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INTRODUCTION
| "Alba Borealis" signifies an overview of not only the vastness of the northern hemisphere geographically, but also of the many peoples and vast periods of time that have enfolded significant events in that geographic wilderness. With such a broad subject at hand there is no true starting point, but we choose to begin with the story of the Celts from prehistoric times up to the coming of Jesus Christ. The Celts of 2500 years ago were very probably the cultural and genetic progenitors of the Vikings, the Saxons, the Finns, etc. Thus, by investigating the Celts we will gain an understanding of their times, our own times, and a glimpse as well of the proto-Celts, those people from whom the Celts arose. They are all people who lived and flourished close to the icefields and the glaciers in very ancient times. They are ancestors to many of us, and to the modern day Siberian fur trapper, to the fishermen of Bristol Bay, Alaska, and to the bush pilots everywhere. | |
| The mystery of the Celts begins to unfold when a single question is asked: "Why did Julius Caesar, as well as the Roman emperors and generals who followed, proscribe the Celtic religion and persecute the Celtic druid priests, while having allowed all other religions, even eventually Christianity, to enter the Roman religious pantheon? |
Is this the work of "barbarians?" |
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| "What was so crucially different - and dangerous (to
the Romans) - about the Celtic religion?" This single query spawns a long series of questions,
in the depths of which are concealed the ancient wisdom of the Northland, both practical and
spiritual. Why did Caesar - and the Roman rulers who followed - force Christianity upon the
defeated Celts while simultaneously forbidding Christianity in Rome, even to throwing Christians
to the lions in the Roman arenas? Why are we constantly told by today's authorities that there
exists little difference in the creeds and races of men when the reverse seem to be true?
Why do today's Celts, at odd moments, remember something that is very ancient, something that makes the back of the neck suddenly tingle with a distant recognition, a recognition filled with a sense of great blood and tribal values that were forcibly suppressed long ago? What is the truth about genetic memories? Did the Celt Carl Gustav Jung accurately portray the nature of Reality for northern man when he said that there is a strong tendency for any person "to get the contents of his mind?" Is the substrate of reality, in fact, composed of idea forms and not of matter and its blind laws, as the New Roman science would have all believe? Do thoughts, in and of themselves, constitute what is real and does everything else - including matter - fall into line behind the force of idea forms? And if genetic memories are specific for each of the several races of man, just who really were the Celts... and, in a greater and timeless sense, the Alba Boreans? And what were -- and are --their special thought forms? In a planetary population approaching six billion are they today an inconsequential numerical minority... or could they actually number in the hundreds of millions, an enormous potential tribal thought-form which vacillates between the virtual and realized states? Did Julius Caesar, and the Roman emperors and generals who followed, really fear the Celts because they were 'barbarians' who often went to battle naked making loud shouts and cries? Or, were the Romans fearful because the Celts had created a society with the only practical method ever developed for a human group to maintain contact with reality, past and present? Did the Romans then - and have the New Romans now - consciously created their empire, with its vision of world domination, out of incomplete, carefully edited and even UNtruthful public statements in virtually all subjects, histories, and fields of inquiry? Is the New Roman empire, as was the old, based on a complex cinema produced by masters of dissimulation, wherein the matrix is deception and the flavoring is small tidbits of manicured truth, discontinuous and distorted? Why did the Druid priests refuse to commit the Celtic religion to writing? Were they too dull-witted to have developed a written language? Or, were they too wise to take such a step? And if the latter, could this wisdom - to keep the Celtic religion as an oral and mnemonic tradition - have really been acquired simply by theorizing that such was desirable? Or, was this wisdom gained from long-ago experience of having done differently with disastrous results? And if wisdom gained from experience, just how ancient IS the Celtic thought-form? What was the origin of the Celtic 'furor,' and why did Celtic warriors who battled the Roman Legionaries declare that they feared nothing except "that the heavens might fall down upon their heads?" Were those warrior words, voiced on many occasions, just bits of poetic phraseology, or were the Celts speaking of previous real and remembered events? Are Stonehenge and the other
megalithic circles and monuments, contrary to 'scientific' reasoning, in fact the works of Celtic
tribes who finally decided in council not to expend further energy on such difficult
constructions? And if so, did the reasoning behind this decision mark a major philosophic
milestone of mankind, a quantum leap of human insight which is presently lost and ignored - or
ridiculed - by modern skepticism and materialism? Could this millennia-old leap of insight, once
again recognized and revived, lead us away from the deepening chaos of our times? Can we expect
any help and hope from New Roman scientists and anthropologists -- thus, the new priesthood --
out of our modern dilemna? Or is the new priesthood so emotionally fixated on the story it
tells us - and so financially enslaved by its sources of funds - that it is no longer
capable of correcting many glaring errors of scientific theories touted as true? Did, millennia
ago, ancient man develop a wisdom far more profound than this modern hodge-podge the
modernists themselves distrust so deeply? And, if answers to the above tend to favour the
Northland man and the Celts (collectively the Alba-Boreans), can the ancient wisdom of the snows,
and that of the Celtic Druid priests of 2500 years ago - so painstakingly gleaned from long-ago
northern life - first be recaptured, and then brought up to the dawn of the 21st Century? Is,
in fact, the Internet Age actually spawning a host of Virtual Druids? |