A work in progress with many more links to capture as I reread the old books. Now that we have a new Cauldron to store them in. TDK
Chains of Office::
>> Nor was anyone permitted to enter their sacred retreats, unless he bore a chain.<< Ref. http://masonicencyclopedia.com/topic/?i=4144
Gold Chain:>>The ovade wore a gold chain round his neck. And the apprentice when initiated has a silk cord, in masonic parlance a cable-tow, suspended from his throat. Like the ovade, the apprentice is blindfolded, and as the former was led through the mazes of a labyrinth, the latter is led backwards and forwards, and in various directions. Thunder and lightning were counterfeited in the initiation of a Druid, and in that of the Royal Arch the Companions fire pistols, clash swords, overturn chairs, and roll cannon balls across the floor. The tiler stands at the door with a drawn sword. And tests of fortitude though less severe than in former times are not unknown among Masons.<<
http://masoniclibrary.com/books/Freemasonry%20and%20The%20Druids%20-%20W%20Winwood%20Reade.pdf
Colors::
The ceremony of initiation into the Druidical Mysteries required much preliminary mental preparation and physical purification. The aspirant was clothed with the three sacred colors, white, blue, and green; white as the symbol of Light, blue of Truth, and green of Hope. When the rites of initiation were passed, the tri-colored robe was changed for one of green; in the Second Degree, the candidate was clothed in blue; and having surmounted all the dangers of the Third, and arrived at the summit of perfection, he received the red tiara and flowing mantle of purest white.<<
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