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ELBERT COUNTY, Ga. – Perched on a hill a few miles outside the small town of Elberton, Georgia are a set of controversial monoliths known as the Georgia Guidestones. Also known as “America’s Stonehenge” (not to be confused with the rock monument in Salem, New Hampshire that bears the same name), these stones were designed with a singular purpose; the conservation of the human race in the event of a major global catastrophe.
America Stonehenge – Image: E. Thornton
The Origin of the Georgia Guidestones
Not unlike today, the threat of nuclear war and misinformation gripped the United States. The year was 1980, the height of the second cold war with the Soviet Union. The d’entente (relaxation of arms spending) between the two nations had ended the year before in 1979, arresting progress and increasing tensions between the Carter administration and the Soviet Union.
It was at this time that an anonymous group of “loyal Americans” were enacting a plan over 20 years in the making. This ten-page, highly detailed set of instructions would eventually become the Georgia Guidestones and was spearheaded by a man using the pseudonym Richard C. Christian. The Elberton Granite Finishing Company were employed by Mr. Christian and they were to meet the exact specifications of the plans provided by the group at the cost of over 100,000 dollars.
The Stones made their debut on March 22, 1980, two days after the Spring Equinox. Aiding Mr. Christian with both the funding of the stones and land purchase was the president of Granite City Bank, Wyatt Martin.
The pair purchased a plot of land from the Mullinex family in Elbert County, where the stones would reside. The location chosen is the highest point in Elberton, County and is not too far from what the local Cherokee Indians refer to as “Ah-Yeh-Li A-Lo-Hee” or “The Center Of The Earth,” located in Hartwell, GA.
The land was eventually gifted to Elbert County and the county remains their steward indefinitely. Martin, allegedly the only person left alive to know the true identity of Mr. Christian, claims that he will “take the secret to his grave.”
An Age Of Reason
Perhaps the most controversial topic surrounding the Guidestones is the set of instructions meant to guide mankind into the “age of reason.”
America Stonehenge – Image: E. Thornton
Sandblasted into the outer slabs in eight of the most commonly used languages around the world: English, Russian, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish.
- Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
- Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity
- Unite Humanity with a living new language
- Rule passion-faith-tradition-and all things with tempered reason.
- Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
- Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court.
- Avoid petty Laws and Useless Officials.
- Balance personal rights with social duties.
- Prize truth-beauty-love-seeking harmony with the infinite.
- Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature-Leave room for nature.
Carved on each side of the Capstone also reads, “Let These Be Guidestones To An Age Of Reason,” written in four dead languages: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Sanskrit, Classical Greek, and Babylonian Cuneiform.
The Stones not only serve as a guide for mankind but also serve as a set of tools. Using ancient technology, once used by early civilizations such as the Egyptians, Druids, and early nautical navigation, the stones serve as a calendar, compass, and clock.
America Stonehenge – Image: E. Thornton
Each day at noon, the sun shines through a small slit, indicating the time of day and also highlighting the date that is engraved on the slab of granite below. The Celestial sphere is also tracked through a channel in the stone that indicates the celestial poles, tracking Polaris, the North star, and acting as a compass.
The outer slabs mark the lunar declination (celestial coordinate) cycle as well marking the minor and major lunar stand falls which last approximately 18 years. Each solstice and equinox is also marked through a slit in the same column.
The similarities in astronomical features, as well as the stone structure’s architectural features, is where the nickname “America’s Stonehenge” is derived.
Steeped in Controversy
The Guidestones have known controversy since their inception. According to the 2020 census of American Religion, over 70% of the American population identifies as Christian.
As the stones display a set of ten guidelines for humanity, the stones to some have the appearance of sacrilege. One minister at the unveiling of the stones was said to call for their immediate removal, others have called them the “anti-christ’s ten commandments.”
Other theorists have also called for the removal of the stones, as they appear to call for population reduction and allude to the practice of Eugenics. Many theories have evolved as a result of their placement, Satanic worship, Rosicrucianism, New World Order, etc. Smithsonian Magazine coined the term “Doomsday Stonehenge” in an article published in 2013.
Though drenched in controversy, it is within reason to say the stones possess ancient, if somewhat crude, technologies allowing humanity to have a clock, calendar, and compass in the event of a global catastrophe. The specifications provided by Mr. Christian allowed not only these tools to be used by mankind but the secrecy surrounding the stones has allowed them to be seen by mankind.
Tourists from all over the globe visit the stones each year and well over 100 articles have been written about the stones over the past 40 years. The world may never know who commissioned the Georgia Guidestones but the craftsmanship and psychology behind its installment have perhaps given mankind hope and a guide for a future that could theoretically be more in balance with nature.
In the event of a devastating global catastrophe, meet me at the Georgia Guidestones.
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