General George Washington reincarnated as General Robert E. Lee

Today is George Washington's Birthday! The following is an excerpt from a book I'm writing entitled: Famous Direct Reincarnations...


Washington & Lee – One Spirit
-Introduction-

"First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
– Virginia Congressman Light-Horse Harry Lee’s* eulogy of George Washington

George Washington probably believed in reincarnation. How can we logically speculate this? We don’t have any examples of him writing about it or know of any documentation of him confiding in others. But it’s commonly known that Washington was not only a Freemason, he was a longtime Grand Master Mason and was considered the unofficial head of all North American Masonic Lodges. One of the beliefs of the ancient mystery traditions passed on over the centuries through the Masons is the immortality of the soul through the cycle of birth-death-rebirth or ‘transmigration of the soul’.

There are many good reasons why Freemasonry has been and continues to be a ‘secret society’ and one of them is that the teaching of reincarnation has met with violent opposition in the Western World from the Vatican and some Protestants! And although the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t burn anyone at the stake anymore and the Inquisition is long behind us, reincarnation still receives strong condemnation from many different sources. I imagine this book will receive harsh criticism from many who are strongly religious. But the first point I wanted to make here in this chapter is whether you come to this information with an open mind towards the soul returning as another human or not, it is highly probable that like most learned Master Masons, G. Washington secretly and very strongly believed in reincarnation!

How do we track a soul from one life directly to the next human life? Well, a 'continued mission' is one way. A second way is identifying very similiar unique traits, i.e. military genius, great leadership abilities, honor and duty, highly moralistic, and similiar non-career interests. Permit me to summarize some very strong 'coincidences' between these two famous American generals and highly respected men...

7 years after Washington’s death at Virginia’s second most famous plantation (Mt. Vernon [on the Potomac]), Robert E. Lee was born in Virginia’s most famous plantation (Stratford Hall [on the Potomac]) just 7 miles from Washington’s Birthplace. I know of no record of Lee being a Freemason or of him believing in reincarnation, but the connection he had to Washington was very intense! He was the son of *Light-Horse Harry Lee - a trusted general and close friend of Washington. At Continental Congress in 1776, Richard Henry Lee made the motion for independence from Britain. The ‘Lees of Virginia’ were the state’s best known family and Washington its best known citizen. There were early Revolutionary War military posts of Ft. Washington and nearby Ft. Lee. 17-year-old Washington helped survey the layout of Alexandria, Va. Robert grew up in Alexandria imitating Washington and attended the same Episcopal Christ Church (on Washington St.) that Washington had. Lee attended the Alexandria Academy (on Washington St.) which listed Washington as one of its first trustees. 18-y-o Lee chose a military career and would later marry Mary Anna Randolph Custis: Martha Washington’s great-granddaughter! Lee’s father-in-law – George Washington Parke Custis - was Martha Washington’s grandson and George Washington’s adopted son! Robert courted Mary in Fredericksburg near Washington’s boyhood home. The Lees lived on the Potomac – just a few miles upriver from Mt. Vernon – in a plantation on a hill overlooking Washington DC. G. W. P. Custis built Arlington House as a memorial to his father and it contained the majority of Washington relics. (Today, Arlington House is a memorial to Lee.) Robert & Mary named their first child George Washington Custis Lee. Lieutenant Lee served in Washington DC and like Washington, was an excellent surveyor. Both men condemned slavery while owning many slaves. When John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry, he first took Colonel L. W. Washington (great-grandnephew of GW) captive – Colonel Robert E. Lee led the successful US Army response. After Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War, Col. Lee was ordered to Washington DC and offered the position of Commanding General of the United States. Southerners considered the war the ‘Second Revolution’ and often compared Lee to Washington. In General Lee’s first command, he lost against Union General George McClellan and an aide to Lee – Col. Washington – was killed. General Washington’s last battle was the Siege of Yorktown and Lee again assumed field command against Gen. George McClellan after the Siege of Yorktown. Gen. Lee invaded the North twice: at Antietam vs. McClellan and at Gettysburg vs. Gen. George Meade. Lee would become Commander-in-Chief of all Confederate States of America forces and was as great or greater a general than Washington. Lee’s plantation became the Arlington National Cemetery. After the Civil War, he became President of Washington College which had received a bequest from Washington. Lee is buried there. The Lexington school was then renamed Washington and Lee University.

"It is satisfactory always to have facts to go on; they restrain supposition and conjecture, confirm faith and bring contentment." – Robert E. Lee

There are numerous excellent books on George Washington and on Robert E. Lee. Many are written by historians who devoted several years - if not their lifetimes - to researching them. I, however, have not spent years singularly researching Washington & Lee. However, I do bring a new perspective to the stories of perhaps America’s two finest generals because I have spent years researching reincarnation and discovering the science behind it. Scientific method requires conceptualizing, observation and experimentation, theorizing (mathematics), and testing. There must be many ‘clear’ examples of ‘direct reincarnation’ for my theory and 15 principles of reincarnation to be accepted by scientists and non-scientists. That is the unique purpose of this book: to present reincarnation as science using the latest scientific discoveries and providing one example that all Americans (and many non-Americans) can relate to. I’ve also spent many years researching Freemasonry. Since I’m not a Mason, I haven’t sworn an oath to keep their secrets secret! Therefore, I can talk and write about how George Washington returned as Robert E. Lee in possibly history’s most obvious example of direct reincarnation.


- Brad Watson, Miami, FL 3/25/09 12:51 t 4/23/10 9:30
author of Famous Direct Reincarnations and There Are No Coincidences - there is synchronism

Please see the thread: Science Proves Reincarnation True! [link to www.glp_hater]
I'll be posting several different posts on reincarnation and they're all connected.



In the famous portrait The Washington Family by Edwin Savage 1796, besides George, Martha, and the grandchildren/wards/adopted son George Washington Custis, GW’s man-servant/butler (slave) William Lee appears in the right back corner. Lee being included in the family by the artist is quite the subconscious prophecy! Who exactly was this favored slave of General Washington that served him for more than 30 years?

William Lee (valet)
From Wikipedia

(John Trumbull's 1780 painting George Washington also depicts William Lee.
William Lee (c. 1750–1828), also known as Billy Lee or Will Lee, was George Washington's personal servant, and the only one of Washington's slaves freed outright by Washington in his will. [picture didn't transfer])
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Early life
On 3 May 1768, George Washington purchased Lee, then a teenager described in Washington's account book as "Mulatto Will", from Mary Lee and the estate of her late husband Colonel John Lee of Westmoreland County, Virginia for sixty-one pounds and fifteen shillings. William kept the surname 'Lee' from this previous owner. Also purchased at this time was William's brother Frank, as well as two other slaves. Washington paid high prices for William and Frank, as they were to be household slaves rather than field laborers. Light-skinned mulattoes like William and Frank were often chosen to serve as domestic servants, who were given responsibilities and privileges most slaves never enjoyed. Frank became Washington's butler at Mount Vernon, while William served in a variety of roles, including Washington's valet or manservant. As valet, Lee performed chores such as brushing Washington's long hair and tying it behind his head.

Washington was a frequent fox hunter, and Lee became his huntsman (the person in charge of the hounds), a role that required expert horsemanship. In his memoirs, Washington's step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis described Lee during a hunt:

Will, the huntsman, better known in Revolutionary lore as Billy, rode a horse called Chinkling, a surprising leaper, and made very much like its rider, low, but sturdy, and of great bone and muscle. Will had but one order, which was to keep with the hounds; and, mounted on Chinkling ... this fearless horseman would rush, at full speed, through brake or tangled wood, in a style at which modern huntsmen would stand aghast.

(This French engraving, circa 1780, shows General Washington holding the Declaration of Independence. The black man with the horse, though not identified, may represent Lee.)

Before the Revolutionary War, Lee often traveled with Washington to the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg, or on journeys such as a surveying expedition to the Ohio Valley in 1770 and to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. Lee served at Washington's side throughout the eight years of the Revolutionary War, including the winter at Valley Forge and at the siege of Yorktown. According to historian Fritz Hirschfeld, Lee "rode alongside Washington in the thick of battle, ready to hand over to the general a spare horse or his telescope or whatever else might be needed..."

After the war
Lee's wife was Margaret Thomas Lee, a free African American from Philadelphia who had worked as a servant in Washington's headquarters during the war. Although slave marriages were not recognized by Virginia law, in 1784, at the couple's request, Washington tried to arrange having Margaret move to Mount Vernon to live with her husband. Whether or not she ever came to Mount Vernon is unknown.

In 1785, Lee injured a knee while on a surveying expedition with Washington. Three years later, while going to the post office in Alexandria, he fell and injured his other knee, rendering him seriously disabled. When Washington was elected president in 1789, Lee attempted to make the journey to New York City for the inauguration, but had to be left in Philadelphia for medical treatment. He was attended by several physicians, who made a steel brace for his knee that allowed him to join Washington's presidential household. Frank's nephew, Christopher Sheels, assisted Lee in New York City, and took over Lee's duties in 1790 at the Philadelphia President's House.

Even following Washington's 1797 retirement, Lee's disabilities prevented him from continuing his previous duties, and he spent the last years of his life as a shoemaker at Mount Vernon, struggling with alcoholism. Revolutionary War veterans who visited Mount Vernon often stopped to reminisce with Lee about the war.

When Washington died in 1799, he freed William Lee in his will, citing "his faithful services during the Revolutionary War". Lee was the only one of Washington's 124 slaves freed outright in his will; the remaining slaves owned by Washington were to be freed upon the death of Martha Washington. (Another 153 slaves living at Mount Vernon were the property of Martha's first husband's estate, and could not be freed by Washington.) Lee was given a pension of thirty dollars a year for the rest of his life, and the option of remaining at Mount Vernon if he wanted. Lee chose to live out the rest of his life at Mount Vernon, where he is buried.

"If Billy Lee had been a white man," wrote historian Fritz Hirschfeld, "he would have had an honored place in American history because of his close proximity to George Washington during the most exciting periods of his career. But because he was a black servant, a humble slave, he has been virtually ignored by both black and white historians and biographers."

(End of ]Wikipedia. Note: This article doesn’t mention that Lee was also portrayed in the famous Edward Savage painting The Washington Family.)

"Lee grew to manhood in a town where the influence and example of
George Washington, the pater patriae, was deeply engrained among its citizenry. As Robert E. Lee marched off to West Point in June 1825, little did he foresee the momentous impact his life would later have on American history. His fame and prowess as a military leader would come later, but his character had already been shaped by his boyhood years in Alexandria.
In speaking of the town during an 1869 reception, he said:
‘There* is no community to which my affections more strongly cling than that of Alexandria, composed of my earliest and oldest friends, my kind school-fellows, and faithful neighbors.’"
– website of The Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home Virtual Museum

Robert E. Lee’s boyhood home at 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, Virginia was built in 1795 by John Potts, Jr., who came down from Pennsylvania to work with George Washington on the Potomac Canal. GW frequently stayed there. It was purchased in 1799 by William Fitzhugh – a wealthy Fredericksburg, VA tobacco planter and close friend of Washington’s who entertained GW there. He last dined there on November 17, 1799, less than a month before his death. After Fitzhugh’s death in 1809, the house was put up for rental. The Lee’s rented it for most of the period 1812-1825. (From 1816-1820, the family lived at 407 N. Washington Street. These smaller quarters may have been an economic necessity.) Here on Dec. 14, 1824 the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette paid a formal call on Ann Hill Carter Lee, the mother of Robert E. Lee and widow of General Henry ‘Light Horse Harry’ Lee. Lafayette was the last surviving Major General of the Revolution. In the drawing room of this historic home on July 7, 1804 (7/7/04**), Mary Lee (‘Molly’) Fitzhugh married George Washington Parke Custis. Custis was the grandson of Martha Washington and upon his father’s death, he went to live at Mount Vernon and was raised by George & Martha. General Washington adopted him as his son and he was a member of the first ‘First Family’ when President Washington took office. (27 years later, their daughter, Mary Ann Randolph Custis became Mrs. Robert E. Lee.) Robert E. Lee last visited the house in the spring of 1870.

Washington-Custis-Lee is quite the common description of the one family through four generations. The 7-year difference between GW’s death & Lee’s birth coupled with the 4 generations displays the **GOD=7_4 code as does the house Lee left at age 13 at 407 N. Washington Street.


*7/8/10 11:11 car alarm goes off next-door

- Brad Watson, Miami, FL
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