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The Circles

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Preface
Julius Cæsar
Strabo
Diodorus Siculus
Cicero
Pliny
Pomponius Mela
Diogenes Laertius
Suetonius
Ammianus Marcellinus
Tacitus
Druids and Bards
Llywelyn Sion
Contents
A List of Documents
The Origin of Letters, Roll, and Paper.--The Virtue of Letters
The Origin and Progress of Letters.--The Name of God.--The Bardic Secret
The First Inventors of Letters.--Improvers of the Alphabet.--Invention of the Roll and Plagawd.--Obligation of a Bard to Hold a Chair and Gorsedd
Origin of Letters
The Inventor of Vocal Song.--The First Recorders of Bardism.--Its First Systematizers.--Their Regulations.--Mode of Inscribing the Primary Letters.--Origin of Their Form and Sound.--The Three Menws
The Principal Elements of Various Things.--The Gogyrvens
The Invention of Letters by Einigan and Menw.--The Secret of Bardism
Cuttings.--Foundations of Awen
Origin and Progress of Letters.--Einigan the Giant.--The Gwyddoniaid.--Systems of Letters
The Origin of Letters and Books.--Their Introduction into Britain--The Coelbren
The Primary Letters.--Improvement of the Alphabet
Primary Cuttings.--Improvement of the Coelbren.--Its Restoration
Recovery of the Old Cymraeg
The Primary Letters.--Their Augmentation.--Restoration of the Coelbren
The Bardic Secret
The Sacred Symbol
The Primary Letters.--Improvement of the Alphabet
Gogyrvens.--Writing With Ink
The Three First Words of the Cymraeg
The Primary Letters.--Names of the Coelbrens
Classification of the Letters
The Bardic Secret.--Formation of Letters
The Vowels
The Primary Letters
Variations of Letters
The Sixteen Primary Symbols
Introduction of Letters.--Original Country of the Cymry.--Their Arrival in Britain.--Augmentation of the Alphabet
Coelbren of the Bards, According to the Arrangement of Llawdden
The Symbols of Literary Sciences.--Improvement of the Coelbren.--Metrical Canons.--Dissolution of the Monastery of Pen Rhys
The Pillars of Memory.--The Symbols
The Birds of Rhianon
The Five Ages of Letters
The Three Symbols of Sciences
The Three Primitive Symbols.--The Three Coelbren Symbols
Numbers
The Nine Degrees of Numerals
The System of Numerals
Arithmetic
The System of Numerals
Numerals
The Numerals
The Arithmetical Characters of the Ancient Cymry; That is, the Numerals
The Three Symbols
The Materials of Language and Speech
The Three Wreathed Bards
Coelbren of the Bards
Coelbren of the Bards
Coelbren of the Bards
Peithynen
Coelbren of the Bards
Secret Coelbren.--Secret Coelvain.--Coelvain of History
Burning the Letters
Coelbren of Simple Letters
Palm Coelbren
Peithyn Coelbren.--Palm Coelbren
Peithynvain
Memorials
Plagawd
The Three Principal Materials of Knowledge
The Herald-Bard
Dasgubell Rodd
Triads of Bardism
Theological Triads
Theological Triads
Theological Triads
Theological Triads
Theological Triads
Theological Triads
Druidism
God
Cythraul
Ceugant.--Duration.--God
The Three Imperceptibilities of God
The Bards' Enigma
The Twelve Primary Negatives
Bardic Aphorisms
The Divine Names
IAU
Hu the Mighty
The Circles
The Book of Bardism
Abred.--Gwynvyd.--Awen
The Three States
Annwn.--Life.--Death
Abred
The Origin of Man.--Jesus Christ.--Creation
The Creation.--The First Man.--The Primary Letters
The Discipline Of Bardism. The Creation
The Creation.--Worship.--Vocal Song.--Gwyddoniaid
The Material of the World
The Fall In Abred
God in the Sun
God in the Light
Triads of Bardism
God; and the Faculties of the Soul
Sentences of Bardism
The Ten Commandments of the Bards
The Ten Commandments of the Bards
The Rudiments of Theology
The Triads of St. Paul
The Triads of St. Paul
The Triads of St. Paul and Bardism
Triads of Bardism and Usages
Triads of Bardism
The Mode of Taking Food and Drink
The Gorsedd Prayer
The Prediction of Peredur, The Bard of Prydain
The Stanza of the Gorsedd Chair of the Winter Solstice
Triads of Wisdom
The Elements
Triads of Bardism. The Elements
The Triads of Bardism, Called the Triads of Ionabwy. The Elements
Bardism, &c. The Elements
The Elements
The Elements
The Elements
Bardism. The Elements
The Materials
The Elements
The Elements
The Materials of Man
The Eight Materials of Man
The Seven Materials of Man
The Seven Primary Materials of the World
The Eight Materials of Man
The Parts of the Human Body in Which are the Faculties
The Philosophy of the Blue Bard of the Chair
Particular Triads
Triads of Ten Numbers
Mutual Reasoning Between a Disciple and his Teacher
The Stars
Astronomy
Chronology
Chronology
The Memorial of Computation.--The Memorial of Country
Memorial and Computation
The Cycle of Time
The Months
The Beginning of the Year
The Three Circles of the Sun
The Four Quarters of the Year
The Albans
The Divisions of the Year
The Divisions of the Year
The Divisions of the Year
The Divisions Of The Year
The Divisions of the Year
The Divisions of the Day
The Divisions of the Day
The Divisions of the Day
The Divisions of the Day
The Divisions of the Day
Years of the Sun and Moon
Years of the Sun and Moon
Years of the Sun And Moon
Days of Days
Special Pages: Errata

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The Circles

THE CIRCLES. 1

The Circle of Abred, in which are all corporal and dead existences.

The Circle of Gwynvyd, in which are all animated and immortal beings.

The Circle of Ceugant, where there is only God. The wise men describe them thus, in three Circles.

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p. 223 Some persons, and among them M. Henri Martin, the celebrated French Historian, are of opinion that the three Circles of existence are represented in the old stone enclosures of the Bards, such as Avebury, and in the wheels observable on ancient British coins.

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