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GUY BALLARD CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN GEORGE WASHINGTON


By Gerald B. Bryan
 
Guy Ballard claimed that he had previously been George Washington (who was the first president of the United States), and therefore Ballard wanted to return to the White House.
 
In his statement published in New York on October 21, 1937, Guy Ballard’s “Mighty I AM” has already taken charge of our government! We quote:
 
-      “This day, I set My Legions into action in your government; in your city, the head of the finances of the world; to take command and bring all human beings into obedience to Me!” (pp. 24-25, Dec., 1937, V.)
 
Of course, the absurdity is that such wild claims should be found anywhere except on the inside of a mad house, but in this instance they were seriously uttered on the outside — and cheered by a hall full of fervidly patriotic Americans.
 
Encouraged by his audience’s evident approval for him to take over the finances of the world, Guy Ballard reached out to take in the Supreme Court of the United States.
 
-      “I AM the Presence,” said the present George, “which shall act in your Supreme Court . . . No longer shall human creation dominate My People! . . . I say to all destructive forces . . . ‘Now, you shall face me! a Power with which you cannot cope! which you cannot harm, but which can make you helpless!” (p. 26.)
 
We cannot but wonder what the nine sober-minded members of the Nation’s highest tribunal will say on the day Guy Ballard’s “I AM” formally descends to take charge of their Supreme Court. Their verdict must surely be that such a thing is slightly unconstitutional — even for people heaven-bent on “saving” the Constitution.
 
Luckily for our constitutional democracy, Ballard and his flaming “I AM” were in New York at the time and not in Washington; for in such a determined frame of mind, with the power of Saint Germain and the Ascended Host back of them, they might have taken charge then and there!
 
 
Mrs. Ballard, one evening at the Los Angeles class toward the end of a tirade against “vicious” officials in our government, raised her right hand in dramatic gesture and shouted: “But George Washington still lives!”
 
That statement was followed by thunderous applause, for these people knew their George Washington. There he was seated on the platform — and his face certainly should have been red.
 
A year or so ago, while the Ballards were in the east, Guy Ballard, his staff, and some of the other favored ones, journeyed to Valley Forge. There Ballard and his patriotic band walked over well-remembered ground, so he said, and explained how it all came back to him — how he prayed for light and guidance and relief for his famine-stricken, frost-bitten soldiers when his Continental Army was in winter quarters there.
 
Later, in the February, 1939, issue of the “Voice of the I AM,” there appeared a vapid poem entitled, “WASHINGTON, WE LOVE YOU,” written by Mrs. Ballard. Facing it was a picture of George Washington at Valley Forge attired in a white-lined cape that looks like the one Ballard himself wears on the stage at “I AM” meetings.
 
Washington’s birthday is celebrated with fitting and proper observances by this bewildering family of “I AM-er.” These people, however, for years have worshipped not a dead Washington, but a living one!
 
 
 
One evening in their hotel suite George Washington Ballard and the members of his present “staff” were looking at a picture of the well-known painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”
 
It brought back stirring memories to the present redoubtable George. He pointed out how certain of the most faithful members of his staff helped him to make the perilous journey through crashing blocks of ice and the raging river.
 
This staff member was the man with the oar, that one was the man at the stern, and so on with the rest of the staff, while of course Ballard himself was General Washington holding aloft the flag at the bow of the bobbing boat.
 
That this painting was but an artist’s conception —and not so accurate at that— seemed to have been overlooked by the present George and taken as absolute fact.
 
 
(This is the first part of chapter 33 of the book Psychic Dictatorship in America, and shows the deliriums of Guy Ballard.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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