Gen. G. Washington said during the Revolution:
'We can't guarantee victory, but we can deserve it.'
"We
have this day no less than 2,873 men in camp, unfit for
duty because they are
barefooted and otherwise naked."—Gen. G. Washington
at Valley Forge
"If every nerve is not
straind to recruit the New Army with all possible Expedition
I think the game is pretty near up . . . No Man I believe
ever had a greater choice
of difficulties and less the means of extricating himself
than I have—However
under a full perswation of the justice of our Cause I
cannot but think
the prospect will brighten."—Gen. G. Washington
after successes of 1776
at Trenton and Princeton
"A character to lose—an
estate to forfeit—the inestimable blessing of liberty
at stake—and a life devoted, must be my excuse .
. . it was much easier
to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good
fire-side,
than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost
and snow,
without clothes or blankets."—Gen. G. Washington
at Valley Forge
"Tomorrow being the day
set apart by the Honorable Congress for public
Thanksgiving and Praise; and duty calling us devoutly
to express our grateful
acknowledgements to God for the manifold blessings he
has granted us,
the General directs that the army remain in its present
quarters,
and that the Chaplains perform divine service with their
several Corps
and Brigades. And earnestly exhorts, all officers and
soldiers, whose absence
is not indispensably necessary, to attend with reverence
the solemnities of the day."
—Gen. G. Washington at Valley Forge on 17 December
"This is Thanksgiving Day.
God knows we have very little to keep it with,
this being the third day we have been without flour or
bread,
and are living on a high, uncultivated hill, in huts and
tents,
lying on the cold ground. Upon the whole I think all we
have to be thankful
for is that we are alive and not in the grave with many
of our friends."
—Lt. Col. Henry Dearborn's diary entry of 18 December
"If the government gets
into business on any large scale, we soon find
that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in
the control.
While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice
it will be very largely serving
private interests."—Calvin Coolidge
Surgeon Albigence Waldo observed
of that encampment,
"Mankind is never truly thankful for the benefits
of life, until
they have experienced the want of them."
"If that was treason—then
make the most of it."—Patrick Henry
"[He] possessed the gift
of silence."—President John Adams
on George Washington's exercise of discretion as a general
and president
"You can't stop a politician,
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"I recall now Valley Forge. I recall the war for the independence
of the colonies. I recall that revolution reversing the course
of the karma of Europe which the dark
ones would have placed upon America by entanglement, by association,
by taxation. And I see the great vision and the diamond light
of the mind of George Washington,
who by the thrust of the mind of God became the whitefire
core reversing that energy back to that shore from whence it came.
"I see him kneeling in prayer, praying on behalf of America.
And I see legions from the God Star Sirius hearken to the prayers
of the general. I see how the words spoken from his lips on that
cold day in the wood were heard by the mighty
blue eagle of Sirius, who responded instantaneously
—these legions of light who made their way, encamping round
about him and among the men and, by the infusion of that Godlight,
securing the victory.
"America is the miracle of ascended-master
love. America is a miracle land of violet fire; America is the
victory of God’s desire. America is the land of the abundance
of the Mother flame! America is the land where the children of
God are called home to the I AM name. America is the land where
sons and daughters of God come forth to enshrine the noble purpose
of God, of sacred worth. America is a
land infused with sacred fire; America is born of God desire.
"I ask you then to secure the famous painting, a replica
thereof, of George Washington kneeling in prayer. I ask that this
shall be the sign of those who love America in Christ, in God,
in freedom.I ask that you give this painting to your friends who
are Christians, who are religious, who are devotees, that you
ask them to have it in their homes, and that you ask them to pray
with you for the light and the victory of America.
"And above all I ask you, Keepers of the Flame, to kneel
in prayer once a day with Godfre and with me before you retire
and to remember to call for the victory of light in America and
in the hearts of the American people. And I can assure you by
all that lives and breathes, by all that is holy in love, the
mighty blue eagle from Sirius will answer your call and will deliver
this nation as one nation under God—individed, undivided,
secure in the oneness of the light."
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Saint Germain
The Greater Way of Freedom
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"The most important key we can release to the alchemist at
this stage of his development is found in these words of Jesus:
'Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child
shall in no wise enter therein.' All of the pristine beauties
of nature—the ethereal highlights whose gentle glow can
be sensed by the budding spiritual faculties of the children of
God—hold as their essential content the sweet creative longing
of a child.
"I do not wish to disabuse the minds of
the children of men who have held such high and mighty opinions
of the Masters of cosmos of any false glamour with which they
have clothed our office under the Godhead, almost as a gilding
of the cosmic lily. However, I do feel the need to point out,
not only from my own experience but also from the experiences
of those who are above me in the hierarchy, that the higher we
have gone in our contact with the Deity, the more childlike, the
more simple, the more beautiful has been his representation.
"Therefore we conclude that the innocence
of Nature herself is perhaps the greatest key to her potential
for wondrous alchemical creations. We amplify, then, the need
of the children of God to empty their minds of the dregs of turbulent
emotions that have engaged their energies through the centuries
and kept them bound to a senseless round of confusion and struggle.
"The great barrier to spiritual progress
has been that men confuse holy innocence and becoming like a little
child with playing the fool. The highest Masters are childlike,
sweet, and innocent. Nevertheless, when functioning in the world
domain, they sharpen their 'worldly senses' in order to execute
judgment in human affairs.
"The reason I introduce the subject of becoming
'as a little child' into our study of intermediate alchemy is
that every factor of thought and feeling impresses itself upon
the sensitive matrices of alchemical manifestation. No thought
or feeling, then, can be termed unimportant or irrelevant. Without
hesitation, I declare that the most important of all alchemical
factors in drawing forth the highest aspects of creation is the
childlike mind—pure and guileless.
"The child mind is the greatest mind because
its innocence is its best and sure defense, because it is not
surrounded by crowding concepts, and because it is free to develop
symmetry, color, sound, light, and new ideas. In short, it is
free to create; and its supreme goal is to spread happiness in
all of its forms and manifestations, all the while maintaining
the purity and harmlessness of the child.
"Let me say, however, that the idea of harmlessness
is applicable only to the world of human beings, for how can there
be a need for harmlessness unless there first exist harm? When
you destroy harm, you no longer have need to create harmlessness.
In the absence of harm or harmlessness, the innocence of childhood
prevails, enabling the souls of men to commune gently with nature
and nature’s God.
" . . . Among the greatest misconceptions
that have ever been formed in the minds of men is that which concerns
the nature of spiritual realms. Men either think that heaven is
remote, unfulfilling, and lacking in the joys of this world, or
they imagine that it is the ultimate goal—the reward of
the faithful and their relief from the oppressions of a world
of sin, a place where they will have nothing further to do and
all progress will cease.
"In both cases the fallacy is in thinking
that the future will bring man something that is not available
to him today. Life is abundant—here, now, and forever. Wherever
you are, it needs only to be tapped.
"May I say, then, that I have walked and
talked with the elder gods of the race. I have met with the greatest
interplanetary Masters, cosmic and angelic beings. I have attended
ceremonies in the grand halls of the retreats and strolled the
cosmic highways. In short, I have had the most wondrous experiences
since my ascension, and with me still is the memory of all of
my earthly experiences prior to my ascension.
"But none of these are worthy—even
the highest of them—to be compared with the experiences
I have had in the mind of the Divine Manchild. Thus should the
alchemist realize that neither heaven nor earth can give him that
which he has not already found within himself.
"Truly, 'eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love him.' What a pity that more cannot
shed this false sense of a far-off and future good! The secrets
of life are to be found here below as above. The changing of base
metals into gold would produce only earthly beauty and earthly
wealth. But the changing of the base nature of man into the refined
gold of the Spirit enables him not only to master the world of
the Spirit, but also to take dominion over the material world.
"If all power in heaven and earth is given
unto me, then I can give it to whomsoever I will. Yet would I
will to give it to those who would abuse and misuse it to the
hurt and harm of their brothers?
" . . . Let men learn
to empty themselves completely of their attachments to the earth;
so shall they begin to enter into the childlike mind and spirit
of creative innocence. The greatest angels who keep the way of
the Tree of Life cannot deny those who have reunited with the
wholly innocent mind of God access to Eden. How can they, then,
deny it to the Divine Alchemist in man, who in honor reaches forth
to take the fruit of the Tree of Life that he may indeed live
forever?"
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"Be attentive to the detail of obedience, to precepts holy,
to the voice of our representative, to the voice of God within
you. For by obedience the doors of heaven are open wide and the
cornucopia of abundance of joy, wisdom, light and happiness in
overcoming descend upon you. I know, for I am called God Obedience.
And my testing in obedience was given by the Ascended Master Saint
Germain and by the Goddess of Liberty at Valley Forge and elsewhere
in the fight for independence. I stood unflinchingly obedient
to inner guidance, and it was upon that inner light that this
nation was founded, a nation under God. I can count at least twelve
occasions during the battle when, had I not been obedient to the
flame and the voice, all would have been lost and all would have
perished, and you might find yourself this day a dominion of Great
Britain.
"And so you see, each
act of obedience, to the small, to the great, is an action upon
which a kingdom can be build, and that kingdom is the kingdom
of God come into manifestation upon earth, that kingdom is the
city foursquare. Watch and pray, for each thrust of rightness
and right use of the law, is a thrust that is a challenge in the
very teeth of the rebellious ones, the defiant ones, those who
disobey the fiats of the Lord because they have not his love in
their hearts."
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Washington—Equal to His Times
"To say, '. . . I have embraced the larger cause of the future
of humanity'—to say this, beloved, does make you worthy
to be a chela of the will of God. It is to have the vision, now
enhanced by the presence everywhere of the All-Seeing Eye, the
vision of a larger purpose, and to have the sense of self-worth
that you might see yourself as a part of that purpose, to have
the sense of self-worth that knows that although your role may
seem insignificant, no one's role ever is. For all count as a
part of that one body, having one and several talents, each one
bringing theirs to another and another, that there might be love's
interchange and the rejoicing and the praising God in your midst
and in your members, the praising God that all the pieces of the
mighty mandala of Light may assemble to achieve the day of the
cosmic morn.
" . . . What do we do, then, when we see that those who appear
to be strong and youthful and to have all that it takes to run
a government are in fact at inner levels handicapped spiritually?
" . . . [W]e must invoke a mighty intercession for the descent
of Cosmic Christs that they might enter the arena [of the government
and the economy] to overshadow those who simply are not equal
to their times. George Washington was a man who was equal to his
times. But, . . . he had to grow into his boots, he had to grow
into his uniform, he had to put on the Christ when he did not
know that [what he was putting on] was the Christ or his Christhood.
He put on his Higher Identity and moved forward even though he
was beset with common faults that all have, thoughts of pride
or ambition, desires to do this and that. Yes, beloved, he moved
on, impelled by a higher guidance and the right hand of God.
"This is the understanding I would give to you. You cannot
sit on the sidelines and be a spectator, waiting [to be perfected
so that you can begin your mission]. You know that you have a
mission. You must be up and doing! You must be up and doing, beloved!
You must realize that in the very process of doing what is the
immediate greatest necessity, you are engaging with the forces
of your time, with the energies of the planetary systems and the
light of the sun itself.
" . . . Know that it is the fire of
winter that inspires selfconquest.It is the fire of winter that
compels sacrifice,whereby the old man is set aside, the new man
is born;and that new man is one who is ready to give his all forthe
victory of a cause."
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Let's Pray for America and the World
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"Fortunate, then, for the mission of Elohim that the initiate
son George Washington stood in the cold winter of Valley Forge.
And in that white-fire snow (such as we experience in this hour
at various points on the planet), there was the manifestation
of God-determination to overcome and to dedicate this new nation.
So you understand that it, too, was the hour of the appearance
of the Woman clothed with the Sun, as the Goddess of Liberty appeared
to the initiate of the Buddha and gave the blessing for the incarnation
of the Manchild as the Spirit of Liberty, the spirit of George
Washington, and the spirit of a nation. From that hour, in order
for that child to be born, the war had to be fought. Thus there
is a war once again, as the cycles have turned. And in this century
the new nation, which is a spiritual uniting of all souls of the
seed of Sanat Kumara, is dedicated.
"This spiritual nation is in the birth
pangs in this very hour! And it, too, becomes the Manchild of
the Divine Woman—Mother Mary, the Goddess of Liberty, Kuan
Yin, the Mother flame embodied in the messenger and each one of
you. The Universal Mother through every part of life, conjoining
with the light of Alpha, does give birth then to this mighty victorious
God flame."
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"Would you like to know how I inherited fearlessness flame?
I tell you, I was also embodied in Mater. I also walked the path
of initiation, and when I came to that place where all of the demons
of the night and the fallen ones assailed me to take from me my
own blessed Christ awareness, I knelt in prayer. I called out to
God as God gave to me the awareness of these hordes of darkness
in their array. And I tell you, the discarnates that assail the
holy innocence of the devotees number in the millions, and as vultures
they come to attack the soul—the soul that is about to be
set free in the ritual of overcoming.
"God showed me the horror of the night and
of the fallen ones, and I cried out to him in my prayer and I
said, 'O God, you are greater than all of this, your flame and
your light able to consume the darkness!' And I called to God
for the specific action of the Christ consciousness that I knew
must exist; for no thing, no shadowed one could occupy time and
space without God providing the counterpoint of light, of freedom!
And I called forth the dissolving action of the light of the Christ.
I called forth the ray that I knew would dissolve all that would
assail me in the hour of my victory.
"And I would point out to you that in that moment I faced,
as you will face in the moment of your overcoming, the entire
momentum of fear on that planetary body, fear of evolutions without
attainment, fear of the fallen ones of the second death and of
the judgment. And all of that fear upon me as the clouds of the
night. Yet I concentrated on the faith in the element of grace
that was able to counteract that darkness.
"By that faith in the ultimate existence
in God of the element to counteract fear, I received, after many,
many hours of prayer, the vision of fearlessness flame descending
out of the great God Star as a pencil-light across the sky descending.
And I gazed and I saw and, lo, the descending of that fire came
unto me—to the very place where I knelt in prayer. And as
that ray descended, I saw the components of the inner light. I
saw something of the chemistry of God. I saw elemental beings
ensouling that ray. I saw the piercing white light and the action
of the emerald ray,
piercing all of that darkness!
"And, lo, as the ray descended, I saw the
dissolution of worlds of fear and doubt and all separation from
God. And in the place where darkness was, I saw, lo, angels, hosts
of light, and I heard the music of the spheres carried in fearlessness
flame. And as the ray descended, it burst as a fire around me
and I was enveloped in that fire, that fearlessness flame! And
it burned through me and through my soul and through my chakras
and through my four lower bodies, and it burned until I became
that flame.
"And I surrendered all vestiges of lesser
awareness outside of the Great God Flame, and I saw that God called
me to be the fullness of that flame to many lifewaves. I saw that
God placed upon me the greatest initiation of fear, that I might
receive the greatest blessing of its antidote. In order that I
might carry that fire and be worthy to carry it, I must needs
first perceive all that would oppose that fire, that I might give
answer unto the Lord whether I would stand fast to focus that
flame in the face of all that would oppose it until the ultimate
consummation of the planes of Mater.
"You see, precious ones, whatever
virtue you invoke from the heart of God, you must first slay
the darkness that will assail that virtue. And God will not lower
into the chalice of your heart the elements of that flame until
you have stood by your own light, your own determination, your
own momentum!—until you have stood to conquer those who
would challenge you the moment you would receive that energy.
"God is not an unwise investor of energy. He does not place
in your hand that which you have proven yourself incapable of
defending, else God himself would be bankrupt. And therefore,
the testing, therefore the Path, therefore initiation."
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Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, writing shortly after the Revolutionary
War, affirmed that he personally interviewed Isaac Potts of Valley
Forge about his knowledge of General Washington's religious faith
during the winter encampment there. Rev.
Snowden, who also met with Washington in person, quotes Potts:
"I never believed that America [could] proceed
against Great Britain whose fleets and armies covered the land
and ocean, but something very extraordinary converted me to the
Good Faith!
" . . . Do you see that woods, and that
plain . . . There laid the army of Washington. It was a most distressing
time of ye war, and all were for giving up the Ship but that great
and good man. In that woods pointing to a close in view, I heard
a plaintive sound as, of a man at prayer. I tied my horse to a
sapling and went quietly into the woods and to my astonishment
I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his
sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other.
"He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies,
beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis,
and the cause of the country, of humanity and of the world. Such
a prayer I never heard from the lips of man. I left him alone
praying.
"I went home and told my wife. I saw a sight
and heard today what I never saw or heard before, and just related
to her what I had seen and heard and observed. We never thought
a man [could] be a soldier and a Christian, but if there is one
in the world, it is Washington. She also was astonished. We thought
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"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of
his countrymen, he was second to none in humble and enduring scenes
of private life. Pious, just humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform
dignified, and commanding; his example was as edifying to all
around him as were the effects of that example lasting; correct
throughout, vice shuddered in his presence and virtue always felt
his fostering hand. The purity of his private charter gave effulgence
to his public virtues;. Such was the man for whom our nation morns."—John
Marshall (official eulogy of George Washington, delivered by Richard
Henry Lee, 26 December 1799), Reference: Patriot Sage, Spalding
"In offering to you, my countrymen, these
counsels . . . that they will control the usual current of the passions
or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto
marked the destiny of nations . . . that they may . . . warn against
the impostures of pretended patriotism—this hope will be a
full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare by which they
have been dictated."
—George Washington, his Farewell Address Along
with the Declaration of Independence and Gettysburg Address, George
Washington's 1796 Farewell Address stands tall among the most
eminently quotable—and venerable
—documents in American history. And like all great statements,
it has been subjected to generations of disparate exegesis by
scholars, politicians, and partisans of every stripe.
Nevertheless, Washington's famous letter stands
as testimony to a man who could be trusted with power because
he would so readily give it up; a man whose mere presence held
together the early Republic, and whose impending departure hinted
at uncertain days ahead. Washington's advice to the children of
the War for Independence was and remains, simply, concord at home,
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"There is but one straight course, and that
is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."—George Washington
The so-called Christmas Campaign victories of General
George Washington in 1776 at Trenton and Princeton were followed a year
later by the Revolutionary Army's retreat to Valley Forge, the trail marked
by bloody footprints in the snow. Washington wrote in discouragement of
"A character to lose—an estate to forfeit—the inestimable
blessing of liberty at stake—and a life devoted, must be my excuse,"
and about how "it was much easier to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable
room by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep
under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets."
"Our unalterable resolution would be to be
free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in
vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce
all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and
under God trust our cause to our swords."—Samuel Adams
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we
shall all hang separately."—Ben Franklin
"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in
this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of
bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according
to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this
Land of equal
liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit
the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining
and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States."—George
Washington (letter to the Members of the New Church in Baltimore, 27 January
1793)
"We are either a United people, or we are not.
If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation,
which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support.
If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."—George
Washington
"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country—
that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American,
which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always
exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived
from local discriminations."
—George Washington
"These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink
from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman."—Thomas Paine
"His mind was great and powerful, without being
of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as
that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment
was ever sounder"—Thomas Jefferson (on George Washington in
a letter to Dr. Walter Jones, 2 January 1814) ,Reference: Jefferson: Writings,
Peterson ed., Library of America (1318)
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty
or give me death!"—Patrick Henry
"His integrity was most pure, his justice the
most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity,
of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was indeed,
in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man."—Thomas
Jefferson about George Washington
"The value of liberty was thus enhanced in
our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters
appreciated by the trial of adversity."—George Washington
"Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of
the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is,
to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions—The Eyes
of all our Countrymen are now upon us . . . "—George Washington
"May the father of all mercies scatter light,
and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations
useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy."
—George Washington (letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport,
August 1790) Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed.
(548
"[A] good moral character is the first essential
in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible,
and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore
highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."—George
Washington (letter to Steptoe Washington, 5 December 1790) Reference:
Maxims of George Washington, Schroeder, ed.
"We should never despair, our Situation before
has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will
again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions
and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."—George
Washington
"Having now finished the work assigned me,
I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate
farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted,
I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of
public life."—George Washington
"Heaven has crowned all its other blessings,
by giving a fairer opportunity for political happiness, than any other
Nation has ever been favored with."—George Washington
"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"—George
Washington
"Tis well."—George Washington (14
December 1799),(507) Reference: The First of Men, Ferling
"His Example is now complete, and it will teach
wisdom and virtue to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present
age, but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read."
—John Adams on George Washington
"Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere...
his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that
example lasting... correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence
and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private charter
gave effulgence to his public virtues."—Henry "Light-Horse
Harry" Lee's eulogy to George Washington |