Is this flier gonna fly?

[deckardcanine]

Last weekend, our car and its neighbors in the lot had a six-page flier unlike any we'd seen before: George Washington's Vision (America Invaded and Burned). Copied from an 1880 reprint, the text apparently was first written by someone who knew someone who knew General Washington. And why was it being distributed once more? I tried to find out during the drive home, but there was no summary in the first few paragraphs or the last. No organization put its name on the pamphlet. As far as I could tell, some history nut had the simple agenda of spreading trivial knowledge for its own sake.

But I did not recycle it. It was curious enough that I figured on giving it another try when sufficiently bored. The text becomes an extended quote of Washington relating...a visit from an angel. This angel, calling him "Son of the Republic," gave him a vision of the Union settling; expanding; entering a civil war (or so the narrator interpreted); getting invaded by Europe, Africa, and Asia; emerging the victor; and undergoing reconstruction.

So. Is the reprint meant to inspire patriotism? Spawn a new religion? Just show a little-known side of the first Prez? Personally, I have my doubts on the account's authenticity.

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fake created by a nutcase to me. Beware of those who claim the ability to foresee the future.

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

Which is no younger than 1974. Something like that vision report made it into World War III (which, contrary to what you might expect, was Protestant-theologically heavy).

PreMillenialist Post-Tribulation makes for some weird reading, at the best of times.