Posts about spiritual warfare, politics, and high strangeness are among the most popular on this blog. Today we have a story that combines all three.
First, for those who didn’t yet know, the controversial Georgia Guidestones have been destroyed.
Here’s a video of the explosion.
For a while after the news broke, it was unknown whether the blast that damaged the monument and precipitated its full demolition was planned by authorities or an act of vandalism.
Reports from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirm the latter.
Georgia authorities on Thursday released a video showing someone leaving an explosive device next to a rural monument conservative Christians criticized as satanic and others dubbed “America’s Stonehenge” that heavily damaged the pillars so much so that they were demolished.
The Georgia Guidestones monument near Elberton was damaged by an explosive device, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said, and later knocked down “for safety reasons,” leaving a pile of rubble in a picture that investigators published.
Surveillance footage showed a sharp explosion blowing one panel to rubble just after 4 a.m. Investigators also released video of a silver sedan leaving the monument.
The fleeing car is also shown in the video above.
But why would someone want to destroy the Guidestones? Was the monument dedicated to Confederate officers? Did it advocate regressive beliefs?
Quite the contrary.
The 16-foot-high panels bore a 10-part message in eight different languages with guidance for living in an “age of reason.” One part called for keeping world population at 500 million or below, while another calls to “guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.”
Here’s more on the Guidestrones’ history from the Elbert County Chamber of Commerce.
Joe Fendley, president of Elbert Granite Finishing Company, Inc. in Elberton, Georgia was approached by a neatly dressed man who wanted to buy a monument. The middle-aged man who identified himself as Mr. Robert C. Christian said he wanted to know the cost of building a monument to the conservation of mankind and began telling Fendley what type of monument he wanted. Christian outlines the size in metric measurements. No monument of this kind had ever been quarried in Elberton, which was to explain why the price quoted could only be an estimate and not one guaranteed, as is the normal practice. Mr. Christian agreed to the quoted price. Christian, during his visit with Fendley, explained that he represented a “small group of loyal Americans who believe in God.“* He said they lived outside of Georgia and wanted to “leave a message for future generations.“* After leaving Fendley’s office, Christian went to the Granite City Bank to meet with Wyatt C. Martin. Christian informed Martin about his plans and the group he was associated with, had planned this monument for 20 years. He said the group wished to remain anonymous and revealed to Martin that his real name was not Robert Christian, it was a pseudonym chosen because of his Christian beliefs. After being sworn to secrecy, Christian told Martin his real name, and some other personal information so Martin could investigate him properly before the project began. To this day, Wyatt Martin is the only one who knows Christian’s real name. The prototype that Christian brought to Fendley resembled the infamous Stonehenge Monument in England. Pyramid Blue Granite from Pyramid Quarry was chosen for the monument. Each piece weighed approximately 28 tons, making this project to become one of the most challenging projects to be worked on in Elberton. Charlie Clamp was the sandblaster chosen to etch the “message”, which was more than 4,000 individual letters.
Apologies for the wall of text. The Elbert County Chamber could use a web site editor.
Anyway, here’s the full message:
“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 earth — leave room for nature — leave room for nature.”
It’s understandable that the Guidestones would attract a fair amount of criticism. Not the least of which came from Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor, who made a campaign promise to remove the monument.
“God is God all by Himself. He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones,” Taylor tweeted Wednesday.
Were the Guidestones a product of Satanism? They did advocate some form of eugenics, which the Church condemns. The rest sounds like syncretistic New Age claptrap and facile platitudes.
I do not advocate the unauthorized destruction of private or public property. That said, the Death Cult initiated the current round of political iconoclasm. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, least of all them, if counterculture dissidents respond in kind.
This post started with the observation that politics, spiritual warfare, and high strangeness overlapped in this instance. Expect to see more of that in coming years.
And make sure to prepare accordingly.
