Author: Searles O’Dubhain
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The Gifts of the Four Cities
In the tale, “Cath Maige Tuireadh,” The Tuatha Dé Danann became masters of Magick by studying the occult arts as taught by four Wizards in the four Otherworldly cities of the islands of the “North.” North here means the Otherworld and could just as easily be in the Sky or under the sea. The names…
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The Circles of Being
Cover art ‘The Druids: Bringing in the Mistletoe’ by George Henry (1858–1943) and Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933) Within the inner recesses of the passage mound at Knowth, there is a stone basin that is decorated with circular markings. I have included a line drawing of its design below. No one is certain what ritual use…
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The Origins and Ends of Manifestation
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” Stephen Richards The silence which is at the origins and the ends of manifestation is found at both ends of consciousness, in the supracouscious and the subconscious states. Thus ‘tamas’, the distintegrating tendency,…
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The Stones Speak: The Brugh na Bóinne
“…Greater Mysteries drew to its hallowed shrines neophytes from the West as well as from the East, … [and the Otherworld] seeing sons still watch and wait for the re-lighting of the Fires and the restoration of the old Druidic Mysteries.” W.Y Evans Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
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The Vedas and Other Indo-European Cross Cultural Connections
I recently purchased and read _The Rig Veda_ by Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty to investigate other Indo-European ways. Her _Laws of Manu_ is also an excellent reference. What I read in both books reminds me of the ancient Celtic tales and Laws. Each society is different, as it should be, but there are also many similarities.…