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INTRODUCTION - Continued, Second Page
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| History is the science of what never happens twice. Paul Valéry. Systems die; instincts remain. O. W. Holmes, Jr. The major fact about history is that in large part it appears criminal. W. E. Arnold, Jr. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana. |
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| We are taught in school that a true and correct history exists of past
mankind and that this history is readily available. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Histories are written by flesh and blood humans, not by some mythical species of being living
detached somewhere up in the sky. Anything written always bears the imprint of the writer, his
personal tastes and agenda, and the dictates of the group to which he belongs. Thus,
history is no different from any other sort of writing. Then, too, the history reader
is another fallible human being who will interpret what is written according to his own
predilections. Thus, since objective historical purity is impossible, this treatment on Celtic
history will do what most other such histories do not do, explore the past with the intention of
seeding a more promising Celtic future. This writing is not intended as a scientific treatise. It will not be garnished with footnotes nor are rigid and unyielding convictions intended. It is a story, and meant to be read as such. Nonetheless, it is a good story, it is a good Celtic story, and accords truthfully with revealed facts, many of which are homeless due to official neglect and worse. More than a few modern scientific theories will be singled out for respectful ridicule in the effort to reach a Celtic understanding of what is significantly true. The reader will be directed to books thought to be important and from which I have drawn. Since it's a story you are invited to read it without adopting a stern visage, and you may laugh at any moment you wish. It can be dismissed out-of-hand by anyone (as surely it will by the quasi-totality of those with academic pretensions) and no one, especially myself, will be any the worse for the wear. Yet , it is intended as a serious work and some will see it as such. These chapters involve the Celtic Truth... with the capital 'T.' Particularly, the wrongful and even fatal deficiencies of the so-called "scientific method," the Mecca toward which, early on, we are instructed to bow daily, will be exposed. Rome vanquished the Celtic forces at Alesia, France, in 53 BC and thus wrote the history of those times. Worse, Roman influence has endured two millennia. Thus, the science of the recent past, first haltingly begun as a Celtic search for the truth about Reality, has been captured by the (New) Roman quest for world political control. 'Scientific truth' must nowadays be politically and socially correct! (Celtic truth, on the other hand, need only be TRUE.) Engineering apart, the quixotic quest for perfect 'scientific objectivity' and 'cast-in-stone' scientific laws leads inevitably and inexorably to scientific fraud (!) and to the unstable weathercock of a treacherous and poisonous nihilism... which mindset is completely alien to Celtic thought. "Truth" devoid of spiritual and emotional values is only to be found in the dictionary of oxymorons. Scientific discoveries and inventions not firmly contained within a vision of successful community living soon become dangerous tyrants which regard us as their prey. Our Celtic mindset demands that we ask repeatedly, "Can any enduring truth at all be contained in a scheme of science which makes possible, even probable, the obliteration of everything capable of observing that science?" What did our priests, the Druids, each learn during their more than two decades of preparatory study and meditation? Many things, but most importantly that the truth of any subject is never controlled by one isolated fact. They learned - and never forgot - that facts must fit reasonably to other facts without forcing , and so on ad infinitum. They learned, moreover, that such groups of facts must be assembled in the constant clear vision of a vigorous, prosperous, and on-going tribal life. They were always aware of the difference between useful facts and the tangled swamp of groundless impulses, fads, and madness which can only weaken a people. Our ancient priests developed a society in which personal freedom was limited - as it always is, in any case - and where the strength of the tribe becomes the strength of the individual, and not the reverse. Now, the New Roman empire boasts it promotes personal freedoms... but to do what, to learn what, to know what, to belong to what, to become what? And what is the price of this government-granted freedom? Most officially-sanctioned modern freedoms seem to lead equally to frenetic displacement activity and to long term stupidity, gullibility, and dependence... and official freedoms rarely include, of course, the freedom to know the truth about governmental affairs. Pornography, the vomitorium, and truly exquisite forms of torture were landmark Roman developments. These 'civilized' innovations did not symbolize freedom, much to the contrary, yet they are, in effect, still protected by New Roman law for the express benefit of predatory non-Celts. Our Celtic priests learned many millennia ago that, paradoxically, freedom must have a container, without which it quickly becomes the worst kind of tyrant, the addictive rogue siren of physical disorder and spiritual dissolution. 'Complete personal freedom' and 'total scientific objectivity' are two very deceptive Roman oxymorons coined to impress the foolish, among which, unfortunately, many Celts who have not given these thoughts their critical attention. So let us reconsider the world, the universe, life, and our own people in the following chapters. |
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