for his unhesitating statements of the kind, no doubt
one is a little dismayed at first, and not a little inclined to doubt him
altogether, and, in disposing of his Helio-Arkite absurdity, dispose of the
Druids with them."
The Modern Druidism, or Bardism, about which a few years ago there was considerable
excitement in Wales, must not be confounded with the Druidism of Myfyr and Morien,
who sought the revival of what was declared by others to be a mystical paganism. The
Bardism of this century, brought forward by Welsh clergymen, like Ab Ithel, &c., was
founded upon the so-called Welsh Triads of the Middle Ages, which were interpreted in
a quasi Christian light, and presumed to have been the relics of the Scriptural Patriarchal
system.
The Rev. John Williams was, perhaps, the best exponent of Bardism, though all its
advocates recognized in it the Church of England ideas of this century, and yet hardly of
the High Church order. The Patriarchal Religion of Britain, by the Rev. Dr. James, made
many converts to the system. But the ceremonies associated with it have something of
the Masonic character. This is the Summary of the Bardo-Druidic creed.
There was one God. There were five elements - earth, water, fire, air, and heavens. The
soul - refined, vital, and imperishable - is a lapsed intelligence, regaining happiness by
transmigration. Creation improved as man improved, and animals gradually became men.
Man develops by experience in different states of being. Celestial beings aid man in
development. Ultimately all will be happy, and evil finally extinguished. All these views
were gathered from the said Triads, though regarded by many pious Welshmen as
teaching opposed to Christianity.
Morien's reading of the Triads is something very different; for The Light of Britannia has
no Bardo-Druidic creed.
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