The Religion of the Gaul's M.H. Gaidoz . Understandings that among the Gaul's the people were reduced almost to the condition of slavery, that they had no initiative in anything, and that their opinion was consulted on no point, the conquer tells us that there were 2 classes only of any account or any position · Class 1 = the Knights . Class 2 = the Druids (A druid was a member of the high-ranking class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lore keepers, medical professionals, and political advisors. Druids left no written accounts.) ? . Excommunicate (sacrifice) is the worst punishment and you can get this by commuting any crime; murder, dispute - if any private person or any people in both public or private do any crime they are punished to death . The Druids are accustomed to taking no part in war, nor do they pay taxes together with the rest; they have an exemption from military service and are free of every other charge - attracted by such advantages, many resorts to their school even of their own accord, while others are sent by their parents and relations (they continue their education for 20 years) . They wish to inculcate this idea, that soul does not die, but passes after death from one person to another; and they think by this means men are very much instigated to exercise of bravery, the fear of death being despised . They also have many discussions concerning the stars and their motion, the magnitude of the world and the earth, nature, and science, and the force and power of the immortal gods, and they instruct the youth in them · The priest - sorcerer, medical man - but in a primitive social life . Man is surrounded by invisible powers; he is in contact with them when he is overtaken by the storm, when he is ill, and when his very cattle seem to suffer · There are in his tribe or in his village men who understand invisible spirits, who know how to appease them or master them by their charms, by their rites, and by their talisman - these men are feared and respected . The priest, in a world, is the "agent" of the supernatural . The druids were something more though; they were judges - they judged between individuals, and they judged between peoples, facts which show how great their authority . The sanction of their judgment was religious; people bowed before their award as before the utterance of gods, and he who did not give way was excommunicated . It is possible that some of them may have been initiated into the systems of Greek philosophy, and may have tried to diffuse them around them - this might thus be
explained why, according to the strange statement of Caesar, they taught a sort of metempsychosis . The Gaul's, like all barbarian peoples, believed in the immortality