Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions

Dricidical Afystkism,
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that you will be pleased to order a Commission of learned and
intelligent Brethren to be appointed to inquire and decide—
" ist—Whether the knowledge we profess was in former times
considered Masonic.
"2nd—Whether the Lost Mysteries were, and consequently still are,
celestial truths.
"3rd—Whether truth should be published to mankind under the
sanction of the Grand Lodge, provided always that these Lost truths
interfere not with the Mysteries and Ritual of Modern IVLasonry.
" And, lastly, whether, under all considerations, the Grand' Lodge
of Ireland will assist, fraternally, the dissemination of the recovered
truths, which will enlighten the most 'enlightened Chiefs' of this
present
generation.
{Signed)
Henry Melville,
Frederick Tennyson."
We were acquainted with Mr. Melville in Tasmania
some fifty years ago, when he had been long engaged in
an investigation of ancient learning, and had even then
come to the conclusion that heathen mythology was but a
disguise, concealing scientific truths.
Occultism, in these modern days, as in Madame Blavatsky's
TJieosophy^ or Morien's Light of Britannia, attempts
to explain, even to the vulgar many, the secret mysteries
supposed to have been cherished by the IRLSH Druids.