The Mistery of Belicena Villca
I had been paralyzed minutes ago , precisely when the Professor was reading the Oera Linda and uttered the word " Golen ". The fierce persecutors of the House of Tharsis , whom Belicena Villca called " the Golen ”, were definitely “ Druids ”. That I already knew because it was implicit in the letter ; but there the Professor showed me that this was no secret , that there were sufficient documents and information about those damn Priests . Only my ignorance of History , and of the most dark history , had caused the feeling of strangeness that I experienced when I read the letter and learned about the Golen intrigues and plans . I was about more than once , and now I regretted it , of doubting the sanity of Belicena , of denying the fantastic reality of the Golen . – Yes Professor , I am listening to you-- I replied , afraid of offending him . – It would be missing now --he repeated patiently-- to know if it was really about Phoenicians , because at that time Sidon was a port city , tremendously cosmopolitan .
I understood the question posed by the Professor but I did not intend , for the moment , to go deeper in that direction , taking into account all the details provided by Belicena on the Hebrew origin of the Golen . Instead a different question struggled to get out of my throat : I should know what the Professor knew about the Golen today .
– Professor Ramírez , sorry if I interrupt , but are there Druids in this Epoch ? --I asked vehemently . The old professor sighed resignedly .
– You ask me a very specific question and I will try to answer in identical way ; but understand that it is not easy and I will have to put you on other backgrounds so you can judge , for yourself , the validity of my answer : because although there are Celtic societies and authors dedicated to the study of Druidism , it is only about historians or dilettantes and not about true Fili . TheTruth will have to be sought , then , elsewhere .
For several centuries Druidism seemed overshadowed , specifically ( as you said at the beginning of our talk ) since the conversion of the Celtic peoples to Christianity . This conversion is very early , because Saint Patrick converts Ireland to Catholicism between the years 432 and 463 . The Celt peoples of Gaul were at that time under the rule of German dynasties , those who embraced in all cases Arian Christianity , doctrine drawn up by the Libyan bishop Arius in 318 and condemned as heretical at the Council of Nicea of 325 . Father Llorca , in his monumental Manual of Ecclesiastical History , says that , according to Arius : “ there is only one God , eternal and incommunicable . The word , Christ , is not eternal , but created out of nothing . Thus true creature , much more excellent than the others ; but not consubstantial with the Father . Therefore he is not God ”.
This doctrine was an attempt against the Catholic " Mystery " of the Trinity , therefore it was fiercely fought by the Roman Popes .
Be it as it may , the truth is that in the conversion of the Arian nobility to Catholicism , the Celtic people succumbed and had to accept the new dogma , as previously they had accepted Arianism , that is , by imposition .
The Visigothic Kingdom of Spain , becomes Catholic overnight at the III Council of Toledo in 589 , with the conversion of King Reccared by San Leandro . But the definitive step for the catholization of Celtic Gaul , already had been given by the little known Frankish King Clovis , who , when he converts in 496 , becomes an instrument of the Church for the missionary conquest .
It might be thought that the Druids --of such rude opposition to the Hyperboreans Gods Tuatha de Danan in Ireland-- were to organize the defense against the new ( lunar ) faith that displaced the ancient Celtiberian ( solar ) cult of God Belenus ( worshiped in Greece also as Apollo ) and the Mother Goddess Belisana . For none of that happened , since the Druids advised the people the convenience of embracing Christianity and they became Christians themselves . Christian Druids ? Sages in the hidden laws of material nature ; possessors of a demonic secret Science ; Do you think they would have converted to Christianity subjugated by this religion ?
The Professor was looking at me intensely .
– As you pose things – I answered – these conversions make me reminisce of those of the Marranos , that is , those Jews , who , forced to choose between becoming Catholic or dying accepted the former , pretending to practice the new faith for years ( or centuries if we consider that there are Marrano families that even today , live a double life ), but preserving the Jewish rite and customs in secret .
– Good Dr . Siegnagel ! – the Professor roared – that ' s exactly what I was referring to ; to a feigned conversion like that of the Marrano Jews . If you consider what I asked you before , when reading the text of the Oera Linda that places the Druids as natives of Sidon , in Phoenicia , you will understand that there are other suspicious similarities .
The Professor never ceased to amaze me with his sharpness , raising the things in such a way that , as in the dialogues of the Greek Sophists , the answers sprang up spontaneously in the Philosopher ' s interlocutor .
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