Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions

Stone- Worship, 2 1
Morion's Master, the late Archdruld Myfyr, speaking of
the greatest of British temples, remarked— " Its antiquity is
so great as to reach behind the age of the circular temples
themselves, inasmuch as it was in order to correspond with
the different Bardic points that the stones were so arranged
in those ancient temples."
Madame Blavatski gave the Theosophist's notion in these
terms—" The Druidical circles, the Dolmens, the temples of
India, Egypt, and Greece, the Towers, and the one hundred
and twenty-seven towns of Europe which were found
Cyclopean in origin by the French Institute, are all the
work of initiated priest-architects, the descendants of those
primarily taught by the ' Sons of God,' justly called ' The
Builders.' " Naturally, she sought a source anterior to the
age of Druids. She ascended to the ancient Aryan
Masters in Thibet. But Colonel Forbes Leslie advances
further, saying—" It will not be disputed that the primitive
Cyclopean monuments of the Dekhan were created prior to
the arrival of the present dominant race—the Hindoos."
Professor Ben fey, too, called them pre-Aryan ; therefore
over four thousand years in age, at least.
A letter of 1692, subsequently sent to the Society of
Antiquaries, had these words—"Albeit from the general
tradition that these monuments were places of pagan
worship, and from the historical knowledge we have that
the superstition of the Druids did take place in Britain, we
may rationally conclude that these monuments have been
temples of the Druids, yet I have found nothing hitherto,
either in the names of these monuments, or the tradition
that goes about them, which doth particularly relate to the
Druids, or points them out."
This led Dr. Joseph Anderson, in
his Scotland in Pagan
Times, to observe— " It is clear from this lucid statement
that, in the end of the seventeenth century, there was no