Also known as "The American Stonehenge", the Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument located on top of a hill in Elbert County, Georgia.
The structure, almost 6 meters high, is made with six granite slabs weighing a total of about 107 tons and consists of a pillar with rectangular section placed in the center, with 4 equally spaced slabs upright arranged around it to form a sort of expanded "X": on top of the five slabs lies a capstone that rests in the center on the pillar and in the four vertices on vertical slabs.
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.
On eight of the larger surfaces is engraved a message consisting of ten "rules", or "tips", in eight different languages, one for each surface.
All the elements are astronomically aligned: the four major stones are oriented according to the annual migration of the Sun while in the central pillar, at eye level, there is a hole pointing towards the North Star.
Further down a fissure opens and is aligned with the solstices and the solar equinoxes.
On the top stone, instead, there is a vent of 22 millimeters in diameter that allows the passage of a ray of light, throughout the year, to indicate the day of the year.
The monument is surrounded by an aura of mystery: no one knows who built it and its very purpose remains purely theoretical.
The Georgia Guidestones can withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters and there are those who argue that it is up there that society can survive and be reborn: hence the idea that it represents a guide for survivors of the Apocalypse, at the end of the world, however it may be.
Its construction dates back to June 1979 when an unknown man under the pseudonym of R.C. Christian hired the firm Elberton Granite Finishing Company to realize the structure.
The company that built the Georgia Guidestones was required to keep secret the identity of the client, the financiers and their aim.
A popular hypothesis is that the pseudonym was a tribute to the legendary Christian Rosenkreutz, German esotericist who according to the allegorical tale "The alchemical marriage of Christian Rosenkreutz" would have lived in Germany between the end of 1,300 and the middle of 1,400 and considered founder of the brotherhood of Rosicrucians.
The monument was inaugurated on March 22, 1980, in the presence of 100 people, another account claims instead that 400 people attended.
At the inauguration of the monument, a local priest proclaimed that the monument would be used «for the ceremonies of the worshipers of the Sun, for the cult of the devil», so some fundamentalist Christian groups spoke about the work of a satanist, others to the heirs of Rosacrucianism.
According to official reports, Mr Christian' represented a small group of devout American citizens who believed in God, whose intention was to leave a message for future generations.
What makes this work unique is in fact its message composed of ten "rules" or "advices", engraved in eight modern languages (English, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Swahili, Hindi) on the four vertical slabs: the task of recording more than 4,000 characters on the plates was entrusted to Charlie Clamp who later reported that during those working days he had heard strange voices and a mysterious music.
On the ground, near the main structure, on the west side, is placed an explanatory table, with listed the size, weight, astronomical orientation, the date of the laying and the scheme of the monument. At the four edges of the plate are engraved the initials of the four cardinal points, while at the top there are the following words: THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES CENTER CLUSTER ERECTED MARCH 22 1980
On the covering stone we read a message, shorter, written in four ancient languages- ancient Greek, Babylonian, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs- a sort of warning:
"Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason".
It seems that Robert C. Christian had told that, during his travels in Europe, while remaining impressed by the monolithic complex of Stonehenge, he realized that it did not convey any indication for posterity, while he felt it was essential that the message of the Georgia Guidestones should continue in time, passing from generation to generation.
The table also speaks of a time capsule placed about 1.8 meters undergroundbut the spaces reserved on the plate for the date of its burial and the day on which it must be brought to light have been left empty, so it’s not clear if this one was ever really interred.
Anyway, the message Mr Christian cared a lot about, is considered as the new 10 commandments for an age governed by reason.
They read as follows:
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.
Rules that want to be a guide to rebuild a "better" society after the end of the world but, at the same time, seem to invite to implement a policy of depopulation, to create a single world government, introduce a new type of spirituality...principles on which, according to conspiracy theorists, the New World Order plot would be based and which have placed the monument at the center of numerous controversies and debates: some assert that the monument is the work of a strange environmentalist, others that it is the result of the work of dark and evil forces, others still attribute the authorship of the work to the Illuminati.
Many artists, including Yoko Ono, have praised the message of the Guidestones, while some fundamentalist Christian groups speak of it as "the Ten Commandments of the Antichrist", still others see the invitation to keep the world’s population below 500 million, a real apology to genocide because human life is placed in second place with respect to nature.
Mark Shouldice, better known as Mark Dice, an ultraconservative Christian American conspiracy theorist, asked that "the Guidestones should be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction purpose" because they would be "of deeply satanic origin", given their content that urges genocide and that R.C. Christian belongs to "a secret Luciferian society" related to the New World Order.
The interpretation that has received the greatest consensus is that the stones describe the basic concepts on which to base the reconstruction of a devastated civilization.
The writer Brad Meltzer noted that the stones were erected in 1979, at the beginning of the so-called "Second Cold War", and could have been intended for possible survivors of World War III, since the hypothesis of a Nuclear Apocalypse was really scary and it wasn’t even that remote.
The suggestion of keeping the population below 500 million could have been made by assuming that survivors of this conflict would already have been reduced below that number.
Conspiracy theory? New World Order? Crazy Millionaire's itch?
Until we get some answers all possibilities remain open.
“Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie. ”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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