Georgia Guidestones Text
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Main Inscription[edit]
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.
Explanitory Text[edit]
The Georgia Guidestones
Center cluster erected March 22, 1980
Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason
Astronomic features[edit]
- Channel through stone indicates celestial pole
- Horizontal slot indicates annual travel of sun
- 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[edit]
Placed six feet below this spot on
To be opened on
Physical Data[edit]
- Overall height – 19 feet 3 inches.
- Total weight – 237,746 pounds.
- Four major stones are 16 feet, Four inches high, each weighing An average of 42,437 pounds.
- Center stone is 16 feet, four- Inches high, weighs 20,957 Pounds.
- Capstone is 9-feet, 8-inches Long, 6-feet, 6-inches wide; 1-foot, 7-inches thick. Weighs 24,832 pounds.
- Support stones (bases) 7-feet, 4 inches long 2-feet wide. 1 foot, 4-inches thick, each Weighing an average of 4,875 Pounds.
- Support stone (base) 4-feet, 2½ inches long, 2-feet, 2-inches Wide, 1-foot, 7-inches thick. Weight 2,707 pounds.
- 951 cubic feet granite.
- Granite quarried from pyramid Quarries located 3 miles west Of Elberton, Georgia.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice.
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