MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY
College of Metaphysics
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THE VEIL oF ISIS;

OR,

MYSTERIES OF THE DRUIDS

BY

W. WINWOOD READE.

(1861)
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  "By the bright circle of the golden sun,
By the bright courses of the errant moon,
By the dread potency of every star,
In the mysterious Zodiac's burning girth,
By each and all of these supernal signs,
We do adjure thee, with this trusty blade
To guard yon central oak, whose holy stem,
Involves the spirit of high Taranis:
Be this thy charge."-MASON

DEDICATION.

TO EMILY***.

As those presents are always the most fashionable, and sometimes the most valued, which cannot be used, I give you this book, which you will not be able to read, but which, perhaps, you will kindly preserve in memory of its writer.

An author can pay no higher compliment to a friend than to dedicate to her a work upon which he has spent much labor and anxiety. This effort of a young man to redeem a mistake, perhaps a fault, in his literary life, deserves to be sealed with your name, for it is you who have repeatedly urged him to the task, and presided over it like a guardian angel, with kind and consoling words.

CONTENTS.

BOOK THE FIRST.

DARKNESS.

BOOK THE SECOND.

ABORIGINES.

I.-Albion

II.-Britain

III.-Analysis

IV.-Description

BOOK THE THIRD.

THE DRUIDS.

I.-Origin

II.-Power

III.-The Derwydd, or Philosophers

IV.-The Bardd, or Musicians

V.-The Ovades, or Noviciates

VI.-Rites and Ceremonies

VII. -Priestesses

BOOK THE FOURTH.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DRUIDS.

BOOK THE FIFTH.

VESTIGES OF DRUIDISM.

I.-In the Ceremonies of the Church of Rome

II.-In the Emblems of Freemasonry

III.-In Rustic Folk-Lore




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