Part II of the Celtic Druids by Godfrey Higgins

Godfrey Higgins viewed the Celtic Druids as heirs to an ancient, global priestly tradition, not merely local European shamans. He argued that Druids were philosophers, astronomer priests, and custodians of primordial religious knowledge that predated Christianity and even classical Greece. According to Higgins, their doctrines emphasized solar worship, cycles of nature, sacred geometry, and cosmic order, closely paralleling systems found in Egypt, India, Persia, and the Near East. He believed Druidic symbolism, sacred groves, stone circles, and ritual silence reflected an esoteric wisdom tradition passed down orally to preserve its purity. For Higgins, the Druids were not primitive but remnants of a once-unified ancient religion whose traces survived in myth, language, and ritual across the world.