Who Built The Mysterious ‘Guidestones’?

[Adapted from Lying Wonders, Strangest Things]:

[On Wednesday news came that a pillar of the mysterious “Georgia Guidestones” was destroyed in an explosion.

As reported by Fox News, “The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has released surveillance video in the search for those responsible for setting off an explosion at the Georgia Guidestones monument, which they now say has been completely demolished over “safety concerns.” The 19-foot-high granite tourist attraction in Elberton — which the state says is known as “America’s Stonehenge” — was damaged early Wednesday after “unknown individuals detonated an explosive device,” according to the agency.”

Below is the story of the monuments, with an update on who it seems built them at the end.]

Who built the “Georgia Guidestones”?

In June 1979, a courtly well-dressed man who called himself “Robert C. Christian” entered the far-flung town of Elberton—ninety miles east of Atlanta—with an eccentric request. Plopping down a cool $10,000 as down payment, he wanted a set of granite monuments erected just outside town in a paddle-wheel formation, like Stonehenge.

His real name was not Christian, and he refused to identify the small group he said he represented, flying in each time from a different airport and never mailing correspondence from the same place. The group’s project entailed four “pyramid-blue” granite megaliths that at nineteen feet were actually taller than those at Stonehenge, surmounted by a roof-like capstone and in the aggregate weighing 237,746 pounds, according to the granite company. The stones were set in an exquisite astronomical design with round openings and a slot such that the sun pours through them at the equinox or solstice while the North Star is always visible through one alignment and at noon each day the sun beams through an aperture that illuminates the day of the year on the central column.

It’s one matter that these strange stone structures (the largest and most exquisite project in the history of Elberton, which is the world’s “granite capital”) would be so precisely aligned with astronomical bodies—and solid enough, at Christian’s direction, to survive any disaster—but what captivated everyone, from globalist Yoko Ono to alarmed Christian fundamentalists, were the messages.

For etched in the capstone on all four sides were the words “Let These Be Guidestones to Reason.” They are spelled out in hieroglyphics, classical Greek, Babylonian cuneiform, and Sanskrit.

On the megaliths that hold up the capstone—in eight languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Hindi, and Swahili)—are what some call New Age commandments for those who survive a future apocalypse:

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

Christian, who is now believed to be deceased [see at bottom], said he was a spokesman “for a small group of perhaps half-a-dozen people who believe in God and country seeking to erect a monument to help in some way to improve this world and this world’s people,” according to a booklet later released by the Elberton Granite Finishing Company, and chose Elberton for its high-quality rock and mild climate. Others point out that Elberton had been considered to be the center of the world by some Indians and conforms with occult “ley” lines (geographical tracks that link prehistoric monuments and some believe carry spiritual power). “It is very probable that humankind now possesses the knowledge needed to establish an effective world government,” the group is quoted as saying in the booklet. “In some way that knowledge must be widely seeded in the consciousness of all mankind. Very soon the hearts of our human family must be touched and warmed so we will welcome a global rule of reason. We are entering a critical era. Population pressures will soon create political and economic crisis throughout the world.

These will make more difficult and at the same time more needed the building of a rational world society. The approaching crisis may make mankind willing to accept a system of world law that will stress the responsibility of individual nations in managing internal affairs, and which will assist them in the peaceful management of external frictions.

“We, the sponsors of the Georgia Guidestones, are a small group of Americans who wish to focus attention on problems central to the present quandary of humanity. We have chosen to remain anonymous in order to avoid debate and contention which might confuse our meaning, and which might delay a considered review of our thoughts.

“The celestial alignments of the stones symbolize the need for humanity to be square with external principles which are manifest in our own nature, and the universe around us. We must live in harmony with the infinite.

“We profess no divine inspiration beyond that which can be found in all human minds.” [scroll for more]

Some have speculated that R. C. Christian plays on “Roman Catholic,” but more convincing are those who argue that there is a link between the name and a man with the same initials as “Rose Cross,” short for “Rosicrucianism”— the ancient school of thought which some date back to the first century (others somewhat later, to the ancient Druids, who are also linked to Stonehenge).

Rosicrucianism laid the foundation for Freemasonry.

What disaster is foreseen?

Could a secret cabal really know anything about it?

A strange aura encompasses the area. When I visited, a very low, dark cloud suddenly scutted over the monument on an otherwise completely cloudless day. I learned that various occultists have conducted rituals here. Unusual people are drawn here. Across the road I found a local man, Jeffrey Allen and his mother, who told me they have seen unexplained lights at night at or above the monument (decidedly not flashlights, which Allen proved when he drove there to investigate), and that during hot summer days neighbors claim to witness hay swirling above in a little vortex on windless days.

Just west of the stones is a large plaque set in the ground above a time capsule.

Perhaps most hauntingly, there is a plaque to the west engraved with the words, “Time capsule placed six feet below this spot on ______” (there is a blank space) and “To be opened on ______ (another blank space).

Who will fill in those blanks?

[Footnote: Is this not “Christian”?:

[From the Des Moines Register: