article
from "Biblical Treasures (Volume II)" written by CR Dickey (pages
446-451)
American's
Saxon Heritage
A student of genealogy, Dr. Burhl B.
Gilpin, Jr., discovered some interesting facts when his studies led him to
obtain the genealogy of the Washington family.
In that record he found genealogical confirmation of the migration
pattern of the Caucasians. The
information is taken from a book in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.,
written by Albert Welles, titled Pedigree
and History of the Washington Family.
This book contains the following
information concerning the background of the beloved "Father of our
Country" -- the immortal George Washington:
"Odin (first King of Scandinavia,
B.C. 70), came from Asaland or Asaheim, east of Tanais. He endeared himself to the Asiatic subjects,
successful in every combat. Son of Fridulf,
supreme ruler of the Scythians, in Asaland or Asaheim, Turkestand, between the
Euxine and Caspian Seas in Asia. He
reigned at Asgard, whence he removed B,C, 70 and became first King of
Scandinavia. Died B.C. 50 and was
succeeded by sons who ruled in different parts of Scandinavia.
"Frode Fredigot, fourth
generation, was King of Denmark at the time of Christ, died A.D 35.
"Thorfin the Dane was the 32nd
generation from Odin. He founded the
Washington family. Born about A.D.
1000. His ancestors came from Schleswig,
in Denmark and settled in Ebor or Yorkshire, prior to the Norman conquest.
"Col. John Washington was the
51st generation from Odin. He migrated
to America and settled in Virginia. He
was the great-grandfather of George Washington."
Note that the first paragraph of this
record contains a sentence of tremendous historical significance. It states that Odin was the "Son of
Fridulf, supreme ruler of the Scythians, in Asaland or Asaheim...between the
Euxine and Caspian Seas in Asia."
This sentence places the family of Washington right in the midst of the
migrating Israelites as they moved from Assyria -- by way of the Caspian Sea,
the Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea into Europe, where their exploits
changed the face of a continent.
This transmigration of the major
portion of Israel's clans from the land of their captivity was the greatest
mass movement of a multi-tribed kingdom of kindred people in the history of the
world. These captive Israelites were
once proud citizens of the Northern Ten tribed Kingdom of Israel. They were a people of prophetic destiny and
could not be subdued by their captors.
Dr. J. Llewellyn Thomas points out
that the Kingdom of Judah was not involved in Israel's transition. "This migration," he says,
"took place about a century after their main deportation. Let it be noted that it commenced before the
destruction and carrying away of the Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar. Israel had started on their migration out of
the land of their captivity into the southeast of Europe before Judah ceased to
exist as a kingdom. Note that when the
Jews returned, the main body of the Israelites were in Ar-Sareth, over a
thousand miles from Babylon....This migration into Europe took place at the
time when the great Assyrian Empire was falling before the rising of the new world
Empire of Babylon. Israel seized the
favorable opportunity of escaping into Europe."
One other fact must be mentioned here
to keep the record straight; indeed, it is a point of peculiar import even in
these latter days, though generally ignored or forgotten. It is true, as Dr. Thomas says, that the
Southern Kingdom of Judah as a whole was not involved in Israel's deportation,
nor in the mass migrations westward which took place in subsequent years. However, there is one brief record concerning
Judah which is of supreme importance. It
is found in II Kings 18:9-13, which we quote in part:
"It
came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of
Hoshea...king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria,
and besieged it. And at the end of three
years they took it: even in the sixth year
of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was
taken. And the king of Assyria did carry
away Israel unto Assyria....Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and
took them."
Briefly, the salient facts are
these: "In the sixth year of Hezekiah's
reign, Shalmaneser captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria. Then, eight years later, in the fourteenth
year of king Hezekiah, "did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and
took them."
The essential point to note here is
that these captives from the fenced
cities of Judah were not taken to
Babylon, but to Assyria, where they were henceforth identified with their
kinsmen of the ten-tribed kingdom.
Sennacherib was unable to capture Jerusalem at that time because the
Lord had other plans for that city and the remaining remnant of Judah. It was over a hundred years after these
events before the capture of Jerusalem and the deportation of its citizens to
Babylon.
The key to understanding for us lies
in the fact that the Kingdom of Judah included not only the tribe of Judah, but
Benjamites, Levites and members of the royal House of David. Thus, when the Assyrian king captured the
fenced cities of Judah, he transported to Assyria, not Judahites alone, but
portions of Benjamin, Levi, and the House of David. There is reliable evidence also that they
were not few in number. Sennacherib's
inscription, according to A. H. Sayce, states that the number of cities taken
was 43, and that he took captive "200,150 men of Judah."
This move brought representatives of
all the tribes of Jacob-Israel into the multitudes of Israel assembled in
Assyria. These people were not
"Jews" and have never been so designated in subsequent history. By this means God assembled representatives
from every family of Jacob to participate in the future glory of all Israel.
With such basic facts in mind, we are
now ready to mention some of the names by which these people were known during
the period of their scattering and colonization. It was prophesied that they would gradually
lose their identity and call themselves by other names. (See Hosea 2:17 and Isaiah 28:11.)
Let us note first what names these
people bore before their captivity.
Among others, we find three in particular: The House of Israel, The House of Isaac, The
House of Omri. Dr. William Pascoe Goard
states the distinction well by saying that "Israel was a Divinely given spiritual name; Isaac was the Divinely
given family name; Omri was a
dynastic or national name." (Post-Captivity Names of Israel.)
Omri was Israel's most renowned king. It was he who substituted the "statutes
of Omri" for "the commandments, statutes, and judgments of the
Lord." His influence in law-making,
says Dr. Goard, "is with us still.
Therefore, the people who kept his law were called by his name: Beth Omri (House of Omri)....Whatever other
names Israel bore in the days of her residence in Palestine, such as Ephraim,
etc., she bore out into captivity these two names: Isaac, or Saka; and Omri."
During the captivity Israel acquired
other names and all of them are found in many forms with various spelling of
the same names. Among the variations of
Beth Omri, we find Bit Kumri, Khumri, Humri, Kimmerians, Gimmiri, etc. The name Isaac has also a score or more of
variations, such as Sakai, Sacae, Sakasuna, etc. But the Sakai, too, are called Kimmerians,
Gimmirians and Scythians, a fact that
is established by the inscriptions which are best known and which have
furnished the key to Assyriology.
"The Sakai, who in Latin are called Sacae, were an important branch
of the Scythian nation" (Sharon
Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons, Vol.
I, P. 100).
Historians agree that the Scythians
were one of the greatest military powers of the day. But many of them fail to see how this
distinction could be claimed for the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Yet in the time of Jeroboam Israel could put
800,000 "mighty" fighting men in the field, gathered from within its
own boundaries (II Chron. 13:3). A
nation able to do that would be rated a sizable military power today.
The foregoing review is necessarily
brief and incomplete. It is intended to
serve as a connecting link between the ancient past of a great Covenant Race
and their emergence as the dominant peoples and nations of the Western
World. For further light on this fascinating
subject, we turn now to European and
Other Race Origins, by Herbert Bruce Hannay, Esq., of the Inner Temple,
Barrister-at-Law, Advocate of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta, and
author of "A Grammar of the Tibetan Language."
As we quote from Mr. Hannay, note the
variation in names as they appear in the different languages. The following paragraphs are found in Part
III, Chapter VI:
"Let us now resume the fortunes
of the Skolotoi of European Skuthia from the time (say B.C. 92-20) when they
received into the bosom of their community the Saghian Followers of Asha who
had come from Airyan and Turan as already explained; when they adopted from
them the name of Asen; when Skuthia acquired the new name of Asaland, or
Asaheim, being then well up to the north, near the confluence of the rivers
Pripet and Desna with the Dnieper; and when their capital, now represented by
Kieff, was called Asgard....
"According to calculations into
which I need not enter here, this period is ascertained to have been the
approximate time when ODIN, or WODEN, flourished. Chief of the Asen, as we may now call them,
and a hero in his own country, he was afterwards deified by the pagan
descendants of his subjects, and ultimately his memory was merged in that of
the god whose name he bears. The
Tyrkland where, according to the northern Saga, 'Odin had great Possessions,'
was like the Swithoid-an of the Yotar of Yotland in Scandinavia, merely a
reminiscence of Airyan and Turan -- i.e. Turkistan
-- the distant home of the SAGHS during so many centuries."
Since the days of the Hebro-Phoenician
activity, says Mr. Hannay, "the thoughts of the BETH-SAK and their
descendants had ever been concentrated upon the isles of the West, imparts no
little meaning in to the seemingly idle statement in the Saga that for Odin the
Northwest was a region -- 'where he knew by his skill in magic that a place of
refuge was reserved for him and his people.'"
Mr. Hannay quotes the following from
Crichton and Wheaton:
"In the old Swedish legends it is
related that Odin founded the empire of Svea, and built a great temple at a
spot called Sigtuna, near Lake Maelar, in the present province of Upland, which
was known by the Northmen under the name of the 'Lesser Swithoid,' to
distinguish it from the 'Greater Swithoid,' or Skuthia, from which they
believed he had led his followers. When
Odin arrived with his twelve pontiffs or chief priests, called Diar or
Drottnar, he is said to have that a great part of the land was occupied by a people
who, like himself, had come from Swithoid, but in such long ages past that,
according to their own account, no one could fix the time. These people, who call themselves 'Gota' or
'Gauta,' Goths....were so strong, that Odin was forced to make a compact with
their king Gylfe before he could settle the land." (Orte's Scandinavia,
p. 59.)
"One of the greatest of these
Scythian expeditions was that under the leadership of the historic Odin (who
was subsequently deified) -- see The
Historians' History of the World, Vol. XVI, pp. 18-19, Odin amassed a huge
army at Asgard, in the heart of the Thyssa-getae, and marched first up the
valley of the Dnieper, then westward to the shores of the Baltic and finally
crossed the Scandinavia where he founded a new empire" (Anglo-Saxon
Israel.)
From the writings of Strabo, Pliny,
Tacitus, Ptolemy and others, "It appears that the advance guard of Israel
was, by 58 B. C., occupying the countries in the northwest Europe, bordering
the North Sea. There they remained,
developing their powers and their character, till the movements to Britain
began" (Fasken).
We return now to Odin in relation to
the Washington family. Odin is
registered in the Washington genealogy as the "first King of Scandinavia,
B.C. 70." No doubt his forebears were
distinguished leaders of clans during their westward trek. It seems likely that there was an Odin
dynasty both before and after the time of "Odin, first King of
Scandinavia." The genealogy states
that Odin "was succeeded by sons who ruled in different parts of
Scandinavia."
In his book, The Royal House of Britain an Enduring Dynasty, the Rev. W. M. H.
Milner quotes from a leaflet by Mr. Grimaldi in which it was stated that
"The descent of our Royal Family from the royal line of Judah is, however,
only a rediscovery. The Saxon kings
traced themselves back to Odin, who was traced back to his descent from David,
as may be seen in a very ancient MS. in the Herald's College,
London." Desiring to verify this,
Mr. Milner wrote to Herald's College and received positive assurance (dated
5-2-01) that "There is a very valuable MS. here, deducing our Saxon kings
from Adam through David" (p.28).
This MS., says Mr. Milner, "we have inspected." It is called on the back of the binding,
"Pedigree of the Saxon Kings."
Both Odin and David are listed there, he says. Then, on page 41, Mr. Milner traces the later
Odin dynasty as follows:
"King Edward VII introduced to
the throne a new section of the one continuous Royal House of Britain. His mother was Queen in her own right, of the
Guelphic line. His father was a prince
of the Saxon dukedom of Coburg-Gotha, one of several branches of the House of
Wettin. To that house our King belongs. Like the older Saxon and Norman lines, this
newer Saxon comes from Odin whose connection with the dynasty of David we have
already discussed. Through one of the sons of Odin and Frea were
ancestors of Cadwallader, Roderick, and Howel the Good, whence came the Tudor
kings of England, and, through Nesta and Fleance, the Stuarts as well. A second
son of Odin made him progenitor of William the Conqueror. Through a third
he was the forefather of Egbert, the first King of England, and of Alfred the
Great. Through the union of several
lines, he was the ancestor of the Plantagenet kings and the Hanoverian
princes. In a fourth, named Wecta, crowned by him King of Saxony (died A.D. 300),
Odin was the ancestor of Hengist, last of the kings and first of the Dukes of
Saxony. Queen Victoria was also of this
line, by her mother."
"Programs and Papers,"
prepared and distributed in 1932, by the United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commission, contain the following information on Washington's
family name and ancestry:
"For eight hundred years, through
successive generations, the name of Washington or de Wessyngton has been known
for the valor, chivalry, high code of honor, and military distinction of those
who bore it. Knights and noblemen of the
Old World and citizens of the New, each in their own turn through service and
achievement have given to it a notable place in history.
"In the process of evolution this
name, like many others known to fame, has had many variations from the modern
spelling. It is apparently of Saxon
origin and is known to have existed in the twelfth century. Early records refer to the village of Warton
in Lancashire and of Wessynton in the Palatine Durham. It was from this latter village that the name
of de Wessynton was derived by the progenitor of the Washington family....In
different sections the name was spelled in divers ways. Other forms appearing in important records
are Weschington, Wassington, and Washington.
In the standardized form of the present day this name is widely
mentioned in early country records of England and is engraved on time-worn monuments
in churches and cathedrals....
"George Washington was great to a
great extent because of what his ancestors were before him. His great-grandfather, John Washington, came
to these shores about the middle of the seventeenth century and settled in
Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the very plantation where in later years,
George Washington was born.
"...No sooner did the head and
shoulders of George Washington rise above the great and near great about him
than his contemporaries across the sea commenced to ask, "Who is this
superman who has defied our sovereign and wrested our American possessions from
our grasp? From which branch of our
Washingtons is he descended?' So the
queries were set afoot, and since that time many genealogists have devoted much
study and research to the subject.
"Many years were consumed in
searching for documentary evidence which would establish the English pedigree
of John Washington and of his great-grandson who had risen from the ranks to
the head of new nation. Elusive clues
were followed without definite results until, through the persistent efforts of
Henry F Waters, the connecting links between the American and the English
ancestry were eventually discovered....Having established the connecting link,
it was then possible to trace the English ancestry of George Washington back
through the rector of Purleigh, to the Sulgrave branch of the family, and on
back for seven generations to John Washington, of Tewhitfield, County
Lancashire, whose great-grandson, Lawrence Washington, of Grays Inn, was Mayor
of Northampton and grantee of the Sulgrave estate, which remained in the direct
family for two generations....
"Robert Washington inherited
Sulgrave Manor....Lawrence Washington, rector of Purleigh, was next in
line. His mother, Margaret Butler
Washington, was a daughter of Margaret Sutton, through whom a strain of royal
blood descended into the veins of George Washingon. Though fitted in every way to serve as a wise
and considerate Sovereign had he permitted the people to proclaim him King of
the United States of America, he most emphatically declined that honor,
preferring to be called the President."
And now a few words about Washington's
mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ball.
She, too, came from a distinguished family. The escutcheon of her family bears upon it a
black lion on a silver shield with a crest having a lion rampant, holding a
golden ball in his paws. The motto, Coelumque Tueri, means "And Look to
Heaven." The more immediate
ancestry of Mary Ball is traced back to Col. William Ball, who emigrated to
Virginia about 1650 and settled in Lancaster County on a plantation called
Millenbeck, on the Rappahannock River.
The Bicentennial "Papers"
pay this tribute to Mary Ball:
"Through his maternal ancestor
there came to George Washington the strength of a philosopher and the
truthfulness of a Christian; he was taught to love God supremely, his kind
tenderly, and to be good and generous to all living creatures. And above all he was always considerate of his
mother's wishes and ever addressed her as 'Honored Madam,' thus paying a courtly tribute to her and
through her to her distinguished forbears."
An article by George C,. Crux, in
DESTINY Magazine, January 1937, contains this statement:
"Over the entrance of the House
of Tudor Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, England, hangs the Tudor Coat of
Arms, a replica of which was among the Washington heirlooms. In this Coat of Arms is to be found both the
Stars and the Stripes."
As we have seen, many of the early
colonists wanted to crown George Washington King of the Confederation. He declined the honor. Nevertheless, their readiness to make him a
king indicates their recognition of his royal lineage. Some of the Founding Fathers, and many other
citizens of that time, had distinctive family heraldry; however, they said
little about their background, because of their desire to avoid the rise of
class consciousness in the new Republic.
Yet these facts are extremely important today because they prove beyond
the shadow of a doubt that the English-speaking and kindred peoples have a
common heritage.
The interesting, though generally
unknown, facts which follow, are found in The Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania
Publication (Vol. XII, page 7). The
early colony of Virginia numbered among its prominent leaders at least twenty
whose ancestors stemmed from the same royal lines as those of Queen Elizabeth
II. In fact, her progenitors gave to
America some of our most eminent patriots, including the beloved Father of our
Country -- Gen. George Washington.
Others among the Queen's American cousins are a vice-president; three
cabinet officers; eight senators; Chief Justice John Marshall; six governors of
states, including Patrick Henry and Gen. Thomas Nelson, wartime governor of
Virginia and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Meriwether Lewis, the
explorer; Gen. "Light Horse Harry" Lee of the Revolution and his
still more famous son, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and a veritable host of men and
women prominent in national life.
"Symbolic dreams and prophetic
visions from time immemorial, have been given credence, notably in the period
covered by the Holy Scriptures.
According to the tradition the mother of George Washington saw in a
dream, when he was but a child, the measure of his future greatness. Another tradition states than an aged Indian
chieftain pronounced a divine inspiration when he said of George Washington:
"'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!'" (From
Bicentennial Papers.)
I-Saac -- David -- Odin --
Washington.
Such men,
under God, have produced the miracle of our Saxon Heritage!
Articles
from Biblical Treasures (Volume II) – C. R. Dickey
INTRODUCTION
The Staff at Destiny Publishers,
having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R.
Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received
such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with
all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths.
We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we
believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.
Her knowledge of the Scriptures
was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord,
as she certainly became a champion for His cause.
Our late beloved editor, Howard
B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.
The reader should take into
account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late
thirties to the middle sixties. We found
her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them
yesterday. Her writings on various
subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from
reliable sources, when making a point.
From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.
Although we do not have any
knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational
minister. Her sermons given must have
been of interest and value to her congregation.
We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.
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