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Updated: May 8, 2025
The whole poem is exceedingly obscure; a hundred years ago, the wise men of Wales took it as meaning much what I think it means: the passing of the real wisdom of the Mysteries, of Neo-druidism, away from the world and the knowledge of men, to a secret place where the Woodmen, the Black-robed, could not find to destroy it; until, after ages, a Leader of the Hosts of Light should come you see it is here Cadwaladr, but Cadwaladr simply means 'Battle-Leader, and the age-old battle between light and darkness, Arthur and Modred, should be fought again, and this time won, and the Mysteries re-established.
This may be termed Neo-Druidism, a kind of Druidism subtilised and reformed on the model of Christianity, which may be seen growing more and more obscure and mysterious, until the moment of its total disappearance. A curious fragment belonging to this school, the dialogue between Arthur and Eliwlod, has transmitted to us the latest sighs of this latest protestation of expiring naturalism.
Matthew Arnold saw these things in his day, and argued for the Neo-druidism of the sixth century. He was a man accustomed to deal in ideas. You may easily train your mind to an acuteness and sagacity in dealing with grammatical roots, and forms, that will not help you in dealing with ideas.
As a matter of fact, in the symbols of Neo-Druidism that is to say, of that secret doctrine, the outcome of Druidism, which prolonged its existence even to the Middle Ages under the form of Freemasonry we again find Arthur transformed into a divine personage, and playing a purely mythological part.
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