Course XXVII - Teaching 22: The Gauls

Celts form the fourth Aryan race. It is very difficult to determine the origin of it, since it is a part of the early Aryan race that had remained uncontaminated in the centre of Europe.
Celts gave place to Greeks, Macedonians and Carthaginians; these were beautiful, strong, warlike and versatile peoples that loved Nature.
It is very dubious the origin of Romans because Etruscans, ancient remnants of Iranians, and Sabines, inhabitants of Latium, originally were Aryan Semites, but Italic peoples, of pure Celtic race, lived in Sicily, throughout the coast of Calabria, who in the course of times made flourish their lands and, by mixing with other peoples, founded the Roman caste. That is why the esoteric annals include Romans and their religion among Celts.
These people extended throughout the Atlantic coast of Spain, invaded Gallia and passed to British Islands.
Gauls, of pure Celtic race, extended their lands from northern Italy until the Ocean and Rhin.
It was difficult the arrival of other peoples there because of thick forests, virgin jungles, torrential rivers, impassable ways-through, long winters and numerous wild animals. Even Gauls, deprived of any contact and forced to strive for their existence and preservation, remained in a half-savage state.
A clan was supreme authority, or rather, family concept and experience of the elders.
Since they lived by hunting and fishing, they worshiped images of those animals and worn them as amulets, along with feathers, bones, et cetera.
They are properly described by Pliny: their aspect was fierce and their gaze was grim, used stones and coarse spears for their defense, and his savage and guttural cries scared and drove away the enemy army. Priestly or Druidical caste was the most representative of Gauls. Since their childhood they were devoted to the goddess of war. They lived detached from their parents, reared by priests, and instructed in the art of war and manipulation of weapons.
As they became adults, the entire people served and revered them. In the beginning of spring, when the snow melted away, or more exactly, after the first full moon of March, it was time to fight.
They led their people like gods-warriors. Battles took place among their own tribes or all together against barbarians of the other shore of the Rhin. Eventually Romans defeated them.
Devoid of mythology, they worshiped Nature, trees, mountains, rivers and, over all, their ancestors. They had a house of virgins devoted to serve in the temple; they worshiped and constantly revered the Moon.
During full moons, they got out in white, forming long rows, singing hymns and beseeching help. The oldest and more expert virgin became a pythoness; she foretold by entrails of newly-sacrificed birds the future of tribes, destiny of peoples, hour of war, and signs of blessing or curse.
Memory of this religion and culture, acquired in the course of time, remained hidden as Christianity arrived.
But since nothing dies and everything renews itself, the very Christians that had consigned it to oblivion, exposed it during the Renaissance, and then religions were totally unburied, studied and loved.
A civilization with wonderful cities, called today Paris, Lyon, Antwerp, et cetera, flourished in the country of the Gauls.