THE

GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER

500.000.000

By

Søren Nielsen

2021

Georgia Guidestones

The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge".

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. 

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.

The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. 

A set of 10 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 language scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The monument stands at the highest point in Elbert County, about 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 visible from Georgia Highway 77 (Hartwell Highway) and are reached by turning east on Guidestones Road.

Opening date March 1980

Chinese and Arabic inscriptions of the Georgia Guidestones

Coordinates 34°13′55.40″N 82°53′39.80″W

Location Elbert County, Georgia, US

Material Granite

Height 19' 3" (5.87 m)

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, Sanskrit , 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.

The Georgia Guidestones were erected in 1980 under mysterious circumstances in Elbert County, Georgia. 

To this day, the true authors of the Guidestones have never been revealed. 

On July 1, 1979, a man working under the pseudonym Robert C. Christian approached the Elberton Granite Finishing Company; he was acting as a representative for a small group who deemed themselves loyal Americans. 

They wanted to construct the Guidestones as a calendar, a clock, and a compass, which were meant for values the group believed should be promoted to the rest of the nation and for future generations. 

The Guidestones are fascinating in the sense that they are constructed in a similar fashion to Stonehenge and are written in a variety of languages. 

The information they contain is considered polarizing and have led to reactionary graffiti appearing on them over the years, all of which reject the values they espouse; they appear to promote population control, eugenics, and internationalism while also claiming to promote peace, love, and harmony.

Christian delivered a scale model of the guidestones and ten pages of specifications.

The 5-acre (2-hectare) land was apparently purchased by Christian on October 1, 1979, from farm owner Wayne Mullinex.

Wayne Mullinex and his children were given lifetime cattle grazing rights on the guidestones site.

On March 22, 1980, the monument was unveiled before an audience variously described as 100 or 400 people. 

Christian later transferred ownership of the land and the guidestones to Elbert County.

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 refers to a time capsule buried under the tablet, but blank spaces on the stone intended for filling in the dates on which the capsule was buried and is to be opened have not been inscribed, so it is uncertain if the time capsule was ever actually put in place.

The complete text of the explanatory tablet is detailed below. 

The tablet is somewhat inconsistent with respect to punctuation and misspells the word "pseudonym". 

The original spelling, punctuation, and line breaks in the text have been preserved in the transcription which follows (letter case is not). 

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 translations to 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 hieroglyphs).

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)

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.

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.

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, Chinese, 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.

The four outer stones are oriented to mark the limits of the 18.6 year lunar declination cycle.

The center column features a hole drilled at an angle from one side to the other, through which can be seen the North Star, a star whose position changes only very gradually over time. 

The same pillar has a slot carved through it which is aligned with the Sun's solstices and equinoxes. 

A ​7⁄8in (22 mm) 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.

The guidestones have become a subject of interest for conspiracy theorists. 

One of them, an activist named Mark Dice, and he 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.

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".

Conspiracy theorist Jay Weidner has said that the pseudonym of the man who commissioned the stones – "R. C. Christian" – resembles Rose Cross Christian, or Christian Rosenkreuz, the founder of the Rosicrucian Order.

The most widely agreed-upon interpretation of the stones is that they describe the basic concepts required to rebuild a devastated civilization.

Author Brad Meltzer notes that the stones were built in 1979 at the height of the Cold War, and thus argues that they may have been intended as a message to the possible survivors of a nuclear World War III. 

The engraved suggestion to keep humanity's population below 500 million could have been made under the assumption that war had already reduced humanity below this number.

Remember the cube that was placed in the empty notch in 2014?

The Cube That Was Placed On The Georgia Guidestones. 

Then Removed?

When removed, it was revealed to have inscriptions on all sides –

20 14 8 16 MM JAM

Because the cube was somehow placed in this notch in 2014, and the visible inscriptions were 20 & 14, it was assumed something relating to the inscriptions, of great catastrophic nature (in order to get the world population down to that magic number 500,000,000) would happen in 2014.

Obviously, nothing happened…

If those inscriptions are arranged a different way, you can end up with

8 14 20 16

Or 

8/14/2016

As for the other inscriptions, many have come up with

MM = Master Mason

And, why not, considering the type of monument constructed.

JAM = Judgement Against Mankind.

The Mystery of Robert C. Christian.

The official Georgia Guidestones creation story is centered on a mysterious character who used the pseudonym "Robert C. Christian." 

As the story goes, a middle aged man walked into Elberton Granite Finishing Company on a Friday afternoon in June, 1979. 

It just so happened that no one else in the office was available to talk to him, so the company’s president, the energetic, ambitious and reportedly quirky Freemason Joe Fendley, greeted the man who introduced himself as Robert C. Christian.

Busy with payroll, Fendley initially didn’t take Christian seriously when the odd stranger began describing an elaborate granite monument that he wanted Fendley’s company to build. 

However, as the refined, silver-haired and well dressed Christian elaborated on project details involving solid granite slabs larger than anything anyone in the area had ever produced, Fendley took notice.

Joe Fendley whipped out a calculator – and a metric conversion table since R.C. Christian made all of his specifications in meters, an unusual metrology for Georgia during the 70s – and quickly provided a rough cost estimate. 

Fendley deliberately made sure to err well on the high side, but Christian didn’t flinch at the price. 

Fendley then carefully explained that no monument that big had ever been quarried in Elbert County and that consultants would have to be hired to provide the necessary astronomical and language translation expertise, so the price he quoted was only a rough estimate and could not be guaranteed.

Undeterred, Christian went on to explain that he represented "a small group of loyal Americans who believe in God" and want to "leave a message for future generations." 

He then asked Fendley to suggest a local bank to serve as a financial intermediary.

As soon as Christian walked out of his office, Fendley telephoned his friend and Granite City Bank president Wyatt C. Martin and warned him of a "kook who wants to build some kind of crazy monument." 

About half-an-hour later, Christian appeared at Martin’s office and quickly dispelled most of banker’s skepticism with his expensive suit of clothes and intelligent, articulate demeanor. 

After introductory pleasantries, Christian recounted his mission to Martin and explained that "Robert C. Christian" was a pseudonym that he chose because he was a Christian.

As a banker, Martin insisted on knowing Christian’s real name so that he could investigate his finances before the project could begin. 

Christian complied, but conditioned that he and the group he represented wanted to remain anonymous forever. 

Martin agreed to never disclose Robert C. Christian’s true identity.

According to the Guidestones’ official story, Joe Fendley, who died recently, and Wyatt Martin were the only people to have met Christian. 

By that same story, Martin is the only person who ever knew Christian’s true identity. 

When we spoke with Mr. Martin several days ago, he remained committed to his vow of secrecy taken more than thirty years ago. 

However, we have made discoveries that shed light on who might really be behind the Georgia Guidestones and we will discuss our findings later in this article.

Christian asked Martin to find him five acres of land for the monument. 

He initially wanted the land to be in Hancock County on a line stretching west from Augusta. 

However, Martin argued against that location and said Elbert County would be cheaper and easier to accommodate. Christian agreed and, at a later date, settled on a five-acre plot on the Mullenix farm, a spot Martin favored. 

Purchased for $5,000 on October 1, 1979, the location is a little over seven miles north of Elberton on a ridge that is supposed to be the highest point in Elbert County. 

Christian had the land deeded to the county with grazing rights given to the Mullenix family for at least twenty years. 

The land is to remain otherwise undeveloped in "natural conditions."

Over the years, a number of inconsistencies with the official story have arisen. 

For instance, Christian originally maintained that he was only one of a group of individuals who had planned the Georgia Guidestones for more than 20 years, but in his book written more than five years later, Common Sense Renewed, he is listed as "the author and sponsor of the Georgia Guidestones Monument." 

Later in the book he writes that he is "the originator of the Georgia Guidestones and the sole author of its inscriptions."

"Over the years, I’ve begun to suspect the same thing, that the whole thing came from only one man or at most one man and his family," Martin told recently.

In the Elberton Granite Museum’s extensive guidebook on the Georgia Guidestones, Christian is said to have vanished for so long after his initial visit that Fendley and Martin came to believe Christian’s appearance was simply a prank pulled off by Fendley’s Shrine Club buddies. 

However, in a later interview with Wired Magazine, Wyatt Martin claims that Christian returned on the Monday following the Friday of initial contact.

Also, the museum guidebook reported that "upon completion of the project Martin said that all material concerning the project was shredded," but in his recent Wired interview, Martin admitted that, in fact, he still has all of the Georgia Guidestone records along with all of the letters from Christian. 

Every last document related to the monument are packed inside a 1983, hard-sided, plastic, IBM computer case sitting in the back of Wyatt Martin’s garage.

Fendley meticulously documented the quarrying and building of the Georgia Guidestones monument, a tactic that backfired on him because his deliberate preplanning for a media blitz gave fuel to the critics who saw the Guidestones as nothing but a big publicity stunt Fendley and Wyatt concocted. 

People liked to say that "Ole Joe" was the most famous Elbertonian since "Old Dan Tucker," the 18th century preacher who was memorialized in the still popular folk song of the same name. 

To his grave, Fendley denied these allegations, but he nevertheless enjoyed the attention the monument brought and used the publicity as momentum to gain the mayoral office of Elberton in 1980.

Nevertheless, Fendley’s photo record of the Georgia Guidestones construction project is included in the museum guidebook and is valuable for the many details it documents.

About nine months after the secretive first meetings with Christian, the monument was formally unveiled on March 22, 1980, in front of a crowd of around 400. 

The guidebook lists more than eighty people involved in the project. U.N. language experts and college professors were used for the challenging language translations and transliterations. 

Scientists and engineers were contracted to oversee the project’s astronomical details.

The crowd for the unvieling was impressive, but one important character was missing. "I don’t think R.C. Christian has ever even visited the monument to this day," Mr. Martin confided to us.

Although there are reasons to believe that the R.C. Christian story is almost a complete fabrication, the few "facts" about him from the story are:

1: R.C. Christian visited Stonehenge before designing the Georgia Guidestones.

2: He was over sixty years old when he wrote Common Sense Renewed in 1986.

3: He claimed to be a Christian, but his writings suggests that he might instead be a follower of Alice A. Bailey’s New Age movement who venerate "The Christ" but also worship other deities.

4: He had a great-grandmother from Georgia.

5: He served in World War II.

6: He was very well traveled and sent checks to Martin to pay for the monument from banks located all over the country.

7: He was at least moderately wealthy.

8: He liked Thomas Paine.

9: He distributed his book to "several thousand political officials and shapers of public opinion throughout the world. All members of the United States Congress received copies."

10: He quoted Henry James’ remarks about Stonehenge.

11: He was described as a "gray-haired middle-aged gentleman" when he met with Fendley and Martin in 1979.

The anonymity of the guidestones' authors and their apparent advocacy of population control, eugenics, and internationalism have made them an object of controversy and conspiracy theories.