The Organisation and Religion to Re-unite All Religions

 

Institutional Bardic Triads

 

Three principal memorials of the Bards of the Island of Britain: The memorial of Song, the memorial of the Voice Conventional, and the memorial of Privilege and Usage.

Three paramount purposes of Bardism: To improve morals, to establish peace, and to celebrate the praises of all that is excellent and good.

Three things forbidden to a Bard: Immoral demeanour, invective song, and the bearing of weapons of warfare.

Three principle methods of instruction employed by the Bards of the Isle of Britain: Oral Tradition, Poetry of Song, and the Rites of the Bardic Convention.

Three reasons for joy to the Bards of the Isle of Britain: The increase of general knowledge, the improvement of popular manners, and the triumph of peace over lawlessness and anarchy.

Three grand triumphs of the Bards of Britain: The triumph of learning over ignorance, the triumph of reason over absurdity, and the triumph of order over chaos.

Three congenialities of the Bards of Britain: To explain the truth and diffuse a knowledge thereof; to praise and to perpetuate all that is good and excellent; and to establish peace instead of waste and depredation.

Three indispensable duties of the Bards of Britain: To observe secrecy for the sake of peace and the public good; to sing dispraise and lamentation when justice requires; and to unsheathe the sword against depredation and lawlessness.

Three things to be preserved by the Bards of the Island of Britain: The Kymric language, Primitive Bardism, and the memory of all nobility and goodness.

Three things are above controversy: The privileges, the poetry, and the traditions of the Bardic Convention.

Three indispensable qualifications of a Bard: A genius for song, knowledge of the mysteries of Bardism, and an irreproachable personal character.

Three injunctions of avoidance binding upon a Bard: He must avoid sloth, as being a man of diligence and exertion; he must avoid contention, as being a man of goodwill and peace; and he must avoid folly, as being a man of reason and understanding.

 

Sources and Credits:
The Welsh Bardic Triads.