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[Adapted from Lying Wonders, Strangest Things<\/span><\/a>]:<\/em><\/p>\n [On Wednesday news came<\/a><\/span> that a pillar of the mysterious “Georgia Guidestones” was destroyed in an explosion.<\/em><\/p>\n As reported by Fox News<\/a>, “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<\/a>, which they now say has been completely demolished over “safety concerns.” The 19-foot-high granite tourist attraction in Elberton \u2014 which the state says is known as “America’s Stonehenge” \u2014 was damaged early Wednesday after “unknown individuals detonated an explosive device,” according to the agency.”<\/p>\n Below is the story of the monuments, with an update <\/em>on who it seems built them<\/span> at the end.]<\/em><\/p>\n +<\/p>\n Who built the \u201cGeorgia Guidestones\u201d?<\/p>\n In June 1979, a courtly well-dressed man who called himself \u201cRobert C. Christian\u201d entered the far-flung town of Elberton\u2014ninety miles east of Atlanta\u2014with 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s project entailed four \u201cpyramid-blue\u201d granite megaliths that at nineteen feet were actually taller than those at Stonehenge,\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n It\u2019s one matter that these strange stone structures (the largest and most exquisite project in the history of Elberton, which is the world\u2019s \u201cgranite capital\u201d) would be so precisely aligned with astronomical bodies\u2014and solid enough, at Christian\u2019s direction, to survive any disaster\u2014but what captivated everyone, from globalist Yoko Ono to alarmed Christian fundamentalists, were the messages.<\/p>\n For etched in the capstone on all four sides were the words \u201cLet These Be Guidestones to Reason.\u201d They are spelled out in\u00a0 hieroglyphics, classical Greek, Babylonian cuneiform, and Sanskrit.<\/p>\n On the megaliths that hold up the capstone\u2014in eight languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Hindi, and Swahili)\u2014are what some call New Age commandments for those who survive a future apocalypse:<\/p>\n MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 Christian, who is now believed to be deceased [see at bottom], said he was a spokesman \u201cfor 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\u2019s people,\u201d 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 \u201cley\u201d lines (geographical tracks that link prehistoric monuments and some believe carry spiritual power). \u201cIt is very probable that humankind now possesses the knowledge needed to establish an effective world government,\u201d the group is quoted as saying in the booklet. \u201cIn 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cWe, 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.<\/p>\n \u201cThe celestial alignments of the stones symbolize the need for\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n \u201cWe profess no divine inspiration beyond that which can be found in all human minds.\u201d [scroll for more]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nIN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE
\nGUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY \u2013
\nIMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY
\nUNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVING
\nNEW LANGUAGE
\nRULE PASSION \u2013 FAITH \u2013 TRADITION
\nAND ALL THINGS
\nWITH TEMPERED REASON
\nPROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONS
\nWITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COURTS.
\nLET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALLY
\nRESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTES
\nIN A WORLD COURT
\nAVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESS
\nOFFICIALS
\nBALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITH
\nSOCIAL DUTIES
\nPRIZE TRUTH \u2013 BEAUTY \u2013 LOVE \u2013
\nSEEKING HARMONY WITH THE
\nINFINITE
\nBE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH \u2013
\nLEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE \u2013
\nLEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE<\/p>\n