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–Professor Ramirez, excuse me if I interrupt you, but ¿there are Druids in this Age? –I
asked with vehemence.

The old Professor sighed resigned.

–You are asking me a very concrete question and I will try to respond it in identical
form; but you must comprehend that it is not easy and I should put you aware about some facts
to so that you can judge, by yourself, the validity of my answer: because if there are Celtic
societies and authors dedicated to the study of Druidism, it is only about historians or
dilettantes but not real Fili. Thereby the truth must be searched, in other part.

For many centuries the Druidism seemed to be eclipsed, specifically (as you said well at
the beginning of our chatter) since the conversion of the Celtic peoples to Christianity. This
conversion is very early, due to St. Patrick converted Ireland to Catholicism between the years
432 and 463. The Celtic peoples of the Gauls were in that Age under the dominion of Germanic
dynasties, who embraced in all the cases the Arian Christianity, doctrine elaborated by the
Libyan presbyter Arius in 318 and condemned of heresy in the Council of Nicea of 325. The
father LLorca, in his monumental Manual of the Ecclesiastical History, says that, according to
Arius: «There is just one God, eternal and incommunicable. The verb, Christ, is not
eternal, but created from the naught. Hence is a real creature, much more excellent
than the others; but not consubstantial with the Father. Therefore he is not God».

This doctrine threatened the catholic «Mystery» of the Trinity and for this reason was
fiercely fought by the Roman Popes.

Whatever it was, the truth is that the in the conversion of the Arian nobility to the
Catholicism, the Celt population succumbed who had to accept the new dogma, as previously
had accepted the Arianism, that’s to say, by imposition.

The Visigoth Kingdom of Spain, becomes Catholic all of sudden in the Council III of
Toledo in 589, with the conversion of the King Reccared by St. Leander. But the definitive step
for the Catholicization of the Celtic Gaul, was already given by the unknown Frank King Clovis,
who at had been converted in the year 496, became in an instrument of the Church for the
missionary conquest.

It could be thought that the Druids –of such rude opposition against the Hyperborean
Gods Tuatha de Danan in Ireland– would organize the defence against the new faith (lunar)
which displaced the Celtiberian ancient cult (solar) of the God Beleno (worshiped in Greece as
Apollo as well) and the Mother Goddess Belisana.

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