Sar Draconis wrote:
> The Nuada was a Druidic group and documented in Colquhoun's Sword of
> Wisdom as practicing GD rites and directly descended from Isis-Urania.
> Its founder was in contact with
> Westcott / Mathers and received the lineal succession of 7 = 4 from
> them, later transmitted directly to Bourke. During the schism with
> Mathers, they were neutral.
>
> The website
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/obscure2/druid.html
> provides additional
> supporting documentation on the Nuada group, in agreement with the
> statements
> found in Colquhoun.
The website not only agrees with Colquhoun on Nuada, but also it cites
the
connection with Desmond Bourke.
>
> SAR
>
>
>>>> Sar Draconis wrote:
>>>>> Colquhoun interviewed MacGregor Reid directly regarding the Golden
>>>>> Dawn: she briefly recounts the meeting in her book, "The Sword of
>>>>> Wisdom":
>>>>>
>>>>> "Mystified by certain resemblances in structure and wording between the
>>>>> Druid-rituals and those of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, I
>>>>> once asked Dr. Robert A. F. MacGregor Reid, lat Chosen Chief of An
>>>>> Uileach Druidh Braithreachas (= The Druid Universal Bond) what
>>>>> connection there was between the two fraternities. He replied:
>>>>> 'Doesn't it occur to you that the Druid Order is the survivor of the
>>>>> Golden Dawn?' Later he passed on to me his account of a more
>>>>> intribuing survival, that of 'a very strict GD Lodge in the Regent's
>>>>> Park area . . ."
>>>>>
>>>>> SAR
>>>>>>>>> Bourke was something of a lynchpin in British druidry, in addition to
>>>>>>>>> the above orders, he is also head of the Ancient Order of Druids
>>>>>>>>> Hermeticists which, decades before, had gained attention by holding
>>>>>>>>> annual Summer Solstice celebrations at Stonehence between 1901 and
>>>>>>>>> 1914.
>
>>
>>>>>> Colquhoun commences Chapter 11 of her book with an allusion to the
>>>>>> Golden Dawn found in a Druid ceremony of the Summer Solstice performed
>>>>>> at Stonehenge - - - indeed, a ceremony which appears to be ancient in
>>>>>> origin, and even to have connections with the ancient mystery rites of
>>>>>> Egypt (which maintained "diplomatic relations" with the Druids.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "For to us this is the Day when the Sun has climbed to its zenith, as
>>>>>> the Greatest Manifestation of Light that we can know in the mundane
>>>>>> sense, and hence the Druid Tradition of "the Golden Dawn."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SAR
