Coelbren Rhodd

The Coelbren Rhodd is said to be an ancient druidic catechism mentioned by Richard Williams Morgan in his 1861 book St. Paul in Britain or the Origin of the British as opposed to Papal Christianity. Morgan claimed that only fragments of the catechism were extant, the fragment featured in his book consists of a discourse between a master and a student.

The master questions the student regarding the cycle of re-incarnation from Annwn (lowest state) through cycles of Abred (probation state) in Bŷd mawr (lower-than-human-state) to our present incarnation in Bŷd bychan (human state) and onwards towards Gwynfyd (perfect liberty), having traversed every Rhith (form of life). Upon completion of this cycle, it is suggested that the student will know "all good and all evil in every kind and quality, so that there should be nothing conceivable by God which should not be experienced."

Discussing the Damwain (character of life), the student describes it as having been "all misery, all hardship, all evil, all suffering, and little of good or happiness has there been of me before I am man."