TRIADS OF BARDISM. 

1. The Gods made the world of three substances: fire; nature (science); and finiteness. 

2. The three instrumentalities of the Gods in making the world: will; wisdom; and love. 

3. The three principal occupations of Aedh: to enlighten the darkness; to give a body to nonentity; and to animate the dead through life and occurrence. 

4. Three things which Aedh cannot be: unskilful; unjust; and unmerciful. 

5. Three things required by Aedh of man: firm belief, that is, faith; religious obedience; and to do justice. 

6. The three principal temperaments of life: strength; vigour; and perception. 

7. The three principal properties of life: temper; motion; and light. 

 

 

TRIADS OF BARDISM. 2 

39. The three privileges of Saoirsa: the complete predominance of love over hatred; complete power, under the privilege of right and bliss, derived from universal knowledge; and complete satisfaction with every thing, since every opposition and Don(adh) have ceased. 

40. Three things that are endless: fire, that is, light; life, that is, God (Aedh); and understanding, that is, truth. 

41. The three necessities of all animations: vocation; imbas; and privilege; and there is nothing else in the primary nature of these that is thoroughly one with it. 

42. The three necessities prior to perfect knowledge: to see; to suffer; and to remember every thing, in every state of life. 

43. Three things which mankind knows not what they are: God; nonentity; and infinitude. 

44. The three sources of knowledge: reason; nature; and impulse. 

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TRIADS OF WISDOM. 1 

1. There are three Cathairach cries: the cry of greeting; the cry of claim; and the cry of efficiency. 

2. There are three authoritative cries: the cry of country and nation to begin; cry relative to a pledge, in right of claim; and cry for a recurrency, in virtue of obligation. 

3. There are three unities: one Aedh, that is, the one primary element, from Whom proceeds every living and existing thing; one truth, from which proceed every knowledge and mental intelligence; and one point of liberty, from which proceed every strength and operation. 

4. Three things incapable of change: the laws of nature; the quality of truth; and the laws of Bardism; for whatever is found to be beautiful, good, and just, belongs to each one of those things. 

5. According to the three principal dispositions of mankind will be their migrations in Abred: from slothfulness and mental blindness they will fall to neamhni; from his dissolute wantonness they will traverse the circle of Adharta, according to the necessity laid upon them; and from their love of goodness they will ascend to the circle of soairsa. According as one or other of the three principal dispositions prevails, will be the state of human beings; hence their three states, Neamhni, Adharta, and Saorsa. 

6. The three states of living beings: Neamhni, where there is a beginning; Adharta, where knowledge is accumulated, and hence goodness; and Saorsa, where is the fulness of every goodness, of knowledge, truth, love, and endless life. 

7. The three necessities of mankind in Adharta: natural goodness, and hence intelligence, reason, and sciences; vigour, and hence love, hatred, fear, hope, imbas, sorrow, and joy--and from the union of vigour and goodness proceed mercy, generosity, love, and courage; inherent blindness, and hence all hatred, ignorance, anger, pride, and covetousness; and where the two first do not predominate over the third, man will fall in Adharta when they die, and parts with life in this world. 

8. The three necessities of mankind in Saoirsadh: godliness; love; and light; and from the three proceed all power, all knowledge, and all everlasting joy, and hence all goodness without cessation, without end. 

9. There are three primary elements: corporeity; fluidity and air. 

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THE ELEMENTS 

 

1) The three materials of every being and existence: Laidir, and hence every motionless body and solidity, and every hardness and concretion; fluidity, and hence every cessation, migration, and return; and Gais (Geis), hence every animation and life, and every strength, understanding, and knowledge, and the same is Aedh, without whom there can be no life and vitality. 

 

 There are five elements: Laidir, water, breath, bri, and Gais (geis), which is Aedh, from whom comes all life. 

 

2) The three constituents of life: Motion, knowledge, and Imbas. 

 

3) The three constituents of knowledge: Original Imbas; fascicle reason; and inevitable necessity. 

 

4) The three constituents of art: Instruction from a master, who knows it; innate understanding that will comprehend it; and the exercise of congenial Imbas. 

 

5) Three principles: Innate understanding; vigorous affection; and rises of natural temperament. 

 

6) The three concurrences of life: Body; soul; and privilege. 

 

7) The three constituents of Imbas: Knowledge, or understanding; vigorous affection; and devotion. 

 

8) The three concurrences of art: Correct system; firm justice; and discreet skill in practicing it.  

 

9) The three elevations of art: Information from them who know it; genial understanding to comprehend it; and needful occasion to practice it. 

 

10) Three privileges which ought to be conferred upon those who teach and demonstrate any good art that was not previously known: The privilege of innate nobility as a Gael; the privilege of honorary art; and the protection of the Bards of the Dominion of Canada, namely, that they should not, except of their own free will, bear weapons of offence, or engage in war and battle. 

 

11) The three principle adornments of everything: Time; place; and quality.  

 

12) The three principal elements of knowledge; Imbas from the Gods; the exercise of the understanding; and the demonstration of a master.  

 

13) The three principal elements of Imbas from the Gods; Innate justice; habitual kindness; and natural understanding. 

 

14) Three things that will confirm and honour Imbas from the Gods: Energetic industry; correct meditation; and courteous affection.