The Living Celtic Spiritual Tradition
The early Celtic Spiritual Tradition was rooted deep in the land, in a time and culture where Nature was seen not as a fallen state from which we needed to escape, but as a part of Divinity.
When Christianity first came to the British Isles, it had a distinctly Celtic flavour. It was characterised by a continued reverence for Nature as the face of the Divine. The One God spoke simply in the solitudes of wind and woodland, sea-wave and mountaintop... and for centuries, the old Gods and Goddesses – the many faces of The One - continued to have a place in the hearts and holy days of the people.
This Living Celtic Spiritual Tradition of the Céile Dé is a moving and intelligent Christ-centred Path that is the “New Testament” to its ancestor; the mystery tradition of Druidism. It lives in relationship with the imminent and transcendent Divine and expresses a deep faith in the transformative power of Love, all leading toward unitive-consciousness. It honours the Earth as Divine Manifestation, the Mother of mystical experience, the hollow of God’s hand. Its monks – both female and male - are called Céili Dé - The Companions, or Spouses, of God.
The teaching of Céile Dé is for those who truly wish to work towards transformation. It is an inner journey - a quest through the mythic Otherworld of our own psyche - to the very centre of ourselves; the Celtic Heaven - Tir nan Og. This “Land of Eternal Youth” is seen not so much as a place, but as a state of being. Once we live from there, we discover that Heaven is here - we reunite Above and Below into a new Sacred Whole.
When Mother Earth and Father Spirit unite in us, our heart becomes the womb for the Divine Child... The Incarnation... The Christ...
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