The History of Initiation - The Masonic Trowel

DOCTRINES OF THE DRUIDS. 163
derived from the Druidical institution and ; these precepts
often produced a corresponding purity of thought,
for it is confidently asserted that the bards had such a
sacred regard for the truth* 5
, that it constituted the motto
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of their Order and it is even said ;
that they would have
had less reluctance in sacrificing their lives, than in re-
nouncing a strict adherence to the truth in every situation
and transaction of life.
65 Hence the records they have left behind them, whether in the
form of triads or historical poems, may be depended on as containing
an allusion to pure historical facts or moral precepts. And though
sometimes highly figurative, yet they may be referred to with some
degree of confidence, as the depositories of moral, religious or political
events which distinguished the times of which they profess to treat.
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Gerop. Becan.