Day 36: Apocalypse Part 2 Again
I made it to the Georgia Guidestones a little before 10am. The plot of ground where the structure stands is smack dab in the middle of grazing pastures. There were horses casually roaming the fields on ever side. This section was fenced off.
The structure has been dubbed the American Stonehenge. It stands nearly 20 feet tall, is astronomically aligned, stands just off to the side of a mysterious time capsule buried six feet below a large slab of granite, which is to be opened after an apocalyptic event on a date that is unspecified, and has a sort of "Ten Commandments" written upon each side of the four slabs of erected granite. The commandments are written in English, Swahili, Hindi, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. In this manner it can be likened unto the Rosetta Stone.
On the top cap stone, upon its four sides there is a separate message written in Babylonian Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sanskrit and Classical Greek. I wasn't able to determine definitively what those words said but I'm assuming, based on the information given on the slab which is placed in the ground toward the west of the structure that it says "let these be guidestones to an age of reason."
The only information I could gather about what those inscriptions said, I've displayed in the picture at the top of this post. The significance to it, although nothing is specifically said as to whether there is anything inscribed on the top of the capstone (facing upward on the top of the structure) I bet those words at the center of the square at my feet are engraved into to top of the slab. I almost was tempted to scale the structure to find out but the whole place is under 24/7 surveillance and I didn't particularly want any more reason than I already do to believe that I am being followed, especially by the illuminati! A quick google search to see if anyone else had information on the top of the structure proved unfruitful, as well as a Google Earth tour of the area. Details remained too blurry but I bet you those words are there!
Anyway, who's really responsible for this structure? No one is quite sure. What is known is that it was built in 1980. As described by the slab over the time capsule, a man going under the "pseudonyn" [sic] of R.C. Christian hired the Everton Granite Finishing Company to build it. It is engraved on the slab that is apart of the original structure that those responsible for it are "a small group of Americans who seek the age of reason."Funnily enough there appear to be many grammatical errors in the wording as you are already aware that the word "pseudonyn" was misspelled. I profess no talent in the realm of grammar, but if I were to erect a structure emblazoned with the words that I held as sacred or profoundly important, I'd be sure to get it right.
Here are the words of the Guidestones:
- 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.
I'd like to take some space to share an experience I had there. Shortly after I had arrived, a middle aged man along with his teenage son pulled up. The man immediately began speaking with me. I don't have much time to explain my conversation in depth with this person but suffice it to say, he seemed to be a very intelligent person who acknowledged the reality of the conspiracies surrounding the stones but did not appear to be an avid advocator of them. In short, he had the appearance of an average citizen who had an above than average knowledge of practically everything. He was just very intelligent. He, or at least he professed to speak 17 different languages, and upon speaking somewhat to me in Cherokee I talked with him about my visit to the Cahokia mounds. He knew about the mounds in detail and assuredly confirmed that they are proof that the influence of the mesoamerican cultures migrated much farther north than is currently acknowledged. He was taken aback when I told him of the artifact that I had seen in the museum there, the one that I related to the Feather Serpent, or Quetzalcoatl and he perked up quickly and made the exact same connection before I had mention anything further!
He had also recently been Mammoth Caves of where I told him I had dipped down into Tennessee to visit the Bell Witch caves, from where I brought up Cherokee ghosts and demons. From there he asked with a smirk on his face, if Mormons believed in demons.
He had observed my Utah license plate and my CTR ring. He had a fair understanding of Mormonism and was particularly interested in the Golden Angel Moroni that topped our Temples. This evolved into a more thorough conversation about my faith. Of which he connected the Hill Cumorah with Indian mounds. I talked with him about my recent visits to some of the early Church History sites. He was even aware of the Han's Mill massacre and a lot of the injustices that went on concerning the early faith. He, by the way, was a non-denominational Christian. I conveniently failed to mention that Joseph Smith was at a time, a Mason, one of the groups he mentioned in association with the Guidestones, among others, specifically the Illuminati and their New World Order.
I gave him a pass along card and we went our separate ways. It was a thoroughly enjoyable conversation.
I am greatly constrained by time and convenience, otherwise I would be able to write more and revise a little more these posts. But I need to be on my way.
As it is no longer the night, I bid you, good day.