23/07/2026
George Washington
An Embodiment of the Ascended Master Godfre
George Washington's role in creating the new government for the United States was at least as important as his military role. Serving as president of the Constitutional Convention, he was the sun in the midst of the solar system that held the states together. It is doubtful that the states would have so patiently forged a union had he not been there. Not only was he universally recognized as the only acceptable candidate for the first president, but he was the office incarnate. No one at the Constitutional Convention had any idea what the president would be like except that he would be like Washington. They created the office and established its requirements by their perception of his virtues.
What marked him as an individual is that he knew his self-worth. By his example, he maintained the morale of the troops; by his untiring insistence with Congress, he obtained the food, the clothes, and the am******on absolutely necessary. And when Congress was entirely disorganized and helpless, Washington paid to keep his men alive out of his own pocket. Like no other, Washington put his life, fortune, and sacred honor on the line for the cause.
The clergy proclaimed that he was an instrument of God -"one of thine own sons" — who saved this country. They called him the "great preserver," "so great a deliverer," and compared him to Moses, Joshua, and Gideon. When even Benjamin Franklin could not persuade the French king to give the American revolutionaries further material assistance, Washington prevailed by sending his own aide-de-camp to Versailles— and by prayer.
Washington had the thrust of power from Almighty God. We hear this in his first inaugural address when he said:
“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And, in the important revolution just accomplished, in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude, along with a humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seems to presage.”
In 1770, an Indian chief had this to say of Washington:
“I am a chief and the ruler of many tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes, and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I may see the young warrior of the great battle.... It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed with the streams of our forest that I first beheld this chief. I called to my young men, and said, "Mark yon tall and daring warrior. He is not of the Red-coat tribe; he has an Indian's wisdom, and his warriors fight as we do; himself, alone, is exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies!" Our ri**es were leveled, ri**es which, but for him, knew not how to miss-'twas all in vain; a power far mightier than we, shielded him from harm; he cannot die in battle.”
“I am old, and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of shades, but ere I go, there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy. Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies; he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire.”
The great efforts of Francis Bacon and Washington came to fruition with the adoption of the Constitution, a document that embodied the principles of the Brotherhood. It provided that each individual would prosper based on his own efforts— the civil application of the initiatic path of the Masons. And it protected by law freedoms such as no land had ever enjoyed - speech, religion, press, and assembly. Each person might then be free to work out his individual destiny as he saw fit.
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