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PART SIX

THREE

GREEN

BOOKS

Reformed Druids like stories and short pithy wisdom sayings. Over

the years, various Arch-Druids have collected good stories to share

with their fellow Grove members, especially during the meditative

part of the Order of Worship. Some consider the meditation to be

the very heart and purpose of the ritual, so chose a selection care-

fully. If you can’t find one, perhaps one of these may work for you.

At Carleton, the first Green Book (named after its cover), proved

influential, but the 2nd and 3rd volumes seem much less so.

T HE D RYNEMTUM P RESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sayings of Mohammed

Morning Star

Overwhelming

1966 Introduction by Frangquist

1976 Introduction by Shelton

1996 Note by Scharding

Sayings of the Unitarians

Out of the Stars

GREEN BOOK Volume One

Sayings of Baha’u’llah

Sayings of the Ancient Druids

On the Soul

On Politics

On Religion

On Various Things

Sayings from the Poets

A Faery Song

The Prophet

Fergus and the Druid

Sayings of the Hindus

Rig-Veda: To the Waters

The Arthura Veda: Hail!

Upanishads:Self

Rig-Veda: Creation

Bhagavad Gita: Atman

Sri-Ramakrishna

Sayings of the Hindus

Sayings of the Psychologists

GREEN BOOK Volume Two

Celtic, Native American,African, Hindu & Greek Writings

Sayings from the Buddhists

Four Noble Truths

Questions not Edification

Rain Cloud

Mahayana Ideal

Sayings from the Buddhists

English Poetry

Stopping by the Woods

Jabberwocky

Welsh and Irish Poetry

Sayings from Zen Masters

The Waterfall

Sadness in Spring

Rain Outside

Winter and Warfare

Mountain Snow

Bright Trees

Spoils of Annwn

Cad Goddeau

Leadership

Sunshine Through My Window

Suggested further reading

Two Mice

Miracles

Gutei’s finger

Dialogue for Lodging

Haiku

Sayings of the Taoist Sages

Thirty Spokes

Block of Wood

Water

Counting Words

Traveling

Thirteen Fold Mysteries

Nichol’s 13

Williams’ 13

Graves’ 13

Another 13

Sayings of Confucius

Confucius the Man

On learning

Reciprocity

Religion

Gentlemen

The Voyage of Bran

Proverbs of the Modern Gaels

From the Old Testament

Advice

Attitudes

Behavior

Company

Contentment

Death

Education & Experience

Fate

Fighting

Foolishness

God & Heaven

Greed

Hope

Humor

Psalm 104

Psalm 8

From the New Testament

Sermon on the Mount

I Corinthians 13

From the New Testament

Sayings from the Zoroastrian

Prayer for Guidance

Sayings from the Zoroastrian

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Hypocrisy & Integrity

Love

Nature

Politics

Pride

Tact & Talk

Wisdom

Work

GREEN BOOK Volume Three

Oriental and Monotheist Wisdom

Zen Koans

See his Buddha Nature

Yueh holds it

Pai-yuns’ Black and white

The Dry Creek

Yueh-shan’s Lake

Living Alone

Nan Ch’uan’s rejection

Wisdom of the Native Americans

Born Natural

Sacred Earth

Silent Vigils

Simple Truth

Courtesy

Conversation

Persistence

Crowned Leadership

Pine Tree Chiefs

Not By Bread Alone

Show Me

Free Wisdom

Quarreling about God

God Made Me This Way

Pausing

Please Listen

The Views of Two Men

Misfortune

Pretty Pebbles

The Power of Paper

Frantic Fools

Cities

The White Man’s Dreams

The Vigil

Thoughts from Confucius

Tao of Pooh

The Stone cutter

The Cork

Te of Piglet

Making the best of it

Sherlock on religion

Emperor’s horses

Incognito

Three Treasures

Fantasies

Live, but live well

Illusions

Samurai’s late supper

The Gospel According to Zen

Jesus said...

Gasan and the bible

Stringless Harp

Eat when Hungry

Sporting Fish

Empty Boats

Three in the Morning

Zen Archery

Meshing Nets

Wisdom of the Africans

Proverbs on Wisdom

Proverbs on Truth and Falsehood

Proverbs on Human Conduct

Proverbs on Virtue

Proverbs on Cooperation and Contentment

Proverbs on Opportunity

Proverbs on Human Beings

Proverbs on Nature

Proverbs on Leadership

The Butterflies of Chuang Tzu

The Dream

What is Acceptable?

The Argument

Happy Fish

Seven Openings

Look Under Your Feet

The Sacred Tortoise

The Frog in the Well

The Caged Sea-bird

Swimming Boatmen

Old Man Fall into Water

More Wisdom of the African World

Wisdom of the Hindus and Greeks

Frogs Desiring a King

The Bat, the Birds and the Beasts

the Dog and the Wolf

The Fox and the Grapes

The Lion and the Statue

The Man and His Wives

The Two Crabs

Hercules and the Waggoner

The Man and the Wooden God

The Miser

The Bundle of Sticks

The Buffoon and the Countryman

The Serpent and the File

Christian Selections

Is God A Taoist?

Christian Thoughts

John Shea and bird

Monika Hellwig Catholic

On Nature and On Blood

Original Lilith Myth

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Oriental and Monotheist Wisdom

Wisdom of the Africans

Wisdom of the Hindus and Greeks

Scots Gaelic Poems

Not a Good Pupil

Hidden Depths

The Secret

The Wisdom of Silence

Grateful to Allah

Safety

Happiness is not where you seek it

There is More Light Here

The Blind Man and the Lamp

Salt is not Wool

The Trip

Something Fell

The Tax Man

Appreciation

Forgotten Question

A Moment in Time

All I Needed was Time

The Short Cut

To Deal with the Enemy

The Heron

The Great Artist

Three Random Pieces

Brotherhood

A Starfish

An Island with Two Churches

Wit and Wisdom of Islam

The Fool and the King

The Breaking

The Stink of Greed

The Claim

Names

The Muezzin’s Call

The Drum

The Majesty of the Sea

Ambition

Acquaintance

The Guest

The Man with the really ugly face

The Mirror

Is it Me?

The Gypsy and his Son

Where There’s a Will

The Sermon of Nasrudin

Nasrudin and the Wise Men

First Things First

Whose Shot was That?

Same Strength

The Value of the Past

Second Thoughts

The Orchard

The Grammarian

Wit and Wisdom of Islam

Various Other Quotes

Art, Beauty, and Poetry

Community and Conversation

Custom, Justice, and Law

Death and Fate

Earth and Ecology

Education and Learning

Fear and Freedom

Fools and Humor

Leadership

Practical Simplicity

Prayer

Priests

Religion

Silence

Travel

Truth

Wisdom

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Various Other Quotes

The Green Book

Volume One

the consciousness of the Carleton Grove, larger even, perhaps, than

the Druid Chronicles. These meditations were gathered by David

Frangquist as an aid to lazy Arch-Druids (or so he said), and the

collection was bound in green covers which readily distinguish it

from the black covers of the Book of Worship and the blue covers of

the Archives; indeed at Carleton it is called simply “the green book”—

and that has become in effect its title. These meditations found their

way with increasing frequency into services at Carleton, not from

increasing laziness, but from increasing awareness of the treasures

that David had gathered together between the green covers. Mem-

bers of the grove would often borrow the book for their own medita-

tion and reflection, and eventually the essence and core of Druidism

at Carleton could be found in seminal form within this free-form,

eclectic collection more than any place else—save only the great world

at large, whence, after all, these meditations came.

And so we have thought it appropriate to print The Green Book

to bring it to a larger audience, in the hope that others, too, may find

it useful in the search for awareness. The pages of the original are

unnumbered, for David encouraged his successors to add such medi-

tations as they found appropriate. We encourage our readers to do

likewise, and have accordingly left the pages unnumbered. There

have been additions since David’s time, but they have been few. For

this edition we have included several selections that have long wanted

adding; the Yeats poems, for example, which have almost become

part of the Carleton liturgy. We have resisted the temptations to

make a few excisions. We should especially have liked to excise the

“Sayings of the Ancient Druids” which are no more Druidic than is

Stonehenge, and which certainly cannot be said to represent the

beliefs of the Reformed Druids; yet David included it, and we shall

not gainsay him.

Herewith, then is The Green Book, in substantially the same form

as it was bequeathed to Carleton by David. May you find joy in the

reading!

The Original 1966 Introduction

Those who join the Reformed Druids are, in one sense or an-

other, religious rebels. They are usually fed up with the hypocrisies

and inadequacies of the institutionalized churches. They seek a sa-

tyric outlet, and they find it in Druidism. But they are seldom anti-

religious. On the contrary, they often feel that there is in fact some

truth to be found in religion, and this belief is affirmed in the Basic

Tenets. A common complaint among Druids is that the truth has

been obscured because they have been forced, more or less against

their will, into various particular religious molds. They seek to be

freed—freed in order to freely seek, and to make independent judg-

ments on what passes for religious truth.

Druidism, as an institution, must remain independent. It can never

hope to profess absolute truth; for when it does, it then will become

no better than the fossilized institutions from which its members

have fled. But even while it systematically shuns dogmatism, it can—

and must—still lead. It must provide the opportunity for discovery,

which many of its members have never had. It must, in short, pro-

vide in its written meditations a taste of the writings of the world’s

great religions, in the hope that this taste will stimulate a wider search

for knowledge and wisdom in the quest for religious truth.

As Arch-Druid, you are charged with preparing meditations which

will prove meaningful to the congregation. In order to do this, you

must choose selections from the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Taoists,

the Muslims, and many others, as well as from the Bible. You must

provide a wide variety in order to give truth a chance. The best method

is to study widely yourself. But this can be too time-consuming. I

therefore strongly urge you to purchase, for your own edification, an

excellent and useful collection: Viking Portable #5, Henry Ballou’s

World Bible. It is available in paper for less than $2.00, or in hard-

cover for slightly more. The selections are short and illuminating,

and the editor exhibits a bias which can almost be called Druidic. It

makes a good beginning.

For those Arch-Druids who are lazier still, or who suddenly find

themselves in desperate need of a meditation at the last minute, I

offer the following collection. It is hoped that the collection, although

short, is representative and especially useful for Reformed Druids.

Richard M. Shelton

Ellen Conway Shelton

Editors, 1974

Note by the Current Editor

The Green Book (volume 1) never quite made it to being officially

published. By 1976, all but a few of the exemptions from copyrights

were acquired. However, the task became too difficult and other con-

cerns occupied the attention of the Sheltons. As a result, the legality

of publishing this collection is rather dubious and it probably will

remain as an underground publication. For no particular reason, I

have kept their selections in the order that they were presented to me

(including a rebellious selection from the Old Testament that is mis-

chievously hiding in the Buddhist section of The Green Book). I

have neither deleted nor added any new selections to the first vol-

ume, but you may feel free to add new selections or take out selec-

tions (especially the ones from the “Ancient Druids”), if you wish.

As stated before, The Green Book, was near to the heart of Druid-

ism until the early 80’s when Carleton Druidism lapsed. When it

revived in the mid-80s, Carleton students had taken a greater inter-

est in Neo-Paganism, Wiccan and Native American beliefs; areas

rarely explored before that time. As a result, The Green Book has

not received much attention since due to its Monotheistic and Asian

foci. However for me, the Green Book is a powerful reminder of the

breadth of sources that Reformed Druidism can and should draw

upon during the searches for religious truth.

I have been especially encouraged to follow David’s request that

the Arch-Druid should collect and distribute meditations conducive

to Druidism (a vague and daunting task!). I have, as of 1994, pub-

lished two other volumes of meditation; which are just as dubious

David A. Frangquist

Editor, 1966

PREFACE to 1976 Edition

In the first few years after the foundation of Reformed Druidism

at Carleton College, there became attached to the office of Arch-

Druid three collections of written material, which became known

collectively as the Three Books of the Arch-Druid. Handed down

over the years from Arch-Druid to Arch-Druid, they have acquired

for the Druids at Carleton some measure of venerability, such as the

scant age of the Reform can confer.

The first of these, The Book of the Worship of the Earth-Mother,

preserves much of the liturgy used in the beginning, though indeed

as the Reform grew, so did the realization that liturgy cannot remain

fixed and static while religious outlook changes. So today each pre-

siding priest is encouraged to write liturgy that he can celebrate with-

out antagonizing his own religious scruples; and while much is still

drawn from the Book of Worship, its influence is less than it once

was. The second book, the Archives, though of much historical in-

terest, has hardly ever borne much influence on the religious activity

at Carleton.

By contrast, the Book of Written Meditations has waxed large in

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