The Light of Britannia

24 THE LIGHT OF BRITANNIA.
CHAPTER III.
T should be borne in
mind by the reader that the
Druids, in their enquiries after the Divine
nature, while tracing it by the light of
nature, passed beyond the boundary of the material
world. They supposed, as already mentioned, the
Divine nature consisted of two principles, the active and
the passive, and that those principles were intellectual,
omnipotent, and eternal. Beyond them no mind could
go, hence to the Almighty the Druids gave the name Cell,
or Keli (Concealing), and to the passive principle the name
Ced (Aid). In course of time, it appears, the Druids gave
the name Ced to that constellation (Cetus) in which the
sun, between
south at the winter solstice,
8,000 and 10,000 years ago, appeared in the
or on December 20th, in exact
Druidism. The Latins called a whale, Cetus ; and the
Greeks named it Der Ketos ; and the world, corrupting
Druidism, came to suppose a whale to be the mother
of the sun, because the Druids had taught that Ced was
the Consort of the Cell Almighty. How other nations
came to confound Ced with a whale, with Cetus
and Ketos, or dolphin, we know not. It is evident the
Druids believed in the eternity of matter in an atomic
condition, and also in the eternity of water ; and that
the passive, that is, the feminine, principle of the
Divine nature pervaded both from eternity. Theorising
as to the origin of the universe, they, like St.
Paul, believed, " the invisible things of Him, from the
beginning of the world, are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made ; even His eternal