"I've been in many shapes
Before I assumed a constant form."
___ Taliesin, "Cad Goodeu" (trans J. Matthews)
The Welsh poet Taliesin (Tal-ee-ESS'in) remembers all his past existences on the circuit of births after he has achieved the gift of knowledge. His existence include being a drop in the air, a star, a bridge, an eagle, a sword in battle, a string in a harp, and a tree in a grove. He concludes that 'there is nothing of which I have not been a part.' Few of us alive today can speak with any kind of accuracy about the past existences that we have experienced. Human beings do not usually remember their incarnations. It is perhaps fortunate that this is so: if we had memory of everything and everyone that we have been, the burden would be intolerable. It is given to few people to know their full past, because there are indeed few with the maturity of soul to understand and bear the burden with neutrality, without anguish.
Unfortunately inquiry into past lives is now a common pursuit, taught at weekend seminars. Within the bardic initiation, such knowledge was taught to the beginner, nor to the curious, nor to those who wish to discount the faults of their present life by casting responsibility onto another era, place or person; it was taught only to those with the maturity not to misuse the knowledge. The poet's fusion with the myriad life forms of nature is thereafter never just a memory, but a potent, living understanding of life as it is lived in the present moment. Let us be grateful for the often salutary glimpses that we are given of our own turigin and learn all we can from them.
"Review the disharmonious recurrent patterns in your present life if you want to learn more of past lives. These patterns reveal things you need to deal with or assimilate."
[From: "The Celtic Spirit" by Caitlin Matthews]
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