Georgia Guidestones


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Georgia Guidestones




Coordinates
34.231984°N 82.894506°W

Location
Elbert County, Georgia, USA

Designer
R. C. Christian (pseudonym)

Material
Granite

Height
19' 3" (5.87 m)

Opening date
March 1980

The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages' scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge."[1] The monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all.[2] One slab stands in the center, with four arranged around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and purpose of the Guidestones.



Contents
[hide] 1 History
2 Inscriptions
3 Explanatory tablet 3.1 Physical data
3.2 Guidestone languages

4 Astronomical features
5 Location
6 Ownership
7 In popular culture
8 Reception 8.1 Conspiracy theories

9 Notes
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links


History [edit]





The stone featuring the English version.
In June 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R. C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure.[2]

Inscriptions [edit]

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
1.Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2.Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3.Unite humanity with a living new language.
4.Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5.Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6.Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7.Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8.Balance personal rights with social duties.
9.Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Explanatory tablet [edit]





The explanatory tablet, immediately west of the edifice.
A few feet to the west of the monument, an additional granite ledger has been set level with the ground. This tablet identifies the structure and the languages used on it, lists various facts about the size, weight and astronomical features of the stones, the date it was installed and the sponsors of the project. It also speaks of a time capsule buried under the tablet, but the fields on the stone reserved for filling in the dates on which the capsule was buried and is to be opened are missing, so it is not clear whether the time capsule was ever put in place. Each side of the tablet is perpendicular to one of the cardinal directions, and is inscribed so that the northern edge is the top of the inscription.

The complete text of the explanatory tablet is detailed below. The accompanying image shows the overall layout. The tablet is somewhat inconsistent with respect to punctuation and also misspells "pseudonym". The original spelling, punctuation and line breaks in the text have been preserved in the transcription which follows.

At the center of each tablet edge is a small circle, each containing a letter representing the appropriate compass direction (N, S, E, W).

At the top center of the tablet is written:



The Georgia Guidestones
Center cluster erected March 22, 1980

Immediately below this is the outline of a square, inside which is written:



Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason

Around the edges of the square are written the names of four ancient languages, one per edge. Starting from the top and proceeding clockwise, they are:Babylonian (in cuneiform script), Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Ancient Egyptian (in hieroglyphics).

On the left side of the tablet is the following column of text:



Astronomic Features
1. channel through stone
indicates celestial pole.
2. horizontal slot indicates
annual travel of sun.
3. sunbeam through capstone
marks noontime throughout
the year

Author: R.C. Christian
(a pseudonyn) [sic]

Sponsors: A small group
of Americans who seek
the Age of Reason

Time Capsule
Placed six feet below this spot
On
To Be Opened on

The words appear as shown under the time capsule heading; no dates are engraved.

Physical data [edit]

On the right side of the tablet is the following column of text (metric conversions added):



PHYSICAL DATA
1. OVERALL HEIGHT - 19 FEET 3 INCHES [5.87 m].2. TOTAL WEIGHT - 237,746 POUNDS [107,840 kg].3. FOUR MAJOR STONES ARE 16 FEET, FOUR INCHES [4.98 m] HIGH, EACH WEIGHING AN AVERAGE OF 42,437 POUNDS [19,249 kg].4. CENTER STONE IS 16 FEET, FOUR- INCHES [4.98 m] HIGH, WEIGHS 20,957 POUNDS [9,506 kg].5. CAPSTONE IS 9-FEET, 8-INCHES [2.95 m] LONG, 6-FEET, 6-INCHES [1.98 m] WIDE; 1-FOOT, 7-INCHES [0.48 m] THICK. WEIGHS 24,832 POUNDS [11,264 kg].6. SUPPORT STONES (BASES) 7-FEET, 4 INCHES [2.24 m] LONG 2-FEET [0.61 m] WIDE. 1 FOOT, 4-INCHES [0.41 m] THICK, EACH WEIGHING AN AVERAGE OF 4,875 POUNDS [2,211 kg].7. SUPPORT STONE (BASE) 4-FEET, 2½ INCHES [1.28 m] LONG, 2-FEET, 2-INCHES [0.66 m] WIDE, 1-FOOT, 7-INCHES [0.48 m] THICK. WEIGHT 2,707 POUNDS [1,228 kg].8. 951 CUBIC FEET [26.9 m³] GRANITE.9. GRANITE QUARRIED FROM PYRAMID QUARRIES LOCATED 3 MILES [5 km] WEST OF ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
Guidestone languages [edit]





The Chinese and Arabic inscriptions
Below the two columns of text is written the caption "GUIDESTONE LANGUAGES", with a diagram of the granite slab layout beneath it. The names of eight modern languages are inscribed along the long edges of the projecting rectangles, one per edge. Starting from due north and moving clockwise around so that the upper edge of the northeast rectangle is listed first, they are English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Russian. At the bottom center of the tablet is the following text:



Additional information available at Elberton Granite Museum & Exhibit
College Avenue
Elberton, Georgia

Astronomical features [edit]

The four outer stones are oriented to mark the limits of the 18.6 year lunar declination cycle.[3] The center column features a hole through which the North Star can be seen regardless of time, as well as a slot that is aligned with the Sun's solstices and equinoxes. A 7/8" aperture in the capstone allows a ray of sun to pass through at noon each day, shining a beam on the center stone indicating the day of the year.[2]

Location [edit]

The Georgia Guidestones are located on a hilltop in Elbert County, Georgia, approximately 90 miles (140 km) east of Atlanta, 45 miles (72 km) from Athens, and 9 miles (14 km) north of the center of Elberton. The stones are standing on a rise a short distance to the east of Georgia Highway 77 (Hartwell Highway), and are visible from that road. Small signs beside the highway indicate the turnoff for the Guidestones, which is identified by a street sign as "Guidestones Rd." It is located on the highest point in Elbert County.

Ownership [edit]

Elbert County owns the Georgia Guidestones site. According to the Georgia Mountain Travel Association's detailed history: "The Georgia Guidestones are located on the farm of Mildred and Wayne Mullenix..."[3] The Elbert County land registration system shows what appears to be the Guidestones as County land purchased on October 1, 1979.[4][5]

The monument was unveiled in March 1980, in front of 100 people.[6] Another account specifies March 22, 1980 and says 400 people attended.[2]

In popular culture [edit]

The Guidestones are featured extensively in the Travel Channel episode "Mysteries at the Museum: Monumental Mysteries Special" featuring Don Wildman.[7]

The Guidestones are featured prominently in the International Emmy nominated conspiracy web series Guidestones.

The Guidestones were featured in the Brad Meltzer's Decoded episode "Apocalypse in Georgia".

The Guidestones also served as inspiration for the R.E.M. song 1,000,000 ("Secluded in a marker stone, not only deadlier, But smarter too, smarter too"

Reception [edit]





The stones defaced with polyurethane paint and graffiti
Yoko Ono and others have praised the inscribed messages as "a stirring call to rational thinking", while opponents have labeled them as the "Ten Commandments of the Antichrist".[2]

In 2008, the stones were defaced with polyurethane paint and graffiti with slogans such as "Death to the new world order".[8] Wired magazine called the defacement "the first serious act of vandalism in the Guidestones' history".[2]

Conspiracy theories [edit]

The Guidestones have become a subject of interest for conspiracy theorists. One of them, an activist named Mark Dice, demanded that the Guidestones "be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction project",[9] claiming that the Guidestones are of "a deep Satanic origin", and that R. C. Christian belongs to "a Luciferian secret society" related to the New World Order.[2] At the unveiling of the monument, a local minister proclaimed that he believed the monument was "for sun worshipers, for cult worship and for devil worship".[6]

Radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, in his 2008 documentary Endgame: Elite's Blueprint For Global Enslavement, said that "the message of the mysterious Georgia Guidestones, purportedly built by representatives of a secret society called the Rosicrucian Order or Rosicrucians, which call for a global religion, world courts, and for population levels to be maintained at around 500 million, over a 6.5 billion reduction from current levels. The stones imply that humans are a cancer upon the earth and should be culled in order to maintain balance with nature."[10]

Computer hardware expert Van Smith said the monument's dimensions predicted the height of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world which opened in Dubai over thirty years after the Georgia Guidestones were designed. Smith said the builders of the Guidestones were likely aware of the Burj Khalifa project which he compared to the biblical Tower of Babel.[11]

Notes [edit]

1.^ Roadside America Web site
2.^ a b c d e f g American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse by Randall Sullivan. Wired Magazine ISSUE 17.05 (May 2009)
3.^ a b Georgia Mountains Web site
4.^ Land parcel information
5.^ Parcel map
6.^ a b Moran (2004); p.193
7.^ http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/mysteries-at-the-museum/photos/monumental-mysteries
8.^ "Defacement of the Guidestones". Photobucket. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
9.^ Gary Jones (2005-05-18). "The Georgia Guidestones: tourist attraction or cult message?". The Elberton Star, Georgia.
10.^ Endgame: Elite's Blueprint For Global Enslavement Exposed + Why The Dreams Of The Rulers Are Humanity's Worst Nightmare by Paul Joseph Watson, October 25, 2007
11.^ Waiting for the end of the world: Georgia's 30-year stone mystery by Matt Smith. CNN (March 22, 2010)

References [edit]
Gary Jones (18 May 2005). "The Georgia Guidestones: tourist attraction or cult message?". The Elberton Star.
Fanthorpe, R. Lionel (2005). Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars. Toronto: Dundurn Group. p. 180. ISBN 1-55002-557-0.
Moran, Mark McGuire; Sceurman, Mark (2004). Weird U.S. Barnes & Noble Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0-7607-5043-2.
Schemmel, William (2006). Georgia Off the Beaten Path. Globe Pequot. p. 206. ISBN 0-7627-4199-6.
Sullivan, Randall (May 2009). "American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse". Wired (Condé Nast) 17 (5). ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 19 April 2009.

Further reading [edit]
Raymond Wiley (2011). The Georgia Guidestones: America's Most Mysterious Monument. The Disinformation Company. ISBN 978-1-934708-68-2.

External links [edit]
The Georgia Guidestone Guidebook — Elberton Granite (1981)
Roadside Georgia
Georgia Guidestones photos at Flickr
American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
Georgia Guidestones Video and Photos by Travelers LeahAndMark.com
Skeptoid: The Georgia Guidestones




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Visitor attractions in Elbert County, Georgia
Monuments and memorials in Georgia (U.S. state)
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WELL THEY CANT DO WHAT THE LORD WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO. HOWEVER THEY ARE THE RED HORSE AND POWER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THEM TO SCORCH MEN WITH HEAT

REVELATION 6 VS 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

REVELATION 16 VS 8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

HOWEVER THEY HAVE THE MORNING STAR AND AS SUCH THEY MAY JUST BE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF

MICAH 2 VS 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

obadiah777: WELL THEY CANT DO WHAT THE LORD WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO. HOWEVER THEY ARE THE RED HORSE AND POWER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THEM TO SCORCH MEN WITH HEAT

REVELATION 6 VS 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

REVELATION 16 VS 8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

HOWEVER THEY HAVE THE MORNING STAR AND AS SUCH THEY MAY JUST BE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF

MICAH 2 VS 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

True talk Sire.

The guidstones speak of controlling the earths population and maintaining it at 500mil quite an ambitious project.

But when we think of all the population control programmes run by the UN and her daughter organisations, Programs like mandatory immunisations and vaccinations famine through GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS AND FOODS and most importantly WAR.

It starts to look possible.

China as a classic example of a success story in state enforced population control, practices the decimation of countless unborn souls daily. Even in the time of molech I doubt if the numbers could be compared.

But alas the masses are completely desensitised and this horrific deed is now accepted as normal.

Prince Phillip (The duke of Edinburgh)has been a chief proponent of population control for most of his life.He preaches drastic reduction in the earths population as the only way of saving the planet.

Below is an excerpt from one of his Gaffes source Wikiquote

Speaking to a group of British students in China in 1986, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

Certain bloodlines are pushing for these horrific policies to be enforced worldwide

These same bloodlines have built numerous palaces/bunkers under the ground in anticipation

Hear O Israel the lord our God the Lord is One.

MostHigh:

True talk Sire.

The guidstones speak of controlling the earths population and maintaining it at 500mil quite an ambitious project.

But when we think of all the population control programmes run by the UN and her daughter organisations, Programs like mandatory immunisations and vaccinations famine through GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS AND FOODS and most importantly WAR.

It starts to look possible.

China as a classic example of a success story in state enforced population control, practices the decimation of countless unborn souls daily. Even in the time of molech I doubt if the numbers could be compared.

But alas the masses are completely desensitised and this horrific deed is now accepted as normal.

Prince Phillip (The duke of Edinburgh)has been a chief proponent of population control for most of his life.He preaches drastic reduction in the earths population as the only way of saving the planet.

Below is an excerpt from one of his Gaffes source Wikiquote

Speaking to a group of British students in China in 1986, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

Certain bloodlines are pushing for these horrific policies to be enforced worldwide

These same bloodlines have built numerous palaces/bunkers under the ground in anticipation

Hear O Israel the lord our God the Lord is One.

THE LORDS WILL, WILL ALWAYS BE DONE. THOSE UNDER THE PROTECTIVE BLANKET OF THE LORD DONT GOT NOTHING TO FEAR.

obadiah777: THE LORDS WILL, WILL ALWAYS BE DONE. THOSE UNDER THE PROTECTIVE BLANKET OF THE LORD DONT GOT NOTHING TO FEAR.

AMEN

MostHigh:

AMEN

YOU DO KNOW THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS THE MORNING STAR SO IN THEIR DELUSION THEY THINK THEY ARE GOD. THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING GOD SINCE THEY TOOK POWER. THEY FEEL THEY CAN DICTATE WHO SHOULD LIVE AND WHO SHOULD DIE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOULD LIVE.

obadiah777: YOU DO KNOW THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS THE MORNING STAR SO IN THEIR DELUSION THEY THINK THEY ARE GOD. THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING GOD SINCE THEY TOOK POWER. THEY FEEL THEY CAN DICTATE WHO SHOULD LIVE AND WHO SHOULD DIE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOULD LIVE.

Yes sire

The very last of the gentile Kingdoms.

And then is the Kingdom of the Lord

The book of revelation is quite specific about a drastic reduction in the earths population.

"And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand: and I heard the number of them." [Revelation 9:13-16

So my brethren we can see that an army of 200 million has been prepared by the most high God to decimate in our context 2 billion souls




When you count their Militia, in conjunction with her active Army, China can field an army of 200,000,000 men!! In the last several decades, China has enforced the draconian decree that each family can only have one child.

Since the traditional Chinese culture prefers boys over girls, Chinese parents have quietly been killing girls so they can get pregnant again to have boys. China is now in the situation where she has tens of millions more men than women. "This sexual imbalance will result in an excess of over seventy million young men in China by the year 2000, with no women for them to marry ... This situation could fulfill the prophecy of John about the two-hundred-million-man army from the East that will fight in the Battle of Armageddon." ["The Signature Of God: Astonishing Biblical Discoveries", by Grant Jeffrey, Frontier Research Publications, Inc, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1996, ISBN 0-921714-28-9, Page 198]